The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-04
BLEAK DAYS FOR THE BLACKS.
N'KINLEY GIVING NEGRO OFFICE
SEEKERS THE COLD SHOULDER.

w. III. StaIIings Appointed Postmas-
ter at Augusta and JudsOn Lyons
stiIl Out in the SnOw-Deveaux
Hopeful, But Doyle StiII Making
Game Fight TO Defeat Him-BOb
SmnIIs Likely to Be Turned Down
mt Beaufort.
Washington, Feb. 3.-W. H. Stallings
was to-day appointed postmaster at Au-
gusta, and his nomination was formally
sent TO the Senate.
The selection of Mr.. Stallings disposes of
long pending controversy in favor of a
white man as against Judson Lyons, the
colored member of the Republican nation
al committee from Georgia
1t is also the first delivery of political
goods resulting from the Hanson-Lyons
deal made at the White House last week.
The other Georgia appointments are ex-
pected to come at an early date. The
President has started the ball rolling at
Augusta.
The Georgia senators will interpose no
objection to the confirmation of Mr.. Stall
ings, for although they would prefer to
see the present postmaster retained, they
realize that it is unreasonable to look for
such action from the present administra-
ton. They are gratihed at the fact that
the people of Augusta are to have a white
postmaster, considering how near Lyons
came to carrying off the prize
Col. Deveaux was at the capitol to-day
looking anxiously for his appointment to
the Savannah collectorship He was dis
appointed when he saw the list of namina-
tions and observed that his name was
"among the missing" He took some en-
couragement from the Stallings appoint
ment as that indicates an intention on
the part of the President to carry out the
Hanson-Lyons deal
Joe Doyle has not abandoned all hope of
bowling Col Deveaux over. He finally Sc
cured an interview with the President to-
day, and he claims to be very well satls-
fed with the position he occupies in the
race. He declined to discuss the circum-
stances surrounding his visit to the Presi-
dent, but intimated that the case has not
been finally determined by the President in
favor of Col. Deveaux.
Gen. Robert Smalls the colored Repub-
lican chieftain from Beaufort, is threat
ened with a case of cold deaP' at the
hands of the present administration.
Ever since MoKinley's election, Smalls
and his friends have claimed that the gen.
eral had a mortgage on the Beaufort col
lectorship, providing the President could
not find something better for him in Wash
ington. 1t is whispered around in the
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Smalls is to get the marble heart all along
the line on the ground that he no longer
cuts any figure in South Carolina politics
1t is said he is to be deprived of the
Beaufort collectorship and one reason as
signed is that his son-in-law Bampfield
was recently appointed postmaster at
Beaufort. In consequence of that rela-
tionsnip, Smalls' appointment is not fa-
vored by BOSS" Webster, who intlmates
that 1t would be making too much of
family affair to give son and father-in-
law two federal offices in Beaufort.
From the same source comes the infor-
nation that George n. Reed, former sher-
iff and late editor of the New South, a Re-
publican sheet, may get the collectorship
in place of Smalls, if the administration
concludes to give it to a colored man.
D. c. Wilson, a white Republican, is al
so an aspirant for the Office, and he hopes
to bowl over both Smalls and Reed. Reeds
friends claim that he ran the New South"
at his own expense and sunk a good deal
of money in the Republican cause. He
has gone dead broke upon it, and raked
the chestnuts out of the fire for Bampfield
as co-editor with him that Smalls expects
to get by appointment as collector of Gus
toms
Augusta, Ca, Feb. 3.-The appointment
of Mr.. Stallngs will give satisfaction and
he will make an efficient officer. The ap-
pointment of Capt. Smyth would perhaps
have been more popular outside of political
circles, but in consideration OF party SER
vice Mr.. Stallings is entitled to it. He
has always been an active Republican,
taking part in all his party's movements,
while Mr.. Smyth has not.
Mr.. Stallings has been a builder and
contractor, but he recently became mer-
chant He has wife and family of grown
sons, among them being Manager GeorgeI
Stallings of the Philadelphia Base Ball
Club.