The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1894-03-09
SOUTH IN THE SADDLE
JUSTICE WHITE A RADICAL Elk.
CONFEDERATE.
His appointment to the Supreme Bench
Believed to Have Been Made for the
Purpose OF NuIliiying His Opposition to
the Tariff Bill.
Both Feet In the Trough.

In naming Senator White as Justice
Blatchford's successor on the Supreme
bench, Mr.. Cleveland has once more
surrendered himself and his party to
the South, says Washington CORE
spondent While all admit Senator
Whites judicial fitness for the high
office to which he has been appointed,
there is great deal of bitterness
among the more radical members of
Congress from the North over the mat
ter, and there are some who attribute
to the President anything but worthy
motives in the appointment.
The fact is pointed out that Senator
White was one of the strongest oppo-
nents of the tariff bill. and that, urged
by his constituents he openly declared
his intention of voting and working
against it unless sugar was left upon
the taxable list. Recently Senator
Whites opposition became so serious
and formidable that the sponsors Of
the bill began to question whether the
measure could BE- passed unless he was
placated in some way. The re .ection
of Peckham, it is declared, gave Mr..
Cleveland the opportunity to get Sena-
tor White out of the way, and he
availed himself of it with a rapidity
that surprised even the Democrats.
There is no doubt, either, but that
in the appointment Mr. Cleveland in
dulged himself in the pleasure of
little private revenge. 1t was hard
slap at New York. which now finds
itself for the first time since 1906 with.
out a Representative on the Supreme
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revenge en- ugh even for man Of Mr..
Cleveland's caliber, but he had the
still greater satisfaction of getting
back at the Republican Senators for
opposing Hornblower and Peckham,
for White is one Ct the most Southei
of the Southern Democrats BY his
own acknowledgment he served in the
Confederate army and was actively en-
gagged in the efforts to destroy the
Union. To the Northern Republicans
this is bitter atfrOnt, and they do
not hesitate to say so. This is the first
instance in which Confederate soldier
has been appointed to the Supreme
brench, and it is not an edifying spec
tacle.
Not only are Southern principles in
the saddle at Washington, but the cap
ital is Cverrun with out-at-the heel
Southern office-seekers. In looking
over the list of changes and the names
of persons affected as they are pub
lished in the daily papers, l have been
struck by the fact that the clerks who
are reduo Ell and discharged are almost
entirely from the Northern States,
while those who are appointed or pro-
noted are almost entirely from the
South. An investigation from the
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in more than 80 per cent of the cases.
The old and experienced clerks from
the North are being turned out of the
departments in drOves, and those
whose services cannot be dispensed
with are having their salaries reduced,
while new and inexperienced persons
from the South are being showed into
their places as fast as possible. In the
Pension Office and the Treasury this is
particularly true.
- 1t is openly charged that Secretary
Carlisle entire private establishment
-cCachman, footman AMI house ser
wants, his horses and carriages, and
even his blcode1 Kentucky thorough
bred, driven by his son, Logan Car
Isle, on Pennsylvania avenue arc all
paid for directly out of the National
ire asury The rotund Hoke Smith
keeps a colored man on the Interior
Department payroll at 500 year to
secure the services of his wife as cook
to tickle the palate of the Georgian ep-
icure. Turn where you will about
Washington and you are confronted
with Southern supremacy or Southern
mendicancy. 1t Is the South again in
the saddle and at the trough, and il
has got there with both feet in thu
stirrups and in the fodder.
As To Utah.
The Democrats are not in so much OF
a hurry about granting statehood to
Utah as they were. The Democratic
platform of 1892 declared in favor Of