Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-04-08
HARR sons WORDS ". HIS ACTS

HAkk SONS WORDS vs. HIS AIS
"It is entirely creditsble to seek public Office
/ by proper methods and with proper motives. and
applicants WIN be treated with consideration;
but shall need. and the heads OF departments
wiz need. time Tor inquiry and deiberation."
This scrap is from President HARRIsoN's
inaugural address.
In the month which has elapsed the
President has so vigorously conducted
Enquiry and elaboration" az to he able
70 send TO the Senate over 375 appoint
ments. This is more than twice the num-
Der Of appointments made by President
/ CLEVELAND in the same period following
his Inauguration, the Senate in taat year
continuing in session to April ,, IS in this
case.
The contrast is so remaI kable and sig
nifcant IS to call for explanation or ex-
cuss by the party organs with AZ identity
of expression which seems 70 indicate an
official origin Of the plea ia ex enuation.
This excuse, or apology, is that President
HARRISON has doubled President CLEvE-
LANDS activity in making places for
applicants because, in the language
Of one Of the correspondents Of an
eastern organ, he sis more inclined than
his predecessor to give the Senate its pie
rogative Of passing upon appointments"
As the Senate must finally pass upon all
appointments, the force cfthis explanation
does not appear. But the climax of abb
surdity is reached in the further comment
that 'ths largest number Of appointments
certainly does not mean a greater rush for
Office bow than four years ago, because
there we're never so many ofics-seekers
who have lefJ Washington in disappOint-
ment as during The last week" To the
ordinary mind the fact that appointments
hsye been made with double the rapidity |
Of four years ago, and that the crowd OF
disappointed ofice-seeker, is greater than
ever before would carry the impression
that there is i1desd "a greater rush for
Office"
Be it understood that the REGISTER
does not favor that fnicky doctrine of the
called civil service reform. 1t
believes that the victors should get the
spoils every time, and as soon as possible,
but it does not believe in hypocrisy or il |
Pharisaical prstensions Alr. HARRISON |
should not have posed SIS a civil service
reformer, nor should he, or his friends for
him, attempt any longer TO keep up the
farce. So far as he has shown himself, he
is q plain. very ordinary, partisan Presi-
dent, who intends to let no civil service
humbug deter him fcom rewardiug his
party friends as soon "a possible, even at
the expense of the pubic service.
Daring the past month the scramble at
Washington has been such as never before
wac known, aud the haste with which the
President has been compelled to act to
meet the furious demand for spOils has
doubtless had an unfortunate result III
lowe. ing The standard Of character Of his
appointments far below that set by Presi-
dent CLEVELAND through his more delib-
crate action.
Removals and appointments in those Of
fee which do not require the concurrence
Of the Senate have been going on at turi-
Gus pace. Assistant Postmaster General
CLAREs0N having turned out every Demo
cratic superintendent from the railway
mali service, is now able to devote himself
with greater energy to the fourth-class Of
fees, 100 appointments day being about
mis- average and he has only heguu.
I'm the meantime the public business is
at q standstill OF in the hands of subOrdin-
ats