Evening journal., 1889-04-01
FEDERAL APPOINTMENTS.
Those Who Thirst for the Sweets o
once.


The number Of Senator Higgins's con
stituents who are fairly tearing their
hair to slip into important federal ap-
pointments is almost daily increasing
Every Saturday when ne comes home he
finds out that the chief end of man is
not as the catechism alone says, but to
seek federal Office Senator Higgins's
constituents do not ask for little plums,
either. The biggest fruit in the tree is
being reached for by Horace Greeley
Knowles Of this city, that Of consul.
general at Constantinople, a position
worth $4,000 a year, 81 800 for contin
gent expenses two vice-consuls and a
steam yacht thrown in. OF course
Knowles has no opposition for this place in
this state, nor, as yet known, outside. He
has been pretty strongly recommended and
he has presented them to the Presi-
dent and is confident that the President
thinks well of him The next in order
for good Office, that is next in order as
relates to rank, is Judge George P. Fisher
The judge has spent many years in
the service Of the party, and has lived to
an old age to see himself snubbed in his
later years by upstarts in the party; but
the Judge got in his work in the late
senatorial contest, and brother Higgins
will not forget him il he can do anything
for him. The judge had his eye on Wal
lyer Blaines place as examiner Of claims,
but the tabooed statesman desired to cast
an anchor to the windward, and appoin-
ted his son. Just what the Judge will
get is hard to tell, but it is said on pretty
good authority that he has a mortgage
upon nice easy berth, probably regis
trar of the treasury or one of the comp
trollerships The Office Of collector Of
internal revenue for this district Dr. Daw
son of Frederick wants, and wants it bad
just what claim the doctor has for the
position is hard for layman to see with
the naked eye. About the only thing he
has done down in Kent is TO have himself
beaten by the Massey people occasionally.
Boggs, an old smyrna man and now a
resident of Baltimore, is another candi
date for the position, and there are some
unkind people who intimate that the
guileless Delaware Senator is carrying
water on both shoulders between these
two candidates. The best paying federal
Office in Delaware is the VIII
mington postoffice 1t is generally
conceded that the fight for this
office has narrowed down between
Henry q. Mahaffy, representing what
might be styled the "overall" element of
the Republican party and George W.
Stone the kid glove Doodle furnishing
element Henry G. McLear is a contin-
gency and may be demonstrated a cross
between these two breeds. All three
have one common trait and that is to
hurrah for Higgins upon each and every
occasion that an opportunity presents
itself and sometimes when it don't pre-
sent. Mahaify should have the Office If
party service is to be rewarded, but
the ''boodle" element in Wilmington de-
mands a representative and they will
leave no stone untnrned to secure their
choice.
The candidacy Of Anthony Reybold for
collector of the port has had the effect of
making the cold chills play hide and seek
up and down the backs of the other can
didates. Reybold is near relative Of
Higgins, and the 'only Delaware Repub-
lican Senator" is human and it is pretty
generally conceded that he will take care
Of his own kith and kin. W. r. Lyman
Of Chrstiana hundred, William p. Vos-
hell and host OF others want TO be
United States marshal