The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1891-07-09
FROM WASHINGTON CITY.


I-, N2nameher kroTs sNoa
desl more than he dii, and his ia
crease OF knowledge hasn't added
any to his opinion o. himself. lie
ass been huniliated By fading out
hat be was after ali only clerk
for Mr.. Harrison. The long delay
in givins oct tie lis. OF Steamship
companies which have been selected
under he mail subsidy law, passed
oy the billion dollar Congress, 10
carry our foreign mai.s, is at last
exolalued. Some weeks a1o NJ. /
Waaamsker stated that he had
completed tie list and woa.d in :
/ few days make = public. Mir. uar-
ri:on 1t once sent for Mr.. Wan.
amsker and told him not 10 make /
The list public before bringing 1t to /
ain for revision. Mr. W. kicked, /
out he had 10 give up the lisL and /
Nr. Harrison carried it with him
when he went to the summer capital
st Cape May Point. At the Post
office department they expect that
AIr. Wanamake-, who spent the
Fourth and Sunday al Cape May
Point will bring the revised list
back tomorrow, and that it will ut
once be made public.
1t is learned from & source that is
authentic that 10 lines running oat
of Southern ports sonth of Norfolk,
p except Tampa, Fla; Galveston, Tex,
and New Orleans, will get any Of
tue subsidy money which is to lie
p put where it Will DO the most good
= .o-the republican party.
II, And that isn't the only time that
- Nr. Wauamaker has been recently
4 humillated b. the gentleman who
. ia now go industriously Ut work t.
secure denomination to the Pfesi-
- dency. The last Congress, among
>, it's ether efforts to disslpate TIE
=. Treasury surplua, created an entire
70 ly new office, that Of. Fourth Asei5-
p. tant Postmaster General, and The
=. salary for the new officer became
"A available on the first OF TIE presen
., month. Mr.. Wanamaker supposed
If course that he would be allowed
to select the man to fill the Office
aut he was quickly undecelved b,
Mr.. Harrison, who not only selecte'
s man, but also ordered the ?. NJ. Z
10 turn over to him as a part Of hI
duties the supervision of the fourth
- class postoffices.
=, This necessit ated al entire re
-. organizat ion of the entire departmeI
=. IS the fourth-class postmasters ha
49, been for years under the direct cor
g troll Of the first assistant. Wei
- that reorganization is now going Oh
Mai Rathoone, the new Fonrt
-. Assistant Postmaster General, is
.f practical politician Of the Oh
school, and what he doesn't kno
- about the methods used by tie 7
puhlicans during the last thr
national campaigns would hardly
~ worth knowing. lie is relied up'
- II swing the army Of small po
masters into line fer HARRISON, a.
80 instead Of the notorious dispat
Ia CHOW ars the departments doing
which Garfield, when q candida
-, sent to Brady, of Star roate fan
Mr.. Harrison will be telegraph
to Rathbone: Glow are the pc
off ces doing2" Meanwhile Mr.. w;
1870 amaker is, to use bit Of slang I
,,;.o ''in it,"
-. Tue pene.on Office is going to
the cause of some very lively tin
in the next Congress, between
-, ins estig cations that are to be U;
CT into its workings and the rene
, of the fight for its transfer to
,.o,. War department, which it now see
will certainly be made, and there
reason TO believe that tie moyem
will be more popular than ever beft
and that it will go through.
49, The question Of where VIII
next national convention be he
is beginning to be asked Of pr
inent members of the party :
,on come here. Washington wants
o.,o1 Some imagiD native newspa
writer sent out from here q st
70. that Mr. Mills had decided to W
%. draw from the SpeakersEip cont
Needless to say it was fake VI
,oo,,a ont the slightest found alton.
Mills has never had al idea Of W
colr. drawing, and as sure as tle de
cratic caucus meets his name vii
-, presented to it and will not be "
.o drawn until he or some other
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