The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-04-11
oFFlC AND PARTIEsAHsHIR.


WHAT TnE PREsIDEST Is REPORTED As HAVING
sAlD ABOUT FEARsoSs APPOINTMENT.
From the BOston Daily Advsrtiser.
WAsnlNeroN, April 5.-A Cabinet ofIicey
Is quoted here as having given TO a friend
lhe inl~Wlbg statement In regard 10 the
Ircshents reasons for Eenominating Post.
master FcarsOn 1t was not a thing that
especially concerned me or my department.
but the President was courteous enough to
state bis reasons to me, aud ask for my
opinion.
81 am under great obligations TO the
liberal Republican press, p said the Pres.
ident in opening the subject, sand
must repay the the obligation in some
way which will properly express my
appreciation of the services rendered.
Shortly after the New Year, 1 had con.
veyed 10 GIr. George William Curtis nm
tntiDiation that should like to show
my sense Of the importance in which l
held his most valuable assistance, and
that rendered by the New York TIMES,
HERALD. aud EVENING PosT during the
einvass, by consultation with himself
aud the gentlemen representing those
journals as to the best and most proper
made of acknowledging this obligation
in some official way before the country.
The proposition was met, as 1 felt it
would be, in the spirit made it.
''Mr. Curtis said that, for himself, he
neither sought nor desired any official
position that whatever service he had
rendered had been given under a pro.
. found sense of right, and in the success
of the principles he had so long advo-
Gated he had received the only recon-
pense he desired. The other gentlemen
who had brought to my support the
important journals mentioned, replied
in the same manner as did Curtis. None
of them wished any official recognition,
holding that higher duty to tho coun-
try made it desirable that they should
not be fettered by The obligations OF
Office. They wished, however, to be
considered as the warmest friends of my
Administration in the direction of re.
form and l assured them that their
interest was very gratifying, and theii
wishes when expressed would certainly
have great weight.
The thing that most impressed me
IN these interviews was that in no way
did these Independents evince any
desire to supulate for place. l would
gladly have rendered Mr.. Curtis an
important foreign appointment lit is
believed the President meant the mission
to the court Of st. James's1, but my
intimation to that effect was met by bin
with so much firm, courteous determine
tion to adhere TO his views that / said nc
more. Mr. Scburz positively declined
to take office, aud Mr. Jones OF the TINES
and MIR, James Gordon Bennett expressed
themselves in the same manner.
"When the matter of Mr.. Pesrson's
reappo!ntment came up for considera
ton, J through personal friends, invited
some expression of opinion from the
gentlemen alluded TO. 1t was Enani,
nous in favor of MIR. Parsons coutinu
ance in office. bad sGid early in th,
canYass that faithful, bipartisan dis
charged of duty was Incumbent upor
all officials. This MIR. Pearson hat
especially emphasized in his cours,
during the Presidential contest. Hi.
opponents were many and formidable
Some of the Republican leaders parti
cularly wished TO see him dishonorabl,
discharged, because he refused, in th,
heat of the canvass, to permit the Post
Office to be made political machine
stated these views TO the members o
my Cabinet who are from New York, an,
they fully agreed with me in the pro
priety of renominNting Mr.. Pearson. 1
is matter in which New York. as ,
city. is more interested than any othe,
part OF the country can be. l believ,
the good sense of the whole country viii
approve my conse. But / know [ an
right and there / mean to stand or fail.
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