The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-03-07
1ALLINGER QUITS-PINCH0T
MAN GETS HIS JOB

get ready to leave for Seattle as soon
as possible. That is all | can say
now"
On jan %, replying to Ballinger's
letter of resignation, the president
wrote:
Dear Mr.. secretary-For reasons
which have deeply impressed them
selves in my heart and mind. j would
never consent TO consider your reslg-
nation on any ground that was based
on the good OF the service or OF help
ing me personally or politically, for no
such ground is tenable by me. Only on
the score OF your health and personal
convenience or to prevent further pc
cuniary sacrifice on your part Will
consider accepting your resignation.
But not even on the latter grounds can
l consider IL until after congress ad-
iourns. until after ali unjust attacks
are ended, until after l have had the
benefit of your valuable and necessary
aid during the remainder of crowd
ed session, and until We have reached
the calm period which hope viii fol-
low the present hurry and pressure
and necessity for constant action and
watching incident to the close OF
short session Then I'll take 1t up and
answer you at length.
On March 6, Ballinger addressed a
letter to the president reiterating his
request for immediate acceptance OF
his resignation.
The president answered him as fol-
lows:
My Dear Secretary--I accept your
resignation with great reluctance. I
have had the fullest opportunity to
know you. to know your standards OF
service TO the government and the
public, to know your motives, to know
how you have administered your Of
flee and to know the motives Of those
who have assailed you. do not hesi-
tate to say that you have been the OBJ
ject OF one OF the most INSCRIPTIONS
conspiracies for the defamation Of
have deemed IL my duty not only TO
the government, but to society in gem
eral, to fight out this battle TO the end.
confident that In the end your fellow
citizens would see that the impression
OF you as a man and as the admins
traitor or a high public office were
false and were the result OF ma
licious and unprincipled plan for the
use OF the press to misrepresent you
and your actions. and TO torture every
circumstances, however free from det-
rimental circumstances. into proof Of
corrupt motive.
with the hypocritical pretense they
did not accuse of corruption In order
TO avoid the necessity. that even the
worst criminal Is entitled to-, to-wit:
THAT OF n definitely formulated charge
OF some misconduct; they showered
YOU with suspicion and by the most
pettifogging methods, exploited the
pubic matters which nhu no relevancy
TO an issue OF either corruption or
efficiency In office, but which paraded
before an hysterical body of headline
readers served to blacken your
character and to obscure the proper
issue OF your honesty and effectiveness
as q public servant
The result has been a cruel tragedy.
You and yours have lost health and
have been burdened financially. The
sonspirators who have not hesitated In
their pursuit of you to resort TO the
Incanest OF methods. including the cor
sistant. plume themselves like the
Pharisees of old. as the only pure MEM
bors OF society, actuated by the spirit
Of self -sacrifce for their fellow men.
Every fibre of my nature rebels
against such hypocrisy and nerves me
methods TO the bitter end. lest success
in this instance may form a demorsliz-
ing precedent. But personal consider
alton for you and yours makes me feel
that ] have no right TO ask you for
further sacrifices OF course. IL has
the ultimate object OF the attack; and
10 insist. against your will. on your
remaining In office. with the prospect
OF further efforts against you, is sell
fshly 10 Impose on you more or bur-
den than ! ought 20 impose
new my expressions of affection and
sincerest respect for you, and OF my
nrofound gratitude for your hard work,
YOUR unvarying loyalty and your ef-
fective public. service. hope and
pray that success may attend you In
ness will come TO you and yours when
YOU return 20 that community where
vot, live and whose members know
your worth an q man and citizen. and