The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-11-22
GARRISON Come, Back at Hatton.

DEs MONIES, Iowa, November 21.-
Mr.. CIarkson, editor of the State Register
and an Iowa member of the Republican
National committee, has sent TO the
editor of the Chicago Tribune the follow
ing letter. in reply to the letter of Post
master-General Hatton, sent out to the
Associated Press to-day:
Dies MONIES, Ia, November 21.-I have
read the letter, or a Geographic copy of
it, this day addressed to you by Mr..
HattOn, as President Arthur's post
master-general. In it he juggles with
the facts, and, by saying he did not
himself issue the order which kept the
New York pOstoffiee open on
election day. and prevented several
hundreds of the clerks from
escape the responsibility before the
country of having used a part of the
administration power in helping to
defeat Mr.. Blaine. The truth is, the
order was issued by Mr.. Mari.
the First Assistant Postmaster
General, or Mr.. Hazen, the Second,
but that it was done by Mr.. HattOn's
order. He very shrewdly says in his
quibbling letter to you, that, mo such
order was issued by myself" That
may be, the signature was the sigma
ture of Mari or Hazen, the subOrdi-
nate, but the order to do it was the
order of HattOn, the principal. That
Mr.. HattOn knew of the order, and that
he was responsible for it, there is not
the least doubt. His friends at New
York, otherwise his Republican SYM
pat hizerS in his desire for the defeat of
Mr.. Blaine, did not deny this, but gave
as the explanation of it that a rider put
on the last postal appropriation bill pro
viding that election day should not
be holiday, compelled him to have the
order issued, and that his attention had
been called to the provision bv TIE
Democratic chairman of the House
committee on appropriations. Mr.
Hatton does not pretend to say that he
telegraphed the postmaster at New York
from Burlington, suggesting that the
postoffice employees be allowed a
chance to vote, but that he only tele-
graphed that valuable suggestion toMr.
Elklns, while the Acting Postmaster
General at Washington was left to send,
as best he could, under the orders of his
chief, given by the latter before he left
the capital, disI atch to the mugWump
postmaster at New York, which that
worthy could cali a second order not to
let the pOstoffice be closed, which
HattOn could afterwards claim was per
mission forF the employees to vote.
The facts, well known at New York.
are that the employees did not
get permission to vote, did not
get permission of enough time in which
to vote. 1t was also reliably stated to
be true that enough of them thus de-
prived OF the time to vote were kept
from voting, to have given Blaine a
plurality in the State of New York and
elected him President. Mr.. Hat
tons letter of evasion has the
one merit of not denying in fact
the essential truth of my Statement
that he quotes. This shows a Shrewd-
ness worthy of Postmaster General,
for when he was in Iowa, the last DAYS
before election he told several persons.
among them leading Democrat of the
City of Mount Pleasant. that he in
tended 10 keep the New York
pOstOtiice open on election day. In
talking to this Democratic gentleman
he said, with mis- thumbs tWirling gaily
in the armhOles of his waistcoat: Il am
civil service reformer this year, and
do not intend to let the public business
be interfered with BY politics. and the
accent on these words, this year, are
reported by the Democrat 10 have been
beautiful in their melody and
Specification. Mr. HattOn Is noted
most and most loved by his admirers.
OF whom | am one, for his general
golden quality of frankness. The,
dlgnities and necessities OF court life
seem already to have made him diple-