Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1886-06-11
Republican, postmaster Of New York
city. DANIEL BUCK
HON. s.. I. LAFoHD's nEa u 4 3,

acpuDIcan postmaster OF New lOrK
city. .=; DANIEL BUCK
HON. r. I. LAFoND's LETTER.
" LITTLE Fails, June 8, 1889. To the
Editor OF the Pioneer Press: In your
issue Of May %, 1885. / notice letter
written by Hon: Daniel Buck Of Mankato
in reference to what we may justly term
the peanut Democracy Of Pat Kelly and
Mi. Doran, who are, unfortunately for
the Democratic cause, the present party
leaders in this state. Mr.. Buck inquiries
Of what a cand'date'sq qualifications must
consist to enable him 10 pass Il .satlsfac-
tory examination before the Democratic
examining board (Nlessrs. Kelly & Dorap)
to entitle him 10 an Office under our
present worthy administration. Now,
as have had some experience with this
board l wish to herewith present my
examination record in full: First, he
must be q man who buys goods Of Pat,
Ut if he does not buy goods himself lie
must he endorsed by a man who does
buy peanuts of Pat. Now my grounds
for such belief In the first place have
been resident of Minnesota for 80 years,
and have always voted The Democratic
ticket; enlisted in 1862 for three years
to serve my country in the last grea!
Rebellion, and served two years, when l
was discharged For disability. Last year
when a. vacancy naturally occurred in
the postotlice at this place, as well as in
most other places where the then P. NJ.
did not buy goods of Pat, l conceived
the idea of trying at least to secure the
postotice appointment, and with This
thought presented myself to DR. Gucrnon
Of this place and asked for his support.
His answer to me was as follows: He
would not pledge himself to anyone, but
would in duty bound be obliged to
endorse tie man who had the majority
of the county officials as well as the
leading business men Of the town as
endorsers of his petition, On my
petition being circulated seven oil the
ten county officers signed it, as did more
than three-fourths Of the business men of
the village, as my petition will now show.
My application was also endorse! 10y the
Hon. L. l.. Baxter of Fergus Falls, who
has been personally acquainted with me
for more than % years. known me az
citizen, a soldier and as representative
in the legislature in 1872. I also was
endorsed by the Hon. II. B. Strait, in
letter Of high recommendation to the
postmaster general, MI. Villas MI.
Strait being my commander in the army,
was not only willing to endorse me as a
citizen, but as a man worthy Of any trust
that might be imposed on me. also
had endorsements from the Hon. G. F.
Mcdonald of st, Cloud, and others; all
leading men in politics if not in the
Democratic party. After I had received
all these endorsements, which consid.
cred then as wei! as now as high ones,
was asked by citizen of this place if l
had on my petition the signature of a
certain business man OF this place. I
told him had not He said he thought
it very essenti al to have, as he bought
goods of P. Fl, Kelly, and was the only
man in town who did. What was the
result? Suffice it to say that the certain
business man did not sign my petition,
but did sign my opponents. The result
is | am now selling -four and teed'instead
OF filing a government Office, and all
because l or my endorscrs did not buy
peanuts OF Pat. Now as to- my petition
being presented to DR.. A. Guerncn.
After it had been fully signed and
endorsed as above stated, and after he
had agreed to sign it with these endorse
ments, lie then refused to do so for the
reason, he sand, that it was the policy of
the present administration to elevate the
tone of the civil service by filling the
offices with more competent men than
had served Under the previous admins
tra,ion. This man, Dr. A. Guernon as
you we'll know, has since been appointed
collector of customs at St. Vincent, vice
Book walter, suspended. Now if this is
an example of Of the Improvement in
the civil service in this country, my
earnest advice to the friends and relatives
of Mr.. Bookwalter is TO have guardian
appointed to protect the interests and
welfare of the said Mr.. Bookwalter, at
least until such time as peanuts Kelly
ceases to rule the Democratic party of
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