Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1894-09-27

election IF the next President into the
House by casting the solid democratic
vote in all the northwestern states for
the Iopulist electoral ticket in go,
provided. of course, that they cen con-
troll maj 7 ~ Of the 81 10 delegations
n the next HUus., as they do in the
present House With a msiority OF
the st tie delegations republican. the
uext President is bound TO be a repub.
lican. no matter whether he is elected
by the electoral college CT By the
House.
The nomine,ion of Hon. Levi P.
Morton for governor bF the republicans
Of New York was received with much
pleasure in Washington, where MIR
Morton becsme exceedingly popular
during bis term as Vice President, and
the belief - general that he will cars
the state by much larger msjority
than the Presidential ticket of Harrison
and Morton did in 1855 II is thought
that this belief was shared BIZ Gov
Flower, and that it was the cause Ct
his declining TO be The democratic can
didate against Dir. Morton. Whitney
IS the first choice f the administration
for Mr. MortJn's opponent and Dan
Lamont, tine second. 1t is thought
that Senator Hill is perfectly willing to
allow either of t.em TO make the run
10 defeat
The democratic officials of the Treas.
ury department have found time to get
up such big row among themselves
that it has eliminated in the forced
resignation of Jeremiah O'Rourke,
Supervising Architect. and the deposed
official is making mysteriC us threats
about making exposures which will
bring out sensational political scandal
involving several prominent members
of the administration. Although it is
known that Mr.. o. Rouike aud several
of the officials immediately under him.
particularly chief clerk Kemper and
MIR. Fleming, chief OF the Law and
Contract division, both close personal
friends of Secretary Carlisle, have been
constantly at loggerheads over the
administration of the flee for months
past, the real cause of the trouble is
politics, and the fact that the two Sem
ators who secured O'Rourke's appoint
ment-Smith and Mcpherson OF n. j
are no longer in good odor with the
administration. The two minor Off
Gals referred to have tried to run the
Architects Office solely in the interest
of the democratic party. while Mr..
u Rourke had sufficient pride in his
profession to wish it to cut some figure
in the work of the office. The final
clash came this week, and Secretary
Carlisle stood by the minor officials and
demanded O'Rourke's immediate resjg-
nation. The position is one of the
best under the Treasury department,
paying $4,000 year, but requiring q
man of marked ability to fill it as it
should be filled, and no man of that
sort will banker after the place when
he knows how O'Rourke was forced
out and that the men who did the fore.
ing are TO remain in the Office.
The rumpus in the Architects Office
has in measure detracted public at
tention from the steady decapitation OF
republican officials in the Treasury de-
partment, under the reorganization
provided for by the last session of Con-
gress. The law, it will be remembered,
abolishes several entire bureaus, and
it was at first supposed that all of the
employees of those bureaus would
simply drop out of office on the first
day or October, when the reorg aniza-
ton is to go into effect, but Secretary
Carlisle had a scheme worth two of
that, from . partisan democratic stand
point, and he seldom occupies any
other. Had all employees of the abol-
ished bureaus peen dropped it would
have caught as many democrats as
republicans; hence Mr. Carlisle's
scheme to select the clerks to be dis
missed from all branches of the Treas
ury department. And to add insult to
injury it was given out that only those
clerks whose records were poor would
be dismissed. Up to this time nearly
100 have been dismissed and they are
all republicans and some of them have
been for years considered among the
most efficient employees of the depart
ment These dismissals have also
given Logan Carlisle an opportunity to
vent his spite against the high grace
women employees. He declared when
he first went into Office that no woman
should hold a position paying more
than $1,000, and if he is allowed to have
his way there will soon be none in his
department.