The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-25
ROAD AGENTS.
They Are Holding Up Republican
Clerks for the Glory Of
emaasms the G. OIL.
Sherman and Foraker Partisans
Are Already Quarreling
for tho Spells.
otwee Them the Clerks Are piundored
TO the Limit-All PARTIES Suspi-
ciOus Of Sherman.

WARRINGTON, Sept. 2i.--While Mr.. Roose-
vslt, civil service commissions and profess
sional rsformsr, is enjoying himself at his
Dakota ranch. the republican employees Of
the departments here At Washington are
Being blsd by different harpiea in the inter
eat Of campaign funds. The Ohio clerks,
from all a%coounts, are being worked for all
they are worth, and the terror OF dismissal
or degradation is held mp before them in a
mild kind Of q way unless they put up their
cash promptly. II seems that an ASSESS
mont against the Ohio clerks in Washing
ton has been regularly made BY the exscu-
tive committee of the state and collectors
have been sent down here to lake it mp.
The affairs OF the committee are Ia the
handIof Judge Lowry. Of Kent, O., who IL
now In Washington on this business. The
selection Of Judge Lowry il the cause OF
complaint on the part OF some
Of the republicans, and it prom
lscs to revive the Sherman-Foraker
feud among Ohioans In this CITY. Judge
Lowry was elected clerk of the state senate
q few years ago by the vote of the boiling
democrats. For five or six Years he was q
member Of the republican state committee.
subsequently, he left Ohio and came to
Washington. Now he 10 calling upon the
Ohio employees in the different depart
ments and holding them up. The amount
of his demand is Ave per cent Of the salary
drawn. Tho clerks are prot esting enerReti-
cally against this, and claim that by tho
time they pay their expenses home to vote
their assessment will be six or seven per
cent of their salaries, and a few of them are
brave enough to declare that they will
never pay it. Two years ago when Foraker
was candidate against Campbell, ZONE Of
these clerks say the most they wore called
upon to contribute was two per cent OF
their salaries.
''Thers is one thing about this matter
that the republicans who never bolt and
arc always ready for duty cannot under.
a 1900 place in one Of the departments,
sand that is the change in front of these
men having charge OF this business. Last
year when Foraker was a candidate these
mon did nothing, not even going home to
United States senator to elect and Sherman
is in danger, they are hustlinR like beay ers
and trying TO bleed everybody"
Capt. j Jacob Donaldson, one of the clerks
of the senate. also comes in for some critl-
cism. It is snid of him that two years ago
IA was tOO OuBY w ~ AoAO w WV -
Mckinley asked him to 20 to Ohio. This
year he not only finds time to 60, but has
been, 1t is said, in Columbus, for the past
two months %lounging about the headquar-
ters of the state committee and Keeping his
eve on the interests of Senator Sherman.
There is no doubt that there is = we'll de-
fined division in the ranks OF the Ohio oon-
tingent in Washington.
The anti-Sherman men seem determine q
mot to pay money over to a tina
is supposed by them to be making all ends
serve the Sherman cause. Many of them
claim when the collector calls upon them
that they have forwarded their subscrip-
ton, such as it is, to the chair
man Of their home county committee.
This is. of coutse, q mere ruse in
many cases, and many FORAKER men
in the departments, being suspicious that
funds collected here were to be used in the
interest of Sherman, have been sending
their little quota direct to Foraker or to the
chairman of their local county committee
if he happens to be a Foraker man. The
alleged protection of tho civil service are
protesting against the extent of their as.
easement as compared with the contribu-
tion Of the men in the classified service,
who think they have done their duty when
they have contributed $40. The average
amount expected from the others lg $2b,
and this difference is what causes the kick.
The chances are that the matter will
come up for discussion at tho next meeting
of the Ohio republican association, and il
it does there will be lively times. Many of
McKinley's friends here, and some Of For
aker's friends, also. are throwing out deer
hints that job Sherman will sell the state
ticket in the interest of members Of the
legislature in his own interest. Tn Sher-
man mon, of course, Indignantly deny this,
but there 10 bad feeling between the differ
emit factions there is no doubt, and that il
y,,ti ~, c1t frrnih1v EofnrA Tho m ynraiou
ia over is equally certain. In the meantime
the civil service commission seems to have
gone to sleep. Roosevelt, AZ before stated
is taking his vacation on his western ranch,
but Lyman and Thompson are still here.
Why do not they exercise their authority
and try to save the poor clerks from the
political brigands who are here to bleed
them 1s one OF those things that friends OF
civil service reform find difficult to explain