The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1895-04-09

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Lutte accuracy, you told me to give you
papers. You took charge of them,
and though you kept them in your
desk about seven weeks, Until a tobacco
drummer from Danville, Va, without
political prestige, was appointed Con
sul-General to Rio, for which I was en-
dorsed, you carried them to the State
Department and afterwards, on several
occasions, asked me eff a s 1000 con,
sulate would be sufficient, :" remarking
that ''Mr. Quincy liked me very much"
that a smaller consulate would not
do" and that you 'would sec to the
matter of climate" Your warm In
quiries about my little children in this
connection capped the assurance OF an
appointment and cemented my faith
in your sincerity.
You told me after that in Weldon
that I "would be appointed, and said
"Go ahead, Walter, and do your duty.
and it will be all right"
Protesting all the time that you were
doing everything in your powerfor me,
you told me last summer, coming out
from our audience with the President,
that you had never before that day
really pressed my claims"
The following gentlemen, among
others, had been appointed from North
Carolina before you ever really
pressed my claims: Kerr Craig,
s.. 900; Josephus Daniels, 50 $50, then
50, 900; g. w. Sanderlin, $2,25O; A D.
Jones, s., 900; Eben Alexander, Sc, 500;
T. R Jernigan, So, 600; Paul Faison,
So, 900; ". P. Roberts, $4,000; William
Little, s., 500; W. b. s. Burgwyn,
So, 900; George McCorkle, $4,000; Mr..
Shaw, 60, 900; Pendleton King, 81. $50:
w. E. Faison, g. $50; J. Q. L. Gudger,
1000; Peter Wilson, 50, 600; w. R
Cox, Sc, OOO-not speaking of the three,
four and six thousand dollar appoint
ments ia North Carolina.
Protesting you were doing your best
for me, you had Mr.. Gudger appointed
to a 81 500 position in the Department
Of Justice. I had asked for a place in
that department. / have been told
that Mr.. Gudger was one of your
strongest opponents in the west. He
announced in the papers, speaking OF
his appointment, that the Office ''SOught
the man and not the man the Office"
I find nothing in the career or party
work or sentiment in behalf of either
of the gentlemen above named that
entities him to precedence over me,
certainly not to the extent of a denial
of just recognition.
You have never given me any reason
for my accompaniment, mol for the
policy of not really pressing my claims
until last summer. But the reason il
$50 clear, so shining and SO evident
That 1t Will giimmer through a blind mans eye.
You remember, you complained &c
me one night about Vance being a Re
publican county. If I had lived in
county that was expected to return 6
Democratic member to the legislature
l would, no doubt, have received rec
ignition as oon as any one of the dis
tinguished gentlemen above named.
The truth is, you have sacrificed me
to your own plans, and you must en-.
terrain some personal hate also, fol-
you have been so heartless.
/ During the past two years, though
I have written you many letters, you
have eve answered one, nor have
you had your two Government paid
clerks to do so.
One of the chief badges of a gentle
man is to answer a gentleman's letter.
A public servant-a statesman
systematically fails to answer letters,
either because he is too INDECENT or in.
different to the commonest dictates OF
courtesy, or because he is afraid to
commit himself to paper-appreciat.
ing the latitude allowed by verbal
communication.
"a formal deed with seal and signature,
A spectre this from which you shrink afraid.
The word its life resiRneth in the pen,
Leather and wax usurp the mastery then"
Though his right arm hangs shat.
tered and useless at his side, ex Senator
Thomas J. Jarvis never fails to answer
letters written him. And the last time
I saw the great Zebulon B. Vance ]
looked down from the Senate gallery
upon his disease stricken form and
hair grown gray in the faithful ser
vice of his people-he was writing a
letter, no doubt to one of his constitu-
ents. He was holding the pen in his
trembling right hand, and vainly try
ing to steady it with his left. What q