Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-09
wAsHiScfoS LETTER.

= W4sHIksTOE D. GfAptl e9, 1850.
] President Hatrisonlhas reklle,H N ex.
tend The time. fnr Tie nilISay Mali
Service to pass unslprjtbe fbies of the
Civil Service COmhiIsidi. UdnseutlpuI-
iy.ho appqihtment,cah,be Itiatip h,that
branch of the Goverhhehtls service after
NAV first, except thrnlIch the GiviTSer.
vice Commission, This acilon was
taken In opposition TO lite Wishes of
Postmaster General Wanamaker, who
had asked to have the time extended
The President and the rest of the all
ministration with its wives, daughters.
SONS, cousins and aunts, to say nothing
of grandchildren. left here on a special
train Furnished them free) shortly after
o'clock this morning en- route to New
York to take D rt in the Centennial
celebration of George Washington's in
auguration. The office-seekers and
Congressman disappeared with the ap-
pointing powers, but most of them will
probably be back by the last of the week
The most thoroughly disappointed
man in the Uunited States-Billy Ma
hone, of Virginia-had quite a long
interview with the President on Satur-
day, and it is said that he made most
piteOus appeal for recognition of some
sort. He is no longer choice about
what he gets. He started by demand:
ing Cabinet position, but he humbly
asks to be allowed to name a few of the
smaller Federal officials in Virginia.
and it is by no means certain that even
that privilege is to be allowed him.
President Harrison as lawyer must
be familiar with the old English legal
maxim which says "the receiver of
stolen goods is as bad as the thief" but
his action in cutting the acquaintance
of his old friend w. w. Dudley. who
organized the doubtful voters of Indina
into blocks of five," and stole the
state, proves that he does not believe
in the afore' said maxim. 1t has been
hinted around Washington for some
time that President Harrison had 'refus-
ed to speak to Col. Dudley since the lat
ter was unfortunate enough to get shown
up in the "blocks of five" business.
Could it be because the President disap-
proves of such crookedness? Why,
Dudley has been one of the crookedest
and ablest lieutenats for 10 these many
years, and it was for just such work
that he, by special request, had Dudley
made treasurer of the Republican Ma
tional Committee. Gen. Harrison did
not object to the crookedness then, on
the contrary he accepted all the benefit
therefrOm. But when Col. Dudley
was stupid enough to be caught, Gen.
Harrison's virtue developed, and he re-
solved to have nothing more to do with
such very wicked man as Dudley. 1t
is strange that every body else should
know all about Col. DudIey's dark
ways all these years and that the Presi-
dent should have been entirely ignor-
ant.
Dudley, himself, has made the rumor-
ed snubbing a certainty by giving out
letter which he wrote to a gentleman
in Indiana, who had asked influence in
getting an Office for which he was an
applicant. The following paragraph
from Dudley's letter tells the whole
story: perhaps there is no one in the
whole country who has done as much
for General Harrison during the last
twenty years as l have, but because
our Democratic friends down in Indian
apolis have started the hue and cry on
me, brother Ben does not seem to feel
that he can afford to recognize me as an
acquaintance. and consequently l don't
take dinner at the White House as
might be expected"
IF President Harrison believed his
friend Dudley to have been such a ras-
cal that he could not afford to recognize
him as an acquaintance, would he not
have been more consistent to refuse
the fruits of that rascality-the Presi-
dency? No sane man doubts that New
York was carried by the same methods
as Indiana. IfCol. Dudley is a thief,
who is the receiver of the stolen goods?
Private Secretary Halford says that
the Presidents health has not been
better in twenty years than it is now.
This story is gotten up for Out-of-tOwn
consumption; it will not pass here
where people can see the Presidents
chalky face and the watery looking
puffs under his eyes.
Senator Stewart continues to pound
away at the silver question, but he has
not yet been able to persuade the ad-
ministration to increase its monthly
purchase of bullion. He says he still
hopes to do so.
Senators Sherman and Quay who
have been saying uncomplimentary
things about each other, have shaken
hands and outwardly made up, but
they have both doubtless made up
their minds to get even with each other
at the first opportunity.
The General Land Office will investi-
gate the charges that Government Off
cials took advantage of their official
positions for taking possession fraudu-
lently of choice town lots and home
steads in Oklahoma before the bona
fida settlers arrived