Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-02-01
.SERPRkSLNG FlGERE.S.

One of the peculiar prerogatiyes and inalienable rights of the Amer iean citizen is his right to kick. Whether right or wrong, justified or uniustifable, he kicks nevertheless. Verify, we are q nation of kickers and grumblers. If times are pros porous, the average citizen kicks because they are not more so; if times are dull, he grumbles because times "are not what they used to be, and whatever political party is in power the administration must bear the blame for all the ills we bear, whether political, social or financial. Just now President Clevelands administration is being considerably censured for what is termed it's inactivity in turn5ng the rascals out, in consequence of which there is vigorous kick among Dem ocrats, especially in the South, who largely believe in Andrew Jackson $ dictum that ito the victors belong the spoils.n In that connection the Washington correspondent of the St. Louis Rcpablie has been making some investigations which are sur prising in their results, sad which will serve to put a quiet@s upon certain newspapers in this State heretofore conspicuous for their censure of the Presidents supposed inactivity" The following article from the RepuLi6c of last Tuesday is respectfully referred to the Iittle Rock Press and others of that ilk z:
 WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.--The cry has been raised with great effect that the Post-oiiice Department has not been responsive to Democratic sentiment. A few figures on tliat point may be interesting. Up to January 26, aSS6, MT. Villas, then Post-master-Sencl'aL, had appointed 946 Presidential Post masters. On the s;siile date i'll lS99 Wannamaker had appointed l,.Sl9 POStniaSterS. On the same day of this year Bisseil had appointed l, ,3ssSS postmasters. This shows that the record of Bissell has beeR a good deal better than that of NilaS and lacks but little of being equal r@ that Ot Wannamaker.
 So far as the foul tl-elass Post masters are concerned tiSe record Of the present administration is un- precedented. During the tisSt sixteen months of the first Cleveland admin iStration there were appointed 20,SSl. During the first sixteen MOnths of the Harrison administration there were 24,645. During the eleven months of the present administra- tion, under the able and efficient management of Fourth Assistant postmaster-Genera Maxwell, there have been appointed T .323.
 The Republicans are braggiBg a good deal on Clarkson's ability as q headsman. Adlai F. Stevenson was made Nice-President of tue United States because the Democrats appTe- ciated his ability in changing Post masters to suit the Democratic party political complexion. Clark son beat Stevenson, but Maxwell has beaten ClarksOn. Up to January 26, lSa0, Clarkson had appointed I9,71l f0urth-class PostmaStels and during tke corresponding period Maxwell had appointed 20, ,4S3. This shows that Maxwell had beaten Glarkson nearly POGO vet Maxwell has not made much noise. Maxwell has not been Splurging, but he has kept up steady work Clarkson tried to make q record hy appoint ing more fourth-class Postu.astels in one day than anybody else did in the same length of time. Maxwell, how ever, by steady application to bust ness, has beaten Clarkson l, ,T12 i'll the same length of time. ~
 The fact is, very few Republican PostmasterS now gemain in the fourth-class offices throuehout the South and West. Mr. Maxwell has not bothered. himself verN much with the Eastern states, because they have an idea that they like civil service reform and continuity in of ice in the Eastern states. In the South and West, where they like to have the political complexion of their Postmasters changed with the complexion of the administration Maxwell hes been acting, as will be seen from the figures given.
 With this showing it is difficult to see how the Senators and Represen- natives from the south and West can have any real grievance against the Post-otfice Department, but that is the department they haye been bothering and complaining of with most vehemence It will only require a casual Investigation of the figures that have been given to the Demo- crats of the South and West to con-