The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-11
Mr.. EDGERTON'S FABLE.
HIS CASE LIKE THAT OF THE FOX
AND The COON.


Both He and the President to Meet
at the Hatters After March 4 TT 0
Ex-Commissioaer' Removal Wholly
Justifable-Gov Thompson Not Apt
to Be Confirmed.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. 49, Republican
Senators say that Governor Thompson will
not be confirmed as civil service commits
sioner They say that Gen. Harrison pro-
poses thorough reorgani zation of the COM
mission and wants three men there whom
he knows. They have nothing against Gov.
Thompson, who is so strict civil service
reformer that he would not let his own son
accept an appointment in the treasury
department after he had passed frst-class
examination, simply becau Sc he himself was
assistant secretary. Personally, Gov.
Thompson has made himself liked
by everybody who has had busi-
ness with him. The President could
not have made a better selection
EDGERToN's APPOINTMENT.
The late Chief Justice Waite induced the
President to appoint Mr.. Edgertol as
personal favor to him, because he wanted
Mr.. Edgerton, W 10 had been MS intimate
friend in former years, to come to Wash
ington. Chief Jus ice Waite believed that
MIR. Edge ton was civil service reformer,
"a 50 told the President But Justice
Waite di not know. In reality Mr.. Edger-
ton was an old-fashioned Indiana spoils-
man, and he thwarted every effort Of the
commission to improve the civil service.
He had so little interest in his work that be
ahsented himself at his home in Indiana for
months at a time The commission could
not set very we'll in that time, and Mr..
Oberly went into the commissionersnip Of
Indian Affairs
THE WORK BLOCKED.
The work of the cJmmissiol has been
practically blocked The President has
been trying for months to get Mr. Edger-
ton to resign so that the commissions an
nual report could be properly completed
but Mr. r igerton simply would not g..
DESTROYS to put Gov. Thompson in as the
democratic member Of the commission re-
quired by law, le wing Gen. Harrison to
ill the two other places with repu hcans,
the President Immediately removed him.
L st evening, in ans Ner to an inquiry, how
he and the President h d gotten along to-
geJher for SO long a time,
LIKE THE FOX AND THE COON.
He answered, at is ike tne case of the
fox and the coon. The fox aud
the coon fought for a long time
One day the fox said to the coon, why
should we fight, we have all to meet at the
hatter's some day. Iguess nat the President
has come to the conclusion that as we will
have to meet at the hattie IS March 4, he
and | might as wei stop fighting now.n
A BOGUS INTERVIEW.
In an interview published Yesterday
Mr.. Edgerton was quoted as saying
that Gov Thompson was one of the
most incompetent of the reconstructed
rebels. To-day he publishes a card deny
ing the interview, and adds: 81 regret very
much that any man would put into my
mouth any word of disparagement to Sec
retary Thompson. To apply such a word
as incompetent to him would but proclaim
NY own, and such words as 'unrecol-
structed rebels never came from my mouth
or have a resting place in my brain. | am
not indignant about this matter of re-
moval. l have greater occasion to rejoice
than to regret"