The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1893-05-11
At WASHINGTON CITY.
COsGRE SSnEs GRADY SAT UPON TAE
POST MASTER GENERAL SAYS THAT
THE NEGRO POST MASTERS CAs
NOT Sc REMOVED
GRADY TgIEs TO SCARE HIM WITH
THE NAME OF "HaRYA~N."


Ransom the Chief Omee Brok-r-DEd the
Democrat. have the Negro Post Master
| Appointed--CI~yeIand knocks mp tias
| Plans of tn. Bo>ses--Did Cheathau'
| Cheat The Government
WAsHISGToN, ID. c.. May 10, 1893
Office seekers from North Carolina,
and in fact from the whole country
are still besieging the National Cap
itol. Congressman and Senators
dare not go home, for their Office
seeking constituents are here daily
hunting for them, and crying aloud
for their help, and are sore distressed,
and mad when they find them not.
Those who do leave, do so for a
| short time only. Congressman Grady
| who had run home To try to settle
| some contentious over Post Masters
| at home came back few days ago
| to resume his position with other
| Congressman as Office Broker. 1t
really seems that there is danger of
/ the position of Congressman settling
down to be nothing more than a be-
sieger of the departments for APP
pointmcnts, and jobs for his hench-
men.
Mr.. Grady went TO call on the
! Post Master General few days ago.
| to demand the instant removal OF
| Henderson the negro Post Master at
| Fayetteville. Your correspondent
saw from last weeks CAUCASIAN,
that nrgro Post Mas,e' was APP
pointed At Kenansville, Duplin Coun
ty, just on the eve Of the late cleo
| ton. We did not learn whether
Grady demanded the removal Of the
| latter Post Master or not. If what
we learn through THE CAUCASIAN,
through private sources from North
Carolina, and elsewhere be true, il
seems that a large number of negro
Post Masters were appointed all over
the country, especially South, just
on the eve of the last election. 1t is
now an open secret. that this was
done at the request of the Democrat
lc politicians, In places where there
was denger of the Peoples Party
carrying the day, with the hope of
trlghtnlDg many reformers from
that party back into the Democratic
ranks by the cry of negro domina-
ton" backed up by these object les
sons Of negro Post Masters stuck in
to their teeth. This is also further
proof of the fact, that the Democrat
lc machine, and the Republican ma
chine are pulling together. There
had to be an understanding before
Democratic politicians would ask the
Republican Administration to appoint
these negroes. And there had to be
a feeling Of enmity. or at least op-
position to the reform movement.
and of sympathy for the Democatic
machine, before the Republican ad-
ministration could comply with such
request. Evidently these Demo-
cratic politicians expected that if the
Democratic party won, that these
negroes would be at once removed.
and they would have chance then
to crow, and show to the people what
Democratic government had relieved
them of.
But it seems that Mr.. Cleve-
land, and the mugwump machine.
which has not consulted with
the old bourbon Southern machine,
but simply using it as a tool, had
been revolving over in their minds
other schemes at the same time
Cleveland saw clearly that the fight
was narrowing down to one between
the people and the money power.
irrespective of party lines. And for
the monopoly, and the money power
to protect themselves, and stay in
the ascendancy for the future, that it
would be necessary for the Demo-
cratic and the Republican machines |
to pool issue in the next campaign.
and fight the people. Therefore as
soon as Cleveland was elected. he |
began to make ready for such a con- |
Summation. At his request Harrison
appointed Democratic Judge, and
then he in return appointed a Re-
publican to be chief of his cabinet. |
And at his request, Democratic Gov
errors proceed to appoint Republi- |
can politicians State Judges. Then |
the Post Office was to be used to help |
carry out this plot. SO Cleveland |
New York politician and
his personal friend, Mr.. Bissel, as |
Post Master General to carry out his |
orders.
The plan is to KEEP in every
Republican Post Master where it will
have the decided effect of gaining
Republican recruits to the Democrat
lie party.
In the North it is the white Re-
publlcans, especially those connec-
ted with monopolies and combines.
that Cleveland is striving to bring
over to this new party: in the South, |
where such large per cent of /
white people belong to the reform
movement, his hope is to capture
the negres vote for the new mug.
wump party. To cover his tracks. |
he has issued an order, that a |
Republican office holders, would be
allowed to fill out their full terms. |
unless there was some special |
cause for their removal. This ap-
plies especially to the Post office |
department, and will cover all the
cases like the one at kenanville.
where the Democrats had a negro |
appointed for political effect.
right on the eve of election. Hence |
1t was that when Mr.. Grady de- |
manded the removal of the negro |
Post Master at Fayetteville. he was
laughed at by the mugwump admin
istration; when he told the Post
Master General that it was distaste-
full to his high toned Democratic
constituents to have negro Office
holders to serve them. the Post
Master General asked him if heI
did not employ negroes in his house
hold, and as nurses for his children |
dc. He said that these were employ |
ed as servants, and that all office
holders were servants of the peo-
pie.
When every other argument failed |
Mr.. Grady played his last and strong
est card. He said to the Postmaster
General that MarIcy, p,+lo, n