Year: 1871

The ScanSal about the nciniiat "a ppoint-
ments-Nr. Jesse II. Grant Makes an Ex-
planatiOn.


TO the Editor ofthe Cincinnati Gazette.
Sir:-If remain silent, people win think thpt
what the Stomses have said. and what reporters
have told as being said by me, is true. =
The cause of my trouble is in having placed
confidence in the Stomses. This is the way l
came to have any:-I wass going along Lower
Market street, about month before the Chi
cago Convention met when young man came
out of n store, and said his father wanted 40
see me; did not know who his father was.
He said Mr.. Stoms. | did not know
any more than did before, but followed him in.
A very pleasant, smiling little man met me;
was glad TO see me; said he was chairman of the
Republican Committee of Hamilton county, and
was going to get elected delegate to the Chi
cago Convention on purpose to vote for Gene
raj Grant. He saw me twoepr three times be-
fore the convention, and after the nomination
kept coming often, and whenever was near the
store they would run after me to come in. He
was very pleasant He is a talkatiye confidential
kind of man.


Towards the end of February he came and
gave me tickets for Miss Grant and myself, and
said the railroad company had sent them. |
never expected him to get any tickets, or do
anything. He went on the same train with u.s.
and did every little thing to make the journey
pleasant. On the way he told me all about his
son Horace, the assessor of the First districts;
what good soldier he was, and what a good
Republican he had always been, although Pre-.
sident Johnson did appoint him, and that he was
iirst-rate young man, and very popular.


Durin4s the journey, and at times when we
met before, he told me all about himself that
he was one of the original Republicans, and
had always worked hard and spent good deal
OF money for the party, and thought he ought
to have General McGroarty's place the Collector
\ of the Second district. He said If he got that,
his SON Horace would give up the assessors
office.


Imade other recommendation. but think
the Onlv that annninf0d hv
Horace just on account of my recommendation
were Pease and Sackett. nearly always talked
with Mr.. VIM. Stoms, because he seemed to run
the Office from the same fatherly care which
they now charge me with trying to exercise
This state of good feeling continued to near the
close of the year 1862 did not sup
pose he harbored any malice because l had
talked to him. but il seems from the date of q
certificate of Pease that he publishes that he
did. The thought then likely came up that he
could make some use of the conversation about
Weithoff in April, but he did not show it, and
our meetings continued friendly Until week OF
two after Wright Clarke came here, think u
December. / called at his store, and told him
Horace had tried to insult me in the manner he
had turned Pease off. l told him that Peast
and Sackett were the only men that had been
appointed at my request, and ought to be treated
as well as the others, and not turned out with
out any hearing or any notice, and told hin
that Horace ought to do as he would be done
tTeated ted in % that WSw. WSw About the - S2d O o
January, 1871, / received few lines from
the President, with two letters incloset
written to him by William stoms and Horace
Stoms. They shocked me. The ingratitud'
and perfdy of these two men bewildered me
. About month after 1 received the let
ters one of the city papers had an account of
private conversation with nae. Ii seems / hal
been deceived by an impostor, who had calle'
TO see me TO express the pleasure he felt at see
ing HE old classmate and intimate friend con
fTned as Minister 70 Denmark, He talke'