The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-22
TUESDAY, MARCH e2, e1eo4.
FoRAKER AND THE PoSToF-
 FICTS


 Conkling quarreled with Garfield be- causo of Garfield's refusal to name Conk- ling's man as Collector of the Port of New York. The two New York Senators resigned in a hun and sought an en- dcTsement at the hands of the Legisla- turc, with the result everybody recalls. That was in the palmy days of the spoIls system. but the country even then re- scented. as the New York Legislature did, the effort of two Senators to usurp tho rights of the Executive. The pre- tensions of those days, however. seem mild in comparison with those Senator Foraker now puts forward with respect to the Ohio postoffices. We have civil service law and we have a President Civil Service Commission. Seemliness and virtue ought to reign at Washing ,ton. one would think, when 1t comes to the selection of Government officials. Senator Foraker is ingenious in a child like way. Web Flanagan's What are : we here for, if not the ofices?" fits the Senator's ideas exactly. He needs a ma SA4AAAC tO SuppOII Aiilt Ill OWl 0ldlG Federal patronage is necessary to build up a machine; he will accordingly seize { the patronage. One word with the Pres 3dent suffices and the postofi1ces are his. He sends news all over the country that he will insist upon dividing the spoils in Ohio among my friends" He gives out interviews to the same effect; my friends must have first choice" Divide with Herrick and Dick, mo-" he continues; .-''Did Hanna and Herrick divide wItn me?" He confesses almost with tears . that Hanna through seven long, weary years, prevented him from getting a , single postmaster in the Fourth District H. recalls with bitterness how he was 0triumphed over, how helpless he was in : the power of his Republican adversarieS and he proclaims his intention to even things up, now that his friend at the White House has shown a willingness to support his pretensions. If Roosevelt cannot walk on hot ploughshares, it is snot because he has not had practice. Platt and Odel in New York, Hanna , and Foraker in Ohio, kept him dancing steadily for two years. Hanna held a club ovef Roosevelt throughout tnls pe- riod. for Roosevelt was painfully anxious b be nominated. Hanna had behind him the entire army of adventurers and plum derers that constitute so large an ele- ment of the Republican Party Well may Roosevelt have trefnbled and begged his dear friend Foraker not to press him for help against Hanna.
 The scene has shifted. Hanna has been oblighg enough to die. Perry Heath. Senator Scott Rathbone and all their tlk are inconsolable. The colossus of grafters is gone. The President and Foraker turn instantly upon ~hio to break down the machine Hanna, Her rick and Dick had so carefully built up. Herrick stands by Hanna's dying in function, put none but our friends to the front in the State Convention" and Roosevelt and Foraker have accepted the challenge. The President. we must infer, has told Foraker, Here. Joseph Benson, take everything that belongs to me in Ohio. In this matter l am not President of the United States am your friend. Let me know what fellows you want to go out and what fellows you want to go in; wink is enough"
 - Senator Foraker thus cheered on, trlAm pets defiance to his enemies. To Her rick. An even division. yes. may be- when I have caught up for the seven years of starvation rations." To Dick, Justice: Yes. I'll give you Justice. Jus tice to you means a knife"