The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1889-04-12

The Way Il Slaughters I 80 ONCE
holders Each Day.

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holders Each Day.
The Washington City Correspondent
OF the Cincinnati Commercial & szette,
after giving the geographical location OF
the large Offices distributed by Presi-
dent Harrison, commends the admins
trstion highly for its industry. and says \
In this distribution Of officers twenty
three states have been recognized, and
OF these fifteen gave Republican and
eight Democratic majorities IN the last
presidential election. Now. what is the
matter with that distribution Of Offices,
50 far as locality is concerned? Can you
suggest some improvement so far a.
lsbor is concerned. the above list shows
only portion tho main portion, or
course. There have been hundreds or
army and navy and other appointments
made.
Besides doing this work he has shaken
hands with thirty thousand people, pat
ted eight thousand babies on the bead.
kissed six thousand Of them. thanked ten
thousand men who voted for his grand
father in 1B4O and him in 1898. answer
ed one hundred thousand idiotic ques-
Itionf, heartily thanked fifty thousand
men who were the first TO mention him
for the presidency, shaken hands with
eight thousand surviving soldiers Of the
Seventh Indiana Regiment :: has warmly
thanked thirty members OF the Vermont
OF eight at Chicsgo which
voted for him soiidly from beginning TO
end has also thanked eighty members
Of the California delegation to Chicago,
each one having been the man who
.thre W. that delegation to him and made
sure his nomination; has taken . walk
every day. has kept Elijah Hslford
straight, and done many other difficult
and trying things.
! AZ for changes in the Postoffice De
lpartment, they couldn't be made more
rapidly. The guiliotine il not rotar, IL
motion, but moves up and down
Il Were il rotary, il could saw of head
steadily as . buzz-aaw cuts of cord
y wood. A. il Ia, the kuife comes dow
.labout hundred times day, and ever.
,ltime it drops . postofficial head drop
Into the basket. There sre only ~
land q half Office hours . day In III
90 . little light arithmes
3 will show you that the guislotine
! working pretty lively. A steam triI
llhammer isn't circumstance to II
n|,he matter Of speed. This makes rs'
slof come six hundred . week, or ov'
'vlrhirty thousand year. That Il abo'
dlas fast ~ the old mill can work and Il
9lheathen shouldn't rage. or the unrege
,flerate Imagine vain thing. Once
,eltwice the head harvest for day has ru
kEup to l25, and even to $50, but abo
gl no is the average crop. These arc q
a postofiices. held almost I
n lvsriably by Democratic appointees WI
isIwere shoveled into them by the hu
t-ldreds BY Villas in the opening days
1.-The Cleveland administration. In u
T. main the changes Inade are TO- put b.
r-Itne old officials.
n The scene in the Office Of the postms
ter-general is . peculiar one. There Il
li-lcrowd there alI the time, aud one wo
Iders how any work Il all can be dor
chi But the great crowd il In the Office
IdlFirst Assistant Postmaster -geuel
III Cisrkson.
Dd There is always . crush and jam fre
-y,lthe moment Clsrkson enters, and hot
-y,before he arrives the office Is well III.
err, with men waiting MS coming, and IN
turns according 10 arrival - they
Ierin . bsrbershop or sta ticket windo
~. Nearly all the men who ere being
stIrapidly reinststed were put out Of cH
ls;Iunder the offensive partisanship ore
.htIissued BY viIss, inviting the fling
thIsecret charges against the characters
ctsl Republican postmasters, which the lat'
were not allowed to see or know
a|defend themselves against
De. tits il most cases justice to men who
we're sssailed. and who VIZ
nr. willing. and who expected to 60 out.
hel xpected to do so because they were
and Democrats were put
beltbeir places. More than thousand
be|these men who we're the victims OF q
ifldisgraceful order are back In th
BEL places already, and the men who ms
Ichsrges against them in ths cowars
shelter Of the dark postoffice archi'
lsre ont in the cold again.
There IL one man who IL not ecsts
- y. cally happy, and that i Corporal "A,
~ lncr. Tie Corporal started In on
O. o. avowed policy Of cleaning out evs
= ~ Democrat iu the pension service. and
Y. 1.-TWO weeks asked for l37 resiguation-
uI- The secretary Of the interior is him-
te, |in favor OF making changes and putt
rre Republicans 10 place. but when suc|
er, y holesale sweeping out Of heads Of
- vision, chief clerks and responsible Q
ter |cisls came 10 his attention, he shut do
q i upon Il for the good Of the order q
X is. be took, BY published order, the I
attire matter OF asking for resignstit
Into his own hands.
,.aI Mr. Noble evidently thought sue
n. IA; sudden and sweeping change was no'
- - visable and might tend to demcralize
=. ~ pension service. The changes will COZ
I but they will Be made with more del
\. ~ GRAFTON and time given for new men
~ ~ become familiar with their duties ~
NJ out jumping into hole left BY iighsui
On,
ck Compliments.