Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1889-07-04
HARRIsoN.s HYPOCRISY.
Harrison the President Condemned b.
Harrison the Senator.


Harrison the President Condemned BY
Harrison the Senator.
The folio wing example of the dead
ly parallel will repay attention:
Especial Dispatch to, do lift up a hearty
the Globe-Democratl prayer that we may
First Assistant Post. never have President
master-General Clark VINO Will mol either pur-
son still continues his sue and compel his
work of decapitating Caoinet au'lse,s 70
tiers of the DemocratcIice policy pure and
variety and substitute simple ana upon Iuss
ing for them Repub- oas $, allowing m
ncans During h e accused to be heard.
week lust %. Q and deciding against
changes were made in them only upon compe-
lola Offices The high tent proof and fairly
est number of changes either have that kind
made in one week was of civil service, or,
!0l6 The latter num- for Gods sake. let US
ber broke the record have that other frank
which breaking oc- a bold, II brutal,
Cured about the mid me thod of turning men
die OF May The past and women out simply
week gave the record liz or political opinion.
4 close call, althoughtLet US have one or the
Mr.. Garrison made no other.
special effort. Since
the incoming of the
present administration
over ITO Democratlc
postmasters OF TIL e
fourth class have re-
tired from office either
voluntarily or inyolun-
tarily.
The quotation on the left hand
SpcdhS lOE ItScli lo DAalst-
ton. That on the right is from
speech delivered in the United States
Senate on March %, 1886, by Benjamin
Harrison. Senator from Indiana. 1t
might have been supposed that becom-
ing President, Mr.. Harrison, in de-
parting from his pledges in a way so
bt utal thatin single grade of single
department: of the service he has
forced out over II 900 experienced men
in less than four months, would have
adopted his own alternative and SO
would have been frank and bold in his
brutality. The country does not need
to be told that hypocrisy has been as
marked feature of his administrative
methods as the brutality he himself
has defined. In the process of forcing
out these thousands of tried public
servants, every meth cd known to parti-
san greed and rancor has been en-
ployed. Where designations have not
been forthcoming on demand, the
threat of charges has been held over
the heads of incumbents. and they
have been given to understand that
the nature of such charges is an adj
ministration secret.
The New York Evening Post has
done good service in exposing this
method, especially in the case of Mrs
Mary L. Clay. of Huntsville. Ala.
She was postmistress there, and her
resignation was demanded. She asked
to know the nature of the charges
against her. The answer was notice
of her removal. The Administration
claims to have the report of special
agent on charges showing her unfit
ness. When application was made at
the Post-Office Department for in
formation concerning these charges
it was fatty refused, with no other in
formation than that the contents of
such papers would not be divulged in
any case.
The best comment on such a policy
for use in this connection is that of
the speech from which we have al
ready quoted. 1T is" said Senator
Harrison, "a policy inaugurated by
this Administration, policy that is
without precedent, and that will be
without imitation-a policy of stimu-
ldtlnR ana receiving secret charges
against the reputation of men, ay, as
| shall show presently, not only
against the reputation of men, but
against the reputation of women; of
denying to the accused any access to
or knowledge of the charges, and of
acting upon those charges in the
dark"
Now. what is Harrison the President
as he is judged out of the mouth OF
Harrison the Senator? Was Harrison
the President pursuing "a civil-serv-
ice policy pure and simple" in turning
out over IL. 900 fourth-class postmas-
tiers between March and June Is?
Was he frank and bold, if brutal"
in having charges filed by special
agent against Postmistress Mary L.
Clay and refusing to reveal the nature
of the accusation or the names of the
accusers? Is not Harrison the Presl-
dent condemned by Harrison the SEN
ator as a canting humbug9-St Louis
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