The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1892-08-27
They ARE GETTING OUT.
Republicans for Revenue See
Trouble Ahead.
AL Are Trying to Possess First. Class
Life Preservers Against the Sink.
ing Of the Harrison Ship-List
Of Deserters Lengthening
Daily.

WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 20.-Mr.
Crounse, the Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury, the Republicans Of
whose State (Nebraska) have nomi-
mated him for Governor, left the city
to-day. He will not return to take
up department duties again, having
placed his resignation in the hands
of Mr.. Harrison. 1t is said that he
will probably be succeeded by Chas.
S. Baker of New York, who was a
member of the last congress and one
of the most thrifty gentleman who
ever monkeyed with national legis-
latures. Be this as it may, Crounse's
departure seems to be but another
instance of the truth of the old ad-
age to the effect that ''rats desert a
sinking ship" The haste which
prominent Government officers have
shown in making predatory excur-
sions to newer pastures since Harri-
son was renominated is to say the
least worthy of remark. 1t suggests
the idea that they know that some
thing is going to drop next Novem
Der and hit the ground hard. Self
preservation is the first law of ma
ture. They went to stand from I'M
der before the drop eyentuates. For
Crounse is not the only one of them
who is casting his anchor to wind
ward There is the First Assistant
Secretary of State, Mr.. Wharton.
That amiable and competent gentle
man has very good opinion of him
self. He does not want anything to
fall on him. So he has resigned.
Nobody ever accused Carter, who is
bossing the Republican campaign,
of keeping his eyes closed to his own
material interests. Before he was
finally selected for the job he now
enjoys he had informed Mr. Harri-
son that he was going to give up the
position of Commissioner of the Gen
eral Land Office, which he then held.
Whitfield Of Ohio is another astute
politician who takes a precautionary
sneak. He is First Assistant Post
master General. He has resigned to
take effect in month and has gone
away. He has allied himself with
slot machine by which people hun
CRY for postage stamps to lick may
satisfy their longing. He is still at
tached to the disbursing officers
place of business and is using the
department to advantage for his slot
continuance.
Habercom, the Fifth Auditor of
the Treasury, is also to be put upon
the list as a reader of the future.
He was given the position mentioned
for services in dealing with the Ger
man-Americans said services having
been rendered during the last Presi
dental campaign. He, too, has re-
signed.
Then there is Hepburn, of Iowa.
Hepburn was member of the last
House and up for election to the
present one. When the political
waters subsidized a couple of years
ago he was left upon the dreary
shore of defeat in a condition of sus-
pended animation. Life was restor-
ed by the application of the Solicitor
ship of Treasury, which pays $4,000.
He has been again nominated for
Congress. He thought there was a
better chance of being successful
there than in retaining his present
position after the 4th of next March.
He is a man who must have some
thing. and he can be relied upon to
be found in the vicinity of the place
where he is most likely to get that
something. So he is ready to desert
the good ship Harrison. These de
fections, it is not unreasonable to as
sumo, constitute an indication of the
direction in which the cat is going
to head when she jumps.-St. Louis
Republic.
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