The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-04-11
A BIT OF ~RUSSIANISM.
Accused Postmasters Never Con-
fronted With Accusers-Jersey
at Washington.
Special to The Jersey city Mems.

| Congressman Dunn is in the City making
an earnest endeavor to fiud out some
thing about the charges against Mr.. Pat
rick Sheridan. who is his choice for post
master at Elizabeth. So far he has not
been very successful. A singular rule
is in force at the Postofice Department
which forbids al accused man from
knowing what are the charges against
him or who are his accusers. This
sounds remarkabI y strange, but 1t is
true. Mr.. Dunn has only learned that
Mr.. Sheridan is charged with incapac-
ity, but he has not been able to fluid out
who preferred the accusations. He
has his fighting clothes on, however. n
will stay here all summer II necessary TO
win the struggle. He has nothing as yet
TO give out for publication, but there Is
reason for believing that If the President
or the Postmaster General recalls the
nominntion of Mr.. Sheridan aud sends III
another name ne will have some interes ST
ing stories to relate: At present the
matter is resting. Mr.. Dunn has in-
formed the Pcstofice Department til at
he proposes to stand by Mr.. Sheridan,
aud that HI charges are the result OF
spite, He has thrown the responsibility
of future action upon the Postmaster
General and is waiting to see what that
official will do.
OFFICE SEEKERS LIKE WASHINGTON.
The winds of March have died away
ana The soft, summary showers of April
are nere, but he office seeker Is still with
Us. Some uf them, like young Mr. Nc
Abee of Chicago, who wants TO be Pub
lie Printer, nave sent out TO their hoaneS
aud have had their families join them
here, prop 5siag TO cranlp on the trail. as
they say ia the West, until tue prlzs Is
either won or has gone to some more
fortunate fellow. III Chicago man is
the most persistent of any. Take. for In
stance, the case of ex-Congressman Frank
Lawler, who actually flied his application
for the Chicago misunderstanding be-
fore Cleveland was elected. linen,
when the election went the right way
for him, he began TO circulate petitions
sking his appointment and collected
something like sixty thousand names.
With this mammoth document he came
10 W Washington about Inauguration times,
and has beeu here ever since, industrious
" seeing everybody who could in the
slightest degree help along his chances.
He may get tne office, and he may not, but
whichever way the cat jumps. he will, at
least, have afforded a notable example OF
the persistency with which some people
can work to get a government JOB.
BARNACLES MUST GO.
Six weeks of the new administration
have passed. During this time the rush
for Office has been so great that the Pres
ident and his Cabinet have had no time TO
formulate anything like q policy, except
in TWO instances. The first was the de-
Termination, which has been carried out,
J to weed out all the sinecures and bar
nacles in the public service, and the
second is the exhibition of a proper and
patriotic desire 10 protect the dignity OF
the national flag. This was shown in the
prompt dispatch which Secretary
Gresham sent to the United States minis
ter at Peru in connection with the at
tack upou the consulate of this country.
Nobody who remembers. however, the
promptness with which President Cleve-
land demanded the recall of the British
minister, Lord Sackville West, can have
any doubt as to the effectiveness with
which the fair fame OF the United States
will be preserved. These policies of an
economical government and a proper re-
spect for the flag of the United States
have already made the administration
popular.
This administration, loo, is RIDING the
Government service OF Blaineism. 1t
takes q change Of politics to discover how
completely the friends, relatives and par
ttsans Of even such Il prominent Repub-
Iican as MIR. Blaine can fasten themselves
upon the public service. When the new
Consul General to Liverpool was appoint
ed a few days ago, it was found thSt he
displaced an old private secretary OF
Blaine, who a been fattening at the
public crib. while down at Kingston,
Jamaica, there was found another OF
the ex-secretary's private secretaries stow
ed away in a snug ~consulship. he has been
supplanted. In the agricultural bureau, q
brother of Mr.. Blaine WAS found en-,
loving a sinecure in the shape OF Chief
of the Quarantine Bureau" at q hand
some salary, with no work TO do. His
services are also to he dispensed with.
Still another cnaDge to be made Is In the
mission 10 Ecuador, which is niled py q
protepe Of Mr.. Biaine's. young Il. u.
Mahany. He has never been OF any ser
vice to the Government in his position,
and his recall will not work any nard-
ship. It is quite likely that an examina-
ton of the official rolls will disclose that
quite a number of other friends aud rela-
tiyes of Blaine are In good positions.
PARTISAN CoNSULs WHO MUST GO.
A thorough ~overhauling OF the Consul
lar service, by the way, Is one OF the
things to which the Ptesiden5 and The
new ofi Gals OF the State Department. are
giving their attention. Nearly all The
appointeAs of the late Administrations
went abroad with the idea that they We're
more the apostles OF The Republican
party thar the Representatives OF the
United States and They spear their titne
ia preparing Republican campaign docu-
menIs. filed with misiending md false
attachments regarding lhe ELECT %