The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1894-05-09

JIG. WICKLIrFe."
The following from Mr.. WicklifIe
gives further information on the case.
Louisville, KY. May =, lS94.-Gov.
John Young Brown, Commander-in-
Chief, Kentucky State Guard--Dear Sir:
On April 80 handed you my resigna-
ton, of which the following is a copy.
Frankfort, April 30, 1894 Gov John
Young Brown, Commandtr-in-C Chief,
Kentucky State Guard-Dear Sir: In
compliance with your request / tender
my resignation of the office of Adjutant
Gen, raj of the Kentucky State Guard.
Very Respectfully,
AZ. G. WIcKLIFFE.
"Adjutant General, Ky. 5. g.
cater reading this you requested me
to so ~ord my resignation as to embrace
the conditions upon which | accepted
the appointment of Adjutant General.
| then wrote you the following:
Frankfort, April 80, lS94.--Gov.
John Young Brown, Commander-in-
chief, Kentucky State guard-Dear Sir;
In accepting the position of Adjutant
General of the Kentucky State Guard on
the 30th of October, 1898, / wrote you a
letter, at your suggestion, of which the
following is a copy: Frankfort, Oct. 30,
lS93-Hon. John Young Brown, Cover
nor of Kentucky-Dear Sir: In accepting
the office of Adiutant General of Ken
lucky, which you have rendered me, in
compliance with an application hereto
fore made by me, wish to say do SO
with the understanding that If, at any
time, the present official, Gen. Gross,
would ask to be reappointed, or you
should desire it, | will tender my resig-
nation. Very Respectfully, j. @. Wick
life" This letter was written as you
requested, having stated that crcum-
stances might occur that would make it
desirable to have Mr.. Gross as your
Adjutant General. Now, in compliance
with your request, expressed to me witl.-
in few days after the adjournment of
the last General Assembly, | h reby
| tender my resignation, to take effect on
Tuesday, May l, 1894.
| Very Respectfully,
J. q WICKLIFFE,
| "'Adjutant General, Ky. ). q.
Senator Gross resignation as Adult
ant General, at what time rendered do
nor know, but it was not, nor did it take
effect until November |, 1893. During
our interview on April 80, 1894, you com
planned of attacks made upon you in the
newspapers about your request for my
resignation as Adjutant General and the
appointment of Senator Gross to fill the
vacancy occasioned thereby. told you
that whenever had been asked about
the matter had always stated that you
had only done that which the law and
the understanding between us, at the
time you gave me the appointment,
warranted you in doing. At the same
| time requested me to have an interview
| with the reporter or officials of The Lou
| isville Times, or, as you afterward sug-
gested, to write out statement and give
it 10 The Times, stating the circum-
stances under which assumed the duties
of chief of your staff, This l agreed to
do, but, as this conversation occurred on
the Both OF April, | did not Immediately
attend to your request, waiting, as
thought right and proper, to turn over
to Senator Gross the keys and office with
which | had been intrusted. Senator
Gross arrived in Frankfort on the morn
ing of Tuesday, May l, and, after turning
over to him the keys and office of Adju-
tant General, returned to Louisville the
same day. This thought necessary and
becoming. | must confess l was sur
prised to see in the Courier-Journal of
to-day, MAY p card or interview, it
matters not what it may be called, so it
gets your Adjutant Generals name in
the papers, in which he gives to the
public my letter of acceptance Of date
October 80, 1881 letter and the con-
tents of which you, at the time it was de-
livered, requested me (for what reason
have never been able to ascertain) to
keep secret. This did and never men
toned to any one the conditions OF my
acceptance of the Office Of your chief Of
| staff until the same had become known
from headquarters. The publication
made in to-day's Courier Journal, ii not
made by your direction, was certainly
made with your appreciation and consent
and thereby am compelled to address
you this communication, instead of hav-
Ing published the statement you sug-
gested and agreed to make in the Lou
isville Times. You can not fail to re-
member that when, two are three days
after the adjournment of the last Gener-
al Assembly, you requested my resigna-
ton you stated that your supreme obli-
cations TO Senator Gross required that
you should give him the position OF Ad-
jutant General whenever he demanded
it, and that you desired me to say, in my
letter resigning the Office OF Adjutant
General, that did so because the duties
OF the office conflicted with my business
of a practicing attorney-at-law. This |
told you could not say, for it was not
the truth; but that would so word my
resignation as to cause no reflection to be
cast upon you.
ALL WISE HEADS
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