Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1885-11-12
NEW COMMISSIONERS.
DoRMAN B. EATON BACK AGAIN.
A. p. Edgerton, of Indiana, and W. l..
Trenholm, of South Carolina,
Appointed.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4.-The President
to-day appointed Alfred P. Edgerton, of
Fort Wayne, Ind, Civil Service Commits
sioner, in place of Dorman B. Eaton, re-
signed, and William l.. Trenholm, of
Charleston, S. c., in the place of John
M. Gregory, resigned.
The resignation of DR.. Gregory will be
accepted tomorrow and Dorman B. Ea-
ton will be reappointed on the Board. The
President has persuaded him to resume
his old place for the present, at least until
the new men are broken in. Mr.. Eaton
says that lie consents to this reluctantly,
but his anxiety for the success of the
Commission is so great to as induce him to
sacrifice any personal considerations in
the matter and he will remain on the
Board for some months.
Under this arrangement the Republican
party will not be represented on the Com
mission and the act creating it will be
violated as it provides that both parties
shall he recognized in its composition.
Mr.. Eaton is not Republican. lie is
said to have voted the Democratic ticket
as often as the Republican, and it is said
supported Cleveland at the last election.
The Democrats are not pleased with
the new appointments. They complain
that both Edgerton and Trenholm are
both old fossils, and are not in the spirit
Of the party of the present time. This is
probably true, as neither man has recent
ly taken any active interest in politics.
Mr.. Edgerton was in early life q clerk
in mercantile house in New York, but
while still young man removed tc
Northern Ohio as the agent of the North.
ern Land Company. He then served foul
years in Congress as Democrat and was
the financial agent Of the State of Ohio,
with an Office in New York. In 1858 he
moved to Indiana, and in 1868 he was the
Democratic candidate for Lieutenant
Governor, Vice President Hendricks be.
ing the candidate for Governor. They
were both defeated. AS Democrat ht
refused to support Greeley in 1872, and
came within six votes of being nominated
for Vice President on the O'Conor ticke
over John Quincy Adams, jr. He was
then nominated as the straight out Demo
cratic candidate for Governor of Indiana
but declined in letter which urged al
Democrats to support Mr.. Hendricks, an(
the latter was elected For fifteen years
he has been unanimously elected by thu
Common Council of Fort Wayne as th,
President of the Board of Education O
that city, and by appointment of ex-Gov
ernor Porter is director of Purdue Uni
versity. He has been engaged in many
successful business enterprises and is II
easy circumstinces, and is practica
1student of public affairs He was fol
many years an intimate friend and associ
ate Of Chief Justice Waite, who, together
with Senator Henry b. Payne, Governor
Gray of Indiana, Vice-President Hen
bricks, and many leading citizens OF
| Ohio and Indiana, warmly recommended
him as possessing qualities peculiarly fit
| ting him for the work of the Civil Serv-
ice Commission, with which he is in full
sympathy.
Mr.. Trenholm is commission mer.
chant about fifty years of age. and was
recommended for the appointment by
leading friends of the Civil Service re
form movement North and South. He
is the son of the late Secretary TrenholH
of the Treasury of the Southern Confed
eracy, and has been brought into promi
nencc lately by his addresses before nu
mcrous bankers conventions on the sill
yer question, and his writings on thu
same subject which have attracted widt
attention. Mr.. Trenholm has alway'
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