The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-01-30
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Hon. Cecil Lyon. postmaster general
for the state OF Texas. reaches
Washington. some half a dozen uf
bleeding Texas towns which for
months have been trying 10 get a
postofficc may possibly get relief
hu' apparently not before
This state of affairs Is causing
uol only distress In certain parts Of
Texas. bat i'll feeling and some pro-
family among the Texas delegation In
Washington when Texas city feels
the need OF postof!ice. the ball OF
red tape unwinds itself in the fol
lowing manner, The formal applica
tion Is made 10 the department Usu-
ally the district congressman at
tends 10 the details for the commun
ity. The department investigates and
in time reaches the conclusion that
the postoffice should be granted In
the meantime the community has
found one or two men who Will look
after the postmastership in connec-
ton with his other business for the
pittance of compensation which Is
given fourth class postmaster In
some new born hamlet or cross
roads village
That is all that the law contem-
plates. but 1t is only the first act in
the federal patronage system as APP
piled to fourth class postmasters.
The next step Is to determine:
l. Is either of the applicants for
the position republican?
2. If he Is republican. is he
Cecil Lyon republican?
s. If he is not Cecil Lyon repub
lican, how can we get one?
The answer to all three questions
is ASK Cecil " Accordingly, the
first assistant postmaster general
dutifully and respectfully submits
the three grave questions to Theo-
dore Roosevelt's S captain general of
Texas, who is also postmaster gen
eral of Texas, for the administra-
ton and the third stage of the fourth
class postal chrysalis begins to de-
velop in the Lone Star State.
Captain General Lyon being a
very busy man gets around to the
question of this little fourth class
postmastership in Il democratic COM
munity after while. Cecil Lyon re-
publicans not being numerous In
Texas as Tom Campbell democrats
he usually finds that the man sug'
gested by the community as one OF
; the few who will give his time to
/ the petty job needs investigation as
to his political affiliations and par
I ticularly as to the shade OF his re-
publicanism. if republican he should
prove to be. Everybody knows how
this kind of correspondence drags
on in an off political year about a
little fourth class postoffice. espec-
ially if there is not much in ii, from
political standpoint. and so in the
course of two months. perhaps and
maybe, Captain General Lyon ad-
vises the department that the two
men suggested for the office will
never do. and that the man TO ap-
point is Jim Brown
In the meantime the Texas COM
munity. which has been doing things
with characteristic western push.
has got the matter of railway sta
ton. female seminary. a consump-
tive sauitarium and national bank
all hung up pending the establish
ment OF postoffice. and Is burden
ing the wires and the mails with
urgings that send the Interested
congressman to the postoffice de-
partment SO frequently that the
first assistant postmaster general
looks bored every time the flunky
announces that Texas congressman
has made his appearance IN the ante
room
We never make % recon meuda-
tton nor iudoFse anybody for the
office said Texas congressman
who has several times been a victim
~ this system of patronage apoint'
ments I'VE only ASK them to gise