The herald., 1894-01-08
HomE RULR IN AMERICA.


tories. as we'll as to giving them and
citizens of New York state all the foreign
missions and consulships, is beginning
to array opposition to him in quarters
where he could formerly look for friends,
even in Republican ranks, on any mat
ter which was not strict party ques-
tion. One Of these was Senator Dolph,
of Oregon, who is a broad-gauge man
who never tries to make a party issue
where one should not properly exist.
He is now against the president and his
colleague, Mitchell, who has differed
with him on many political questions,
is standing in with him, shoulder to
shoulder. The question on which Mr..
Cleveland has antsgonized the Webfoot
senators. is that of home rule in Amer
ica. In other words demand that fed
eral Offices in each OF the states shall be
held by bona fide citizens of that state.
From the admission OF California to
1885 there was no cause for complaint
on this score. True it was indeed that
Collectors Hammond, Latham and
Washington often appointed young men
from Virginia to clerkships in the San
Francisco custom house before they had
really become qualified voters in the
state, but the principals and heads of
departments were always bona fide citi-
zens of California. under Lincoln and
Grant, as had been the case under
Fierce AMI Buchanan. IL " as Tee66frTTeeaa Teeaa
for Mr.. Cleveland, in 1885, to break
over the palings that surrounded this
time-honored custom, by appointing q
citizen OF New York to the superintend-
ency of the United States branch mint
at San Francisco. This was position
always held by bona fide residents OF
the stale ever since 1854, and the near
position was Gen. o. H. Lagrange, who
had lived in California nearly four years
/ prior to his appointment. At the same
period, at the behest of the Wall street
godbugs, he sent out a man from the
treasury department at Washington to
close up tue Carson City mint. as it was
iseuing too much silver to please
Wormser, Ssligmsn ct al.
more deliberate insult was never be-
fore offered to the people of any state.
was not an honest or competent man in
the state of California. or one whose Of
fetal bond might be worthy of accept
ance by Hon. Daniel Manning. then
secretary of the treasury. In former
years such an Insult would not have
gone without notice. Gwin would have
wanted to know, you know; Broder-
ick would have risen to offer resolu-
tion OF censure, as be did in the Lecomp-
ton affsir; and McDougal, who was Zack
Chandler's predecessor in the role of
national inebriate, would have slapped
somebody's face. But in the case above
mentioned it was nobody's affair. Sen
ator Farley, stricken down with paresis,
had not been in his seat for many months
previously; and as for Stanford, he had
just been sworn in and was cultivating
ell the Democrats in order to stave off
hostile legislation against himself and
his colleagues at Fourth and Townsend
streets. So he smothered any indigna-
ton he may have felt at this grstuitous
afffont, and the thing died a natural
death.
Under the administration of Mr..
Harrison, the Pacific states received a
fair and just share OF the consulships
and other federal positions outside their
own limits. Oregon had Is consulships
and California had 13 consulships and
the portfolio OF minister to Japan, Mr..
Coombs of Naps. Under Mr.. Cleveland
the state OF Oregon has not single
consulship except the one at Sydney, N
S. W., and the great state of California
has the minister to Brazil, Mr.. Thomp-
son. Outside OF that, none of the Pa
ci6c senators can get anything for their
friends. Wise got the collectorship
through Virginia "pull, and the new
collector OF internal revenue owes his
preferment chiefly to influence without
the state.
The last straw on the came's back
cane in the last week of the extra ses-
sion, in the shape of an appointment
OF some Colonel Dinkey Bolts or Major
Aristotle Dobbs, OF Georgia, to be agent
at the Umatilla reservation at Oregon.
That is post requiring good knowledg ge
OF frontier life and fair experience
among the noble red men; and as the
two Oregon senators had each written
letters of recommendation of citizens OF
their state for that position, they
naturally felt that injustice was being
done them. This is a very small
spark, but there is liable to come
quite conf agration out of it. Dolph
stood by the president on the silver
question and was one OF his stand -bye
during his former administration, but
this appointment has quite estrauged
them for some time to come, be sure oil
thef. Dolph is slow and stubborn,
therefore his hostility is ali tbs more
10 be dreaded.
Certainly state which collects the
second largest amount OF duties Gas Gal
ifornia does) for the support OF the fed
ersI government should have one Of hei
own bona fide citizens to take charge O.
each and every federal Office within hei
borders. 1t is not the individual Will