St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-03-17
Too Many Democrats Around
to Allow the President
to Move.
Good Offices to Be Filled in a
Few Days in Min
neSOta.
A Collector Of the Port Of st.
Paul to Be Named
First.
Senator Germans Shrewd
Move - Gossip OF New
York Contest.
Special to the Globe.

Speclal 10 the GlODe-
WASHINGTON, March 16.-Therc are
many thousands of good Democrats in
all parts of the Union who are now able
| to advise their friends in the future as
to the folly of rushing on to Washing
| ton in advance of change of the ad-
ministration with the expectation of re-
turning home with commissions in their
pockets Immediately after the fourth of
March. The Democrats Of Minnesota,
| wiser than their brothers in Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, and nearly all the eX-
treme Southern states, made no wild
! rush, and so are good many dollars
ahead. and they will yet their share of
the official plums in time, perhaps
earlier than the men who were in such
haste about the matter.
Although it has been nearly two
weeks since the government was handed
over to President Cleveland and the
Democracy, the new administration has
just commenced the work of preparing
for the work ahead. Every day since
the change has been consumed by call
any means; but it takes just as long for
| the president to shake hands with an
admirer who merely wants to see him
! as it does to grasp the hand of an office
| seeker. Had it not been for the time
taken up in these receptions several
| thousand more good Democrats would
now be III working harness. The adj
mlniStration can do little in any way
| 81 q 81,
| assistant secretaries and bureau offices
are filled, and this work has been de-
layed by the visitors who have insisted
upon seeing the president and his adj
| ViSerS.
| VIII Move More Rapidly.
| Within few days many of the lead
| ing places i'll the departments will be
| filled. and then the work of fixing up
matters throughout the country will be
taken up. By reason of the good judg-
ment of the Minnesota Democrats there
] Is reason to believe that their requests
/ will receive prompt consideration, and
number Of positions will be disposed
of very shortly. One of the most. i'm
portant of these is the office of collector
| of the port of st. Paul. The present
incumbent. Col. G. q. Edwards. was APP
| pointed in March, 1889, and his term
4 Will CA plLC MdICil 20 HtAls lie SdldIy
is $1,000 per year, and there are several
fairly good deputyships.
In point of salary, the Office of collec-
tor Of Internal revenue for the district of
Minnesota is probably the best position
III the gift of the administration in the
state. The salary is 81 800 per year, and
there are number of deputies and
clerks at fair salaries. Ex-senator Mar
Gus johnson, the present collector, was
appointed Jan. 81, 1890, but did not take
the office until March following. This
office Is held at The
Pleasure OF the President,
and there is no fixed tenure for which
man is commissioned. The custom has
been, however, to consider term as
| four years, and, while Mr. Johnson may
not be allowed to hold until March 8,
lS94-a year hence-he will not be re-
moved for some time.
Charles e. Johnson, the collector a
the port Of Duluth, was appointed Jan.
-, 1890, and has nearly year to serve,
although change may be made earlier
There are half dozen deputyship5 and
clerical positions at the disposal Of the
man who gets this Office and there is
already some pressure for it. 1t is
hardly likely that there will be any
change until the expiration Of Mr.. John
sons term. Among the first postoffices
OF Importance that will pass into the
hands of Democrats are those at Lake
City and Rochester, one by the fact OF.
the expiration OF the term of the present
incumbent and the other by reason of
the fact that ne Will be removed as the
Democrat who held before him was.
This rule will be very strictly carried
| out by the administration, and in every
such case an early appointment may be
expected in case the Democrats agree
upon man to receive the appointment.
Peace in New York
1t is very amusing to watch the ell
deavors of the Republican organs to
create the impression that there is a
desperate factiOnal fight OH between
the president and the two senators from
! New York. The lengthy call made by
Senator Hill at the White house last
week was a severe blow to this occupa-
ton, and the two calls made by Senator
Murphy since have almost brought it to
an end. When Smiling Bob" Maxwell
was appointed fourth assistant pOStmaS-
ter general the report went out that it
was to be taken as declaration of war
| by Mr.. Cleveland. but to the surprise of
all, both Senator Murphy and Senator
| Hill smilingly announced that they
were satisfied, and Mr.. Maxwell de-
clared that in the disposition of the 1 ,344
| fourth-claSS pOStOfficeS in the Empire
state, he proposed to do all in his power
to harmonic things i'll the New York
| Democracy.
1t is becoming evident that a few
more sounding whacks like these will
end the stories to the effect that
the Democracy of the largest state
in the Union is to be rent asunder
by ouarrels between the leaders. Mr..
Maxwell was strong Cleveland man in
the fight of year ago, but he is good
Democrat. and the New York senators
have nothing to say against his appoint
ment.
Gorman's Shreyyd Move.
There is manifest disposition among
some of the Democratic senators to OBJ
| iect to the leadership of Senator Cor
man, but it will not amount to very
much. The Maryland senator executed
one of the cleverest political moves in
| recent years when he placed the three
Populist senators on good committees
and gave them the same conSid Grafton
that Democrats having served the same
length of time received. AS a~leader
of the majority in the senate thus
| far he has been pronounced
success and his course will be Endorsed
by his colleagues and by the Democrats
| of the country. In the reorganization
of the senate, the dividing line has been
| made the tariff, and there are now but
two parties, the high tariff. which takes
in the Republicans, and the tariff re-
! ductionists, under whose broad banner
no less than forty-elght out of the eighty
eight members of the senate are en-
rolled. Surely this is stroke of leader
| ship on the part of Senator German that
will win him friends everywhere.
Kyle Comes to the Front.
| In the reorganized senate South Da-
| kota's young member, who went West
| minister and came back in few years
as a member of the United States SEN
ate, will preside over the deliberations
| of the committee on education and
| labor, one of the most important COM
| mittees Of the senate, and one as the
| head of which he will be able to do much
| toward securing the adoption of the
| principles and policies, the advocacy of