Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-04-19
A RESIGNATION AND A Row.

RESIGNATION AND A ROW.
General DUvAL'S resignation as Col
leetor of this District will have the eff
feet of precipi.ating row among the
Republican brethrenin this State which
they would have infinitely preferred
should have been delayed until after
the fall elections.
When the machine" succeeded In
eliminating our venerable friend ex-
Governor PIERPoNT from his position as
Collector, there was an incipient dis
turbance, and the ex-Exscutive, who
had governed from three capitals, found
some difficulty in governing his own
temper. For some weeks he remained
in state Of ebulition which excited the
liveliest spprehensiOns. grasshopper
with cayenne pepper in its eyes could not
have eOmpOrted itself with more vigor,
and those who witnessed his gyrations
were impressed with the old timemsxim
that "blOod will tell, age amt nOthin'."
He attributed his troubles to one
GEORGE WESLEY ATKINSON, one
NATHAN GOFF, Jr., and one GEORGEF.
EVANS, who are alleged to hold the ear
of the Administration in cOnnec-
ton with the federal officesin this State,
and he announced that Re would
not be satisfied until he had drank the
hearts blood Of these gentlemen, 50 to
speak, and wiped up the everlasting
earth with heir remains. How they
ever got him quieted down has never
been satisfactorily understood. There
is q report that he was ehlOroformed at
the last meeting Of the West Virginia
Republican State Executive Committee
st Grafton, and promised the next va
cant place as Minister Plenipotentia-y
at Timbuctoo if Re would keep quiet.
Anyhow the managers congratulated
themselves that with the removal Of
blood from the face of the PIERPOINT
moon further trouble could be tided
over.
1t must have been that the success Of
the managers in dispOsing of one col
lectOr induced them to believe that all
collectors are disposable. We are at
loss else to explain how they came to
stir up our military ex-Congressmau 10
this district, who rom time beyond
which the memory of man runneth not
not only Of being willing to fight at the
drop Of a hat, but to accommodate for
any length OF time, anybody who De
shed that kind of exercise, from wilG
Indian up TO Commissioner Of Inter
nal Revenue.
Il seems, however, that dissatisfied
with Gen. DUvAL's attitude toward
President ARTHUR'S efforts to succeed
himself, some o: these managing gentle
men sent word to Commissioner Of H.
ternal Revenue EVANS that a gsuger,
applied for by Gen. DUAL as 8 detail
at MaItinsbuTg to assist in carrying on
the work Of this revenue district, was
likely to use his position in advancing
the interests of Mr.. BLAINE as Presi-
dental candidate. The commissioner
not being inclined to do any thing thSt
would initiate against President
ARTHUR'S denomination, neglected t.
make the order, and when Genera
DUvAL, ignorant of the reason Of the
delay, visited Washington to inves!i-
gate ii, Mr.. EVANS took occasion to
intimate that Gen. DUvAL's political
Jennings were distasteful to the internal
Revenue Department, and that if coll
lectors could not be loyal to the admin
istratlop whose commissions they held,
it mighS be better if they should resign.
1t is hardly necessary to say after these
Civil Service Reform remarks by Conn.,
missioner EVANS, that the resignation OF
General DUvAL as collector Of this dis
trict and the correspondence connected
there with, went promptly to the Presi-
dent and the newspapers. The CORE
spOndence does not add much to tn
story. 1t consists of q straight forward
sccount furnished the President by
General DUvAL of the position taken
by Commissioner EVANS, and his own
decision to retain his rights as q citizen
in preference to the cOllectorship;
q shifty explanation by Commissioner
Evans, in which the latter claims that
his remarks were made in an unofficial
capacity and charges q political pur-
pose in DUvAL'S resignation, and the
latIers reply, in which he informs
EVANS politely, but firmly that the
Commissioner of Internal Revenue is q
liar.
The situation presents some interest
ing points both to the President aud
our Republican brethren here in West
Virginia. The former has his choice
on the one hand, Of estranging the
uneollaTed Republicans Of this and
other States by accepting General
DUyAL's resignation, or, on the other,
of discoursgiDg his serviceable bench
man, EVANS, by refusing to accept it.
So far as the brethren here are concern
ed, neither plan is likely to teal the
ragged breach. There Is not likely to
be any more patchwork. DUAL is not
PIERPoINT.
Mn. BLAINEs HOLLOW Room.