Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-17
NUMEROUS SAO.EYED DEMO.
Gratis LOWERING ABOUT
WASHINGTON.
WILSON WON'T BE HURRIED
IN GETTING DOWN BARS
Ignores Old Party Slogan That ITO the
victors Belong the SpoiIs"-Many
Job Seekers ION Their Uppers"-
Others Borrow Money and Return
Homes.
Especial Correspondence.]

| " AlHSlOIp "A pm 1t'-oSA0toA = IA
man, of South Carolina, a few days
after the inauguration picturesquely
alluded to the wild asses that had brok-
en- into the grfeen corn. There, athirst,
| they were helping themselves to their
, fill The senator conceived of them as
quenching drouth they had expert
| enced since the far-off days Of the last
Cleveland administration.
! Nevertheless, in spite Of the humor
of the South Carolina senator, there are
a lot Of sad-eyed gentlemen lowering
] about Washington, and still more to be
| found back at the corners and Cross
roads. who have not broken into the
green corn. They have got no nearer
to 1t than to be allowed TO stand on
I the wrong side of the fence and look
over into the promised land. Moreover,
good many of them are coming to the
conclusion this is as near as they ever
will get.
Wilson in No Hurry.
/ 1t has now been nearly a month and
| half since the new administration be-
gan. Had things moved in the good
old Jacksonian way and the policy OF
ito the victor belongs the SpoilS" been
lived up to, there would by this time
have been mighty few jobs at the dis
posal of Uncle Sam left untitled. As II
! is President Wilson has evinced no
! hurry to fill the places and so many
/ republicans are going calmly along
! filling democratic offices as to make
the democratic candidates grind their
teeth. The president refuses to be hur-
! ried. The same is true of the depart
ment heads. Intimations keep going
out that not until the tariff is safely
out of the house will the president dc
! much in way of miscellaneous office
giving. The offices are held over the
; he ads of senators and members Of the
house as club and thv democrat in
| congress who really knows what he 5
going to draw Tor his hungry, tn 'siy
| constituents is a rare t:f0.
Sad Story to Many.
! This seems amusing enough to f,lkS
! who are not hunting o.u.e but 1t IS
sad story to q lot y the boys who
.ought and blad in the trenches. Tae
! troubles of many of them have become
! by this time we'll known to Washing
-; ton In many cases, seekers for Office
/ came here a week or two before tn.
b, Inauguration. They concluded that
! would be the best way to get In on the
! ground floor and close up to. the re-
viewing stand on March Not a fe"
/ have been here ever since and are no
nearer getting appointments thar they
We're two months ago.
| More than one hapess lob huntsr in
Washington today is ''on his uppers.
| Others have borrowed money from
some friend t. get home on. Many a
mem Der of congress, If he were dis-
,,cycd, could tell of loans made to reedy
| &C constituents who came to the cap1tai
about inauguration time tuoyant with
! hone and have gone home since then
| depressed and in despair and IN
| frame of mind we'll calculated TO drive
| them over to the bull moose.
| Don't Know What Wilson Will Do.
! If the democratic senator's and mem
! bers of the house knew that their
recommendations would be favorably
received by the president 1t would not
be so bad But they do not. AS mat
| ter of fact, President Wilson has not
| left the senators and house members IN
the dark in this. He has been frank
enough. He has given it to be UNDER
stood that he will accep. the recon-
/ mendations Of senators and mousse
| members as prima facie evidence that
/ men ought to be appointed but II TOT
any reason he concludes otherwise ne
will name someone else. He is not go
ing to be bound by these recommended
! tions in any sense.
| The case Of a Missouri job hunter
! which was related about the capltoi
today is typical. He came here TWEEN
ty-seven days ago in quest OF appoint
ment as consul at particular place.
| He saw his congressman and senator's
He impressed on them the value OF ms
political services and finally found MS
way to Secretary Bryan. Mr.. Bryan,
who has a kindly feeling for good
democrat. gently but firmly ADVISED
him that the place he was hunting for
| did not exist, that there wasn't any
! such lob as jthe one he wanted and
besides, that the consular service
wasn't much on politics anyhow. me
| Missourian was preparing to head for
home with most Of his visible supply
of ready cash gone at last accounts.
| The moral of this is: IF you want
lob under the new democratic admin
istration don't go around looking Tor
it."