The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 18, 1889, Page 6

j | ' | | } | | | | wow eee eee US RESIGNATION. TANN The Corporal’s Letter to tie President and the reply to it. Washington, Sept. 12.—Corporal Tanner, commissioner of pensions, has resigned. Following is Com- missioner Tanner’s letter of resigna- tion and President Harrison’s reply thereto: Department of the Interior, { B jareau of Pensions Washington, D.C. Sept. 12. To tux Paesiwent—The [differences which exist between the Secretary of the Interior and myself as to the policy to be pursued in thegadmin- istration of the pension bureau have reached a stage which threatens to embarrass you to an extent which I feel I should not call upon you to suffer, and, as the investigation into the affairs of the bureau have been completed, and I am assured, both by yourself and the Secretsry of the Interior, contains no reflections on my integrity as an individual or as an officer, I herewith place my res- ignation in your hands, to take effect at your pleasure, to the end that you may be relieved of any further embarrassment in the matter. Very respectfully yours, James Tanner, Commissioner. THE PRESIDENT'S REPLY. Executive Mansion, 2 Washington, D. C., Sept. 12,835 Hon. James Tanner, Commissioner of Pensions: Dear Srr—Your letter tendering you resignation of the office of com- missioner of pensions has been re- ceived,and your resignation is ac- cepted, to tuke effect on the appoint- ment and qualification of your suc- cessor. Ido not think it necessary. in this correspondence, to discuss the the causes which have led to the present attitude of affairs in the pen- sion office. You have been fully and kindly advised of my views upon most of these matters. It gives me pleasure to add that so far as as Tam advised your hon- esty has not at any time been called in question, and IT beg to renew the expression of my personal good will. Very truly yours, Bessey Harrison. HIS RESIGNATION REQUESTED. There is no doubt that Tanner's | r_signation was asked for by the President. The corporal’s quarrel with Secretary Noble had reached such a point that one or the other must leave the Interior department, and itis surmised that the President | concluded that he could better let the commissioner go than the sec- retary. THREATS BY THE G. A. R.. Corporal Tanner has received scores of letters and telegrams in the last few days, urging him not to resign. AG. A.R. post at Dulthi Minn.. telegraphed him: “Don’t surrender to the brigadiers; the G. | A. R.iswith you. You are doing right. Don't be bulldozed.” From Lynn, Mass., came the fol- lowing greeting to the corporal: “Bully for you Jim. You are doing exactly right andif Harrison inter- feres with you he'll hear from us. From Greeley, Col., came the fole lowing: ‘The survivors of the Union army in this vicinity congratulate you on your splendid administration of the pension office. We can not believe that President Harrison will dispense with you. Ifhe does we will see him later.” From Chattanooga, Tenn., the corporal received this message: “The @G. A. R. boys here are with you to a man. You are the first ealisted man to be given a prominent office. We want you to hold it. Do not be in- timidated by the shoulder straps.” : From the Soldiers’ Home at Day- ton, O., the corporrl received this message: “We are with you. If the administration does not sustain you fully, good-bye Foraker.” DALZELL'S OPINION. The New York Herald to-day prints the following communication, which speaks for itself: Remove Corporal Tanner. Qh, I guess.not. It would cost the Re- publicans every state north, this year of grace, 1889,and both houses before two years. It would occa-| sion such a revolt among the boys in blue they would leave the party in In order to ' will for the ' business, and the REGARDLESS Or cost. - |fer the following reduce my stockand | ,make room for Holiday goods, I| |=: NEXT-:-THIRTY-:-DAYS :- Sell goods in my line so low that it will make your head swim. the first reduction sale ever offered by me, and is no catch, but I mean To cash customers I of- linds of our goods. else in proportion. This goods must go, OF PROFIT, prices in a few Everything WALL PAPER. | Former price 25c now 15¢. “ “ B5e * De ee « 50e “ 33¢ | = 65¢ 45¢ | ORGANS. HAMLIN & MASON’S | Former price $135 now 3100 OTHER ORGANS. | Former price $100 now $8! “ $90 | Second hand Orgons frou $25 to $40 SHEET MUSIC. 2 1 5 to 15 cents per copy: : worth from 10¢ to $1,25- Novels, paper covers, to | clean up—3 for 25¢ An endless variety of g Come while the ball is ro and have mad GEO. W. a body. No danger of corporal | Tanner's removal. Better remove the entire cabinet. He has two reasons for holding of- tice no other official has at Washing- | ton—two legs shot off in battle, and one other reason no man ever had before, and that is, he was a private soldier the only one ever honored with an office by any administration, | and the only one that ever will be. | So he must remain. { No sir; he will not be removed. | ifhe were removed Foraker would | decline to remain on the ticket in \ Ohio. His doom would be sealed from that hour. The soldiers are | swearing mad, howling. cursing, | damning mad at the malice and jeai- ousy of the aristocrats who are | hounding our comrade to his death. Woe, woe to them if they down ( Tanner; for, bythe God that rules | and reigns, if they touch a hair of his head we will salt every man of them. Our vengeance will stop at nothing lawful. Private Dauzeni. | These are samples of the feeling i in the G. A. R., and the corpora! is deprived of a soft $5,000 a year of- fice tor himself, and of an $1,800 and $1,500 office respectively for his daughters, he is confident the G. A. R., is behind him and that the 1 BABY CARRIAGES. Former price, $20 now $14 se “ 350 « $17 ce “ $25 « $16 Some of these last years | designs | SEWING MACHINES. | =65 now S47) Former price Th prices for Cash | boug!:: direct from the house. <iN® VIOLINS Form: > price $25 now $16 } S15 310 numerous to mention. We must clean up. s todo it. WEAVER. Senator Vest a Kansas City