The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-06-20
pITKIN EXPLAINS
AND SAYS HAYES STUFFED THE
EDTTON or A WASHINGTON PAPER.


And NE Rcurs More OF q, upon the mead
Of the Administration.
Pitkin has mot yet ended his war upon Hayes.
..ar In Il likalv that he will for some time TO
come.
lie was tackled" 20 TO speak, again yesterday
upon the editorial OF the National Republican. ~
copied in one Of the city papers. and gavs bis
ideas OF that document in ssrcastic way, irst
claiming that the National Repsbttcdn published
three editorials
cENsuHINa THE ADMINISTRATION
for making the change In the Marshals Office
here.
The censure, said Pitkin, was 10 vehement that
Che Journal WAS given an elpl:nstioss probably By
dorsers IL carefully set forth In the editorial. II
lie matter Of very little consequence now either
TO the public or to myself, but the Repssbltcan
was wholly misinformed tbat am, no those who
pointment as United States Marshal" were
Messrs. Packard, Kellogg and Fish. This ID not
true, remarked Pitkin. They gave Col. Wharton
such general letters 90 are daily given 10 re-
spectacle seekers for place.
Packard photographed Secretary sherman that
my removal woule be ian outrage" and the terms
OF liie dispatch were go vigorous that Hayes re-.
marked, ON receiving IL from Sherman, that "if
he had been
SLAPPED In TIE FAoB
III the dark be could not have been more sur.
priaed." Gov. Kellogg was strenuous against any
change in my post. as were Mesars W. II. Hunt,
Auditor johnson, Lieut.. Gov. Antoine, and sew
erai other Republicans named In the National
Republicans article.
Hayes was evidently careful not TO allow the
Republican editor to see the evidence that all
thepe gentlemen had filed in my behalf something
more than general letters, and that over fifteen
hundred other Republicans, including the names
Collector Cockres, j d. Beckwitl, philip Hickey
Morgan. ex-Govs. Flanders, Hahn and Wells,
Gen. Anderson, Gen. Cyrus Bussey, United States
Circuit Judge Woods, Geo. B. Lacey, j. q A. Fell
lpws and "a, 4. Parker had likewise demonstrated
against any change In the marshalehip. sought
and wanted
NO DEMOCRATIC fNpoRsEMErTs
because labored under the delusion thai had
helped Go elect d Republican President who
would naturally respect those who had befriend-
cd him rather than Tilden. There 10 no evidence
In the Republicans article itself thai solitary
Republican explicitly recommended Col. Whar.
Con an United States Marshall except Pinehback,
whose indorsement don't covet, while every Re-
publican leader explicitly recommended" my re-
could not thank Hayes for swindling Louisiana
Republicans after proating by their lahore. Until
minorties elect Hayes title cannot be better than
than or 40 good ~ PackArd's. talked thus at
washington, meant IL aud Htlll mean u. Hayes
OWL service reform 10 India rubber, continued
pitkin. II il stretched TO accommodate that pecu-
liar broad conundrum, which he denominates .
sspolicy." Wharton will make q good officer, /
am sure, but there was no complaint against me,
that was inefficient or false TO my trust. Hayes.
despite his civil service postulAte, tells che Ma
tie'iui Republican shat the removal wss made
by the President, upon the ground that change
In that office was, In his opinion. necessary to
enable him TO carry out fully and harmoniously
his policy Of
RECONCILIATION IN LOUISIANA.
SIT IL claimed furthermore that che very peou.
liar and complicated condition OF affairs In that
State rendered IL inexpedient to apply TO this
particular case the strict rules OF the civil service
code, and that the removal WAS simply the wise
exercise OF discretionary power In On extraordi.
nary case, and, therefore, forms no precedent for
any future action" am content 10 leave Hayes
JUST WHERE HE PUTS HIMsxbF.
hut don't want him 10 misrepresent my
friends through 4 Washington newspaper, or in
any other wise. The misinterpretAtion In the
National Republican 10 due not to IL editor, but
60 what was given him at the White House. Dol.
Wharton can't be happier In the nsrshalship
than / am 10 be out Of It, and wieh him success
In his tenure Of 1t.
After having unbosomed himself on the ''edi-
torialn question our reporter inquired OF the exc
Marshal when he intended taking that Northern
"trip, bis reply being that II would certainly be
before the fall election In Ohio