The Durham daily globe. (Durham, N.C.) 1889-1894, 1891-09-08
WHY CHEEK.


that he is a fraud. THE GLOBE, which
is an Independent newspaper, sees some
thing good in the good work of any man,
no matter if he be a democrat, a mug
wump, a prohibitionist, a g~reenbacker,
an allianceman,-a hoodoo, a Hindoo or
an Indian.
But the Justly celebrated China Grove
Dart, edited doubtless by some painting
statesman, prints a lot of rot like this:
| JOHN WANAMAKER does a lot of cheeky
things, but here is the worst we have yet
seen. His party has emptied the nations
treasury, and now he writes to the post
master Of the county-seat of each county
asking him to visit each postOfice in the
county and report it's condition to the
department in Washington. He says
that he does this in order that each county
| postofice may have the best mail facili-
ties possible. But here's where the
cheek comes in: He says there is nc
money to pay the pOstmasters' expenses
on these trips, and they must make them
as a voluntary service to the department,
and he adds that if they do this it will
be recorded to their credit on his docket.
PLAIN jim Cook, a statesman of the
old school, prints the following in sup
port of the eminent Dartist:
The Dart, Of China Grove, knows cheek
when it sees it, and Write@ about cheek
in the above.
As the most colossal failure, so far as
improving the mail facilities of this cOun-
try goes, JOHN WANAMAKER stands with
out a peer or an equal. If any improve
-, oxt Io- Inao -ooln osaa ~ L., -
the position of postmaster general, by
$780, 600 route, the public has not felt it.
The visit will doubtless be made; but
there it will end, unless another post
master general succeeds the pious mer-
chant of Philadelphia.
Then comes the Kansas City Times,
relentless in it's democracy, and makes
the following proposition:
The postmaster general has begun
operations. The plan is unique and yet
SO open that those who have hitherto be-
lieVed that the postal service of the cOun-
try was free from partisan ends will be
amazed. 1t is proposed to make the
postmaster Of the county seat Of each
county in the state dictator eXtraordi-
nary of the pOStmasterS in that county.
He is to visit the subordinate offices and
is to return to the postmaster general a
report based upon a list Of confidential
questions sent out from Washington.
So gauZy is the cloak under which the
new move is being made that it's end are
palpable. Under the guise of a reform
in the postal service the department
nearest the public is to be made a huge
political machine to advance the political
interests of PRESIDENT HARRISON. With
fhD n c-~ - 1@o
to one man and that man in turn under
fear of dismissal unless the behests Of
WANAMAKER are obeved, it is easy to see
what a power the department would
prove.
The public will condemn this latest
action of the president. Not because he
is a republican, nor yet because he de-
sires a denomination, for ambition Of this
sort is laudable, but because it is held
that the pOstOffice department should be
kept as far removed as possible from the
communicating influence of partisan poll
tics.
Efficiency and not politics is what is
demanded in this department.
Now the truth is that some Of these
intense partizan papers are wrong. The
Dart sees that the scheme is niggardly.
The Standard sees nothing but alleged
piety in WANAMAKER, while the Kansas
City Times discovers a mares nest, filled
with a herd of horses. The fact that
WANAMAKER has made and is making a
good official entities him to respect for
his services to his country, and the demo
Gratis are just about as much of the coun-
try which is served by the postmaster
general as any other faction. Let us be
honest or at least decent in these things.