Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1883-04-20
A Free.spoken Opinion Of Frank Hatton

1t is difficult to. imagine how. Presi-
dent Arthur could make his Administra-
ton more odioQs than by the appoint
ment as Postmaster-G General of Chaun-
cey /. Filley, of St. Louis, one of the
most abandoned political machirists in
the country it be the promotion
of Assistant Postmaster General Hatton,
who, to Filley's Shamelessness as ma
chine man, adds an impudence Of his
own. in employing the United States
mails and the United States Postoffice
Department. in pushing the fortunes of
his own newspapers. HattOn has been
and is the servile tool of the worst po-
litical elements Of his party. He is an
INSCRIPTIONS Stalwart as well as a
greedy self-sekeer, who never hesitates
to use the machinery of his department
to puff, extend and assist the circulation
of his newspapers Washington
Republican and the Burlington sheet.
Moreover, he looks r. upon his
position, not simply as a means
OF forwarding the advantages of his
party, but of promoting the interests of
its factions. Acts of tyranny and merci-
less barbarity, from which even the
case-hardened politician, but kindly
souled man, Mr.. Howe, shrank in ten
der-hearted disgust, Hatton took de-
light in executing. Neither age nor
sex has been spared. He chops off a
head regardless of the misery it might
bring to the ofice-holder or the trouble
and annoyance to the public. Indeed,
this offensive upstart shares the alleged
sentiments of the great Vanderbilt.
During the Virginia campaign Mrs.
Pine was postmistress at, Manassas.
Her sex was a political disadvantage to
her, but, in addition to that, she COM
mitted the more serious offense of being
the sister of a man, whom Malone was
trying to crush out. Malone got her
removed, and, there being no friend of
his ia the vicinity, he got the appoint
ment of mn who lived ten or fifteen
miles away. The entire population Of
Manassas signed a. remonstranee
against Mrs. Pines removal, and this
was presented to Mr.. Howe. Thelatter
never was a Civil-service Reformer in
/ theory, but in practice his love of JUS
tice often carried him the other way.
He saw the injustice of dismissing from
petty Office woman who gave univer-
Noai oouoidStiOu " lHc sutpdEtIutIlb anu
the people who got their letters at her
office, and he suspended the order max
ing the change. His unwillihgness to
discharge Mrs. Pine caused that seven
by-nine postoffice to figure at Cabinet
meeting, where he was at last over
ruled in part through the agency of his
First Assistant, who went to the White
I House to see the members of the Cab
met and remind them of the importance
of keeping the bargain. with Malone. 3
Even. a Vanderbilt would not have
dared to outrage and annoy the BUSH
ness. of 5O,OO0,OO0 people by bringing
the traffic of the Vanderbilt roads TO an
entire stop for half a day in consequence
of the funeral of one of the family.
But Hatton actually called the whole
vast community of this Nation to halt
the other afternoon because an old and
respected gentleman was being burien
1t Green Bay. To promote this Hattod
to the head of the Department would
make Arthur unpopular with every
body but the worst and most malignant
Of the .,machinists ~ Detroit Free
Press. saae altza dsais ~ hsssss
The house In Philadelphia where
Jefferson wrote the Declaration of In