The Arizona champion., 1889-04-20
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From Our Regular Correspondent at
 the National Capitol

From Our Regular Correspondent as
 the National Capitol
 WAsHINGroN, Apr. E.
 Some of the applications for
 postmasterships display a pretty
 fair idea of the appointing power.
 If the application is addressed to the President. the applicant dwells upon his war record and rakes his Hist of acquaintances with a fine tooth comb to find some one who knows the President personally.
 Like as not the person found is a minister who used to know Gen.
 Harrison in Indianapolis. The
 member of this particular brand of minister is really wonderful to con- template. A tew days since saw q specimen indorsement written by one of them for man who wants to be consul to Melbourne. Tn. letter was six pages long, and looked like a confidential offer of general advice, combined with a history of Indiana.
 If the applicant have in h,s minds eye the round Christianity of the Postmaster General he dwells strongly on his connection with some Sunday school, and if possible shows that he is, during week days, a conscientious busi. ness man doing a large trade, which it will be really a sacrifice for him to even partially abandon for the purpose of accepting a postofhce. And yet. after due consideration and prayer, he has concluded that his wife will be able to attend to the business while he sits in the possoffice and occa, sionally shuffies letters and puts fresh gum on the second hand stamps. He never forgets to state that he has given the matter "prayerful consideration" though whether his prayers were for Di vine direction or merely for good luck is not stated.
 But it is when he strikes First Assistant Postm ,ster C,arkson that the candidate comes out strong. Here he can show his sores and wounds received in the cause of the Republican party and pour into eager ears the story of his trials, his energy and his wrongs. Here is a man who does not feel toward him merely be cause he lost his ears or nose in a jpint debate at a caucus. VeTily, the alert politician is all thing, 10 all men.
 The postoffi' department grinds ou, the appointments as rapidly as possible. which of course is to- slow to suit the applicants and their friends. There are more than 70. 900 to be decapitated and replaced. and progress appears to be slow. In the fourth class az. pointmen,s the greatest speed is The recommendation oi the Republican Congressman, rep the district in which the office is situated, is followed un qurssioningly. Where there is no Republican member the recon mendation of the recosnssed party leaders is taken. Ot coursx . fierce struggle commences right there as to who are entitled to be called leaders, Tut the department solves ths problem wi,h as little blood shed as possible, oils up the ma chine and goes ahead.
 President Harrlson's mail is gradually falling of In extent un til 1t now averages only about 7oo| letters a day. This should not, be- taken as encouragement to John jones, of Jones' Switch. to write oftsner, for only the most impor tant of these letters ever sec the eye of an imp rtant clerk.
 The number of photographs filed with applications rather increases than lessens. Every day a hun. or so arc filed. The applicants in remote districts seem to have abid. ing faith in the power of beauty to seize and the appointing power. Still, a photograph of q pair oi staring eyes, an assorted lot of whiskers and q hand me-down suit of clothes, set of by A green but terfIy hectic, is not calculated to secure for the subject the English mission. One Georgia man, who desires to be in the Internal Rev enue service, sends a picture of himself and horse. in a sort oi dime novel make up. His boots and spurs are something terrible to contemplate in their ferocious grandeur, and the calibre of his Winchester and revolvers stamp him as a man capable of seizing and holding a dozen mountain stills. In his letter on the subject he states that. although he rode twenty miles to have the pictures made, his friends tell him that the eyes are not exactly like his, whereupon he adds that his sight is--if anything more than another can be said to be--his strong point.
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