The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-20
ADMINS TRATION SCANDAL.
WIMBERLY AFFAIR THREATENS
TO DISRUPT THE CABINET.
Despite His Promises, Mckinley For
warded Winlberly's Commission
to Gage, Who Threatens to Re
sign.

The purpose of President Mckinley
and Mark Hanna to appoint A. T.
Wimberly, q New Orleans tough, to
the office Of collector of customs. as a
reward for his services in bribing
Louisiana delegates to support MeKin-
ley at st. Louis. has been fully set
forth in The Herald. The second chap
ter in the scandal is furnished by a
dispatch from Washington to several
! western papers on the 18th inst The
dispatch follows:
a charge of deliberately requesting
a mother to countenance and assist in
the diShonor of her daughter has been
brought against A. T. Wimberly, Han
! mas candidate for the position of col
leotor of customs at New Orleans, by
number Of prominent Louisiana Re
publicans ana an affidavit hled at the
I treasury department by the mother
J herself has been forwarded to Presi-
/ dent Mckinley by Secretary Gage. The
! latter has threatened that he will re-
/ sign from the cabinet before he Will
! countenance Wimberly's appointment.
This is the latest development in a
! case that has not only reflected dis
credit upon this administration, but
! which has very nearly disrupted Pres
! ident McKinley's cabinet. A. T. VIM
! Berry is strongly indorsed by Senator
! Hanna for the New Orleans collector
ship, which means, in plain, brutal
! language, that Hanna has insisted that
( the president shall appoint Mr. VIM
! berry in payment of certain campaign
! debts, and in fulfiilmen Of certain ante
! election promises. MT Wimberly's con-
nection With the Republican party,
/ since the beginning of Hanna's strug-
/ gle TO make Mr.. McKinle.s president,
has been q record of shame for the
! Republican party.
Protests against his appointment,
/ however. have been so numerous and
of such strength as to make Secretary
| Gage declare that he viii never consent
to the appointment. On one occasion
| 800 women, wives of the best known
! bankers, lawyers and professional men
/ Of New Orleans. sent TO Mrs. Gage by
d personal representative a petition
! giving Wimberly's record in New Or
| leans and protesting against his ap-
pointnent. Wimberly was denounced
! in the strongest language as man of
such malodorous notoriety as to make
| his appointment a national outrage. All
! fore Mr.. Mckinley. aI40 the latter con-
sented to defer the appointment for
several months. at least. With a half
! promise that he would appoint some
one else. Not long ago. however, af-
ter a visit from Hanna, he made out
the commission. signed it and sent it
to Gage. The latter declined to ap-
prove the appointment, and conse-
! quently it has been hanging ever since.
On the 7th OF May Mrs. Mathilde
| Guyol of New Orleans wanted a posi-
ton in the sixth auditors Office. Among
the people she called on in Washing
ton was Wimberly. The latter listened
to her and then made a proposition
concerning her daughter, IS years old
] Immediately on learning Of VIM
berly's action, ex-senator Kellogg OF
! Louisiana, State Senator Waters and
several other Louisianans secured Mrs
Guyols affidavit to her charges and
filed them with Secretary Gage.
| Mrs. Guyol went with them,
and when she had told her
story, Mr.. Gage was too hor-
| rified to discuss the matter, only prom
Using to see that Mr.. Wimberly's at
| tempts to secure the New Orleans col
| lectorship would be thwarted.
This man is simply Infamous" Mr.
Gage said to an official who gas pres
ent when Mrs. Guyol told her story
His appointment would be a disgrace
TO. the party and to the country