The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1889-05-18

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now occupies under lease to be too
far from the Capitol for him to walk
to and from the Supreme Court
room in the Capitol, has purchased
one of the most desirable private
houses in the this city, located al
most in it's centre. The price paid
was 100000 cash.
Mr.. Palmer the new Public Prin-
ter took charge of the Govern
ment printing Office this morning.
Mr.. Benedict, the retiring Public
Printer has not been II popular
official no man can be, in that Off
ce, who looks out for the inter
ests of the Government, but he has
nevertheless been one of the very
best Public Printers we have ever
had. There has been less waste and
more work turned out for the a.
mount paid than was ever before
known in the history of the Office.
At last the colored man and
brother has captured a Presiden-
tial appointment. The lucky man
was Rev. j. NJ. Townsend of Rich
mond Indiana, and the Office was
Recorder of the General Land Off
ce not q big Office by any means
but just now the race is extremely
thankful for anything it can get.
Corporal Tanner is getting to
imagine himself the "biggesp man
connected with the administration
Some of his personal friends have
already began to talk of him as Il
Presidential candidate. If less
than two months at the head of the
pension bureau has had this much
effect, v nat may be expected offour
years?
The $lO,O0O,O0O in the United
States treasury has got to be all
got to be counted in order that Mr..
Hyatt the retiring Treasurer may
take the receipt of the new Treas
urer, Mr.. Huston, for the same.
The count began to day and is eX-
pected to last something like three
months. Nearly four-tifths of the
money consists of standard silver
dollars.
The appointment of eX-Governor
Thompson of South Carolina as the
democratic and Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt Of New York, as the
second republican member of the
Civil Service Commission, makes
the board complete for the first
time in many months. One of the
first things that the Commissioner
intends to do is to contest the re-
cent decision in the Interior de-
partnent that appointments in the
Census bureaus would be made
without civil service examinations.
Mr.. Wanamaker is opposed to
one cent postage. He seems TO have
already become a victim to the
fever that Postmaster Generals al
ways get soon after their appoint
ments and seldom ever get rid of.
That is the absurd desire to make
the post-oflice department self sus-
tanning.
It's dollars to ginger cakes that
some New Hampshire paper mill
gets in its work early in the ad-
ministration of the New York Pub
lie printer. My reason for think
ing so is that little "BiIly" Chanel
Ter helped Palmer fix up his bond
and also went on it himself. Now
Chaneller never does anything for
nothing, and his long experience
in manufacturing Government con-
tracts in which he has been silently
interested causes me to believe
that in this case lie will stick to the
same line of tactics that have made
him Il rich man.
The next Congress will have six
teen contested election cases to de-
termine, thirteen Of them from the
South. The papers in several of
these cases are now al the Govern
ment printing Office being put in
type.