Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-06-30

TIE monumental error of Olevslsnds appointments, psssmoun, Co all otoers, wss. the iDjudici"us sppoinim of the late Land Commissioners, William An drew Jackson sparks. Of course it is mt to be presumed that the President LDew atths time sparks vss urged on him that he wes crank of the most pronounced .tyle, but i. is known that the President roon found it out, and that Spsrks' rep dtstion ID Chicago for some time previ- nus to his appointment vas tbss of -rsnk, 80 that by little judicious in q1iry before acting. the President might have saved the country e great smount uf embarrassment. and might have pro tse.ed settlers from indignities. and sui fsrings almost without parallel, bu' Cleveland wss new to the great duties ,i 8 national politician. snd acted with an unwise haste in Sparks case. While he people throughout those states hay
 ns government public land still within
 heir boundaries, may feel inclined tc s1cuse Olevelsnd's sppointmSnt O. Sparks on the ground of the novelty ot the situation. they will not eIcust aim for not having hsd the courage to aavs bounced this unblusniug preseD- der, when he had made the discovery, that in Sparks. he had inflicted 8 ns- tional calamity on the country. One oi the most reputable Democratic politi- ci aus in the national capital. iu palistior of the Presidents nIstske in the mailer of Sparks, said, some six months before Lamar applied the boot to Sparks through the medium of his carefully
 vorded, but iron-clsd letter, that the President WAS only too anxious to get rid of the iguorsnus, but that Sparks friends had prepared great howl that would be heard It the
 President removed him, to the ef
 feet inst the land rings, private land grants and railroad corpors' tions, had encompsssed she decspisa
 tions and that Cleveland in view ot hli
 premeditsted nomination n 'SS. coulc not afford to call down on his demo
 cratic reign the impTeostions of Sparks friends but, said this leading democrat the machinery is already in motion t6
 accomplish Sparks suffocs;ion in more
 diplomatic manner, snd true enougi
 his wind was out short by Cleveland
 though the Agency of his Secretary O
 Interior, in 6 way that did not allow
 Sparks 10 stand on ceremony as to th'
 manner of his departure, The Presiden
 ia to some extent to be commended fo
 getting rid of this rediculous Land Ofh- cs anomaly, even st the late day he did bu: how different the matter would have
 been regarded in She West had he pro
 niscuously sat upon Sparks with all O
 bis three hundred pound weight. vher
 te first became acquainted with his iru' instincts, the litileness of his character
 istics, the malice O; ms prosecutions and
 ais evil incIinstions towards hones' men,
 To s considerable extent tbe great ar
 my of squstters empoyed by Sparks 1T sorking out hi. evil designs, has beer
 iisbsnded by the Government ard thel aRve gone home to resume former call .ngs for which they may possibly have | been better fitted, but the work of thes. ! sIlling tools remains to be undone. and
 the complishment of all this will re-
 quire years. Sparks psrslyz yzed the efh ciepcy Of the Land Office ia Washing Ion, and through its ohsnDels the efh- | siancy of the offices throughout ihe land | Through his insane idiosyncrasiee th'
 sppropristions were cut down, uatll bu \ little money was available 10 do th' vast amount of work sppertsiDine t' I ,he Public Land Department. and th' ! cans quenee is inst the work has scou- | uulsted untIl it Is years behind, snc | the vsst number of settlers shroughou | .ha broad expsnse of country are tn
 sufferers. Many vote will ! pollef
 azsInst Olevelsnd on account of Sparks