Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-06
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LANCASTER. APRIL Q. 1885.
Black and Sweet.

United states Pension Commissioner /
Black, having invited Miss Sweet, pension
agent at Chicago, to resign, in telegram
as sWeetly -worded as the circumstances
would permit, Miss Sweet declines to re-
sign In the sweetest way possible--under
the circumstances-stating that she is not
resigned TO resigning and does not care to
seem to be what she is not. She reminds
the president, to whom she writes, that her
commission runs until April IS, 1886, and
that as Commissioner Black says that he has
no reason personal to herself or to her Off
cial conduct for asking her resignation,
and ss she is confident she has conducted
the Office with an eye single to the public
interest, she does not see the need of sur
rendering it. In other words Miss Sweet
says to the president that in the absence Of
charges against her she proposes to hold
her Office until her commission expires;
which is determination that no fault can
be found with il Miss Sweet can do as she
proposes.
We incline to think that Miss Sweet is a
clever woman. We are in sympathy with
her view that there is no call upon her to
resign what she does not want to resign,
when no fault is found with her personally
and officially and this is altogether inde-
pendent Of the question as to whether she
can hold the fort or not. We agree with
her that resignation under the suasion of
General Blacks invitation is not an act Of
resignation in the proper sense of the word.
1t would be an act of resignation to be re-
signed to an election from office, as to any
other Ill to which life and flesh is heir. But to
resign anything of value needs to be y"',,n-
tarilv a to give "a nr"rsf MAYOR 10 the
..cJ. To reS,xrr Office under invitation is in
no degree better than to be removed and
unless there was particular desire to oblige
General Black in Miss Sweets heart, Miss
Sweet was quite right to decline his invita-
ti0n.
The general, we fear, has " put his foot
In it, somewhat, in the style of his tele.
gram to Miss Sweet, of Chicago. He says
to her, You will readily appreciate the
fact, which l gladly state, that there is nc
reason personal to yourself or to your
management Of your Office which induces
this request"
Miss Sweet evidently does readily ap
preciate the fact thus gladly stated
and she appreciates the further fact that
General Black in his gladness has
taken away every possible motive fol
asking for her resignation. If she is
personally and officially unobjectionable
there is no other relation remaining to base
an objection to her upon, as her gender is
without politics. General Black was not
careful enough in his language. He should
have paid that she was personally objection
able because she filled the place he wanted
for some one else, and as she had held il
for eleven years she should give some
other fellow chance 1t is very
well to talk sweetly to women, but
when you want woman to give NJ
anything nice that she has in possession it il
advisable to appreciate the fact that you
are undertaking work Of some magni
tude, in which words of persuasion will bt
Of no account at all.