The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-02-19
DON'T LOVE GROVER.
Judge EdgertOn Seems a Lit
tie Sore at the President.
COMPLETE LETTER WRITER.
Hs Says His ExceiIency Shut His
Eyes. And Accuses Him of
Ill Things.

WASHINGTON, February 1S.-Judg .
Edgerton, who was recently removed
from the Office of civil service commits
sion, has written an open letter to
President Cleveland, in which he will
say among other things:
Il was indebted to you only for an
appointive office. ever held and you
now declare by your action that you
regret the appointment. 1, with equal
right, can say that [ regret the accept
ance. Your regret was never made
known to me by you in any word or
utterance or action until now, at the
Gloss of your administration, and on
the day before my removal.
81 presume there were prudential
political reasons why you did not make
the removal until after election.
TN this regard it would almost seem
as if you were willing to play false with
MugWumps TO enable you to win with
Democrats. The result of the election
mas placed you in a dilemma, from
which few people would have known
how to extricate themselves. You
found man on your hands whom the
Mugwumps had declared war upon
ald an enemy 10 their civil service re-
form.
GOOD MUGWYMP.
"Their theories and your plan of he
coming their representative in the flu
ture would be weakened if from the
assurance of your fidelity to their
cause could be secured. Accordingly,
it appears you decided upon the re-
moYaI of the head of the committee
and deeming Thompson good enough
Mugwump for them, you therefore de-
manded my resignation that you
might appoint him apparently, as an
atonement for your previous inaction.
Mr.. President, with due courtesy to
the high Office you hold, allow me to
say that you are very peculiar man,
a positive man, positively wrong or
positively right, and therefore an IN
safe man to trust; and that element in
your character, 1 believe, led to your
defeat. Pope says; The most positive
men are most credulous since they
most believe themselves and advise
most with their fellow fattereIs and
worst enemies
"Being one of that kind of positive
men, yourself, you have have some
Men of like character around you who
are positive only in their malice and
conceit.
ANOTHER QUOTATION.
"JuYenal says: There is nothing a
man will not believe in his own favor"
"You were credulous enough to be-
aieve you were elected President by
Mugwumps, and therefore you per-
mitted them to malign your real
friends and to fatter you into a policy
which led to your defeat. You are man
who would not permit your real
friends to sdmonish you with freedom
and confidence and the result is that
you have suffered from the want OF
greatness has discovered that there is
no true success in life without power
and blessing of friendship.
WORSE AND WORSE.
"You believe your will and power to
enforce it was above all powers, but the
will of the people expressed in consti-
tutional way has taught you there was
q wiser and better way than that
chosen by man. You will be censured
and condemned ts2tu'e you Tut %
trust in your own party, but believed
Yourself to be better than your own,
and greater than all parties.
You have ascertained that the many
were not made for the one. You can
find as many reasons for removing me
as the Democratic party, through an
l. sin NV
tory, had for removing you.
THE GLOOM OF DEFEAT.
81 shall be quite willing to remain
with you in the gloom of defeat"
The Judge proceeds to give his under
standing of the civil service law, and
continues:
81 do not ask you to give any reason
for removal. l know, and SO do you,
that the only one you could give would
be that it was your will, for If you at
tempted to give any other your own
previous words would prove it untrue.
"In my interview with you before III.
removal you expressly Cisclaimed haV
ing any reason for 1t except my refusal
to resign to enable yau 10 make Mr..
Thompson's nomination.
GREAT WORD.
Removed is a great word of far
reaching potency, especially when the
record does not explain it. 1 am
conscious of this, and deeply panied by
the consciousness, that the people have
the right to know the truth in ali mat
tiers of this kind, and for this reason
only do 1 address you. 1 cannot, like
you, make a prayer for relief to the
public such as the article seemed to be
in the Baltimore Sun OF the IA instant.
WITHOUT PRECEDENT.
"This is the first time in the history
of the government that an outgoing
President has found it necessary to
advertise, through the newspapers, his
ocular work during his term OF
office and his claim upon bis party and
countrV for aODrOYaI Between the