The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-04-18
AFTER THE SPolLs.
BILL ARP Ipr,KES Il FEW REMARKS
ABoUr} TF1cE SEEKERS.
General Young's Appointment, he Thinks,
is One That VIII do Credit SO the Adj
ministrA tion-Other Matters.

lndC Hill ~ 10 ne pltlCu WHO Is CoH-
strained to seek an Office for living. And
yet there are some good men who do 1t. L
know some whom Office fits and adorns.
General Young for instance-for he is Il
courtly gentleman and will represent our
government in a courty and gracious man
ner. He will keep the peace without humb
ling our national pride. He would have
kept it with Chile if he had been there,
instead of Egan. l have great admiration
for such men and am glad to see them get
Office. Office that exercises their grace
and gentlity-Oflice that does not require
much work, but is Il kind of genteel sine
cure with abundant perquisites. We re-
greet to lose him from Gainesville, to miss
the genial welcome with which he greets
his friends. but if he wants the office we
want him to have it. He deserves any
thing that he will ask for. and Mr.. ClcYe-
land has made no mistake in TINS case.
Now. if he will keep up his reputation Tor
Sagacity and appoint BascOm Myrlck and
John Temple Graves and Camilla Under
wood to the places they seek, the good peo-
pie of Georgia will approve it. L am no
politician. but | know our prominent cltl-
zens and what they are worth. Suppose
Mr.. Myrick was for Hill. He was not
is to be boycotted, then Mr.. Cleveland will
have to build up a party of his own, and
good many Of us will be left out. Mir.
Cleveland said that public office is
public trust, which means that the presl-
dent should have no reyenges-no friends
TO reward or enemies to punish. Ii Mr..
Cleveland refuses to nominate MIR. Alyrlck
simply because he was q Hill man 1t Will
mortify his friends i'll Georgia. of whom L
was one-not the first one, perhaps, but
one from the beginning, 1t already NOR,
titles me that Mr.. Cleveland has required
Mr.. Myrick to bring the files Of his paper
for inspection. 1t is said, too, that John
Temple Graves's application hangs ire be-
cause General Gordon is mad with Graves
for supporting Pat Calhoun for the sen
eral Gordon is not that kind
or "a man unless he has greatly changed.
He used to be large hearted and liberal in
his charity to all of his fellow citizens.
lie had 10 petty anmosties and never
nursed his revenge to keep it warm. News
paper reporters hunt up sensations and
write many things from rumor that are
not true and their victims are kept busy
denying their false accusations May the
good Lord deliver all from their gim-
let's and augers and insinuations, and
hen29 DO not believe shat General Gordon
is fighting Gl'arGs because Graves preferred
Calhoun. We would rejoice to see John
Temple sent to Switzerland and / wish
that | could go, too. and with him climb
the Materhorn and hear him apostrophize
that historic and beautiful country in one
of his ubmest flights of eloQuence Then
there is my friend Underwood. who is the
best all round man | ever knew, and |
believe could fill any place respectfully.
He has filled many from the chaplain Of Il
regiment down to the editor of a country
newspaper and did it well. He is the
loving husband of one wife, the father of
eleven children-most grls-the best Bap-
fist preacher ! ever heard, the best fur1n-
er and gardener, and with all most genial
c0mpanion-and yet lie wants to go To
Havana for what l don't know unless he
needs the money that is in it or wants to
convert its sunburnt people to Christianity
and immerse the whole island to make
sure of their salvation. l don't know
whether he was q Hill man or a Clcve-
land man nor do l care. | do know that
he is fit for the Office. Neither of these
men are professional politicians They never
degraded themselves by cavorting around
own personal advantage What a pitiful
spectacle it is to see some of our Georgians
wrangling in the filth of elimination and
recrllmnation in order to get Office ut
Washington. The Atlanta papers are full
OF the strife that goes on from
Cleveland ] would say Gentlemen
you are not the men am looking for" and
L would select some good men who have
made no noise and kicked up no dust about
THIS business. There are plenty of good
men i'll Atlanta who would fill those Off
ces but whose modcsty and conservatism
forbid their asking for them AS a general
thlnS II Is the loud-Inouthed noisy uoliti-
clans who seek the offices and get them.
| was glad to read that Mr. Cleveland was
gong to Dreak up the states and take Il
hand in the appointments. OF course he
can't 90 1t ali. but he can find out where
the rings are and break them. These
political rings that parcel out the offices in
secret concay2 are the curse of our Georgia
politics. At Is SAID that the ring is already
aolilon, tii'to ~ 10 mi All our offices from
governor down, and it includes the sue
cessor to Senator Colquitt 1t was these
rings that became so odious to the
people thia- they rose up and established
independentism IN north Georgia for eight
years. 1t was these rings that aIiented
Alexander Stephens from the democratic
party and that party had to offer him the
gubernatorial chair to keep him from RIM
ming as an independent. 1t was these rings
that made possible the success of the pGo-
pies party on the basis of the Ocala plat-
form. 1t was one of these rings that made
machine politics so odious in New York.
Now it is no comfort to know that in Il city
like Atlanta there are several rings and
one ring can fight another and that the
longest pole will knock down the Dersimm0u.
The trouble is that the best neu--thc most
deserving mcn-are in no ring az all. They
have got no pole and therefore will not
reach the pcrsimmon. a common citizen
IKE myself has no more idea Of the small
Vaccinations that are going on to
fix the Rome posoiiice or the
Cartervile pOstCtiice or any other little office
than if | had no choice or voice in the mat
ter. The rings will fix it upon the principle
Of Il have ticklcd you, now You tickle me"
ship upon a painted ocean. And yet. | know
or think that ] know, who would be appoint
cl if the quiet, conservative citizens had
their choice.
Politics is Il hard road to travel It is a
mighty big thing to be president of this
great nation. and to he chosen by honorabe
methods. but it must certainly bcittle Il
noble mind to have to descend into the very
slums and schemes of tn" small politicians
to get into office. The wranglc. the hypocr:,-
cy. the broken promises, the small revenges
that are necessary will certainly lower his
self-respcct and leave him cloude in his old
age with unhappy memories. If his con
science does not get scared, how must a
sensitive nature writhe under TIE cards that
the disappointed publish cards that accuse
him of fnlsphood or Il betrayal of trust or
of ingratitudc and broken pl"dgcs. Sheridan