The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-02

MY vote on the Mills bill placed me in
a somewhat awkward position ana /
thought best not to stand for renomina-
ton. | suppose | could have had
nomination of some KIND hed so &c
sired. but | would take nothing but the
strnipht Democratic support The gem
tlcman who has been nominated IN my
place is a good man and will poll the
full Democratic strength There VIII
be no sort of divisions arising from the
tariff question. My personal friends in
the district | now represent VIII 10 man
support the straight ticket and l mysclt
hope TO cast my ballot the same way
| don't think there is any doubt oil CleNe-
lands carrying New YORK by much
larger vote than that he received four
years ago"
Mr.. Mcrriman was equally confident of
thc success of the National Democratic
ticket. With reference to his own dis
trict he said
MIR. Quinn, who has been nominated
to succeed me, is a County Democracy
man and n close personal friend of mlne.
| feel sure of his election. The talk
about there being any diseruntlcmcnt
among my friends because ] failed to re-
ccivc the nomination is all bOsh. SO FAR
as | know, there is not one but viii vote
the straight ticket. | shall vote for the
Cleveland and Thurman electors and Tor
Mr.. Quinn for Congressman"
Postal Cards Astray.
Curiosities in mail matter turned up in
the city postollice the other day, says
the New Haven Mail, in the shape of two
postal cards which were mailed twelve
years ago. The postal clerks could
hardly believe their own eyes, neverthe-
less it was so. The receiver Of these two
pieces of mail matter transmitted to the
care of Uncle Sans postoilice department.
| in the centennial year, called the attcn-
| ton of Postmaster English to the Circum-
| stances and asked for some explanation.
| But he could not explain The pOstalS
! were mailed under the admins, ratiOn of
| President Grant. III the matter had been
mailed at an Office thousands Of miles
away, there would have been some chance
| for IL to have been lost in transmission.
| But it wasn't Its hailing place was the
| little pOstOilice up in Sandy Hook, this
state. One of the postuls was dated Nov
cmbcr l 6, 1876. 1t is true the postals
did not contain very important news, and
| il is well they did not, for it would, in
! deed, have been stale news twelve years
! after it was written. But where have
| these pOstas been loaiing these twelve
| yeaTsP Postmaster English says that
sometimes, in the old postal cars where
the mail compartments did not reach to
| the ceiling, letters were sometimes thrown
, back and lost back of the compartment,
) only to he found when the car was re-
aired. These postals were mailed re-
. Nsl'ly at this office, which fact suggests
a. 3 possibly they may have been re-
'"AYcd by the wrong party, who took oc-
cds!on to start them to their right dcstinn-
tion twelve years after they were writ
ten. But it would rather seem that the
postal cards had been lost in transmits
a In infr hn lf
because this is not the only instance of
the kind. The receiver of the postal
cards will keep them as relics of the Re
publican administration
cary of Civil Service.
1t was learned to-day says the Balti-
more American correspondent that the
War Record and Steam Engineering
Bureau, Navy Department, had failed
in getting their typcwriters. The chiefs
of the bureaus looked very blue over
their ill-luck, and they have become
| much disgusted at the delay of getting
tn. persons they want. An Official who
stands close to Secretary Whitney aid
to-day that he was tired of the civil
service humbug, and the best thing to
be done was to appoint IL person out
side of the civil service. He stated
that the Commission had sent several
persons twice to the Department who had
rejected the positions offered. lie fur
ther stated that Secretary Whitney had
grown tired of the matter, and had telc-
graphed that the Civil Service Commits
sion would only be given a few days
more to elect persons for the places
who would accept them, otherwise type
writers would be appointed outside the
pale of the civil service.
What do you think will be done in the
matter p' was asked.
~ believe this-that persons will be
appointed to the vacancies irrespective
of the civil service. We feel confident
that there are plenty of persons who will
accept the positions"