New-York tribune., 1886-02-12
FLATTERING GENERALn SpARKS.
SPECIMEN LETTER FROM A FRIEND -

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SHERIDAN AND LAUNDRESSES
lFRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TIE rRrBuyEA
| WASHINGTON, Feb. IL" General" Will
lam Andrew jackson SPARKS receives daily large
number of letters in wbcE he Is told that he is the
mansay of this Reform Administration. These letters
are carefully filed by the General" and exhibited by
him whenever anybody ventures in his presence
to the dissatisfaction which his rulings have
among settlers Western lands. The General very
ambitious He firmly believes that some day he
will be called to discharge the duties OF the Presi
dental office. His friends know this and they encourage
him IN the belief They find tnat it pays. They know
too that tho General" stand pretty
large doses OF fattery. and they administer
them freely whenever they have to grind. It
thus happens that the great reformer OF the Land
Office is frequently OF taken in will be by the
following letter sent to him by r. S. Dement, the Snr
veyor General OF Utah. whose recent statements about
the discovery OF land frauds in the Territory gave him
for the moment such widespread nOtoriety:
SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. /, 1886.
MY DEAR GENERAL: Some OF the papers are attack
ing you and some men are attacking you through the
papers. Honest who are informed sustain here
and elsewhere You are making the noblest record of
any Han in this Administration. Your reward IL coming
there God who honesty, and millions
who VIII owe their future homes to you shall
you will not have to wait TIL then Your political
future will force itself upon you thought l II
sure see it now. Now, don't WORK TOO hard. You
cannot stand 1t at the pace you were keeping when
depends upon your keeping up. say 20 you no man
in this Government could take your place Try aud
etesl mons.C write me, and If you could wire me
that my rrquslton is all right would enable TO 20
ahead. KNOW OF course, that | am all right and an
permitted up deposits jndicOusly but without
Instructions do not know that nave proceeded III the
II. S. DEMENT,.
The OF Internal Revenue Collector Mccormick, OF
West Virginia. illustrates the methods which en-
pOyed to secure charges upon which Republican
officials might be suspended for cause" The nomna-
IA bafn fba
the following facts, am told brought out in pre-
liminary hearing before the Finance Committee. Me
COrmick a man OF high character. There no com
plant about the administration OF his Office The Sena
and Congressuen from West Virginia, however, In
upon his being removed. The President refused
tn suspend Mccormick saying that some reasons must
first be given which would Justify the suspension. The
delegation withdrew in disgust. conspiracy was or
ganzed with the assistance OF Mr.. Miller, the Com
missioner OF Internal Revenue. one Laird. who once
held subordinate position under Collector Mccormick
and discharged by him for sent for and
upon his arrival in Washington he iuterrogated by
Commissioner Miller The man unloaied his grievances
and said great many things, no doubt, about McCor
mick that he would have put in writing
uttered IN McCormcks presence but he sup
posed that he safe in talking with Miller
and spoke freely and recklessly All this time
the Commissioner had stenographer concealed
behind a who took down verbatum everything
that Lard said When the latter dismissed and
given railroad ticket his home in Virginia the
nosraphers written out and filed charges
against Mccormick On this document the President
ordered his removal II of the documents which
called and which the President through
Secretary Manning refuses TO produce.
Congressman Libbey OF Virginia is not unmindfu OF
the comforts soldier. He anxious that the
soldier shall be deprived OF the refining influence OF
Early in the present Congress-, therefore, he
introduced bill repeating section OF the act Of June
1873. which forbds laundresses from accompanying
troops. The phantnropc Virginan has been cut short
endeaVur confer this priceless beneht upon the
soldier by General Sheridan who WRITES to the House
Committee OF Military Affair." expressing tEe hope that
Mr.. Lsbey's bill Will not pass. Their presence" the
says referring the aundrrsses, lisa burden
with no com npensaLng return" Tho General OF th
army IL Is surmised, deals with Cinnamon only.