Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-05-26
NEPOTISM RAMPANT.

Pres dent McKinley's administration
repays the generous confidence Of the
people who have ma lie haste regardless
of party or section 10 grant everything
that has been asked Of them in this war
by an ignominious failure 10 prove IL
self worthy or to rise above partisan
or personal considerations. Look at the
long list of recent army appointments.
II shows that the President instead Of
rising TO the grave importance Oh the
occasion and appointing the kind OF
men the countrys need calls for and
whose ability, training, experience ard
merit should have given them prece-
dence, has taken advantage Of the OPP
portunity to pay off some political OBJ
legations and reward personal friend
ships, etc, by appointing over the heads
of grizzled veteran soldiers the sons of
so-called aristocracy, or plutocracy, or
of men who have a pull with the adj
ministration. Here is partial list:
A son of ex-President Grant
Another OF ex-PreS1GenI Grant.
son of ex-President Hayes.
A son of ex-President Harrison.
grand son of ex-President Grant.
A son of James g. Blaine
A son of General John A. Logan
son of the Astors.
A son of Senator Foraker. =,
A son of Senator Sewell.
A son of Senator Gray.
Two sons Or ex-senator Calvin Bricn.
A son of ex-Mayor Strong, of New York.
A son of ex-Mayor Hewitt of New York.
a son o. Vice President Hobarts bro
Their.
son Of Fitzhugh Lee.
A brother of Vanderbilt's son-in-law.
A son Of Secretary Alger.
A son of eX-Consul General John c.
New
A son-in-law of Senator Money. of Mis-
A son of Chairman Hull, of the House
Military Committee.
A son and soh-in-law of Senator Lodge.
A son of ex-senator Mitchell, of Ore
gon.
A son of Vice Presidential Candidate
English
son of the late Congressman Millken,
A son Of Senator Edward Murphy, of
New York.
A son of Congressman Catchings, of
son of General Joseph Wheeler, of
Alabama.
This list might be greatly extended,
but these names will suffice as an Illus
tration of the use to which the adminis-
tration is putting the war necessities
of the country, rewarding personal and
political friends at the expense of the
discipline and efficiency of the army
According to the New York Herald
many of these gided youths who have
hocn cclnafo5 10 h1ahc Of
who have been trained in the armed
service of the government. have recent
ly disgraced themselves in dissipation
and backyard orgies while awaiting
their appointments at the capital The
Army and Navy Register" criticises
these appointments from the standpoint
speaking very moderately, as BELTS an
organ of the service. but at the same
time in way that cannot be misun-
derstood These quotations are from
its last issue:
There is nothing to approve in the APP
pointment Sof inexperienced youth hardly
out Of their teens to grade which ,Fl ordi-
wears of trainingi and service. There is
nothing commendable in a policy which
places college boys Nerr, the disreputable
sons of reputable fathers in positions
which call for men of Integrity education
and ability There are 9ome hagrant ex-
amples of the injustice which politics and
personal favoritism have \Wrought upon
regular army officers. 1t Ms something
more than shame when az ofhcer VINO
has attained the grade of captain by
wears Of service on the plainS anu oE
long period of training in military work
IN the department and in the Geid. mas
himself junior By two grades OF young
man who might be his son. so fan as com
parative ages go. and whose l appoint
ment is a trihuta 10 the industrX and in
offence of his father or his friSnds 1t
might have been expected that personal
,hnliuence. would operate to some extent
put we do not believe the actual\ condi-
,lon was anticipated or that 1t waf reai.
ized there would be so many instances OF