Smyrna times., 1876-07-26


Jos. II. HoFFEcKER, EsQ.,-Sir Whilst |
in Dover, yesterday, friend handed me
the SMYRNA TINES, of the 10Th inst. You |
publish yourself as editor and proprietor of |
that journal: and, as such. you are. of |
course. responsible for the following article, |
which stands at the head Of your editorial |
column
- 1t IS stated that one reason why Post |
master General Jewell was asked to resign |
was because lie helped to oust Judge Fisher |
from his office in Washington, and kept
him from getting into a new Office in Will
minston. Mr.. Jewell had five young men
in his department who had been cheating,
or something Of the sort. and when their
case came up in court Fisher managed to
let every guilty man escape. The Presi-
debt will suffer no reproach upon Fisher it
seems, so Mr.. Jewell had to march, or did
do it,
The first sentence in this paragraph you
publish as "A statement, which has been
made by others: the second would seem to
be made solely on your own authority. |
DO not know how much truth there may
be in the statement that the request for
Jewels resignation was prompted by his
injustice to me: but do know right well
that there is not one word of truth in the
allegation that / managed to let every one
Of the five guilty men in his department
escape when their case came up in court.
know too that it was Just this malicious
falsehood coined by Jewell to cover his own
mismanagementa and preferred against mel in
secrect cabinet council where he knew !
could not be heard in my own defence
that led the President to ask for my resig-
nation as U. S. Attorney for the District Of
Columbia. l know too that the President
is now satisfied that the charge made by
Jewell was malicious lie and having made
the discovery that he had been basely
deceived by one whom he had hOnored no
honest man will think it strange he should
desire to get rid Of 50 treacherous a cabinet
minister; or to vindicate by nomination
for another like position friend whom the
base libeler had injured by his malice.
Having published the editorial above
quoted, you will, if you desire to do justice
and not lead your readers into error, give
place to what was published in reference tC
Jewell and his bribed clerks, in the Stat
Sentinel of Saturday last, copy of which
subjoin. You ought to give it and thi
letter place in your paper as promlnen
:. asthat in which Jewell's falsehood appeared
in your last issue.
What say in it is a matter of notoriety
IN the p. o. Department and among the
members of the Washington bar, and i
also matter Of record in the Supreme
Court Of the Dist Of Columbia.
It is right that should add that ther
not, in one single charge that has beef
published against me in the New York Siu
and other affiliated journals, one particl
more Of truth than is contained in the Jewel
= SANDER; and that make no doubt tha
me committee on the Post Office and Pos
hoads Of the House of Representatives vii
pm upon the right man on whom I
saddle the responsibility Of making fiv
men who were confessedly guilty of briber
government witnesses in order to gratif
private malice by the conviction Of on
VINO was innocent of that crime.
l come now to notice the case of Jerom
l. Kinds, charged by Mr. Jewell wit
s1roing certain clerks in the contraC
bureau of the Postofice Department, an
. show how little reason Mr.. Jewell, VIII
not lawyer by profession, has TO fin
nut with me for the failure in convictin
hlnds. Ii Mr.. Jewell had consulted ii
g w officer of his department as | humb
lhk he ought TO have done, or wit
nnyself as the prosecutor for the District
tolumeia, instead ofundertaking to manal
~ e cases himself, he might have convicte
~ e parties who actually deserved convi
uOh Tar more than Kinds, who really d
10, deserve to be convicted at ALL and
ne had been, think the Court would ha'
ses aside the verdict as being against Ia
anu evidence. One of Kinds cases W
sr,ed sr,ed at the close of the March term. 181
Ahey were all alike. In each case he W