The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-04
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RALEIGH. y. c., March iSal.
The scenes that are daily enacted
around the Executive Department at
Washington are being repeated GA
nm equally intense IL lesser scale
III every town in the State of North
Carolina. Ii is safe "a assert that in
the history of the country there has
been no such scramble for ofllre a.
now exists; neSer - mAsy patriots
willing To neglect private business
for the se::s and easily earned income
derived from pull" at the crib of
Uncle Sam.
That there is more intense aud
general anxiety for office ia the
South than in the North may be- ac-
counted for in the fact that nearly
every man here who can read and
write is a politician, or at least so
regards himself. aud further, that
there is more gentocl poverty here
than there, which gentcel poor class
disdaining to work for living CON
siders itself bound 10 live upon the
public. Indeed this class would
likely feel aggrieved should the pub.
lie dispute the assumed right.
Business men in prosperous rOndi.
;ion willingly cast aside the drudgery
OF the desk or counter and 70 out in
all weathers to enter practical con
test, displaying as much zeal AS the
most venerable political tyro, and
bringing 10 bear influences that ARE
more powerful than the argument of
the politician.
In the small country towns man
with "A safe business and fair credit
built up after years of honest hard
work will often be found seeking the
small fourth class postofiice in his
town with as much anxiety as the lo-
cal political "boss."
Raleigh although capital of the
State and n comparatively large
town is no exception. While i; is
the focus of all or nearly all the po-
litical action in the State il yet has
full complement of local statesmen
who would be glad To receive recog-
milton at the hands of the Democrat
ic administration.
Situated in the 4th Congressional
Diotittt ANoikItNNItHH ~ HnI
containing one of the best postonices
in the State besides being the place
where the Internal Revenue Collector
for the Eastern District holds his
fort, il need not excite surprise if
there should be an unusual amount
of wrangling here.
What murmurings that are heard
near the throne at Washington regard
ing disappointments at certain rul-
ings of the Executive of the nation,
are expanded here into openly ex-
pressed anathemas against the prin-
ciples Of, ,as il is called ''going square
ly back on ones friends" referring
to the rule not TO give office To any
one who held Office under the former
administration, and also the idea of
permitting Republicans 20 serve
out their terms. And most OF all
that civil service ruling which will
keep in the present clerks, who are
Republicans. In this is species Of
politics which southerners cannot
understand and will not TOLERATE.
All may pass of with n smoothness
and gloss that is imperceptible,
but the hour and the occasion will
arrive when the sting will be shown
to have had its antidote.
The Raleigh postoffice is bone
over which there is much conten-
tion because elements of dis
cord have been introduced into
the conflict which are entirely
new to this class of appoint
ments.
Ii has been the custom in this
State under all parties for the Cong
ressman to control the appointment
of postmasters within his own dis
trict without regard to the wishes of
the Senators, but it seems that Cong
ressman Bum is not to be allowed
this privilege, at least so far as the
Raleigh postoffice is concerned,
1t is understood that the wishes To
have faithful and efficient friend
appointed to this Office and that both
the Senators are antagonizing him
with man, clever and competent
though he be who cut no figure in
the last campaign and who had NOT
been conspicuous in behalf of Cong
iCcsndn tlflltf tltTC - a Vt-
cuiiar fight over one of the biggest
offices in the State. Should the SEN
ators win which seems likely il is
possible that a medium sized sore
will be left to wrangle within the
manly bosom of Congressman Bum,
which is likely to display itself If
there is no truth in the rumor -.that
he would not be SO powerful mad af-
ter ALL" Meanwhile the Republi-
can postmaster, the most cordially
hated Republican in the State, calm
ly. holds on to the emoluments and
patiently wishes the fight to get
more bitter.
If the bigger lights growl so over
a big Office it can easily be conject-
ured what state of tribulation the
lesser lights are undergoing at the
prospect of delay and the growing
society of places. Harrisons last
civil service >order dampened the
souls of partisan Democrats in this
city when he unceremoneously
placed withinthe Civil Service rules
all the clerk and mail carriers here.
Thus, at one fell swoop, he took
heart and hope and courage from
the local workers who, strange to
say do not seem to realize that he
did it, but prefer to cast all the blame
upon their whilom leader, Grover
Cleveland.
1t appears that the only large
Office about which there has been no
dispute is the Collectorship of In
ternal Revenue for this district
which is to go to Mr.. Simmons, the
chairman Of the Democratic State