Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1889-05-04
WASHINGTON.

w AShlN6ION, al GJtll' 1000
President Harrison has refused to eX-
tend the time for the Railway Mail
service to pass under the rules of the
Civil Service Commission. Conse-
quently no appointment can be made
in that branch of the Government
service after May first except through
Civil Service Commission. The ac-
ton was taken in opposition to the
wishes of Postmaster-Ge Wanna
maker, who had asked to have the
time extended.
The President and the rest of the
administration with its wives, daugh-
tiers, sons, cousins and aunts, to say
nothing of grandchildren, left here
on a special train Furnished them
free) shortly after o'clock this morn
ing enroute to New York to take
part in the Centennial celebration of
George Washington's Inauguration.
The Office seekers and Congressman
disappeared with the appointing
powers, but most of them will proba-
bly, be back by the last of the week.
The most thoroughly disappointed
man in the United States-Billy Ma
hone, of Virginia-had quite long
interview with the President on Sat
urday, and it is said that he made a
most piteous appeal for recognition of
some sort. He is no longer choice
about what he gets. He started out
} demanding a Cabinet position, but
now he humbly asks to be allowed to
name few of the smaller Federal
officials in Virginia, and it is by no
means certain that even that privi-
lege is to be allowed him.
President Harrison as a lawyer
must be familiar with the old En-
: glish legal maxim which says "the
| receiver of stolen goods is as bad a;
the thief" but his action in cutting
the acquaintance of his old friend
w. w. Dudley, who organized thu
doubtful voters of Indiana int
l.. "blocks of FIVE" and stole the State
!, proves that he does not believe In tn,
q aforesaid maxim. 1t has been hint
!. ed around Washington for SOM
,. time that President Harrison had re
ia fused to speak to Col. Dudley sine
"a the latter was unfortunate enough t
# get shown up In the "blocks Of FIVE
N business. Could ii be because tn
President disapproves of sue
10 crookedness? Why, Dudley ma
"a been one of his crookedest and ables
ia lieutenants for 10 these many years
"a end 1t was for just such work thath'
nj by special request, had Dudley mad
NJ treasurer of the Republican Nation,
II Committee. Gen. Harrison did M
n seem to object to the crookedne'
I'd then, ON the contrary he accepted a
n the benefit therefrom. But whe
X. Col. Dudley was stupid enough to |
ia caught, Gen. Harrison's virtue d
rk veloped, and he resolved to hay
ev nothing more to do with such vel
of wicked man as Dudley. 1t is stranI
sy that everybody else should know 8
,es about Col. Dudley's dark ways
on these years and that the Preside1
od should have been entirely ignorar
m. Dudley, himself, has made the T
oh mored snubbing certainty by givil
ice out letter which he wrote to &c
ed tleman in Indiana, who had ask
his influence in getting an office
which he was an applicant. L
following paragraph from Dudle.
letter tells the whole story: 'l
"Perhaps there is no one in t
re- whole country who has done so mu
my for General Harrison during the Ii
.o twenty years, as l have, but pecal
i've our Democratic friends down in
'eu dianapolis have. started the hue a
9S9, cry on me, brother Ben does not SCI
'hu to feel that he can afford to recOgn
'arT me as an acquaintance, and con
'he quently don't take dinner at
anu White House as might be expected
'he If President Harrison believed
'ar- friend Dudley to have been such
ai rascal that he could not afford to 1
anu ognize him as an acquaintance, wol
'hce he not have been more consistent
the refuse the fruits Of that rascality-
an Presidency? No sane man dou
Ihce that New York was carried by
III same methods as Indiana. If {
MOI Dudley is thief, who is the recei
of the stolen goods?
Re- Private Secretary Halford says
the Presidents health has not b
better in twenty years than it is n
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