The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-03-17
KNOWN BY THE TOGS.
A Story of the EYer-AnxiOus,
Heavy-Laden 0ffice-Seeker.
COLONEL FRED CAN NOT GET IT.
Grants Name is Dennis on the Chinese Mission
He, as well as Many Others,
Grows DisconsOlate

Especial 70 THE acknowledgements Dlspatch.l
WASHINGTON, March 16.-The ofice-seek-
ers from different points of the country
who crowd the hotel Hobbies are queer set.
The most of the number have quietly for
saken the high priced hostelries where they
have been staying, and sought lodgings in
second rate boarding houses on the back
streets But they continue to lounge about
their former abiding places, first to keep up
appearances and secondly to enjoy each
others cOmpaniOnship.
They illustrate in a striking degree the
trus& of the old adage that misery loves
company, for more miserable lot rs class
it would be difficult to find outside the walls
of penitentiary.
FILLED WITH HOPE.
They came to Washington with souls
filed with hope and with purses not well
supplied with cash. Both have steady di-
minished, especially the cash. There is
gloom and sadness among them. Many Of
the applicants talkvaguely of their services
TO the party, and threaten, in case they
are thrown over. to make it unpleasant for
the administration at the next election.
There is already great dissatisfaction among
them, and as dozen applicants have pre-
scented themselves for each Office, this dis
satisfaction will break out, presumably with
much greater force when the place IS filled.
GET on TO THE ToGs.
Iobg can tell what section of the country
they represent by their dress and converse
4aip 'ba o,.nl ,l114f
full-bearded fellows as 5 rule and those who
come from beyond the Mississippi to the
Colorado line wear high topped boots and
SLOUGH hats.
The southerner is almost universally at
tired in black brOadclOth with the vest cut
low and fastened with but one button at
the bottom, showing the entire front Of his
pleated shirt front.
MORE CONVENTIONAL.
The eassarn man conforms more to the
prevailing mode in the matter Of dress and
n this regard is easily distinguished from
MS western and southern brother The
Illinois men are doing the loudest grum-
bling. They worked hard, they say, to re-
move the state from the doubtful column,
and what, they scOrnfully ask, is the results
One secOnd-rate foreign mission, and that,
100, to a man Of whom the workers never
ht''d . . -. ., s'~
JUST FOOLED THEN.
They pushed Clark Z. Carr for the office
of ASSISTANT Ostmaster-ge general, and it was
given to Mr.. ClarkSOn of Iowa.
They united upon James s. Martin for
penRiOn commissioner, and are told that
NeET York man viii probably secure it.
They have urged the appointment of Asa
Mathews for the cOmmissiOnership of in
ternal revenue but are constrained to be-
hot oh
state the present incumbent halls, will be
given the place.
Az OLD oLDLTIMBR.
Andrew Shuman, the veteran editor of
Chicago who was in at the birth of the Re
publican party, would like modest foreign
mission, but there IS no evidence that his
claim is being considered nor, is it probable
that 1t soon will be.
And so they say that they have been
treated badly and the longer they are kept
in suspense the more noise they will make
about it.
The New Workers on the other hand are
calm and complaisant. They have Jared
very well thus far, and they expect to fare
much better in the future. II is not be
lieved that any appointments will be made
in the New York city offices for several
weeks. The list of candidates is surpris-
ingly small when the Importance of the
offices is considered, and it is thought when
the President desires to make his selec-
tons it will be done speedily and without
friction,
HE DON'T BELIEVE IT.
Representative Farquhar, of the Buffalo
district, who is refreshingly honest and
straightforward in his declaration, pooh
pOohs the report that ex-senator Tom Plat
will exercise a potent influence in the dis
tribution of the patronage 1.-THE men
whom General Harrison will consult in this
maiter and whose wishes he will respect
saft Major Farquhar, ''are not outsiders,
like Warner Miller and Thomas c. Plat, |
but the Representatives and Senators who
are compelled to cooperate with the
appointees, and who will necessarily be |
held responsible for their actions. ! can
tell you a bit of a secret in this connection |
Mr.. Platt has been credited with having |
secured General Bachelors appointment
as assistant secretary of the treasury. AS |
matter of fact, he had nothing whatever
10 do with it. 1t was fully determined and
agreed upon before Mr.. Platt knew any
thing about it.
GOES A BEGGING.
"Tbere is one office, a four thousand dol
lar one too, that is going a begging. This
is the Office of sub-treasurer at San Fran
cisco. The men who could have il don't |
want it and those who want it can't give
the bond Of half million dollars, which
the law prescribes EX-COngressman
Charlie FELTON, filed the place for one
term.
THE IRON IN HIS SOUL.
During that time he paid forged draft
for $4,000 which he was compelled to
charge against his own account, and this |
left him the modest salary of 81, 900 per an
mum for his four years work and RESPONSE |
bility. One of Mr.. Felton's successors was !
unfortunate enough TO involve himself in
similar loss and now the Office is Stunned |
by the most persistent Of the place seeking
The President Don't Want Grant.