Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-11-10
Resignation Of Valued offIcIaI


Wyoming Territory, has resigned. The
boomerang contains his open letter to
the government which we print in full /:
To the Department OF Justice, Wash
ington, D. c.:
Several months ago I resigned as
United States Commissioners Of this
Judicial district. The Government did
not accept my resignation, thus tacitly
asserting that there was at that time no
one who was considered competent to
take my place in holding up this corner
Of the national fabric.
/ now once more resign. Ibid not do
it becauseI am displeased with the Gov
ernment, or because am mad, but be-
cause I do not care for public life.
There is no reason why the Government
and myself should not continue to be
friends, but under the new regime for
United States Commissioner Of district
courts, am compelled to retire from
the official capacity which Y have long
filed with SO much skill and credit, both
to myself and the United States.
The department of Justice new re-
quires me to furnish detailed statement
each month, Of all the business done by
the Commissioner. with his official GER
tiicate attached. am also required to
keep large volume in my Office as
record of United States cases examined
by me. am to do this at my own ex-
pense in order that the honor and high
moral tone of the nation may remain
unsmirched.
ALI these requirements / could of
course comply with, but am cursed
with the horrible apprehensions, that in
the future I shall be required to do more
and more Of this, till the expensewill be
more than can meet. I could now, Of
course, get little chores to do around
town, enough fornecessary funds to buy
the records, ETC., but before another
year the Government may require me to
buy marble top center table, and two
OF three paintings by the old masters, in
order to give the popular amount Of
terror to United States criminals This
would compel me to go without new
oyercoat and underclothes, Of which /
am sadly in need. / had hoped that
with the financial prosperity of the past
year, there would be one case, at least,
for examination, from which could re-
alize six or seven dollars, and which
would ease this branch Of the Depart
ment of Justice, temporarily, but l have
been disappointed all the way through.
I could squeeze along without the over
coat in order to get the required record
this winter, but the underclothes feel
as if 1 ought to have.
I might die suddenly while on the
bench, and it would sound harshly if the
telegraphic dispatches were to state that
when the post mortem was held the jury
found verdict that the United States
Commissioner had died from exposure
and temporary stagnation in under
clothes.
Our winters here are quite severe, and
if the Department of Justice should
some day require me in my official ca
pacity to buy an upright piano and keep
it on file, l would have to clothe myself
in my answering integrity and pair
Of gold bowed eyeglasses.
There is no question about the air of
cheerfulness that piano would give to
my Office, especially if Alady were to be
tried on some charge or other, for she
could bang an overture out ofthe instru-
ment while waiting for the United
States attorney to come, and il would
help to kill time, but the court would
either have to lock itself in an adjoining
closet till the defendant had gone, or ask
her to loan him shawl during the trial.
You will see from these suggestions
whittier we are drifting.
will now turn over the Office to the
Department. 1t consists Of pine box
with some specimens Of second-h hand
chewing tobacco preserved in sawdust,
and bald-headed feather duster. The
Department will please receipt to me for
these archives, as desire to have every
thing done correctly and with the usual
amount Of precision and delay.
The United States in my resignation
sustains loss which it can i'll afford and
the national superstructure becomes al
most tottering wreck. The proper
man may be raised up for this crisis
but it is not at all probable.
DR.. Tanner would be good man. !
simply throw this out as suggestion.
Still he would require clothes. ]
hadn't thought Of that.
It is very seldom that you find man
with the happy union Of qualifications
necessary for this Office. You may se-
cure man who can live on the delight
full climate and what cold food he can
secure among the neighbors, but he is
liable to have an ungovernable appetite
for clothes, while on the other hand, you
may find man who is the exact vice
versa, or whatever You may call it, Of
the other man.
You will perhaps wonder at the delay
Of my last monthly report, but it is easi-
ly explained. The man who promised
that he would come before me in August
and acknowledge deed and pay me two
bits for 1t, came to me in September and
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