The morning news., 1889-05-04
BUCK COMES OUT ON TOP
THE COLONEL G GEORGIA's POWER
BEHIND THE THRONE.

BEHIND THE THRONE.
Predictions That Gen. Longstreet VIII
Be Given a Fat Berth at Washington,
but That None OF His Recommends
tions Will Be Heeded-Buck's Golden
Silence.
WASHINGTON, May 3-The fact that
Chairman Buck is the Presidents adviser
for Georgia, in matte of patronage seems
to be generally recognized now.
Everybody expects to see Gen. Longstreet
given some suitable Office here ia Wash
ington with little to do, aud 5000 or $4 900
year for doing it, but nobody at all we'll
informed expects to see any of the men
whom Longstreet has recommended to the
ADMINISTRATION appointed to Office by it,
1t is just as old friends of Longstreet told
him when he was last here, he made mis-
take in thinking he could build up a new
Republican party in Georgia with the men
he had around him, and whom he so gener-
ously indorsed for all the appointments
they sought.
PERFECTLY APPARENT.
1t was perfectly apparent to any unprej,
udiced man knowing anything Of this ad-
minstratiOn, who talked first with Long
streets lIeutenants Ito say nothing Of Long
streetl and then VITA Buck, at the time
they first arrived here after Harrison came
to town, that Buck and his recommenda-
tions would be accorded preference hv the
President over L0ngstreet and his recon-
mendati)ns. l0ngstreet's followers were
more boastful th IN l have ever known
men to be who had so little to boast of.
They certainly spoke Of Buck and his friends
with contempt and hatred, and predicted IN
many varying forms Of violent ard profane
expressions that Buck and his friends
would get nothing unless they got into
line behind us"
SILENCE is GOLDEN.
On the other hand Buck neither berated,
slandered nor predicted. He would not say
anything unkiud of Longstreet, nor Of his
friends, nor would he say whom he thought
would be appointed to the office. But he
showed by the recommendations he made
and by the line of policy on which he made
them, that be was acting oD the suggestions
made by the President as to what he pro-
posed to do il regard to appointments,
especially in the south.
ONLY ONE MISTAKE.
He made only one mistake-the recon-
mendation of Col. Locke for the place to
which it was practically certain, under the
general policy Of the postoffice depart nent,
that Terrell, as the for ner incumbent,
would be reappointed- that mistake he
could hardly help, 81 1ce Locke desired his
recommendation so strongly.
The appointments themselves will show +"
said Buck, "a henever he was asked whose
recommendations the President would fol-
low, while his rivals we're loudly and en-
phatically replying "Longstreet's, of
course, when asked the same question.
BUCKS WORD GOES.
AS matter of fact, Bucks commenda-
tions were followed in every instance, except
in the case of the division superintendent of
the railway mail service; and the other rec
| concentrations that he is making, and will
make, are likely to be followed also, for, like
the others, they flow from cautious consld-
GRAFTON. AS might be expected, almost all
the office-seekers now apply to Buck, even
some Of the Lougstreet shouters. When he
was home he held a continual reception.
Here, in Washington, he gets from fifty to
seventy-five letters AMI kilograms every day,
and is besieged by callers from morning to
night
MANY MEN AFTER EACH PLACE.
There are, Of course, several applicants
for every considerable Office; in many cases
! the applicants have friends All these
diverse and confli ting interests have TO be
considered and if possible, harmon zed, or
at the least placated, without losing sgnt
of Bucks purpose to help the President to
improve and increase the Republican party
in Georgia.
Buck has discovered that postmasters
and collectors having four year terms will
be allowed to serve out their terms unless
charges affe ting their off ,ial conduct he
proved against them. AS no such charges
are brought against the incum en5s Of such
places in Georgia, the probability is that
the Successors to all such officers will not
be appointed until the terms xpire. This
gives Buck time to think in such cases.
FOURTH-CLAss OFFICES.
But the urth-class postoftices all over
the state give him constant worry and work,
and, until the civil service rules closed in on
the railway mail service, so did the postal car
places Nobody in Washington has worked
more steadily, more industriously, or more
h urs in the past t o months than has
Buck. While here he has spent every day
but Sunday fro s o'clock in the morning
till II or II at night either receiving callers,
letters or kilograms, or trying, with tho aid
Of a stenographer, hired at his own ex-
pense, to answer some Of the letters, except
when he has been making the
rounds of the departments duri
office hours looking at papers
and interviewing officials. Meanwhile his
private business has been suffering for his
care.
1t does seem as though Buck was more
disinterestei than most of the bosses, fo'
the United States marshalship for the
northern district Of Georgia would hardly
compensate for all he has done and lost in
these unwearying efforts.