The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1886-01-27
PLAIN TALK.
-, Correspondence Between
senator Vest and Ex Gov.
Crittenden.
:, President Cleveland Refused to
Make the appointment.

nned q specisl te'egram' ninting
La President Cleveland had refused
ioreign appointment to ex-Gov
||,or Crit.enden, and that Senator
Fat had written = letter to Mr..
atsnden, IN which he gave the
mons tor the presidents action.
n. publicstion attracted much at
m. and this morning the Democrat
enabled to give the correspondence
,detsil, thus removing all chance
u DISCUSSION as to the essential fea-
r Of the affair:
s.di to the sedslis Democrat.
s.. Louis, Mo Jan. 3s.-The
| slowing is q copy Of Senator Vests
,rr to Governor Crittenden, re-
rdlng the presidents refusal to ap-
pia him to office:
UMrRp STATES SENATE, Wash
ng,on. Nov. y, ISS5.-Dear Gov.
moi: consider it m, duty to give
u the purpor; Of an interview had
| 10 day before Yesterday by Cockrell
ad myself with the president. We
s,ermined to ask from him addition.
recognition Of our state IN the for
gn service, and after selecting be
xeen ourselves your name and two
ahsn, we approached h,m on the
ubiect. When Cockrell named you
he president said he could not enter.
,n the idea; that in the east you
we're believed to have bargained with
he Fords for the killing of Jesse
LINES, and whether true or not he
suld not shoulder public opinion on
he subject. We endeavored to ex-
PLAIN the matter, but he was very
arm and cut US off with the remark
bat he "could not think OF it,"
aink you ought to know this injus-
ice to Cockrell anyhow. l have moi
even all the conversation, but the
above is the substance of it.
Truly, G. G. VEST
Ex-Governor Cr,ttenden repliet
~ follows:
Kansas City, Mo-, Nov. 90, 1885
Hon. G. 6. Vest-Dear Senator
Yours OF the 18th inst. received
While being very much obliged t.
you and Senator Cockrell tor thl,
expressed interest in my behalf,
assure you both am not nor hav,
been for months seeking foreign ap
po'ntment, nor would l accept,
@nd:red, any one remaining /,
the gift of the president.
am surprised at this part OF the let
'er in which you represent the presr
dent as saying, SIN the east he wa
Believed to have barga,ned for tn
Killing OF Jesse James," and whethe
True or not he could not shoulde
public opinion on the subject. l d
NOT ask or want any man to shoulde
my real or fancied sins. am will
ing to stand before public oplnlon
me least" or elsewhere upon tt
eharge. Considering the presider
an honest, just and fearless man
me performance of his duties, indif
erent to the sensation of an hour.
am more surprised at this declaration
nao known at an earlier momel
us oo)ection, self respect and n
own consciousness Of innocen,
would have forbidden my solicitatic
Many Office from the president.
Am as innocent of the fact, if not Il
.aafge, as the president himse'
nc last national convention shou
nave taught the president the bros
1'uefence betweea a charge and Il
1u'h' dad the charged slaude
ven true against him, uttered q,
puo''shed for base reasons by 4 m,
'.e' OF the gospel, then Grov
~e'eiand would have beel social
''a morally unf, to occupy the Sc
% honored by every patriot in IL
and, AS he then met thecharse
Ae 'nreshold, and boldly SAID, 50.