The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1915-02-10

sign; that you had asked him TO re-
sign last summer and again ,iocn The
campaign; that you had had mutual
friends to go to him and state that he
was embarrassing you and YOUR cor.
duct Of the office by insisting on re
tanning his position as your assistant;
that you had not been able to make
him consent to give up the office. al
though you still hoped that he would
do so. You stated that Mr.. Domi-
hicks work was not satisfactory: that
he had often been absent from the of
flee without your consent or even
knowledge; that he had on occasions
left the office on Friday morning anu
stayed away until Tuesday night; that
this was not satisfactory to you nor
to the conduct of the business of the
office, but that you We're powerless in
the matter. You stated that when
the campaign began last summer
you had gone to him and asked for
his resignation on the ground that
you were in he campaign yourself,
thu he was a candidate for congress
and that inasmuch as you had to
make the State tour with the CAM
paign party, the office Of the attorney
general would be closed unless your
assistant were there; that he had de-
clined to resign, which had caused
you great embarrassment and had
forced you to leave the State CAM
paign party a number Of times to at
tend to matters in the office which alb
solutely required attention.
You again stated that you person.
ally were anxious to work in har-
mony with my administration, but
that you could not get rid of Mr.. DOM
mick; that you regretted this, and
that you still hoped the matter would
work itself out.
I have never intimated to you or
to any one else that / wanted you to
appoint any particular man, nor do
now do so. You have an absolute
right, legal and otherwise, to appoint
whom you please; but in view Of the
voluntary statements and assurances
you had made me, was glad to dis
cuss the appointment with you; while
in view Of the peculiar unsuita ableness
of the appointment of Mr.. Dominick,
1 have a right to protest. not because
of any personal feeling against him,
but upon the grounds that Mr.. Domi-
the former governor, his campaign
manager and his close confidant and
po "tisan, political and otherwise
would be opposed to the carrying out
Of the changes in our government,
which the people by their vote, last
August, ordered done. In consider
ing appointments distinction must be
made between those offices where
the duties are of an administrative
character and those where the dutie:
are advisory. In the one case, diff.
ferences as to political association
are not especially important; in the
other, lack Of sympathy and convic.
ton necessarily prohibits cooperation
/ am disappointed that you do not
seem to realize the absolute necessity
of every branch of the government
cooperating fully with complete con-
fidence, in order to put into effect the
expressed mandates of the people.
In frankness, ] can but feel that
you could not be uninfluenced by the
opinion and association of Mr.. Domi-
nick in matters submitted to your Of
flee. when You have admitted to me
that you had asked him to resign but
were not able to make him do so.
1 am giving out the correspondence
for publication.
Yours truly
(Slgned) Richard /. Manning.
February A.