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Show BEM HILL ON fflR. HAVES. . During the progress o' the above couv-rsation a neullemai' stepped up to Mr. Hill and EnliciitM his influence wuu President Hayts loru frieud. "Do you wish me to think k'ndjy of you and treat you politely? ' said Mr, Hill. "Ol cours I do," replied the v-eUtlem an. "Well, then," said Mr. Hill, ' never ask tne to have any communication of that sort with the president. My self-respect will not allow me t think of such a thing. I vote on his ap pointmento as a senator, but I shall have noiiaing further to do with them "Y:lU BPH " Mr H)ll ir0r sayt 'when the president was fires'' iuauguratrd, moved by hi Uir pro- i raises, I offered to assist him, so tar as I could, m improving the southern ! civil service, wbicu, uuder Gract, was' noiorionsly bad. He thanked me for i, njy oiler, promised to accept my sug gestion aud to cali on me for inlbrf niatiot!. Under ibis etuia of things I felt that it might be oi some service' to my people by improving thei officials that were put over them. I "I made BevrrU tugyeslions to the ! president that wra based purely on the fitness or Unfitness ot the appli-cant, appli-cant, as 1 judged from my own knowledge. knowl-edge. I put mysel ou; of the way to I do thw. And with what efl.'ct? Why, the president tws never acted j upon a single suggestion thatlbpi; made; he has never onowu any disp silioo to do so. While be profesa-n great respect lor me as a public i-jmei, he ia governed almost entirely bv nvei! for whom ho can have no -tpecl. f When I saw that he took th sngges' ! lion of such men aa Kolbg helors li he would take mine, I felt that i.j own respect, and the raapect I hni ;rw my own people, ai for the poifjij j I hold, would nci allow mo to gp.:af ,v further. "I have, therefore, deternv.-j- u. make no. more suggestions, a.j ; t0 bold no further commuuie:t-Vr ft-i him upon the subject, of, .u. menls. All thin ru.uor !v U1V having uch an influence w ah the 'president is false. I tin t,. .,,lt I have any; and I shall ce. ai1y uul try to have any. Eve fy m an it ;ip pears, counected wi.b lb e fraud has been rewarded some, way . Uul the president does no', seem to want to know the opinion of the real repre se utivos of tlrt. oiulh. So you noaiu l talk to mo about oing to see bun or wrumg, hun a letter. I don't care what sort, of an appointment it is. if Jt w-jft simply to halloo Hurrah when Gabriel blew his norn, I wouldn't ask him to make 'hi appointment." Atlanta (Ga.) |
