National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-04-29

Facts Concerning Brady's Removal.
On the induction of the new Postmas-
ter-General into Office, General Brady, in
accordance with usage and propriety,
stated to him that his resignation would
/ be ready at any time he might choose to
select a successor. No indication was
given Of any desire to make a change.
The President stated to those with whom
he conversed on the subject that it was
! his intention to confer with the heads Of
| Departments in reference to their subor
dinates. On the day before the resigna-
| ton of Brady the President stated to
most intimate friend of the former that
| there was nothing new in the matter.
! The POstmaster-GeneralW was most cordial
with his Second Assistant, and had the
latter been told that mine was about to
be sprung under him he would have said
! that if that were true it would
prove the Postmaster-Genera to be
| dissembler of rare and choicest cunning.
NJ James had never indicated any doubts
of General Brady He had said to
| friend of the Latter that if at any time
change should be contemplated in the
| office he would be frank with him, and
nothing should be done until they had
| had talk about it. He would do, he
said, just as he would like to have friend
! do with him under such circumstances.
On the Goth day of the present month
Mr.. James had his promised frank talk,
which consisted of information that the
President had required him to call for
General Brady's immediate resignation.
| There was no hint that this was for cause,
and it was of course responded to
! promptly. So far as General Brady knew
! it was merely done to make room for an
other. The Presidents imperative call
| for an immediate resignation was consid-
| cred little harsh, but could not be COM
! planned of, as it involved no reflection
upon the manner in which the Office had
been administered. The next morn
ing's newspapers throughout the coun-
| try showed that the dramatic effects
had all been carefully studied and the
red and blue lights made ready to be
! turned on at the scene of the death
| More sensational stuff never has been
printed than has deIuged the press from
that time to this. Brady's own figures,
sent to Congress two years ago, were tele-
graphed as though they had been hor-
rible secret unearthed in the Post-Office
Department The most absurd and un-
founded falsehoods, for offering to sell
which blackmailer had been by Brady
driven out of his residence, were sent out
as soberly as though they had been
official records. 1t was carnival of cal
umny. The papers credited the new Post
| master-General with great courage, purity,
and penetration. He was called upon by
a friend of General Brady to know
whether it was indeed true that General
Bradys resignation had been demanded
because of any wrong-doing. He declared
that it had not. He claimed to be Gen
I.eral Brady's friend in the matter. He
had but executed the Presidents order in
calling for the resignation. He knew ofno
ground for charges against General Brady,
though he alluded to a public clamor
against him. He explicitly declared
that the change was the Presidents act,
and moi his. The papers continued, and
still do continue, to credit the Postmas-
ter-General with being great reformer,
waging unrelenting war upon the alleged
thieves in his Department, headed by his
friend Brady. The Postmaster-Ge General
bore his honors meekly and murmured
not to the public. In private he claimed,
not to have done that for which he was
being eulogized by the press in the most
fulsOme manner.
1t now transpires that while he was
thus the refOrmer in the public eye, and
the friend of the abused and prosecuted
Brady in private, his Department was
really turned over to a sort of professional
scandal-monger and detective named
Woodward, who was reveling in the au-
thority given him, and doubtless working
up the matter for the enterprising CORE
spondents. 1t also is now ascertained that
instead of being the unwilling instrument
Of General Garfield to ask for Brady's
resignation, he had himself taken pretended
Information to the President, and in letter
stTged the displacement Of General Brady
FORTHWITH !
The President, as is usual in such cases,