The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-05-15
TWO KINDS OF APPOINTMENTS.

The Democratic free trade organs are
printing labored articles claiming that
the course of the present administration
in respect to appointments is proof that
it has definitely abandoned its reform
professions. They base this accusation
on the number and not on The character
of the persons selected for office. OF the
fitness, honesty, or capabillty of the
men chosen by President Harrison and
his advisers the Democrats have been
unable TO find any just cause to com
plain, so they fall back on the number of
appointments made as the only possible
grievance in sight.
There are very plain reasons why the
present administration has been called
upon to make large number of appoint
ments. The first reason is that most of
the changes have ben made in the for
eign legations and heads of bureaus and
departments, where they woul have been
made had any new administration come
into power. The other reason is of nearly
the same character as that which COM
PEELED q clean sweep of the Offices in
1861. When Abraham Lincoln became
President he found the Offices filled with
disloyal Democrats, and when Benjamin
Harrison became President he found an
almost equal number of Democratic ras-
Gals and incompetents in Office
If the Democratic free-traders want to
make a comparison of the appointments
of this and the Cleveland administration
let them make il on character. Let them
search through the lists of foreign APP
pointments made during the past six
weeks and find, if they can, an Anthony
Nj. Kelley, who was sent to Italy and re-
jected, and then billeted on Austria, but
refused recognition there also. Let them
find three such disgraceful selections as
Edward o. Buck, sent as Minister to
Peru; George w. Bryant the Minister to
Liberia; and James III. Morgan, Consul
at Melbourne. Among the home appoint
ments let them name a Eugene Higgins,
the Baltimore tough and gambler; a
Morris Thomas. the proved embezzler;
or an Eben +. Pllsbury, the leader in
the attempt to steal the State govern
ment of Maine.
Instead of moaning dolefully over the
number of postmasters being appointed,
let the Democrats put their ting-r on an
ex-convict appointed by Mr.. Harrison.
like Samuel Morley, whom Mr. Cleveland
appointed postmaster at Bridgeport. Ind.
or a saloon keeper and yiolntor of liquor
laws, like p. L. Kinian, made postmaster
at Valley Falls, II. l.; or defaulter like
Postmaster Dalton, OF Lincolnville, Me.
Finally. let them name a Republican pa
per that has become as disguised with
President Harrisoa's appointments as
the Indianapolis Sentinel was with Cleve-
lands nominations and which has been
compelled to call halt" and exclaim,
in the language of the Sentinel: ave
confess TO our inability to m Ike out any
sufficient reason for the selection and
appointment of thieves, highwaymen,
bribers, deadbeats, and the like. Give
honest, competent Democrats chance!"
When the free trade oraans can point
to such a disgraceful record of appoint
ments, of which only few specimens
have been given, il will be time enough
for them to NOR ] re on the abandonment
of reform" Meanwhile their criticisms
of the present administration, sicklied
over as they are with malice and disap-
poiniment, are ganged at their proper
hypocritical value by an intelligent pub
lie -Phftadeiphid Press.