Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-15
The MiffIintown Post Office.

IkNe Decu on tQe alert.
The watchword is "who goes there.
i lis is particularly true of the post
office question, and every despatch
sent out from Washington has beer
scanned for light on the important
subject of appointment.
With such facts thrusting them
selves prominently forward at every
turn, it was not to be wondered that
all post Office candidates in town
were surprised over two dispatches,
sent from Washington on the SUBJ
ject of appointments to Office.
The Cleveland kickers and the
Cleveland hackers were all alike, eI-
cited.
The one despatch announced thst,
that Post Master General Bissell will
not commission local business men
post masters, for the reason that the
actual duties ara performed by IRE
sponsible and often incompetent
clerks and substitutes.
The other despatch announced that
editors are not to be appointed be-
cause the President is sensitive on
the belief that the people consider
that whom newspaper man takes
Office il is O sort of bribe for his
support, and that destroys in q mea-
sure his influence as free party ed
itor.
The two dispatches the oftener
they were read the deeper the i'm
preston they made on the brethren
in this town.
They oil exclaimed why that is the
opposite..of Harrison and Wansmaker
Harrison placed many editors in
Office.
And Wanamaker wanted only bus
ness men in Office.
"Ab, yes" said foxy old demo-
crat, ''but this isn't Harrison and
Wsnsmaker with his clothing store,
you know new kings, new laws every
time.
The brethren caucused all Friday
evening, and all day Saturday, moro
or less, over the situation, and it was
sunlight or shadows jIst as the Cleve-
land and Bisssll shos fit them. Edi
tors Jack II N and Bons.ll looked as
If they were preparing to attend the
funeral Of sll their officia! aspirations
and give up hope and die in despair
of ever reaching m off ,e by appoint
ment. Their opponents within their
own party lines would kavs given
handsomely TO have known the
thoughts that were pranciug up and
down in the innsrmost chambers cf
their mind on Cleveland and theout-
come of his administration.
If they ever swear perhaps they
swore last Friday aud Saturday.
There were the men in business,
with their weather eye set on the
post Office, jeff Middsh and L. D.
Musser How could Middah run
the races, and have clerks run the
post oftics under Bisseps rule' and
Musser being local business man
has no more chance of getting through
than the famous Bible camel had of
getting through the eye of a needle,
unless Bissell is only joking.
Bonssll and Jackuan and Middah
would greatly prefer that Harrison
and Wansmaker methods, ruled, the
Cleveland and Bissel roast in the dis
tr.bution of Washington patronage.
Business man Joseph Adams would
also have to 60 under as . post office
applicant under tho edict from the
new administration at Washington.
But the gentlemen named above
are not the only applicants for the
Afa;ntorn post offioe.
Jesse Howe doesn't come under
the rule of Bissell; VIM. Banks is moi
affectsd in the least by the edict,
which il it is fixed as the laws of the
Modes and PersiAns, might drop the
plum into his hat, and George Heck
must have by some occult sense felt
the coming order and dropped out
OF business to be ready to enter
the race with as fair chance as any
of the others to win the prize. The
earth will not be made to tremble
with the contest for this office, but
by the tins every one of the oppon-
ents and their friends have had
hearing at Washington, one of the
several ladies, who have friends who
are quietly thinking about enteri ng
their names for the position may se-
cure the Office as compromise can
didste.
1t is no uncommon thing for post
Office to be given to woman where
the rivalry among the men for the Of
Gee is irreconcilable.
The appointment of Miss May
Loudon is frequently mentioned in
connection with the position and
a number of citizens who have
seen Mrs. Cleveland, say, that if the
President knew how much Mrs.
Cleveland and Miss Loudon rssem-