The Indianapolis journal., 1883-05-01
The Substance of MIR. Hills Letter.

New York, April 30-The Tribune pub
fishes the substance of Mr.. Hills letter to
Secretary Teller. He says:
''Since your entry into the cabinet you
have, on more than one occasion, sought
to place me in false positions
by procuring the publication of cunningly-
devised interviews, special dispatches news
paper letters and the like, concerning Color
ado matters While you have attempted to
conceal your hand, its connection with this
convert mode of attack is easily
traced. With immense patronage at
your command, but little difficulty
will be experienced in continuing this per-
sonal warfare INSCRIPTIONS persons may be
easily found who, in consideration of what
to the government, will be quite
ready to respond to your demands
in this direction. In dispatches
it has pleased you to picture me as jealous
Of yourself. Permit me to say that if there
be anything in your career, either socially,
professionally or politically, occurring
before or since you became Secretary of the
Interior, warranting pangs in the heart of
any reputable citizen, have failed TO dis
cover it. Certainly there is nothing which
should gangrene, me with jealousy of your
connection with the last campaign in
Colorado In view of the fact that
your protracted absences from Washington to
engineer the nomination and election of a
gubernatorial candidate resulted in repudi.
ating your nominee, and the election of a
the political history of the .
State. The excuse you gave for
dragging your official robes through
the sewage of ward politics, as you did re-
peatedly during that campaign was that it
became necessary in defense of the admins
tration, and yet the administration was no
wise in question. The harvest OF
your campaign in Colorado in the so-called
defense of the administration resulted in
Democratic Governor a Democratic State
senator from your own county and the choice
OF Mr.. Tabor as senator in the Congress OF
the United States.
Il am reminded that after the
meeting of the Republican State
convention, in September last, it was
patent in Denver, and commented
upon in public prints, that Mr., Meldrum
who now succeeds to the Office of sur
dacy for the gubernatorial nomination
in favor of your friend Campbell,
in consideration of pledges that lie should
receive an important federal position. Had
you candidly stated this fact to the Presi
dent, explaining that the removal of John
son and the appointment of Meldrum were
consequent upon a political bargain, ii
would have been, at least, truthful and
manly.
Pending the first session of the Forty
seventh Congress, when 800 or more clerical
positions in the Pension Office were to be
filed you notified Republican senators and
representatives that two places each were al
their command. After these appoint.
ments had been thus disposed of,
you awarded large proportion oil
several hundred remaining clerkshps to
the opposing political party. OF five timber
agents appointed by you from Colorado one
is a defauter at the Postof1ice Department.
against whom the government has obtained
an uncollectable judgment of some 81, 800,
and yet he is permitted to draw his salary
in violation of an express statute to
the contrary. Another of these ap.
pointees had been previously re-
moved from the railway mail service
for gross neglect of duty-a fact of which
of these persons during the late cam
paign strongly suggests that they
are much more earnestly at work
in furthering your political schemes
than in suppressing timber depredatons.
H. ii. Eddy, OF Summit county, Colorado.
appointed special assistant United States
attorney for New Mexico, and
the appointment of Peck rs travelling
examiner or agent for the Pension
Office, are cited as cases in point. Of like
purport was your action in the case of Will
cox, whom you sought to inilict upon the
people of Colorado rs United States marshal,
Notwithstanding papers were On file in the
Department of Justice, including an affidavit
of one of the most respected citizens OF Den.
yer, demonstrating his total unfitness for
any position of honor or trust. Fail
ing in this, you embraced the earliest
opportunity to appoint him to the San Carlos
Indian agency, where he has lost TO time in