The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1889-10-05
OHRONOLOGIOALLY CONSIDERED.
From the N. Y. Evening POst.I


The first six months of President
Harrison s term are ended, and what
are the most conspicuous developments
of his policy? What topics connected
with him are most discussed in the
press? First, there is Tanner aud his
course in the pension bureau. That is
by uo'A"nnn consent Il national scandal
OF such serious proportions that lead
ing newspapers of the presidents party
are calling for Tanners removal as the
only thing which can saw the admiDis-
tration from disgrace and the national
treasury from possible bankruptcy.
Second, there is the choice by the pres
ident of ''TOm' Plat, "Matt" Quay,
and Malone of Virginia, as the men to
whom he prefers to hand over the
patronage of the government TO be
used by them in bailding up u political
machine Third, there is HI increase
of over 81, 900 900 in the public debt
during the last third OF the six months,
though Ior the corresponding period in
every one of President Cieveland's four
years there was an average decrease
of about $4,000 900. Fourth, in re-
movals from office without cause the
president has surpassed all previous
records, and has so completely broken
not only the pledges of his pariy's
platform, but his w personal pledges
as well, that there is a formidable
movement in the republican party TOR
the unconditional repeal of the civil
service law. The net result of this six
months work is u lower moral tone in
politics than the country has shown
since 1875.
The Washington correspondent of
the Philadelphia Inquirer, who has al
ways been well informed as to the pur-
poses of the administration, says iuat
the investigating committee has dis
covered evidence of ga laxity of ad-
ministrative responsibility and control,
which has involved the government in
excessive and unwarranted eXpendi-
lures for ratings and PENSIONS" The
New York Tribune. which has been
disposed to ridicule the idea that there
was anything to criticise in the increase
of the public debt during the past Two
months, will be interested to learn upon
this authority that "the enormous out-
lays of the pasttwO monthshave spread
CONSERVATION among the members of
the administration, and if persisted in,
mU wreck The republican purity, If ii
does not bankrupt The treasury"
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One does not fully realize how low
the republican party has sunk until he
sees that neary all the republican papers
at the north are sustaining Malone in
the Virginia campaign in which, ac-
cording to a letter in one of these
papers frcm an admirer of Malone, he
il ''supported by the mailed hand Of
Senator Quay and the administrations
aud 10 raise money for which he has
mortgaged property for $50 600. On
the other hand, the republican news
papers OF Virginia appear to be unani-
nous in their opposition to this notori-
| Gus boss whom they know so well, fol.
loving the lead of the Valley Virginian,
edited by congressman Gost. AS
one of these papers puts it:-"No, in
sorrow rather than i'll anger, we say
we cannot support the ticket The
Valley Virginiam tells the republican
| press of the north in so many words
that they had better ''keep their hands
out OF this contest" because they know
! nothing about the internal workings OF
Mahone's machiIe, declaring ''that, if
they did, they would not have a word
of protest to enter against those repub-
licans who do not mean to be govern
ed by it, That the Virginian is right
in this Judgment would appear from a
letter published by the Philadelphia
North American from n northern set
tier III Virginia, who writes:-"l am
a republican from away back to 1896,
but no indncement would make me or
nv two sons vote Mahonc's ticket. OF
the Ten or twelve thousand northern
men who have come here since 1865
not five hundred will vote his ticket"