The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-03-24
MARSHALL ROUGH
ON PLUM HUNTERS
Governor Vents His Disgust
On the Many Job Seek
ing Politicians.
STRIKES FROM SHOULDER
CANCELLED APPOINTMENT OF ONE
MAN BECAUSE he DID NOT
CARE FOR HIS FAMILY AS He
SHOULD HAVE DONE.
STRIKES FROM SHOULDER
Especial correspcn dent.)


Indianapolis, March Ex-Governor
Marshall has decided that he is be.
ing bored TO death by job hunters. 1t
is hungry horde that has been
storming his office ever since he be-
came governor, especially since the
legislature adjourned. Every day the
office is thronged with applicants or
friends of applicants-political rooters,
many of them. who seek to have the
governor make an appointment be.
cause they carry around a ward or
county in their vest pocket.
Governor Marshall does not believe
in this kind OF politics. neither does
he believe in that kind of an effort to
land jobs. He is looking for men Of
merit and worth for the places he has
to fill. and the fact that a man can or
cannot control county or a township
makes no difference with Governor
Marshall. That is why it bores him
to have these applicants and their
delegations swarming in on him.
Do Themselves Harm.
Mark Thistlethwaite, secretary to
the governor, said yesterday that
these persistent applicants who haunt
the state house and the governors of.
flee do themselves more harm than
good and if some Of them do not land
it will be because they have deviled
the life out of the governor.
Governor has his own way of doing
things and making selections for
places. A story is told of a man who
went to Columbia City to see him
about a job just few days after the
election and long before Marshall
came to Indianapolis to be inaugural
ed. The man had made an applica.
ton by mail and Marshall started to
investigate him. A few days later the
man called at Columbia City, and re-
newed his application.
Marshalis Way.
81 don't think l can do anything fol-
YOU" Marshall told him.
Why said the man. Il am a good
party worker and have been for years
and it seems to me that / am entitled
to something" ..m -..-.
EYES," replied Marshall, you work
for your party but you do not work
for your family. / am told that you
do not support your family and that
you neglect your wife and children"
The man half admitted this to be
true.
Il will not appoint any man to an
office who does not take care of his
family" said Marshall You need
not expect anything from me for you
will not get it,
That man went home without an ap
pointment and he will not get one.
Another man made application for .
place that would require him to be
away from home much of his time
and Marshall was about in the notion
of giving it to him. But one day he
received letter from the mans wife
imploring him to not give the appoint
ment to her husband. The wife said
she did not want her husband away
from home SO much of the time. She
wanted him at home, she said, ant
she hoped that the governor woulG
respect her wish. She asked him tt
keep her letter confidential and no
allow her husband to know she hai
written him. ....f
That man will not get a job, either
but he will never know why. But it is
expected that the governor will make
several appointments within the mex
few days, or at least by the first O
April. 1t is said that he is about done
with list of appointments that he in
tends to make, and that when the lis
is given out for publication there will
be some surprises.