The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1895-03-14

stantial reward for your fidelity to him;
for being, says the Washington Post, OF
the 18th, in a laudatory notice,
A steadfast friend of the President in
the Senate, even going to the extent of
voting for the repeal of the Sherman Sill
yer Purchasing Law, against the sentiment
ofhis (yoatr) State.
The President has crowned you with
the mission to the Court of the Montezu-
mas, but You will go there without the
endorsement of three-fOurths the popula-
ton of your State.
1t WAS peculiarly meet and proper and
entirely to be expected that your con-
tirmation as Minister should be moved
in the Senate by John Sherman, the arch
enemy OF silver, your State and the
South. They are homely sayings, but
true, "straws show which way the wind
blows" and "birds of feather will flock
together.''
Having denounced Grover Cleveland
at Chicago, you were dubious about APP
preaching him in the early part OF the
Administrations; how comes it that he
allows you to control the patronage OF
this State and then gives you one of the
greatest Offices in the Government, while
the patriot Vance. whose virtues you
could eloquently eulogi ze, but which you
have not quite often enough initiated,
was in i'll favor and without influence at
the White House?
Thinking that some personal Or pOliti-
cal enemy might have libeled me to the
! State Department or the President, |
wrote letter to the First Assistant Sec
rotary of State, Hon. Edwin F. Uhl, q
few days ago and requested him to con-
fer with the President and the Secretary
| Of to- a TO hot bop onTbt bn Il
advanced against me personally or other
wise. From his very kind and courteous
reply quote as follows:
have much pleasuse in assuring you
that nothing whatever, in the slightest
| degree, rejecting upon You has ever BEEN
| represented to this Department. But as
| evidence of the high esteem in which you
are held by the President, l may mention
| your appointment by him as Consul to
Curacao, and his regret that you could not
see your way clear to an acceptance of the
same.
was appointed in April last Consul to
Curacao. This was indeed high trust
am aware that men take COnsulates
and defray their own expenses, for the
honor attendant. But | was not asking
for a Consulate for glory. Nothing
could have induced me to take my wife
and children to that equatorial, fever.
stricken climate. The compensation was
not sufficient to induce me to go alone
After had decnei lus appointment
you declared it would have been "mad-
ness in me to take it. The State Press
ridlculed it as unworthy my acceptance
The New Berne Journal said:
The place is not of the rank to which the
services in the last campaign, but it is a
recognition of his claims and may lead tt
something better.
1t wds- a distinct recognition OF my
claims. My declination was endorsed
and commended by the party and its
leaders. was promised something bet
ter. How could it be honestly withheld:
TO deny or preuent my appointment tC
, another place, instead of the one it was
conceded could not accept, is properly
denominated political robbery.
You have spoken in my behalf, and
apparently most earnestly and power
fully. You have spoken elOquently fol
others. You have so directed matters
that they have been appointed while
have been ignored. Results speak louder
than words.
. The New York Times says:
The scourge is lifted, nothing is left o.
the Fifty-third Congress but bad name
You have been as false to me as tn,
late Democratic Congress, barring a few
good men, has been false to the people
you would see that when you took &
great Mission, to my exclusion, asserting
: that you had done the best you coulC
for me, you committed an act that bears
such sembance of bad faith that ever
your friends cannot defend it.
. Having assumed charge of my papers
; and become my representative to secure
office, in the State department if possible
you could not, wiih honor, take place fol
yourself, especially in the State Depart
ment, knowing sue action would swell
, North Cardinals quota beyond The
, banks, and prevent my official recogni
ton.
TO say that you have influence suffic
lent to have conferred upon you a great
| Mission, with or without the asking, ant
not enough to obtain for me a Consular
or other appointment during the pa 81
two years, is so illogical that it appea rs
false on its face, and at all events pu t.
, an end to the absurd statement of your
friends that "you have done your bes
, for me-"
Says the New York World OF Feb. 22nd
Inc ldStc Will WHICH democratic pOll
ticians of high and low degree have beer
falling over each other in a scramble fo
the Mexican mission is exciting unfavOra
BILE criticism in every direction. The body
of the late Minister Gray was hardly ell
route from the City of Mexico before a pc
tition ives being circulated in the Senat,
chamber in behalf of Senator Ransom
The salary is S17.5OO. which amounts tt
3 more than S35, 900 in silver in the City O
Mexico. The petition was extensively
signed on both sides of the chamber by Sen
; atOrs who at the same time remarked OF
the bad taste of the movement. Senator
Hill, of New 1Ork, is said to have cOurte
Ously declined 20 put his name to it TO
this reason.
If this be true, you ought to have ha(
more consideration for me than to play
upon my nerves and credulty for two
years and coOlly announce, at this lat,
day, that "you see no chance for my
1 appointment"
1t is OF no consequence to me whether
what say i'll this paper meets the apprO
val OF the State or not. 1t has the ap
e prOval of my conscience and is necessary
to my self-respect and to save me from
2 the contempt of those who would despis
: me, if bore this wrong in silence.
You stand on the mountain top, bu
your position and the frowns of YOU
/ friends can not deter me from speaking
} You are great, but in this matter | an
the stronger. | have truth, and right
and justice on my side.
Thrice is he armed that hath his uuarre
just,
And he but naked, though locked up il
steel,
Whose conscience with injustice is cor
rupted."
, do not ask for, and would not value
the friendship of any man who endorse
, your course towards me.
The sum OF the whole matter is this
, BY the unanimous voice of the Demo
cratic party Of North Carolina it was de
, declared that deserved recognition, ant
tue party demanded it. In "obedenc
thereto you took my papers and promised
that should be appointed. You have toll,
my friends, and myself, positively. man,