Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-04-27
WASHINGTON.

w AShlNGlON, apr. zlSl. looJ.-
Senator John Sherman and the other
Republicans of the Ohio COngression-
al delegation are at dagger points.
The Senator, with his usual greedi-
ness, wants the other fellows to allow
him to name the Ohio men who
shall have Federal patronage. This
one'sided way Of giving the prises is
strongly objected to by Congressman
Mckinley, Butterworth, Burton and
Others who have friends they wish to
provide for, and the result is that
Ohio is getting left in the distribu-
ton Of official pap.
Among the disgusted Ohio Repub-
licans is Alphonse Hart, who came
here prepared to go to work as Solici-
tor of Internal Revenue, a position
which he says Attorney-General Mil
Ter rendered him and which he ac-
cepted several weeks ago. But he
has not gone to work, owing to the
objection of man greater than sine
too" Miller. Boss Quay has a man
whom he wishes to put into that po-
sition, but nothing has yet been done,
and as Quay is said to have gone
home in a pet last week, perhaps
Hart may get it after all.
The new Republican officials are
very prompt in getting sworn in, so
as to let their salaries begin. Then
they take their own time about be-
ginning to work. | was forcibly re.
minded Of this when Robert p. Por-
ter, editor of the New York Press,
turned up here two days after he was
appointed Superintendent of the Cen
sus, was sworn in, rushed down,
caught on an afternoon train and re-
turned to his private business in New
York city. BY the way, Porter, who
is one of the most rabid advocates of
a protective tariff is said to have
written just as rabidly in favor of
free trade until he was bought over
by the prOtectionists. If Mr.. Cleve-
land had appointed an Englishman
to as an important position as this all
the Republican papers in the country
would have been yelping at him and
charging him with all sorts of crimes.
But then you see it makes a great
difference whose OK is gored.
The notorious colored eX-Congress-
man Smalls, of South Carolina, came
very near to being the first negro APP.
pointed to Office by President Harri-
son, and he may yet be the first. He
is an applicant for the position Of Col.
lector of customs of Beaufort, South
Carolina, and it had been decided to
appoint him when telegram was re,
) ceived from his State asking that the
matter be held up until certain
charges against Smalls could be sub
mitted to the President. If the latter
thinks to strengthen his party in the
!, South by appointing such men as
Smalls to Office he is sadly misin
formed as to the status of public opin
! ion in that section.
Representative Henry Cabot Lodge
of Massachusetts, isa very fortunate
l man. He says: 81 am not over-bur
dened by office-seekers. The people
of my State do not seem to be anxious
, for much. In my district there ha
not yet been single endeavor to re
move even Postmaster"
All the arrangements have beer
q, completed for the trip of the Presi
dent and Cabinet to New York mex
Monday, to take part in the Centen
u NAL Celebration. They leave here a
, very early hour, arriving at Elisa
> beth, n. j., in time to take breakfas
Z with the Governor of New Jersey
I They then 60 to Elisabethport wher
y they take boats which are to tax
y them over exactly the same rout
that George Washington went jus
l. one hundred years ago.
l. Assistant Secretary of the Treasur
v TicheHor is mad, he is in fact yer
!, mad, and does not care who know
" it. He had a candidate for the pos
ton Of appraiser of the port {
:, New York, and the President az
70 pointed another fellow. The onl
:, consolation that Mr.. Tichenor has
# the fact that the appointment doe
20 not please the New York Senator
- any better than it does himself.
:, For years it has been the custom t
- consider the four years commission
a Of Federal officials as beginning frOr
the date of their confirmation. Now
~ in order to make vacancies the RI
"a publican Congressman are bringin
pressure to bear on President Harr