Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-09-02

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John w. Volt, of fredericksburg, who
publican party in Virginia. He joined the
Malone party four years ago. and as q
reward for his labors was appointed to a
clsrkship in the interior department by
Secretary Kirkwood. It seems that Wolff
was working for the nomination of Geo.
C. Bound for Congress in the Fredericks-
burg districts against the wishes of Ma
hone, whose candidate was Robert n.
Mayo, Woltz asserts that when . meeting
was to be held in Fredericksburg, on Au-
gust 10, to elect a delegate to the Congress
convention, Malone, knowing that the
Republicans would select him (Woltz) tel
egraphed from Washington on the day be.
fore the meeting as follows II have
had John w. Woltz dismissed. He is
no longer . clerk here" Woltz then ad-
dressed letter to Malone, asking why he
had been dismissed, and received the fol-
lowing reply:
UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER,
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 1882.
DEAR SIR-1n reply to yours of the 10th
instant, l beg to say that your name was
stricken from the roster of the interior
department at my instance. You welo on
leave and had been for some time, on
what plea or at whose instance did not
stop to inquire. Complaints came to me
from different parts of the districts, and
from sources creditable, that you were not
only engaged in an effort to influence the
appointment of delegates in behalf of q
certain candidate for Congress from the
First district, but that you were also try
ing to excite prejudice against
tho Readjuster candidate OF the state
at largo. All these things no one
questions your right to do as citizen :;
but while an employee of the government,
aud cspeci lily here. hold such conduct
to he abusive of tho Office or employment,
aud an improper implication of the ad-
ministratiOn at time and in matter
which the people composing tho party in
accord with the administration should be
left free to determine. 1t is q wrong to
the party and an act of injustice to the
administration that places of trust con
ferred by the support Of the ono and the
power of the other should be thus EN-
ployed to interfere with the free will of the
party and unjustly excite prejudice against
tho administration. have failed on no
occasion wherc such has been the conduct
of employees here, in respect to conven
ti0ns and nominations, to insist on such
rebuke as the case and particular conduct
demanded. 1t was the influence of the
Readjuster party in the First Congressional
district that had secured the place you
held. You are now using the influence
that place gave you to c0nstrain the free
will OF the party in that district to Ger
tain partisan conclusion. You were, be-
candidate for Congress at large. Yours
respectfully, WILLIAM MALONE.
This, Mr.. WOltz says, is an admission
that he was dismissed simply because Inc
was trying to nominate man for Con
gress whom Malone didn't want nOmi
mated. You know" he says, "that
was doing what could to secure Round.
nomination, and if you had kept your
promises, made more than once, not to
interfere in the congressional nominations
l would have nominated q man who would
have been elected. As it is, you will be
responsible for the loss of the district
this fall" Mr.. Woltz concludes as fol-
lows:
shall refer but briefly to the criticisms
upon my conduct contained in your letter,
because those who know anything of Vir.
ginia affairs know that you have not only
permitted persons holding office here and
in the state to engage actively "ln efforts
to influence the appointment OF delegates
in behalf of candidates for Congress, -
whom you wanted nominated, bnt you
have even required them to do so. In the
First district ofiice-holders pledged to sup
port Round were, by intimidation and
threats, driven to the support Of Mayo.
What right had they to do these things
for which was condemned The same Of
tho Norfolk district, except as to individ.
uals who were candidates. Dezendorf
would be the unanimous choice of the Re.
publcans in that district, if you had not
forced the office-hOldcrs to support another
In the Third district Brady and other
Officeholders made an unsuccessful effort to
nominate your candidate. In the Fourth
district the officeholders defeated Jorgen
sens nomination, notwithstanding you
cheated President Arthur into the belief
that you were favorable to his nomination.
In the Sixth district your oifice-holders
failed because of the popularity OF Rives,
whose Office gave him a prepondcrance OF
patronage and influence. Why should
he deprived of privileges that were ac-
corded to others holding Office can be &C.
counted for only upon the theory that
while others we e carrying out your wishes
Iwas acting in opposition to them.
The way Malone assesses Virginians in
Office leaves Jay Hubbell in . comparative
ly respectable position. An ex- -Cvnfede rate
Readjuster, who has place in the treas
ury department which pays him $3.50 a
month, showed q correspondent the
assessment calls made upon him up to
date. First camc Jay Hubbelrs request
for two per cent, which took $50 from his
July pay; then came Mahone's Cir
cular number one, calling for
per cent, els; then a demand from
the congressional district committee. for
u per cent. s22 so then a county com
mittee asked modestly for $40 &; and, lastly,
Mallone's No. 9 names 500 even, to be
paid on or before Oct. Is. If this mar
pays all these demands the total would be
S2O7. SO, or nearly IA per cent. ON his yearl,
salary. When asked il he intended to pa!
he replied that he would pay Malone first
because" said he, it won't do to foo
with Billy Mshonc. He means business
t:,no -