The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-04-25
nominated by the party. If so, it serves
them right.


Now | am no crazy civil service man.
| have an old fashioned notion that the
men who voted for Mckinley ought to
have the jobs if they can fill them.
would have no criticism to make of Nc
I<inley and his subordinates if they were
what is known as ''spoilsmen" and
avowed their belief in the maxim: To
the victors belong the spoils." Mckin-
ley would have been made President if
that plang had been in the Republican
platform just as easy as he was upon
civil service declaration He wasn't
elected anyhow, but was bought in and
counted in. But he made civil service
prominent. His integrity as man is
staked on enforcing and extending" it.
That is why these cvasions and repu-
diations disgust the people. They like
President to do what he says he will do,
and not to be guilty of 1nakeshifts and
miserable subterfuges to get around his
pledges. 1t is not because Mckinley puts
Republicans on guard that i find fault
with him. 1t is because he PIRATES against
rewarding party men, praises a fIori-par-
tisan law, and then permits evasions of it
that are not above-Board. ="
Up to this hour. no Southern MAN has
been given a position by the new Pres;-
dents Bayard was taken away from Eng
land TO make place for an Ohio man;
Enstis from France to make IA plac e for
a New Yorker: Ransom from Mexico to
give an Arkansas oarpet-hagger a job,
and on and ON. In the cabinet Mr..
Gary. OF Maryland. is credited to the
South, but he was born in New Eng
land and has no Southern sympathies or
ideas. Buck of Georgia, who goes to
Japan, is a typical Yankee without even
Southern veneering. 1t is now said that
the few Southerners in office, protected
by the civil service, have been marked for
slaughter. Even in appointing postmas-
ter in the South, they are stronger if
they are Northern born. or, like Rollins
3at Asheville, served in Kinks army. The
South will get nothing out of this admin
istration except higher taxes and the gold
standard, and sorroy office holders who
are mainly corporation toels.
Secretary Sherman nipped in the bud
the sensation that there was a merry
war waging over precedence by the dl-
plomats at the Grant ceremonies. He
says there is TO be no precedence. One
is as good as another This recalls the
fact that several years ago Hubbard Il.
Smith, then clerk in the State Depart
ment, prepared a code of etiquette, which
was submitted to several of the very
best authorities in this country, like
President Andrew d. White, John A.
Kasson, John w. Foster, Bancroft Davis
and others, and corrected to meet their
criticisms and suggestions. 1t was pro-
posed to publish it in a neat form for
free distribution to those who required
advice or take an interest in such sub
jects, but Secretary Gresham, who had a
contempt for formalities, got hold Of the
manuscript and tucked it away in some
pigeon hole where it is now lying covered
with dust.
The row between the Forakers and Bel
lamy Storers seems to have been adjust
ed. 1t will be remembered that the Pres
ident, who had promised to make Bethany
Storer assistant secretary of State, was
stopped by Foraker's protest. Storer's
wife is social lion in Cincinnati. She
snubbed Mrs. Foraker whereupon the
Ohio Senator's wife demanded that Mrs.
Storer be kept out of Washington. Nc
Kinley finally agreed to make the change
Mrs. Foraker demanded if she would con-
sent to his banishing Storer to Belgium
as Minister This is satisfactory all
around. Mrs. Foraker sees her ''snub-
Der" banished, and Mrs. Storer goes
abroad to associate with ''dooks" and
lords and the like.
here is a story behind the sudden
willingness of the Republicans in the
Senate to strike out the retroa clause
in the tariff bill. They ascertained as
fact that he Vest resolution, censuring
the Secretary of the Treasury for anti
cipating the enactment of the Dingley
bill would pass if it came to q vote.
Then the Republicans consented to it's
death, but not till then.