The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-02-03
FEW CHANGES IN EFFECT
ONLY TWO NEW APPOINTMENTS
MADE YESTERDAY.
BOTH OF THOSE ARE ONLY TEMPORARY
The Pie Brigade Go Home Cussin' the Civil
Service, Mckinley, Russell and All
the Other Powers that Be or
Are likely 10 BE.

The new Collector of Internal Revenue
and his force got down to business il
earnest yesterday. The work of trans
ferring the property of the office by Spe
cial Agent Lay was completed yesterday
morning.
The office force adjusted itself to the
changed order of things, and the field
deputies and other appointees received
their instructions and left for their
posts of duty.
And the office-seekers, pie hunters and
place hunters also-most of then-de-
parted in deep disgust, and no more
'The swine's shr+ll clarion echoes o'el
the plain;
Ewes usual serenade around the
trough"
The civil service law is a thorn in the
flesh of North Carolina Republcamism
Under its operation the faithful,
and unfaithful, too, have grown restless
and then mad They are asking them
selves what they have been working
for all these days?
They have seen duncan get in as Re-
venue Collector, but Immediately their
fondest hopes have decayed, for of the
$50 places usually gwen out by a Collec-
tor, only 6 are now left by the civil ser
vice TO Mr.. Duncan's disposal. This, ii
must be confessed, is calculated TO make
even better men than a North Carolina
Republican wrathy.
Seeing the hopeless condition of things
they have gone home in no good hu
NOR. Impelled hy a spirit of revenge
they are now preparing to Swoop down
upon the postoffces. They complain
that the terms of many Democratic post
masters have long been out, but still the
incumbents hang ON and ON with no
animation from the administration that
they will ever be shaken loose.
This" said Republican yesterday,
Twill never do. These places belong to
us and we've go 10 have them. The
way this things going on, between Rus
sell and Mckinley, there won't be
enough Republicans left in North Caro-.
lima TO hold the next election. There's nc
use Disgusting the fact, were in politics
for place, and when there's no places
there's mighty poor politics. II
we can't get revenue offices we
ought ait least to be able to get the
measley little old country postoffces."
Last night Mr.. Claudirs Dockery left
for Washington to see about the post
offices of his county (Richnond).
Many of the old postmasteTs," he
said last night, ''have already served as
much as eight months over their time.
I'm going to try to have them turned
out
And whom VIII you have put in their
piaces-Populists or Republicans"
Radicals
SO you will not recognize the POpus
lists in the distribution of the Federal
pie?'
'Oh, yes, we'll give them something. :
Two appointments We're made yester-
day by Collector Duncan:
JAMES d. NEWSOME, of Raleigh,
was appointed storekeeper and gauger
temporarily. The civil service eligible
list is exhausted, but several distilleries
want to start up at once, hence this
temporary appointment.
j. w. DAILY, of Reidsville, deputy
collector at Newbern, vacated by the
resignation Of Mr.. W. T. Caho. Mr.
Daily's name is first ON the civil service
list of applicants, having stood the ex-
animation here last March. He has had
much experience in the line of work in
which he may be engaged, having serv-
ed under the deputies previously in
office. He has not yet indicated his ac-
ceptance. The appointment is rendered
him for sixty days.