Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1895-10-12
ABsENTEEIsM AND JuNKETlNd.

Iron our regular correspondent

Maryland Politics The New Hawaiian
Minister Snubbed.
from our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. When the
manager of a big business establish
ment neglects his duties the bad ex-
ample is quickly followed by those of
his subordinates who have an oppor-
tunity to do SO. This Government is
the biggest business establishment on
this continent. and the President is
its general manager-mismanager he
has been since March 4, 1898. AS
one gentleman put it in converse
ton today, this Administration
ought to be known in history as one
Of vacation and incapacity." No
reasonable person objects to the Pres
ident and members of the cabinet tax
ing a vacation, just as most other
men do occasionally, but when there
is more time devoted to vacations than
to work it would seem to be time for
Congress to act, and to prescribe pre-
cisely the time the President and
members of his cabinet may take off
and continue to draw their pay Take
this year for instance. Mr.. Cleveland
has been absent from Washington
more than half the time, and about
the only member Of the cabinet who
has not taken almost as much time
away from his duties is Secretary
Morton, and he has probably remain
ed in Washington more because he
could better follow his greatest pleas
ure-keeping himself before the pub
lie through newspaper interviews
upon finance and almost every other
conceivable subject-here than when
junketing around in some obscure
part of the country. The only reason
that SO little has been said about this
continuous absenteeiSm is that most
people have arrived at the conclusion
that the less time the President and
members of his cabinet put in at their
desks the less harm will be done to
the country's interests. While that
is largely true, they should not be al
lowed to draw salaries for doing moth
ing.
One of the odd phases of the Mary
land campaign is that while the Cor
man Democrats continue to assert
that Mr.. Cleveland wants the German
ticket to be elected Mr.. Cleveland and
all the members of his cabinet main
tain dead silence on the subject, and
the most prominent official that all of
the coaxing and begging of Senator
German and his friends has been able
to get upon the stump in Maryland
was Dominic Murphy. subordinate
of the Commissioner of Pensions.
Your correspondent makes no pre-
tense of being in the confidence of Mr..
Cleveland, or any member of his cab
met, but he knows that in the past
neither Mfr Cleveland nor the mem
bers of his cabinet have hesitated To
speak out in favor of the Democratic
ticket in any State where it was
thought such speech would aid in
bringing out the party vote. If they
really wish German to win, why do
they not speak out for his ticket
Why didn't the members of the cab
met who refused to make speeches for
German S ticket temper that refusal
with few words in favor Of the cleo
ton of the ticket? The answer to
these questions may not be that Mr..
Cleveland wishes the Gormanites to
be defeated, but it certainly looks that
way at this writing.
Secretary Hoke Smith has gone to
Georgia again. 1t is said that ex-
Speaker Crisp's announcement, when
he was in Washington the other day,
of his intention to make some free
silver speeches in Georgia had some
thing to do with the Secretary's, pres
ent trip.
1t is evident that the administration
does not feel any more cordial towards
Mr.. Castle, the new Hawaiian minis
ter to the United States, than it did
towards his predecessor whose recall
it SO unjustly demanded. Mr.. Castle
arrived in Washington few days
ago. He called at the State Depart
dart to see Secretary Olney about ar
ranging date for officially presenting
his credentials. When Mr.. Castles
card was taken in to Secretary Olney
he sent word to him by a messenger
that he was busy and could not see
him, but that he could call upon di.
plomatic day, which is set apart fol
receiving all members of the diplo-
matte corps who care to call upon the
Secretary, but the calls upon that day
are as rule more of social than ar
official nature. OF course the Incl.
dent was discussed by members of the
diplomatic corps and especially
chuckled over by those representing
countries which are interested in pre-
venting the annexation of Hawaii tc
the United States Mr.. Castle is one
OF the leading Hawaiian annexation
lists, which of itself is sufficient reason
for the Cleveland administration tc
desire to make things as unpleasant
for him as possible without openly in
sulting him. There is not another
foreign minister in Washington wht
would have failed to see Mr.. Olney
had he called at the department under
similar circumstances.
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