The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1895-10-04

PLEASURE TRIPS OF DEMO
CRATIC OFFICIALS.
Public once . Fat Snap - Hypocrisy OF
self-styled Observation-Disclosures OF
Cleveland and His Cabinet-shameless
Neglect Of Duties.

Washington special: When, Grant
a president the democratic press
made a great outcry over the use by
the wife Of Attorney General Williams
Of q government carriage. Each mem
Der Of the cabinet is allowed an equip
page for official purposes, and it has
been the common practice, and is yet. to
use this official conveyance for social
purposes. Nevertheless, during the
Grant administration the democrats
made an awful to do about it. The
scandal was magni1ed to such proper
tions that the sobriquet, "Landaulet
Williams" became a catchword in pol
itics. 1t pushed TIE attorney general
into political obscurity.
Times have changed. Not only has
Mr.. Cleveland all the carriages he and
his family and friends can use, with
blooded horses to draw them, for pub
lie and private functions, but a war YES
sci is actually assigned to his service
and called the presidents yacht"
Magnificent railroad trains are fur
nished to him free of personal cost, and
when he goes a-fshing a lighthouse
tender, which is supposed TO supply oil
to signal stations along the Atlantic
coast, is taken over for his accommoda-
ton.
This is a reform era" let us bear in
mind, when our officials are "conse-
Grated"
And yet there is an extraordinary
condition Of affairs to-day at Washing
ton. The government is without head,
arms or even a tail. Nearly every Of
fetal executive officer Is absent on a
junket. Not only are the cabinet Off
GERS and the assistants of cabinet Of
ficers cavorting around at government
expense, but chief clerks chiefs OF d.
vision, private secretaries and even
s~tenographers' have followed the illus
trious example Of the CHIEF magistrate
and are having a good time onfthe dead
head plan. To transact any affair of
Importance is impossible under such
conditions. Understrappers. are in the
saddle, proud of the novelty of power,
and reckless in the exercise Of trust
which should always be used with eau
ton and sense. When Attorney Gem
eral Williams wife used a carriage of
the department Of justice to go to re-
ceptions and to do her marketing, at
least it could be said that the wheels
Of the government did not quite cease
revolving. Nm FsTf'3
Secretary Of the Navy Herbert, under.
pretense Of making a tour of inspection,
is "tdoing" the summer resorts. on the
dispatch boat Dolphin, entertaining his
friends and causing the consumption Of
government powder in receiving and
answering the salute of seventeen guns
which a cabinet officer receives. The
Dolphin carries at sea seven officers and
108 men, and consumes an average Of
273 tons Of coal every three weeks. The
tour of inspection" is all poppycock.
All this expense is being had simply
to give Secretary Herbert and his SON
a good time.
The assistant secretary, Mr.. McAdoo,
is also junketing. AS a member Of con-
tgress from New Jersey, Mr.. McAdoo
was eloquent in denouncing republican
extravaganza and republican junketing.
McAdoo, as a democratic official, has
junketed and cruised in our finest men,
of-war to all points of the compass.
The treasury department presents a
most extraordinary spectacle in illus
tration of the aphorism that public
office is a private snap" Sailing over
the waters of the great lakes is Secre-
| tarv Carlisle with his whole fani1v
Among them are his son, his sons wife
and the sons children to the number of
three, who are attended by a nurse.
They, too, are Inspecting" The as
sistant secretaries of the treasury, dur
ing the last two summers of the Cleye-
land administration, have frequently
gone upon little trips to sea, and with.
out the slightest conjunction OF con-
science have ordered revenue cutters
and lighthouse tenders around from
| Baltimore to Washington by way Of
the Chesapeake bay and the Potomac
river, to take them over the water for
a Sundays sail.
These things would not be comment
ed upon so much. were it not for the
| preteasions Of the persons to superior
virtue. Yet there has never been such
ausexposition Of hypocrisy and deceit,
OF public plumber and the qualification
of personal comfort without personal
cost as under President Cleveland.
Cleveland uses lighthouse boats and free
railroad trains. Cleveland leaves his
most of duty whenever his toe hurts or