Woodrow Wilson to William H. Thompson
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My dear Senator:
Allow me to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of June eighteenth about the post office at Coffeyville.
You will understand, I am sure, from our conversations that I have the most sincere and earnest desire to meet your wishes in every possible way, but I think you will also appreciate the fact that there are instances in which it seems to me only just that I should appoint men of whose record I am personally cognizant and whom I personally desire to draw into the public service. The choice which the President exercises in all these matters is a very responsible one, and I feel that I am exercising it not only as President but as leader of our party; that it is incumbent upon me, therefore, to exercise a personal judgment in the matter wherever I have the material to do so.
Of course, in all such instances I make my choice with entire respect for my colleagues who have taken the burden of recommending persons to me for appointment and who are generously ready to share the responsibility, but I do not feel that I can divest myself of a constitutional function which in the last analysis resolves itself into a personal judgment.
I have had only a word with the Postmaster General with regard to the postmastership at Coffeyville, but my judgment after that interview was that Mr. Jones should be appointed at Coffeyville.
Sincerely yours.
Woodrow Wilson
,Hon. William H. Thompson,United States Senate.
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