Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-21
which leaves me no choice but to place my
resignation in your hands. Yours ETC.,


resignation in your hands. Yours etc.,
j. A. WHEELoCK, p. M.
The reader will notice here that IN
stead of resignation, there is an argu-
ment for his retention, coupled with a
statement in conclusion that if he cannot
remain he will resign. If it was true
that the to be consolidated affair had
agreed in January to resign the pestoflce,
would the postmaster have been writing
in March begging to be allowed to serve
out his unexpired term. This letter was
not regarded in Washington as o reslgna-
ton, but simply plea to be
retained. When the resignation was ac-
cepted it was in the following terms:
WASHINGTON, June 1, 1875.
j. A. Wheelock, P. NJ, St. Paul, MINI: The
president has directed that your conditional
resignation be accepted. He desires me to
say it is not the result of any want of conf
dence IN You as an officer, but in accordance
with a partial promise made to Senator
Mcmillan, which he still insists on being full
filled. MARSHALL JEWELL,
T. NJ. General.
The reader will again note that this
resignation was conditional lis,
conditional on the certainty that
he would be turned cut This is
the resignation which the present
editor says, president Grant refused to
accept until many weeks after it was ten
dered'
The present editor also denies very en-
phatically, that any effort was made to
prevent the removal of the St. Paul post
master. This is stupid falsehood, SO
glazing it is surprising that even such
INSCRIPTIONS men as are now edit
ing the paper, should indulge in it.
1t is only necessary to refer to some of
Mr.. Wheelock's remarks when he was
editing the paper, to demonstrate the
present falsehoods of the new manage
ment. On the Sd of June, 1875, Whee-
lock published history showing the eff
fort made to retain him. Here is para
graph which demonstrates that Senator
Ramsey had personal reasons for endeav-
oring to prevent the change:
Ouc vi - uloI dCto ditCT LID
arrival at Washington, was to demand the re-
moval of Mr.. Wheelock---a personal and polit-
cal friend of many years standing, but who
was guilty of having supported Senator RAM
sey---to make place for a member of his own
family---his brother-in-law, DR.. Day---Senator
Ramsey's most bitter and malignant enemy.
Here are two paragraphs from the same
article, which demonstrate that both the
President and Mcmillan were appealed to
and urged to spare Wheelock:
In vain his (McMillan's) personal friends,
his religious friends, one and all, demonstrated
with him against this disreputable weakness
and folly.
The President finally said that if the senator
insisted upon it, he would yield; but he pro-
tested SO strongly and advised so earnestly
against it that Mcmillan finally appeared to
abandon the project.
Further along IN the article the labsrs
to save the decapitated postmaster are
again described as follows:
The friends of Senator Mcmillan, his per-
sonal and religious friends, made strenuous
efforts to save him from the shame and dis
grace of this appointment.
Failing in this, scheme was concocted
to appoint II. M. Knox postmaster. Knox
was to retain Driscoll as deputy and di-
vide his own salary with Wheelock. The
Pioneer Press thus confesses:
An opportunity was offered him, (McMil-
LAM with Mr.. Wheelock's hearty concurrence
to compromise the question by the appoint
ment of Mr.. Fl. NJ. Knox.
To show that the effort was continued
in Wheelock's behalf up to the last mo-
ment we again quote from the Wheelock-
Ian editorial of 1875:
The president and postmaster general re-
Gently made another effort to induce Mcmillan
to withdraw his recommendation but with
out success.
There is no better evidence of
Whe clocks retirement from editorial
labor, than the bungling attempt Of the
s'hsosier schoolmasters'' to make histor-
ieal review of this matter They say
"the only letter he (Wheelock) wrote was
peremptory letter of resignation. :"
The GLOBE demonstrates by quoting the
letter itself that no letter Of that descrip-
ton was eoer written.
They assert that part of the consolida-
ton scheme involved Wheelock's aban-
donment of the postoffice. The GLOBE
furnishes quotations from the P. p.
which demonstrates that he was begging
to retain the Office long after the CONSOLE
dation. The hoosier pedagogues, who are
now editing the paper, declare that the
president was net urged to retain Wheel
ock. The GLOBE demonstrates from Mr..
WIS own article of June Sd, 1875, that
the president was pursued and badgered
persistently in Wheeleck's behalf until
he became so thoroughly tired of the
matter that he removed him. For six
years since that removal the p p. has
bitterly opposed Senator Mcmillan, but
tdoes him no harm, as every one here
understands the motive