The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-01
TELEGRAPHIC
HILL AFTER TELLER.

and so many omissions
were made in the sending by tele-
graph, that it was an absolute inn
possibility to give it the shadow of
intelligence, So it had to be omitted
New York, 30.-The Tribune |
publishes the substance of Hills let
ter, He says Since your entry to the
cabinet you have, on more than one
occasion, sought to place me in a
false position by securing the pub
LEGATION of cunningly devised inter
views, special dispatches, newspaper
letters and the like, concerning
Colorado matters, while you have
attempted to conceal your hand.
This mode of attack is easy with the
immense patronage at your COM
mand, and but little difficulty is
experienced in continuing this per-
sonal warfare. Inscriptions per-
sons may be found who, in consider
alton Of what you can bestow
without cost, except to govern
ment, will be quite ready to
respond to your demands in this
direction. In the dispatches it has
pleased you to picture me as jealous
of yourself. Permit me to say, if
there be anything in your career
either socially, professionally, or
politically, occurring before or since
you became secretary of the in
terror, warranting pangs to the heart
of any reputable citizen, I failed to
discover it. Certainly there is
nothing which should gangrene me
with jealosy at your connection
with the last campaign in Colorado,
in view of the fact of your pro-
tracted absence from Washington,
to engineer the nomination and cleo
ton of a gubernatorial candidate. re"
suited in the population of your
nominee, and the election of demo-
cratic governor for the first time in
the political history of the state.
The excuse you gave for dragging
your official robes through
sewerage of ward politics, as
you did repeatedly during that
campaign, was that it was neces-
sary in the defense of the admins
tration; and yet the administration
was in noWise in question. The
harvest of your campaign in Color
ado, in the so. called defense of the
administration, yielded democratic
governor and democratic state sena-
tor from your own county, and the
choice of Tabor as senator in the
congress of the United States, am
reminded that after meeting the re-
publican state convention IN Sep
TENDER last, it was patent in Den.
yer, and commented on in the
public prints, that Mr.. Meldrum
who now succeeds to the Office Of
surveyor general had Withdrawn
his candidacy for gubernatorial
nomination in favor of your friene
Campbell, in consideration Of
pledges that he should receive ar
| important federal position. Hat
yeur candidacy stated this fact t.
the President, explaining that thu
removal of Johnson and the ap-
polntment of Medium were conse
quent upon the political bargain, i
would have been at least truthful
and manly. Pending the first SEES
sion of the Forty seventh Congress
when 800 or more clerical position
in the pension Office were to b
filed, you notified republican sena
tors and representatives that tW,
places each were at their command
After these appointments had beer
disposed of you awarded a large pro
portion ofEthe several hundred re
naming clerkships to the oppos-
ing political party. Of tn
five agents appointed by yol
| from Colorado, one is a defaulter a
the postofice department, agains
whom the government has obtainet
an uncollectable judgment of tn
sum of $1,000, and yet he is pei
mitted to draw his salary in viola
ton of an express statue to tn
contrary. Another of these az
pointees had been previously re
moved from the railway service 70
gross neglect of duty, a fact O
which you were fully advised. Th
activity Of some Of these person
during the late campaign strongI
suggests they are much NOR
earnestly at work in furtherin
your political schemes than i
suppressing timber depreciation
H. II. Eddy ofSummit county Col
orado, appointed special assistan
Uuited States attorney for NeV
Mexico, and the appointment {
Peck as travelling examiner; O
agent for the pension Office are cite
as cases in point of like purpol
was not sent. Your action wit
the case of Wilcox, whom yo
sought to infict on the people {
|. Colorado as United States marshi
notwithstanding papers on file
the department Of justice inclut
ing the affidavit of one of the mo-
respected citizens of Denver, den
onstTating his total unftness fl
any position of honor or trus
= Failing in this. you embrace tt
. earliest opportunity to appoint nj
4 to the San Carlos Indian agenC
n where he has lost no time in perpe
d uating his previous reputation al
in which effort it seems he is pT
tected by the power of the inter i
: department.
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