Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1889-03-18

publican party. Scores of this con-
temptible class are even talking loud
lytof the promotions they are about
to receive. And thus the dirt eating
goes on.
Only a part of the chronic office
seekers went home. There are still
enough left to crowd the lobbies Of
the main hotel, and they will only
drop off one by one as their money
gives out or their desires are satisfied.
Nearly all our candidates for high
offices, on the plan that if they fail
to get the big office they can use the
endorsements secured to receive an
inferior position.
Congressman and local statesmen
endorse man, say for commissioner
of patents, whom they know has no
more chance for appointment than
has blind beggar. The endorse
ments are therefore unusually warm
and cordial. After the right, or
wrong, man is appointed, this unim-
portant man will pose us a defeated
candidate who accepts his defeat
proudly and without bitterness. If
he is lucky, he will worry his con-
gresham into presenting his applica-
ton and endorsements to some de-
partment, and he may even secure an
$500 clerkship. Then he will settle
down and draw his salary with brill
liant regularity, boast of his influence,
talk mysteriously of his association
with prominent men whom he only
knows by sight, and become in two
years a confirmed and irredeemable
ass.
You scratch my back, I'll scratch
yours, is the sum total of American
politics, and any lingering doubt that
you may have on that point would be
eradicated by reading some of the
letters of endorsement one sees. Let
ters of recommendation are exohang-
ed as freely as cards. Influence is a
commodity. Sometimes the letter of
endorsement cites not only the quail
fications of the person endorsed, but
also those of the endorser for some
position the latter seeks. This may
give rise to some confusion and not
particularly aid either candidate, but
the endorser is too eager to blow his !
own horn to remember that.
They were a couple of Tennessee !
ans one from the mountains, one
from the lowlands of the state; they
both wished to be consul to Montreal, |
a position either stood about as much |
chance of obtaining as he did of |
plucking the stars from the canopy.
The mountaineer with the fearfully |
and wonderfully made overcoat and a |
silk hat that never could have been
the fashion in any time or country,
says, $50, Sir, you will not retire in
my favor?" "No, Sir, | will not"
''Will you endorse me for commits
siOner of Lands ?" "No, Sir, my cous-
in wants that" Could you endorse
me for" here the highland states
man grows desperate-''for a mail |
carrier at Nashville?" eyes," re-
sponded the other. Thus is ambition
regulated by a descending scale.
On Saturday President Harrison
began to deny himself to casual call
ers, after having on Friday, as a des-
perate measure, put on his overcoat
and hat and stood out in the wind to
watch 1900 people file by, rather
than have the pleasure of grasping
each one by the hand. From 10 to
II o'clock on Saturday morning, a
steady stream poured through the
w ulIS IlOuSCs anu builhS blS tllhS
hundreds of applications were made
for presidential appointments. At
II o'clock the cabinet met, and those
who had called for the purpose of
urging their own or some friends ap-
plication were quietly dismissed for
the day. The president stated that
he had not had ten minutes to him
self since the Inauguration.
The household of President Har-
rison will consist of Mrs. Harrison
his son Russell, his wife and one
child, his daughter, Mrs. Mckee, her
husband and two children. This is
an unusually large family, but doesn't
with the household of John
Tyler. 1 believe there were four
teen in that family, and marriage and
giving in marriage were of frequent
occurrence. Deaths and births also
visited the house, and all the little
drama of domestic life was played
again. 1t was the homely, dull story,
ever old, Lever new.
"Ayer's Medicines have been satisfactory to me
my practice especially Ayers Pectora,