New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-26
THE DTS1PPOINTMENT or ADLM

We observe with sadness by Washington
dispatch 10 our Administration contemporary
o:rThc New-Yorlk sun that Ncc-Prcsiden'
Stevenson is having hard luck in getting rhe
Offices for his constituents TO which he ana they
under the rules of the reformed Civil Service
are entitled. The Democrats recommended by
Adlai. according T. this dispatch. "havc gen-
orally given up the chase and gone home. II
i, said that there We're not many OF them ana
"nonc sought any great Office" All that any
of them desired was "a suitable recognition OF
their scrvcc,.' Ada himself, we are told,
has ben discreet" and fayc,cd none whose
deserts were not obvious. whose qualifications
wore not unique ,i5nable." and naturally
enough he expected that there would be 10
failure in any case There were some rights
supposed to be in>cparabc from the station OF
Vice-President that justified him in believing
that his wishes would not be wholly neglected.
But it seems they have been, and though he
asked nothing save some small favoS which
must be regarded rather as rights" the lew
things he desired have after an aggravating
delay been denied to him" Adlai is appdr-
emily good deal grevcd at rho way he has
been treated He isn't having half as good
time as he had under Mr.. ClevclandS last Ad-
min>tIaton. when he a simple hcad>mln
in the PoStofice Department welding the axe
now swung by Maxwell.
On the whole il does seem 10 a casual OBJ
server as though Adlai had reason for com
plant His name added great strength to the
ticket in the campaign. On the two vital issues
of finance and Civil Service Reform he served
as set off to Mr.. Cleveland. 50 that no votes
were lost to the party on either. Democrats
who differed with Mr.. Cleveland on the fnan-
| cial question: and did not care for sound money
so much Is for plenty of money Of some sort
sound or unsound, were brought to the support
of the ticket by the fact that the candidate
| for Vice President was an od-tlmc Green
| hacker an intiationist. free silver man
| in full accord with the advanced thinkers who
desire to upset the existing system and erect
one in its place under which the Government
can issue currency secured by Sub-TUasury
| deposits Of corn in the cob. Democrats who
had not become infatuated with the Mugwump
notion of Civil Service Reform, but stuck TO
| the old traditions, were held 10 the support of
the Mugwump candidate for President by the
| fact that alongside OF him was Adiai. whose
record as headsman in making sweeping re-
movas from Office for political reasons could
not he impeached Adlai rendered great SER
| vice in sc)opng in the anti Clcveland faction,
to the support OF the ticket
| And above ALL Mr. Cleveland owes n debt Of
gratitude 10 Ada for carrying in his left hand
| trousers pocket for month before the cleo
| ton the left hind foot Of a graveyard rabbit.
Without this it is generally believed through
| out the South, and in many Northern commune
ties which have been made prosperous in spite
Of the tariff by seeing the now moon over the
| right shoulder, that the ticket would have been
| showed under. Mr.. Cleveland seems to have
forgotten this important circumstance. While
| he was fishing with hell grummctS' in Buz-
| Yards Bay or discussing finance with Elias
| Cornelius Benedict in the cabin Of the Oneida
and Letting the campaign run itself, Adlai +.
Stevenson was Juggling the left hind foot of a
graveyard rabbit through the Southern States
| clearing the way TO the great victory in No
| vember. For Mr.. Cleveland 10 t.eat him in the
| way he is doing seems the height Of ingra';-
tudc. 1t is very distressing. One cannot think
of Adlai, sitting in the solitude of his Bloom
ington Office contemplating that left hind foot
of graveyard rabbit without being a coed
| deal tumbled up with emotion. He makes us
think Of the forlorn Confederate soldier who
sat on a stump after Lees surrender aud said