Morning journal and courier., 1883-05-01
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. | PERSONAL POLITICS Senator Hill And Secretary
 Teller at War. BOTH RUSHING INTO PRINT. A Sharp Letter From The
 Senator. A PLOT TO DESTROY FORSTER. Explosives Sent to Him by
 Mail.
THE WEST.
Illinois.

1 Politics i n COlOrado-A Row Between the
 CIans-HiII and Teller in Print.
 CHICAGO, April 30.-The Herald Washing ton special tonight says: The row between the political tribes of Colorado has been
 brought to Washington and to-day there is
 blood on the face of the moon. It has been known for some time that bad blood existed between Senator Hill and Secretary Teller
 and that the latter had got in number of
 below-the-belt" thrusts on Hill, but the
 seriousness of the latter's wounds were not l known until to-day when he addressed an open letter to Teller, which offered rich read 1 ing in parts. Hill claims at the outset that he has been extravagantly malgned by | Teller. "Since your entry into the cabinet l he says, "You have on more than one occa-
 sion sought to place me in false positions by
 procuring the publication of cunningly de- vised interviews, special dispatches, newspa- per letters and the like concerning Colorado
 matters. While you have attempted to con- ceal your hand it's connection with this covert mode of attack is easily traced With the i'm mense patronage at your command but little difficulty will be experienced in continuing this personal warfare. Interruptions per
 sons may be easily found who in consideration
 of what you can bestow without cost except
 to the government, will be quite ready to re- spond to your demands in this direction.
 So far I have allowed these assaults to pass unnoticed, but now propose to make reply. short time after your -Eeturn from
 Colorado last fall there appeared in the col
 umns of the Sunday Despatch of Washington an interview with MT. Flanagan, who was at that time an employe of the Interior de-
 partment and claiming to be on confidential terms with yourself in which your action:con corning the Colorado campaign was com mended and my course criticised and severe ly condemned. The so-called interview was
 tissue of falsehoods and misrspresentations
 Flanagan had not been in Colorado
 as the publication presuppesed and the state
 ments contained in the interview were such
 as to preclude the possibility of this emanat- ing from any other source but yourself" As
 proof of the fact that Teller has been pub
 fishing these things Hill cites the fact of an
 interview between himself and Teller in
 which the former protested against the re-
 moval of MT. Johnson, surveyor general of
 Colorado. The interview was strictly prl- vate, Hill says, yet Teller gave the
 whole thing away in manner invol- viug ridicule to him (Hin) In the dispatch says Hill, alludiRg to the one which the alleged facts of the interview were given, it has pleased you to picture me as jealous
 of yourself. Permit me to say, if there be anything in your career either socially, pro- fessionally, or politically, occurring before or since you became Secretary of the In- terior warrsnting the bangs of jealousy in the heart of any reputable citizen, have failed to discover it. Hill refers st length to the Johnson matter and the causes for his displacement. 'sThe only reason vouchsafed by yeu," he says, twas that Johnson had not respected your wishes Upon being pressed for further data you in formed me that he had not, except in the single instance of MT. Fowler, awarded surveying contracts to the friends you had designated to receive them" Hill then open ly-charges Teller with abusing the patronage of his office, saying that of five timber agents appointed in Colorado one is 8 defaulter to the government, another had been previously removed from the railway mail service for
 gross neglect of duty, fact of which Teller was fully advised. The rest of the letter IS given up to citations of similar alleged facts of favoritism towards men who have been re- fused official positions by Kirkwood and oth- CTS on the ground of dishonesty and general unfitness for any position of honor and trust. Peck, travelling agent of the pension office, and Wilcox, of the San Carlos Indian agency, are especially mentioned in this connection.