The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1895-03-28

for your fidelity to him; for being,
says the Washington Post, Of the
10th, in laudatory notice:
4 steadfaat friend Of the President
in the Senate, even going To the extent
Of voting for the repeal Of the Sherman
silver purchasing law, nga,osf The ssnti-
mebt Of III fgour) STATE.
The President has crowned VOL
with the mission to the court of tn
Montezumas, but you will - ther
without the endorsement Of three
fourths of the population Of you
State.
1t was peculiarly meet and proper
and entirely to be expected that your
confirmation as minister should bt
moved in the Senate by JOnn Sher-
man, 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 a feather will flock to-
gether."
Having denounced Grover Cleve-
land at Chicago, you were dubious
about approaching him in the early.
/ part of the administration how
comes it that he allows you to con
troll 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 eulogize, but which
you have not quite often enough
initiated, was in i'll favor and with
out ,inhuence at the White House:
Thinking that some personal or
political enemy might have libeled
me to the State Department or t.
the President, | wrote letter to the
First MISUNDERSTANDING of State,
Hon. Edwin +. Uhl, few days ago
and requested him to confer with the
President and the Secretary of State,
as to whether aught had been ad
vanced against me personally or
otherwise. From his very kind and
courteous reply | quote as follows:
| l have much pleasure in assuring
you that nothing whatever, in the
slightest degree rejecting upon you,
has ever been represented to this De-
partment. But as evidence of the high
esteem in which you are held by the
| President, | may mention your ap-
pOintment by him as Consul to Cura-
Goa, and his regret that you could not
see your way clear to an acceptance Of
the same.
l was appointed in April last Con-
sui 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 in
duced me to take my wife and chill
dren to that equatorial, fever-stricken
climate. The compensation was not
sufficient to induce ME to 20 alone.
After | had declined this appoint
ment you declared it would have
been "madness" in me to take it. The
State press ridiculed it as unworthy
my acceptance. The Newbern Jour
nal said:
The place is not of the rank to which
the gentleman was entitled by his
splendid services in the last campaign
but it is recognition of his claims
and may lead to something better.
1t acas distinct recognition of
my claims. My declinatlon was en-
dorsed and commended by the party
and its leaders. l was promised
something better. How could it be
honestly withheld? TO deny or
orerent my appointment to another
place, instead of the one it was con-
coded | could not accept, is properly
denominated political robbery.
You have spoken in my behalf,
and apparently most earnestly and
powerfully. You have spoken elo-
quently for others. You have so
directed matters that they have been
appointed while l have been ignored |
Results speak louder than words.
The New York Times says:
The scOurge is lifted, nothing is left |
of the Fifty-third Congress but a bad |
name. 1t is dead and the country is
glad.
You have been as false to me as
the late Democratic Congress-, bar
ring a few good men, has been false
to the people.
You must be blinded by your
vanity, or you would see that when
you took great mission, to my ex
clusion, asserting that you had done
the best you could for me, you CON-
mitted an act that bears such SEM
blance Of bad faith that even your
friends cannot defend it.
Having assumed charge of my pa
pers and become my representative
to secure office, in the State Depart
ment if possible, you could not, with
honor, take place for yourself, espe-
cially in the State Department,
knowing such action would swell
North Carolina's quota beyond the
banks. and prevent my official recog-
milton.
To say that you have influence
sufficient to have conferred upon you
d great mission, with or without the
asking, and not enough to obtain tor
me consular or other appointment
during the past two years, is so H.
logical that it appears false on its
face, and at all events puts an end to
the absurd statement of your friends ,,
that "you have done your best for ,
me-"
Says the New York World OF ,
February 22:
The haste with which Democratic t
of high and low degree have {
'een falling over each other in scram- i
Die for the Mexican mission is exciting I
lnfavOrable criticism in every direc- t
ion. The body of the late Minister
tray was hardly en- route from the !
CitV of Mexico bafOrp patit;op xuoc l