Man. The location of Senator Vest’s home has been 2 question of consid- time. He that Kansas asked erable interest for some isserted He was has ulw City was his this morning what his inf€resis here home. were. He replied: “I own real estate in Kansas City for which I been have offered $50,000 but which I consider worth a great This is by far the larger part of my entire estate. “Do you consider Kansas City deal more. your home?” “Ido. In 1877 I came here to live and opened a law office on Main street, and then at the corner of Sixth and Delaware. Just after- wards I was elected to the senate, and as my children were all grown and my wife in delicate health we have spent our time since in Wash- ington during the sessions of con- gress, and in the summer at Sweet Springs, where I have a cottage, or in some higher lattitude suitable to a person in delicate health. “This is a private matter, howev- er, for if the people of Kansas City, ora respectable portion of them, object to my claiming a residence here I can very easily remedy the matter, and will do so with pleasure. “Seriously, however, I have always administration will feel his wrath and | expected when circumstances per- the wrath of his comrades in the near future. The corporal feels that a combination of brigadiers has mitted to practice my profession in this city, and to remain here the bal- ance of my life. I own no property downed him; that if he was a com-| 12 St. Louis and never did.” missioned officer in the army he Senator Vest’s term expires in would have been all right now, but | March, 1891. His successor is to being an enlisted man the brigadiers —Harrison, Noble and Bussey— | conspired to ruin him. A sick man expressed a desire for | Some apple dumplings, and his wife the bedside watching the dumplings toothsome delicacies, said: | be chosen in January, 1891. | “Are youa candidate for re-elec- | tion?” he was asked. “Well, I have not worried about the matter in any way. I do not pretend to be indifferent about it, for there are attacks being made made adozen. A little son sat by | upon me which very naturally arouse | | every instict of manhood and resist- ought to be. If my own personal | comfort and happiness were i to be considered I would not re in politics. I have been in the ;ate two terms and know what it means. The actual labor, ifa man does his duty, is very great, but the constant demands of every sort and | from all quarters, the eternal nag- | ging, if I may so express it, wears ! out any nervous man before he sus- | pects there is any danger. | “Thisis the personal part—but |there is something else which no one with any sense of public obliga- | tion or private gratitude can ignore. | I owe everything to the people of | Missouri and especially to the deme ocratic party. The matter isin their j hands. If they want my services | again they have a right tothem. If they do not, they will say so, and I | shall not complain. The whole thing jis with them. I shall use no extra- ordinary effort to succeed myself, and certainly no indirect methods or means. That is the whole of it.” “What do you think of the treat- ment of your committee here?” “We have been treated here as wellas any of us could wish. Of course some of the newspapers have been very critieal and have said some unjust things—but that is a liberty the press often takes with better mer, and we expect it. In Chicago it was quite different. The whole city there seemed in a combine to fight the investigation and the pack- ers treated us as if they owned the country and we wero impertinent in even approaching their confines.” e See nay j sen- THE GENERAL AWAKENING. How the Campaign of Taritf Reform Is Moving Grandly Onward. The farmers of Missouri are awak- ening to a sense of their duty as « izens and as the head cf families. They are coming rapidly to know that they have an abiding interest in the tariff question and that it con- cerns every act and purporse of their daily lives. Heretofore they have seemed to regard it merely as an ab- strat question of politics with which they were more associated than is next years prosperity with this year’s lottery ticket. This imisconception is over now now. Tariff reform meetings, tariff reform barbecues tariff reform pienics are the order oftheday and the enthusiasin ig spreading to every congressional district until democratic speakers are in the midst of a great campaign— a cainpaign of education, a campaign merchants and the mechanics, in the interesi of self-preservation. It is the most ex- traordinary condition of things in the history of American politics—a cam- paign without candidates. And it should be conclusive evidence to the republican party of the country that its ruinous policy of protection has been run toearthand is being exe posed to the tax-payers in its true color of organized, systematic rob- bery. Let the good work goon. Let farmers gather themselves into dis- trict and precinct meetings and or- ganize and hear the specches of men who are capable of dealing under- standingly with the tariff question. The resolution adopted by the Farmers Alliance at Springfield last week are good enough keynotes, and when all the people come to under- stand that the protection system is for the purpose of nursing “infant industries” ina few eastern states which have grown so enormously wealthy asto hold nine-tenths of the mortagages on western farms, there will be such an uprising as this country never saw before. The democratic party made its campaign last year upon this issue, fairly inviting defeat to save the people a principal of right and jus- tice. The people are going to un- derstand and fully appreciate it this time, and for all time to come. of the farmers, the There is a great rush for home on disappear one by one. After eleven ance. So far as the personal aspect | the part of American tourists. Some = been devoured the boy said: jof the question is concerned, I do | 200 of them couldn't get berths on | “Pa, can Thave a dumpling?” And | not intend to be driven out of pub-! 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