Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1910-01-21

NOT SATISFIED
Think President Does Not Pay
Sufficient Attention to Rec
concentrations.
RELIES ON OWN JUDGMENT
In the Matter of Making Appoint.
ments 1t Has Come to Be Under
stood That He Will Make
His Own Selections.

nents 1t Has Come to Be Under
stood That He Will Make
His Own Selections.
Washington.-Som of the senators
and representatives in congress have
more than limited to President Taft
that If he expects answering support
for all the measures which he recon-
mended for enactment into law he
ought to give more attention to the
office-seeking demands of the law
makers, demands made on the behalf
of others. There are many Democrats
in congress who say that the presi-
dent is very much like President
Cleveland in the matter of dispensing
patronage. Mr.. Cleveland is dead,
and naturally nothing but good is
said of him, but there are Democratic
officials still in Washington who served
here in the Cleveland times, and they
have sharp memories of office-seeking
difficulties that they are ready to de-
clare are just like the difficulties
which the Republican representatives
and senator's are meeting to-day.
1t is now an assured fact that Presi-
dent Taft intends to be an absolute
law unto himself in the matter of fill
ing court vacancies, and this does not
apply simply to vacant positions on
the bench, but to officers of the courts
and to prosecuting attorneys. The
president feels that his long expert
ence in law courts, and especially his
experience on the bench. ought to give
him at least as clear an idea of the
fitness of men to serve the country as
is given others who never sat on a
bench and perhaps never practiced
law.
Notable Cases In Point.
There have been several cases in
which the recommendation of senators
have run counter to the judgment of
the president and in the main these
cases have had direct connection with
court appointments. In the case of
the Eastern district of Missouri where
there was vacancy in the Office of
the United States attorney, the presi-
dent declined to act in anything like
the hurry that he was asked to act
He went into the pros and cons of the
matters diligently and sifted the facts
for and against the two candidates
most prominently mentioned, and he
did this irrespective of the fact that
one of the candidates had the endorse.
ment of the only Republican senator
from the state of Missouri and the
an6nrcpnnnnt ~ hn -fr De-
publican organization of the city OF
st. Louis.
Democrats Shown Consideration.
The Democrats in congress, being in
the minority, of course do not expect
to get much patronage from the White
House, but as matter of admitted
fact they have been shown a good deal
OF consideration by the administra
tion in appointment matters. There
were Republicans who thought that
President Taft ought to have given
the supreme court vacancy to a mem
ber os the majority party. Instead Of
this the president appointed Judge
Horace H. Lurton of Tennessee, for
mer confederate soldier and a lifelong
Democrat. When Judge Lurton's
name was reported favorably from the
senate committee to the whole senate
the honor of making the report was
given to a Democratic senator, MIR
Bacon of Georgia.
Many Lawmakers Dissruntled.
Another Grover Cleveland feature
of the Taft administration is to be
found in the addition to the presi
dents message to congress December
6, in which he urgently recommended
that law be passed requiring thai
candidates in elections of members o.
the house of representatives and com
mittees in charge of their campaign
should make return to the United
States government of all the expenses
that they incurred during the cam
paign for election. This has beer
taken to mean that the presiden
wants to secure purity of the ballot IL
all federal elections, and it is in lint
with what is said to be his determine
ton to appoint only fit men to Office
Trouble may come to Mr.. Taft be
cause of his refusal to listen to the
pleas of the senator's and representa-
tives to give preference to their candi
dates for Office. The disappointed onei
may seek to obstruct some of the leg
islation that the president desires t.
have passed.
Civil Service investigation.
There is every indication that tn,
United States senate will sanction the
resolution introduced by Senator Bo
rah of Idaho authorizing the investi
cation of the whole system of civi
service of the United States govern
ment. The senate has been brough
to an investigating state of mind afte
good deal of pressure from outside
and many trials and tribulations tina
have met the senator's themselves.
The Borah resolution is in the hands
| of the senate committee on civil serv
ice, of which Senator Cummins o