Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-31
ESPECIAL rrLronAM TO THE D1srAroH.i

WAohlNGTON, august cry Jar
sons threat to startle the world if the Har-
rison administration did not begin to shake
the Democrats out of the District Govern
ment pretty soon, was partially fulfilled by
another gathering of the Republican kick
ers which met tonight and did not entirely
get home until m morning. Ten white and Is
black men, about half of the membership of
the Republican Central Committee of the
District of Columbia, didn't hear George
Phillips invoke the blessing of the AL
mighty upon the meeting. because the aiore-
said meeting had been called to order sew
eral minutes before, but it did listen to W.
81. Jones, the Temporary Secretary, who
was called upon, as the Chairman said, "be.
cause he was well known as a talker." He
wanted to know upon what meat these
Caesars fed that they had grown so great.
There is this civil service thing" he
went on, sit was born at time when it was
not wanted. This country went through
the Civil War and came out all right and
resumed specie payments without any civil
service reform. In the war, when men
faced death and went through all sorts of
hardships for the sake of their country. it
was not necessary that they should know
when stone was dropped from the heavens,
just when it would reach the ground"
PROMISES NOT KEPT.
The resolutions of Perry Carson's CON-
mittee recited that President Harrison had
declared to six well known citizens, on
March 13, that it was his purpose to recon-
struct the District government from its
foundations, and to appoint commissioners
who would right the great wrongs and
abuses, that nothing at all had been done,
and that the same old ring of capitalists,
contractors and officeholders still existed
to the disgrace of the coun-
try. The resolutions thanked Marshal
Daniel Ransdell for dismissing within
month his political enemies. They pre-
sented a table of leading District Office
holders to show that 81 Democrats held
places which were worth $50. 500, and that
seven Republicans and Mugwumps held
places worth but Sic, 800. They insisted
that the same political proportion held in
the 200 minor offices. The resolutions ex-
pressed amazement that the new District
Commissioners, In obedience to the preju-
dices of the Democratic Chief of Police,
had filled 80 new places on the force entirely
with white men, though numerous colored eX-
soldiers and sailors had passed creditable
committee of seven OF its own members,
with power to select seven other local Re
publicans, to wait upon the District Com
missioners and demand fair proportion of
Republican appointments. This was an
impassioned part of Perry Carson's speech;
WHERE NICE MEN GO.
We say, Mr.. Commissioner. why don't you
turn them out? And they answer that they
are nice men. Mr.. Moore is nice man, I know,
but so was Mr.. Longstreeta a nice man. That
amt what we are talking about. President
Cleveland was a nice man, but we turned him
out and put in a nicer man. Mr.. Hine and Mr..
Douglass are nice men. and am satisfied that
we want it done now.. What's that about hades
being paved with nice menf It's paved with
good intentions, but it's nearly the same
thing.
Exodus" Perry, so-called because he
claims the credit OF inducing 1000 negroes
to go from North Carolina to Indiana to
settle and carry the election of 1880, said
that he could not talk out. because he would
be discharged before 10 o'clock in the morn
ing if he did, but he told the story, never
theless, about his application to chief of
division for place. The chief had told
him that he might possibly be engaged as a
messenger if he would black boots and also
drive the carriage of my lady when the
chiefs family returned from the seaside.
Commissioner Douglass said this afternoon:
'sIt has always been considered a sort of
unwritten law that inasmuch as there is one
Democrat and ore Republican civil COM
missioner both parties should be equally
we'll represented in the minor Offices. This
seems to me to be the proper policy to be
pursued in this district, being as it is neu-
tral ground on which representatives of
both parties meet in Congress and preside
over the various departments under differ
ent administrations.
DEMOCRATS HAVE THE LIONS SHARE.
Mr.. Douglass thought the minor offices
were pretty evenly divided.
As to the leading Offices" he added. .'the
Democrats have the larger share, and the prin-
ciple above alluded TO would seem to show that
there ought to be some equalization sooner or
later. Speaking for myself alone, until the
Offices are equalized, shall always prefer q
Republican.
There was more comfort than this for Re
publicans in the words of the Evening Capt.
tai, which thought it could not be the per-
manent policy of the controlling power to
throw away its fruit of victory. 1t said:
"There are laws OF common Justice and
common sense which are greater than the
fancies of Mugwumps. Unto Cesar, in the
fullness of time, will come all of Caesars be-
longings."
A Asemi-authoritatiye statement from the
District Offices tonight is to the effect that
Perry Carson wants to be keeper of the
Almshouse, but that the present commits
sioners will never give him that, or any
other place, no matter how much pressure
Republicans exert for him.