The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1891-05-22
WARRINGTON ECKER.
tFrom our regular eorIespondent.)
Washington, May IS, 1891.

is a Democratic candidate for Sergeant-at-
Arms of the next House-eurious how
these "ex's" are always on hand as candi-
dates for something, isn't it's the latest
man to bring i'll a Farmers Alliance story.
OF course he sees the movement through
Democratic spectacles; nevertheless what
he says is interesting as showing his idea
of the drift of things in his State. lie
saws: s'Mr. Mckinley is honest in the be-
lief that extreme protection, high taxation,
is what tho people want, but be is deceiy-
ing himself. | do not think that any man
issue. Mckinley makes that the issue
and he will be defeated. The farmers are
tired of high taxes. The argument he
makes as to the benefit of the free sugar
measure. The farmers ask why some
other necessaries of life should not be
made cheaper in the same way. The
Farmers Alliance is going to have more
to do with the election than either party
now thinks" The last sentence is where
the milk in the coeoaunt lies.
The Raum family have certainly brought
misfortune to themselves as well as to the
administration by holding office. Green
B.. Raum, Jr.. has been compelled to re-
sign as assistant chief clerk Of the Pen
sion Bureau under charges which. if proven,
should have been followed by "a much
severer punishment. The charges are that
for 5000 he had a man appointed to a 5000
position, and that for a larger sum he had
a man personate the man originally APP
pointed in an examination TO- promotion
before the Civil Service examiners, and
that upon that examination the man was
promoted to a 81, 200 position. The 60
between in all these transactions being n
negro, formerly a servant in the Raum
family, who has been employed in the
Treasury Department ever since Gen.
Raum was Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue. some years ago. How far these
charges were investigated nobody on the
outside knows, but it is known that the
negro go-betweep, the man h bought
the appointment and the man who per-
soneted him at the Civil Service examina-
ton have all been dismissed from the gov
eminent service, and why young Rauin
should have been allowed to resign, and
have been presented with a months pay
by allowing his resignation to tax effect
thirty days from date and giving him
leave Of absence until that time, is what
is causing considerable talk here. Ii he
was innocent he should not have been COM
PEELED to get out; if he was guilty he should
ished through the courts. Office broker
age is e very old crime in Washington,
and it is doubtful if there has been a time
for many years when it has not to a GER
ain extent been carried On, but it has
been commented on that for the last two
or three months advertisements have been
unusually frequent in the local papers
Offering to pay certain sums Of money for
appointments in the Government service.
aad to the old stagers these advertisements
are an indication of activity ia that par
ticular line of business, and if the guilty
ones, when caught, are to be allowed to
resign and be given a months pay, there
isn't much possibility of It's ever being
broken up.
The Chinese government didn't want
ex. Senator Blair as cur minister, but it
does want and it has applied for a large
space for exhibition purposes at the
yEnrllfc Eair DpipinDo III Eror mr. 80 a.
wisdom of the celestials in the first case,
but everyone will agree that good hard
horse sense is shown in the last.
Mr.. Harrison is mildly enthusiastic over
the reception he met with on his trip, and
"Uncle Jerry" Rusk is wildly enthusiastic
on the same subject. He says Of it: SIT
was L wonderful excursion, and every day
of it was filled with pleasant happenings
that must remain fixed in cur memories.
The great American p~ublic-the people
was enthusiastic from start to finish, and
if the good folks on our route omitted any
courtesy it would be more than | could do
to discover the gap" Now heal his
opinion Of the Presidents oratorical abil-
n.y. Il iiduc a SlSdLSI number Oh UTSt-
GLASS speeches in a moath than many high
grade public men could think out and de-
liver in a lifetime" There's no doubt
about where Uncle jerry stands on the
Presidential question.
Ex-senator Bruce in a public address
here said that the race problem must be
solved by the negro himself, and at home.
IL all Of them, like the ex, Senator, had
$12, 900 sinecure Federal positions, perhaps
the problem wouldn't need solving.
1t WIS expected that Mr.. Harrison would
at once announce the new Circuit Court
judges, but it is now limited that the APP
pointments may not after all be made un-
til Congress meets. WESTON.