The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-05-31
Preaching and Practice.

APPOINTMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
be postmaster at Cannelton. Perry county,
Indiana, John Zimmerman, in place Of w
y. Underwood, removed.
And thereby hangs a story. On the
och of March, 1856 Benjamin HarTi-
son, then United ) ates Senator from
Indisna, delivered IL the Senate long
speech, Arranging Grover Cleveland
for breach OF his pledges in the matter
of civil service reform. One OF the
chic. counts iG this indictment was
what General Harrison called "the stO-
~ of Mrs. De la Hunt" his telling OF
which occupies the greater part OF one
of the large pages OF the Congressional
Record, vol. xvii, part 3, page 2794.
Ha described the story as infinitely
fu. OF plthos and Indignation" He
proceeded % describe the military career
OF Major De Ia Hunt, of the Twenty
sixth Indiana Volunteers, who was
brought down by a wound entirely
through the body, at Praris Grove, in
Arkansas, and after recovering from
this desperate wound, rejoined his com
mand and received q bullet through
hi arm. Said Senator Harrison
Disabled by these two wounds received
in his cOuntry's service. he was compelled
TO Leave the army and return to Perry coun-
ty, Ind. But so sapped by the wounds
which he had received that it was not long
until a sOTrOwing widow and one only child
followed the remains of as braYe soldier
as ever went out from Indiana to his last
resting place in the grave.
Major De Ia Hunt. Senator Harrison
further explained, left his widow with
small means, and she entered upon the
work of maintaining herself and her
boy. Her old father was postmaster at
CsuRelton, and she became his deputy.
10 which capacity General Harrison
testified that she was "mOst efficient" 3"
Shortly before the expiration of Presis
dent Arthur's term, said General Har-
IisUn, Iabella De Ia Hunt, the widow,
was appointed, on my request, by Cen
General HattOn. then Postmaster Gen
eral. to this little postoffice." Contin-
uing Genera! Harrison said
If there was in all this country one person
who BY reason of her sex, who by reason of
her widOwhood, who by reason of the sacri-
flee she made in giving the arm on which
she leaned to her country's service, was en-
titled to be kept in office, was entitled to
have her reputation guarded jealousy and
by all men who represented the government.
il was Isabella De la Hunt
Nevertheless, the Cleveland admins
tration, according TO Senator Harrison,
removed Mrs. De la Hunt on the charge
of Offensive partisanship," and app
pointed an active Democrat in her
place
The Cleveland administration having
gone out. and G eneral Harrison having
become President, Mrs. De la Hunt aps
piled for restoration 20 her old position
az postmaster. There was no doubt as
to her fitness. The present President
publicly testified three yeary ago to the
fact that she had been most Efficient"
There was no doubt as to local senti-
meut demanding the restoration of this
most efficient and worthy person TO her
old Office. She presented a petition
more uumsrousiy signed than that of
any other applicant, aud represented an
overwhelming majority of the patrons
OF the office.
OF course, Mrs. Della Huut was re ap-
pointed to her old position as soon as
her old champion, Benjamin Harrison,
became President ? On the contrary,
the office has been given to John Zim-
norman, who has been chairman OF the
Republican County Committee, and
whose only claim 10 the place is party
service. That is the story of the Can
Melton pOstOfiice. Post.