Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-11-23
EASTERN NEWS.
Postmaster General HattOn Denies
the Charge
THAT He HAD A HAND IN
BLAINE'S DEFEAT.
He Had More Regard for Law
Than for Politics.
PENNsyLvANIANs HAVE A SCHEME
FOB BLAINE.
How They Propose to Make
Him Senator.
HUGH NOLAN PLEASEs THE DEMOCRATIC
CHEF.
HUGH M0HAN PLEASES THE DEMOCRATIC
CHIEF.
ESPECIAL TO THE SENTINEL
HattOn. II. M. g., Denies Knfhng
Blaine.

ESPECIAL TO THE SENTlNEL'l
HattOn. r.. M. g., Denies knitting
blaine.
WASHINGTON, Nov. %. = Postmaster
General Hatton sent the following to-day
| to Joseph Medill, editor of the Chicago
Tribune:
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.-In an article in
your paper of Nov. II, in which Mr.. Clark
son, a member of the Republican National
Committee, gives many, but, in my
opinion, not all the reasons why Blaine
was defeated, 1 find the following: "The
order Of Postmaster General Hatton re-
curing the New York Postoffice, with its
thousands of clerks and carriers, to be
kept open, prevented enough Republicans
from voting to have overcome b is now
claimed as Mr.. Cleveland's plurality. The
usual order was posted in the New York
Postofice, Monday, saying that after 10
o'clock, election day, clerks could take a
holiday till Tuesday night. By Mr.. Hat
tons order this was overruied, and the
clerks living in distant parts OF the city
ubu W RO " HOIh DcluIO VIC POA1o OPSLS0
and remained until after they were closed.
These were unable to vote" No such
order as that referred to by Mr.. Clarkson
was issued by myself. There is no law
authorizing the closing Of Postofices on
election days. Mr.. Clarkson says my
order was issued on Monday night. If
Mr.. Clarkson did not know, his chief of
the committee, Mr.. Elkins, did know that
I was not in Washington at the time, but
in Burlington, Ia, as the following dis
patch shows.
New YORK, Nov. 3-Frank Hatton,
Postmaster General, Burlington, Iowa:
1t is said at the Postoffice, in this city,
that the letter-carriers are not to have the
usual holiday during election that an
order has been issued TO that effect. This
will lose us many hundred votes. Can
you telegraph some remedy?
tSigned): 5. b. ELKINs.
To this I replied that there was no law
making election day a holiday, but that
the Postmaster of New York, if he de-
sired, could certainly arrange to allow the
employees of the Office to vote without seri-
ously interfering with the delivery of the
mail. It seems that the above dispatch
from Mr.. Elkins, or one similar, was also
sent to Mr.. Hasen, who was then Acting
Postmaster General, and who answered it
as follows, the dispatch having been sent
the night before election:
H. G. Pearson, Postmaster, New York:
Please give your employees full opportunity
to exercise the right of suffrage.
(Signed) o. D. HAZEN,
Acting Postmaster General.
Had Mr.. Clarkson or Mr.. Elkins been
Postmaster General at the time he might
nave issued IN order closing all the Post
offices in the United States during cleo
ton, but l hardly think he would have
done so after reading the law. Very re-
spectfuliy.
(Signed): FRANK HATToN.
A Tough Case.
CLEVELAND, o., Nov. 22.-A year ago
Hansen Walker, 20 years old, a daughter
of a man OF wealth and social standing.
ran away from her homo in Waterford,
W. Va, with John Ash, a negro servant in
the family from Is to 90 years her senior.
physically crippled and of inferior appear
ance. The two were quietly married here.
subsequently the father tracked the
daughter here and found her living alone
and serving as a domestic in a private
family. He finally prevailed upon her to
return home and entered suit to have he
marriage contract annulled. Walkers
affidavit states that Ash, by reason of hav-
ing care Of her when a child, obtained an
influence over her and by means Of this
and by threats accomplished her ruin
Fearing herself about to become q mother
she consented to elope and married him,
but, Immediately after the ceremony. left
and refused to live with him. Ash, in his
answer, claimed that their relations were
sought by Miss Walker; that the marriage
was OF her instance; that she Is under
| duress and il left to her own inclinations
would remain his wife. The Common
Pleas Court to-day, after q hearing, an
nulled the marriage contract.
Bigger Than Lake Superior.
New YORK, Nov. pa Quebec special
says. Lake Mistassini is undoubtedly
larger than Lake Superior, but its dimen-
sions are not even known to the Hudson
Bay agents and the Indians. The only
thing certainly known about 1t 10 that II
is ar expansion Of the Rupert's river,
just as u great western lakes are ex-
pansions Of the st. Lawrence. Trade Is
carried on at the post OF the Hudson Bay
Company by giving the Indians provisions
and outfits in exchange for skins and
furs. The Indisps are friendly and scarcely
know what liquor is. Many have &C.
| cepted christian teachings.
Piling 1t On.
New YORK, Nov. 22.-Vice President
elect Hendricks left this morning for
Albany, accompanied by United States
Senators German. Jonas and Camban
| n4I Naaora pA...n - nl1~a-.A- III
Of the National Democratic Committee.
After a call on Gov. Cleveland, the party
will return to the city. A large represen-
tation Of Cleveland and Hendricks Clubs
Of the different mercantile exchanges went
on the same train to pay their respects to
| Gov. Cleveland.