The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-11-29
APPOINTMENTS IN THE SOUTH. :

slna the C0Qtn, sGen.: .:dartlSQu VIII PIUua'
bly look for guidance to the experience
iof his Republican predecessors in Office,
sali?of whom had to deal with the same
problem of finding fit representatives OF
the Federal power and dignity and com :.
petent executors of the Federal Law out
side of the ranks of the most intelligent,
richest, most influential, and socially
dominant classes. Gen. Harrison will
not initiate Gen. Grant by seducing
prominent Ex Confederates from their
Democratic fealty by appointments to-
office nor Mr.. Hayes by attempting to-
raise the ghost Of the old Wing party.
, The element he will seek to recognize
and foster in the South is that made up
:of the younger, more progressive, liberal,
enterprising men of both parties, who
have risen. to prominence since the war
and are free from the narrow prejudlces
and radical bitterness it engendered |;
5who are identified with the material
growth Of the country and interested in
itsindnstrial development. So far as the
party question is concerned, it is believed
to be Gen. Harrison's judgment that
President Arthur dealt with the problem
of appointments to office inSthe South
moro sagaciously and successfully than
sany other Republican President: Arthur,
nihis theory at least, made ftnessathe
first and Republicanism the second qual.
ifcation to Office in the South. cap
pointed good Republicans wherever he
could find them, and good Democrats
where he couldn't. The conditions of the
problem now existing makeit great deal
simpler for Gen. Harrison than it was for
Mr.. Arthur. The Democrats are now-in
Office, and the civil service law, which it
is; believed he means faithfully to obey in
letter and spirit. .isin full force. When
Arthur had to fly in the face Of party
tradition by appointing Democrats 70
Office in. places where suitable Republi.
cans could not be found, Harrison will
only have to obeyxs law placed upon
the statute books by his own party by
Leaving Democrats in office.
NO REVIVAL OF NEGRO RULE.
Z Il is thought that the policy Of the
Preside elect will be about as indicated
above that.he will make his Admins.
.tration in the South as thoroughly
Republican as is consistent with ef6cien.
cy and obedience to Law, but that he will
sneither:b be precipitate nor violently par.
tisan in his appointments: that there
will be few removals, except for cause,
and that when vacancies occur they will
be filled with Republicans, where ftand
competent Republicans can be found, but
otherwise by reappointments. The per.
sonal character of the men upon whom
Gen. Harrison will most rely to represent
and sustain his Administration in the
South has. been hinted at. There will be
no revival of negro or carpet bag rule.
It is believed that few negroes will be
appointed to local Office !; that the lest of
fitness and acceptability will be applied
as rigidIy to one race as to the other. Few
of the political carpet baggers of the old
school are left in the South. The emf.
grants who have followed them-tbe
capitalists, manufacturers, miners, busi-
ness men, who have identified themselves
with the country, its progress and pros.
perity-stand in;the most direct line OF
favor and recognition from ihe new Ad.
miDiatration. They and those of the
younger class of native Southerners who
have caught their spirit and ehare their
sentiments and aspirations, the men Of
the new South as a whole, native and
imported, will be the hope and reliance
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