File:Mary Elizabeth Kail in The Wheeling Daily Intelligencer of Wheeling, West Virginia on 15 September 1885.jpg

Ohio Widow, an EffloUat Clerk, Krfltally' TrMtad by Democratic Offlclals. Washwctox, 8ept. 14.?Among the Jerks discharged from the Treasury last I week was Mrs. Mary E. Kail* of Ohio. Sirs. Kail is a well-known lady of literary ability and author of several poems of merit She is poor, and with her children depending on her salary for her She went to Auditor John S. WillUma a*wa I* h*r ram wan hnnnlpM and asked why she ni discharged. "Because you are au ntjenaive partissn," wm trio reply, with the roughness mad Impoliteness characteristic 01 Mr. Williams. "Wis I not efficient and faithful, and was not my work mtiifoctory ?" asked Urn. Kail. "Cariainly. Xo complaints to make. Yon are simply pat out because, as I tell you, you have been aa offensive paitfssn." "in what did my offensive partisanship consist?" was Mrs. Kail's next question. "You wrote a campaign song (or the li. Ohio," was the reply. "Good day."

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