The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-15
BY r. NJ. Larner.

Washington, Oct 14.-Register of
Treasury Judson Lyons, has been call
cd to Ohio to assist in holding the col
ored voters of the Buckeye state in
line. Lyons is regarded as the best
type of negro officeholder under the
administration and he is expected to
help bring out the full negro vote
and save the state to the Republi-
cans.
Col Dick. has not made any claims,
but he has whipped into line every
speaker of prominence in a half dozen
states and men who hold jobs under
Republican congressman are ordered
TO get out and hustle for Uncle Mark"
Secretary Shaw, other members of
the cabinet and every federal official
who is supposed to possess vote-gettiug
qualities, are being forced into active
campaigning, with the sanction of
President Roosevelt, Notwithstanding
his frequent output of protests against
pernicious activity by government Of
hcehoIders. No President during the
last thirty years has equalled Mr..
Roosevelt, or gone to such extremes in
forcing officeholders to take the front
rank on the political firing line.
While president of the Civil Service
Commission he induced President
Cleveland to approve an order forbid
ding federal officials from making po-
litical speeches or otherwise taking an
active part in party politics. Edwin
Warfield, now Democratic candidate
for Governor of Maryland, was at that
time surveyor of the port of Baltimore,
Committee. The Roosevelt order re-
quired him to retire from the commit
tee or resign his government office.
So anxious is Mr.. Roosevelt to sue
coed himself that he has put aside his
"perniciOus activity theories. and is
resorting to aggressive craftsmanship of
a brand which Jay Hubbell of Hubbell
Blocks of Five Dudley and Star
Route Steve Dorsey would have shyed
at. Not only are federal officers re-
quired to get upon the stump and sup
port the administration, but in Geor-
the Southern states. the Republican
referees who distribute federal patron
age are clasSed as officeholderS.
Recently recommendations ha ve~been
coming to the President from independ-
ent sources in the South. and intiTna-
tions have been made that the Presi-
dent was dissatisfied with those to
whom he had looked for advice in the
matter of appointments. Secretary
Otpf his cf1 fpR
relative to the limitations: "The Pres
ident is much gratified over the results
of his efforts, through his advices in
Southern states, to give the people
clean, competent officers, and the best
possible service in all the departments
1t is his intention to sustain these ad-
visers fully in the future, as he has
done in the past" rs
The referees are looked upon in most
OF the Southern states as the personal
representatives of the President in both
appointments and political matters, and
the fights against them in the South
are often led by Republicans who are
in revolt against the Presidents nomi-
Latlon next year. In Virginia the ref
cree is Representative Slemp, the only
Republican representative in Congress
from that state.
The North Carolina patronage is con-
trolled by the chairman of the Repub-
Hcan State Committee a son-in-law of
Justice Pritchard, of the Supreme
Court of the District of Columbia: in
south Carolina by John G.. Capers,
United States attorney, and Mai Mi
cab Jenkins, internal revenue collector;
IN Georgia, by Maj. j F. Hanson, a
prominent and clean Republican,; in
Alabama, by ex-Representative Aid
rich, and Mr.. Thompson. collector of
Internal revenue; in Florida. by the
state Committee, in Mississippi, by
United States Marshal Wilson; in Ten
lessee, by Representatives Brownlow
and Gibson. and so on through the
South r.