Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1885 — This Is Indeed Reform! [ARTICLE]

This Is Indeed Reform!

Among the clerks discharged from the Treasury last week was Mrs. Mary E. Kail, of Ohio. Mrs. Kail is a well-known lady of literary ability and author of several poems of merit. She is poor, and with her children depending upon her salary for a living. She went to Auditor John S. Williams to see if her case was hopeless and ask why she was discharged. “Because you are an offensive partisan,” ( was the reply, with the roughness and impoliteness characteristic of Mr. Williams. “Was I not efficient and faithful and was not my work satisfactory?” asked Mrs. Kail. “Certainly. No complaints to make. You are simply put out because, as I tell you, you have been an offensive partisan.” “In what did my offensive partisanship consist?” was Mrs. Kajllanext question. . “You wrote a campaign song for the Bepublican party in Ohio,” was the reply. “ Good-day. ” Washington special. Senator Sherman has truth and justice on his side, and the. American instmet that lovps fair play. Governor Hoadly has on his side the spirit which would overlook a wrong because done to a black man, and the nairow zeal of all the men who fancy that every other issue must be put out of the way incontinently, and called settled whether it is or not, in order to .give them room to thrust their theories and their isms to the front. But a cause which goes to the very foundation of free government cannot *be put out of the way in this off-hand fashion. —New York Tribune. .