Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-03
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Mr.. Volt, after narratine his seryics
and hdelity to the party, says:
The public shall know why, after cue
ndeiity 10 you, am now engaged in oppos
Ing you. Having been hard worker in tn
Republican party for sixteen years bayio,
served IN every position of honor in tn
party In Virginia, having been member o
nearly all the State conventious-the on
man, believe, from the State who has rem
resented his party in every national conyep
lion since the war, having been the s,ouaiu 9.
my party fUr Congress; having been In.
chairman OF the Virginia delegation in Con
gress; having made more than bund ref
speeches for Garfield and Arthur, while YOU
and your associates were canvassing the State
for Hancock and English and denouncine
Garfield as thief and Arthur as no better:
having defended the negroes in their RICH,
10 'free ballot and fair COUNT while your
minlons were shooting them down in the
streets OF Petersburg, and hanging Governor
kemper in efigy for refusing to sign the in.
famous measure passed by the Legislature
to deprive the citizens of Petersburg of The
right to choose their rulers and having for
| ttree yearb fought your battles and helped
to make you a senator, asked to be an
pointed to clerkship in the interior de-
| partment.
Senator-Elect Riddleberger, the Hon.
Joseph Jorgensen, the Hon. John Paul. and
the Hon. Abe Fulkerson waited upon Secre.
tary kirkwood and secured my appointment,
which ] held, and 10 the satisfaction of The
department, until you had me bounced
on the 10Th day OF August a meeting was
10 De held at Fredericksburg to elect dele
gate to the Congressional Convention. and
you and your henchmen of this place, know
ing that the Republicans would select ma
and tearing my presence In the nominating
convention, on the 9Th of August you tele-
graphed: 81 have had John w. Volts dis
missed. He is no longer clerk here.n On
the 10th ipstantI addressed you letter ask.
ing you why yoii had me dismissed. In
response thereto received the following re-
ply:
MAHoNE's LETTER.
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER D
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August II 1852
DEAR SHIN reply to yours OF the 10th
instani, beg 10 say that your name was
partment at my instance. You were On
leave and had been for some time. on what
plea and at whose instance did not stop to |
inquire. Complaints came to me from |
different parts OF the district and from |
sources creditable that you were not only |
engaged in am effort to influence the appoint |
ment of delegates in behalf of a certain can
ildate Tor Congress in the Fifth district, but
hat you were also trying to excite preiudice
sgainst the Readjuster candidate for tbs
state-at-large. All these things no one
questions your right to do as a citizsn. but
While at, employe of the government. and
specially here, I bold such conduct 10 be
'busiye of the Office or employment, and an
improper implication of the administration
It time and in matter which the people
the party, in accord with the
should be free to determine.
1t is wrong to the party and an act of
INJUSTICE to the administration that places of
rust conferred by the support Of the one and
ne power of the other should be thus EN-
Logged to interfere with the free will of the
arty and unjustly excite; prejudice against
he administration. / have failed on no oc-
ssion where such has been the conduct of
nployes here, in respect to conventions and
ominations, to insist on such rebuke az the
Use and particular conduct dem auded. I
II was the influence of tie Readiuster r
,rty in the First congressional district that J
I'd cured the place you held. You were p
w using the influence that place gave YOU C
constrain the free will OF the party in | p
at district 10 certain partisan conclusion.
gu were, besides, using it to defeat the cleo o
IN OF its candidate for Congress-at.laree. G
'urs respectfully, WILLIAM MALONE. IL