The Owosso times., 1910-01-14
John Y. Martin Recommended foI
Postmaster at Corunna.

The Washington correspondent of
the Grand Rapids Press writes his
paper;
Congressman Fordney today rec
| commended John Y. Martin for post
master at Corunna, Mich, to sue
ceed Erwin Eveleth.
Il regretted exceedingly to take
this STEP" said Mr.. Fordney, "but
the circumstances are such that
can do nothing else. Mr.. Eveleth is
| a fine gentleman, and an old friend
of mine, but the postoffice depart
| ment has notified me his service as
postmaster is not satisfactory, and
so l have no resource but to name
some other man. Mr.. Martin is
ship, the hunter who was success
full in killing the wolf which had
ravaged many fiocks of sheep in
Rush township, was Tuesday al
lowed the $25 bounty by the board
of supervisors. The county will
however pay only half OF the bounty
as the state will pay $3.50 Of it.
As to the charge printed in
some papers in Michigan that
agreed to keep Mr.. Eveleth in Of
fee no matter how much he ne
elected it, and that he neglected it
while working for me as a lumber
locker, can only say that it is all
untrue. / have had no such rela-
ton with him, nor any other rela-
tion that was not in every respect
proper. He has done no work for
me at any time. / never hired him
for single day, either directly or
indirectly. The only thing ap-
preaching a timber deal with him
ever had was on three occasions
when he offered me an opportunity
to buy tracts of timber land, saying
that if he could sell it he could Sc
cure a commission in the deal.
had the tracts examined, two being
in Florida and one in Tennessee,
and l bought none of them be-
cause the timber was not such as
made it look like a good trade to
me.
AS for his conduct of the Corun-
ma Office, can only say that at the
expiration of his first term the de.
partment notified me that he was
away from the office too much.
asked him to make showing in
contradiction, and promise to not
neglect it in the future, with which
| could secure his reappointment,
which he did.
During his last campaign he
came to me in some excitement and
said he had heard that / had prom
ised the Office to Mr. Martin.
said. it is not true, and it is still un>
true. / never promised it to him,
and did not speak to Mr.. Martin
except to thank him for working for
me in the campaign, the same as /
thanked many others. Neither did
l promise the office to Mr.. Eveleth
regardless of his method of con-
Quoting it. l have neither the in
fluence nor the disposition to make
any such promises. When was
notified toward the last of the year
that the department desired me to
recommend another man than Eve
leth for the office, because he had
not paid the required attention to
his business, / notified him first, as
it was right I should do in such an
event, and also asked him to pro-
vide me with an affidavit of his alb
sences from the Office that l might
use it to secure his reappointment.
That letter he. has not answered.
The only letter I have received from
him is one accusing me of deceit,
which hurt me because of it's un-
truth.
But that letter showed me that
he did not propose to defend him
self against the charge that he has
neglected his office, and as / had re-
ceived so many recommendations
for Mr.. Martin, and none for Eve
leth or any other persons. I have
recommended Mr.. Martins appoint
ment. Mr.. Eveleth's term expires
Jan. 81.
while ! was home during the
holidays I had a telephone conver-
sation with Mr.. Eveleth's son, dur
ing which i stated to him that the
case was up to his father. If he
would provide me with a showing
by means of which l could go to his
defense in the department / would
do so, but the son impudently in
formed me that his father would do
nothing of the kind still ex.
pected the father would do so,
however, until I received his letter
upon my arrival here yesterday.
Some of the letters asking me
to recommend Martin assert that
Eveleth has not been in the office |
more than quarter of the time for
the past 1S months or two vears"