Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-03-13
DISAPPOINTED IN THE PLUMS.
President Cleveland Issues Rules and
Orders that Ouiets the ONCE Seekers.


Post Of this evening has the following:
When the Post announced that the
President would reappoint his former
officials only IN cases of extraordinary
or exceptional merit they Inquired into
it's accuracy, although they need not
have done so. They found it true, and
prompt trip to their homes wherein
they were better appreciated was the
next thing in order. They paid their
bills and set their faces north, east,
south. aud west. Some of them remain
in the belief that Mr.. Cleveland may
possibly change his mind, but to those
who have shaken the dust Of the city
from their feet they are as one to five;
TO say that they are angry and disap-
pointed does not express it. They re-
gard it as very queer state of affairs
indeed when former faithful service IS
a bar TO further service. But they have
their caution with them and uniformly
refuse 10 say anything strong for publ
cation, however strongly they may feel.
They offered no explanation Of why a
man whose last hope has been shattered
should refuse 10 speak his mind. They
simply refused TO speak.
President Cleveland himself again
confirmed the statement as TO his inten-
tions, repeating it in substance 70 all OF
his callers who preached the subject to
MIN yesterday.
IN THE DEPARTING THRONG.
To give the names of the old officials
who were hoping to get into their old
places reads like a reprint of the blue
book for the Cleveland administration.
There was Joseph S. Miller, of West
Virginia, ex-Commissioner of Internal
Revenue; ex-Solcitor General John
Goode, OF Virginia; William l.. Ban
croft, superintendent of the Railway
Mail Service; John II. Oberly, ex-Com-
missioner Of Indian Affairs; William y
Switzler, of Missouri, eY-Chief q the
Bureau of Statistics; who says snat he
came here at Cleveland s. REQUEST TO
take his old Office; J. Q. .C6enoworth, Of
Texas, ex-FirSt AuditJr: Ebenezer Hen
derson, of Indiana; ,ex-Deputy Commits
sioner of Internal Revenue, who de-
parted yesterday afternoon for his
home in Martinsville, Ind; Daniel Nc
Convill, ey-Sixth Auditor Of the Treas
ury; eX-Minister Buck, Of Kentucky,
whQwent to Peru; ox-Minister Childs,
Of-Siam; Benton j. Hall, OF Iowa, who
Was formerly Commissioner of Patents,
and who thought he had the place for
another four years. and host OF others.
now GEN. BRAGG FEELS ABOUT IT.
Gen. Bragg. of Wisconsin, who loved
Cleveland for the enemies he made, and
who in more than eight years has
placed no ice upon his passionate adora-
ton, was seen at one of the uptown
hotels. He is an ex-miniSter to Mexico,
and therefore very competent to give
out words for his class. The Lord
giveth and the Lord taketh away" he
said. BLESSED be the name Of the
Lord" l am resigned. Mr.. Cleveland
has done as seemed to him best. lie IS
the dispenser Of patronage. He desires
new men. 1t is his privilege to APP
point whomSoever he sees fit. We have
every confidence in his intelligence and
uprightness. His recent decision will
bring disappointment to many, but
there will be no revolt.
WHAT CLEVELAND TOLD CRISP.
Speaker Crisp accompanied Mr.. Rob-
ert BENJAMIN II. Hill, Jr., to the White
House yesterday morning. The yonng
Georgian is the son of the celebrated
Senator and eight years ago was the
United States attorney for the northern
district O! mis- State. To the Speaker
the President said: II have formulated
and adopted the general rule that gen
tlemen who held Offices under my former
term will not be appointed, save in
cases of extraordinary merit, and the
exceptions will be very few indeed. l
do this because men who were given
Office have been sufficiently hOnored.
They should be willing to stand aside
and give other deserving members Of
the party a chance. l have made no Sc
cret of this determination and IL should
have been known to most of them sew
eral days ago"
THE DISAPPOINTED DEMOCRATS.
The disappointed ones were not con-
fined to applicants for Federal offices
in Washington and in the foreign ser
vice. In Virginia Capt. Ham Shepard
the ex-collector of internal revenue for
the western district, is ruled out under
the order and so is Thomas
w. Scott, the marshal for the same dis
trict. All the ex-cOllectorS Of internal
revenue in Ohio were applicants again
james w. Newman for the Columbus
district, John II. Farley for the Cleve-
land district, and William Bishop for
the Cincinnati district All Of these
gentlemen are outside the breastwOrks.
In West Virginia G. c. Watts, the dis
trict attorney, who was one of the first
men decapitated by President Harrison,
had strong hopes of getting back again,
and arrived here yesterday with a
strong delegation backing his claims.
He learned Of the Presidents decision,
but is now 500 miles away from home
But why prolong the list Of the dead
and wounded? Why tell about Rens-
sSlaer Stone, the ex-collector OF customs
ut Chicago, or William +. Mclean, the
ex-Deputy Commissioner of Pensions,
or ex-Postmaster Reilly, of Cincinnati,
or ex-Postmaster Simpson, Of Wheeling,
or any OF the other lexis" who have
found that the places which knew them
once are to know them no more for
ever? No wonder that upon the faces
of those who had never been at the pub
lie crib there was yesterday look of
ecstatic JOY.
There was q good deal Of curiosity
yesterday to know whether the policy
outlined By the President included ex-
Office seekers who were applicants for
places other than those held by them
four years age. 1t is generally stated
that such applicants were not entirely