The Savannah morning news., 1901-06-29
SOUTHERN MAN
FOR PRESIDENT.
Laps. ID. McCord of Tennessee Gives
Reasons for Selecting One.

Laps. ID. McCord of Tennessee Gives
Reasons for Selecting One.
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Washington, June N.-To him who hath
much more will be given; and from him
who hath not shall be taken away that
which he seemeth to have.
That seems to be the formula for this
distribution of the benefits of office and
government between the East and the
South.
Continuing the recital of the one-sided
state of affairs
The. South has had four members of
the Supreme Court since the war, and
she has not had the Chief Justice since
John Marshall died in 1886 The way
10 highest honors lies through the law,
and it DIS a wrong upon the lawyers of
the South to hold them ineligible to such
high station.
But one out of the seventeen men who
have been elevated to the high place of
president pro tenn. of the Senate was a
Southern man. Senator Isham G.. Harris
went there by sheer force of great abil-
ity.
Only two of the speakers of the House
since the war were Southern men. In
these latter days the speaker has more
power than any other man in the gov
eminent. Through the selection of COM
nitees, in his discretion to recognize
whom he pleases, and In the menace
with which he can whip members into
his view by the fear of withdrawal of
favor, he may defeat all legislation not
10 his liking, and instigate such as
pleases him. We are not left to mere
surmise in imagining the effect of hav-
ing a speaker inimical to Southern in
terests when we look abroad and see
that nearly every good thing that leg
station has devised has gone elsewhere.
In these days of billion-dollar Congresses
the only difficulty experienced is in in
venting arithmetic that can compute the
untold millions of actual appropriation
and resultant benefits that emanate from
the speakers power and go East. 1t
has operated to concentrate the bulk OF
all the wealth there and make every
thing and every section tributary to the
/ opulence and magnifcence of the East.
In the National Academy Of Sciences
the officers are neither from the South.
The American Historical Associations
| from the South.
The Bureau of American Republics has
% persons-0 from the South.
In the Bureau of Fish and Fisheries out
| Of 216, 80 are Southern men. expect they
| are mostly suckers.
The immigration service has 2l7 per-
sons-16 from the South.
The Shipping Commission gives US 3 OFT
| Of as.
The Board of Geographic Names-l out
Of 10.
There are 9 sub-treasuries-2 Of them IN
the South. They employ 2S5 peoples
from the South. They pay, in salaries,
Si25,S2O, of which the South gets s42 $50
The partialty of all this is not told in
these figures. That is a petty part of IT.
These sub-treasuries carry the money OF
| the government and they carry favors and
opOrtunities and privileges that some
times run up into the hundred millions
They are so arranged as to make the Eas'
the financial center, and to force all the
money and wealth to flow thence Tine
one in New York has given more gratui-
ties and opportunities to make money to
the favorites of the administration within
the past two years than the South has
gotten of that kind since the Revolution
In the different secretaries offices prop
e., and the Offices OF the heads Of bu-
reaus the highest priced clerks are founo
and these show the discrimination from
one end of the list to the other The
South gets
In the office of the Secretary Of the
Navy out Of %.
Bureau of Yards and Docks--1 out OF 8
Bureau EqlnDment--1 out OF 5.
Bureau Ordnance--1 out of 10.
bureau Construction out OF 10.
Postmaster Generals office-l5 out OF S6
Secretary Agriculture-12 out OF %.
Commissioner OF Labor-33 out of 1874
Civil Service Commissioning out Of n.
Indian Commissioner out of "A.
bureau American Republcs--0 out OF "a
So iy cmfwy cmfwy dow dowodowodW
Her pro rata IN all these Offices com
bned would be 175, whereas she is &C
corded only S6-less than half
II ought to halfway seem. at least that
The Civil Service Commission is fairly
constituted, for that Is what the thine
j. imposed TO be for.
There is another abuse that cannot bt
Traced accurately. For instance out o.
The 80 credited TO the South in the offict
ot the Bureau of Labor. II Of them are
porn North. This runs all through th'
Lst Many clerks from states whose
quotas are overfull are charged 10 other
states or the District OF Columbia. In this
Internal revenue service l find l4 persons
Corn In Ohio and charged TO other states
Inc Southern states are not only cheated
y" iheir just share, but they are charged
win things the others get.
I1e Blue Book shows " ambassador
N ala ministers TO foreign countries, draw
..f salaries aggregating 8eO,b00 and ol
m'se the South has 9 90. and three Of
Wsse were born North.
The only native born Southern man II
we entire list draws the very smallest
.aIafy 5000, and Is banished 20 Mon
IOWA
mere are 30 clerks and secretaries n
fe 'mbaasius 3 Of whom are from IN
Hiny consult are residents Of countries
"hieh they are accredited. ana the,