The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-31
MeA bu0'S RESIGNATION
WRITES 4 WARM LETTER TO MR McCLELLAN.
Charges That Mayor Kept Him in stu- dled Ignorance of His Desire for q Change in Police Depart-
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New York. Dec. 3O.-Police Commits sioner McAdoo tonight made public his letter to Mayor Mcclellan rendering his resignation to take effect tomorrow. Mir. McAdoo states that his resignation was requested by the mayor, but says that such request would not have been necessary had 1t even been inti- mated to him what the mayors wishes were in the premises. He declares | Mayor Mcclellan had no cause what ever for keeping him in studied ignor- ance of his intentions. In his letter Commissioner McAdoo says:
 T am in receipt of yours of the goth instant requesting my resignation as police commissioner to take effect December 31. 1905. I take pleasure in complying with your request, which would have been unnecessary had you acquainted me with your wishes in the premises. I stated some time ago that I would not raise a finger to se- cure & tenure in this office for four years, and can now add to that that I would not have continued in this office even If you had requested mo to do so.
 The circumstances under which I accepted this office from you and it's conduct during my incumbency enti- ties me, submit, to acknowledgment of your wishes, more especially in view or the loHoWlHB CorreSponoence, which speaks for itself, and tho fact that within the last few weeks you took occasion to speak of me to others in complimentary terms"
 Mr. McAdoo then quotes a letter which he addressed to Mayor McCIel- Ian In october last calling his atten- tion to q newspaper interview attrib- uted to the Mayor in which certain po- lice officials were criticised. Mir. Me- Adoo told the Mayor that without the support of the city's head. he could moi consent to remain in the police de- partment.
 In the Mayors reply to this letter dated October 3, he wrote to Mir Me- Adoo:
 q am indeed sorry that my action of yesterday should have awakened in your mind even the slightest suspicion that you and your administration did not have my fullest confidence"
 The mayor concluded: With undi- unfinished faith in you and your ad- ministration. and with assurances of my personal esteem," etc.
 After giving this correspondence in full, Commissioner McAdoo concludes his resignation as follows:
 'So far as you have ever expressed yourself to mo or my friends, you have no cause whatever for keeping me in studied ignorance of your intentions If vacancy was desired to be created, I should have been consulted with; If we had differed as to q question of policy 1t should have been a manly and honest one from which we could have parted as friends if 1t related to my personal conduct, or that of those under me, l should at least have been given a hearing: if you believed that my continuance in this office was an advantage to the public you owed to them and to me to say so; or even If you were convinced to the contrary the unusual circumstances under which l accepted trust and our personal re- lations demands that you should so state to me in that candid and honor- able way which prevails among gem tlemen."