The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-03-10
TIE FRENCH INVESTIGATION.
How the Peculiar Style of the Defense Is Re-
garded by the Press of the State.
KNOWS OF HIS UNENv1AB1E NoroR1ETY.

KNOWS OF HIS INEVITABLE N%oToRIETY.
Logansport Journal,
A commission of postmasters, special friends
and favorites of Superintendent Jay c. French,
of the postal service, have been conducting for
the last two weeks a farcical examination of
grave charges brought against one Of the most
vindictive and arbitrary tyrants in the govern
ment employ. Testimony sufficient to condemn
Mr.. French IN the eyes Of the most liberal pub
lie. and convict him of inhumanity and favorit
ism, was brought out in the investigation. But
now Mr.. French brings in the testimony of his
favorites and special friends in the service, men
who have been benefited by his favortism, to
prove that he has always been just and hOnora-
BILE toward them. He brings III one man TO teS-
tify of mis- kindness and expects this evidence to
refute the testimony of another man who has
personally suffered from his cruelty. Mr..
Frenchs unenviable notoriety is not confined to
his own division, but to our personal knowledge
has long been familiar to men in other divisions
of the mail service.
WHY HE is RETAINED.
Evansville Tribune-News.
Mr.. G. Jay French will not be bounced. The
poor fellows in the railway mail service who
have testified against him will have to suffer for
their crimes. The Colonel will make it hot
for them. The bucket of whitewash wherewith
he is to be coated was prepared before the in
vestlgating commission was appointed. The Sc
cret of the power of c. Jay French is that he is
a blood relation of the Hon. Stanley Matthews,
Justice Of the Supreme Court of the United
States. French would have been dismissed from
the service long ago if it had not been for this
little circumstance. Mr.. Pinney, formerly postal
clerk on the O.. & NJ. railway, presented evidence
to the government some years ago which came
near causing French's removal, but the accident
Of his birth prevented it.
SHOULD RESIGN.
Lebanon Patriot.
The Patriot has no particular prejudice against
Mr.. G. j. French, the superintendent of the rail
way mail service i'll this district, notwlthStand-
ing some pretty strong evidence has been given
against him, and his methods in the investigation
now in progress at indianapolis. but there is a
growing impression that he ought to resign or
reform himself. In every department of the
government service there is altogether too much
petty tyranny. For a government that boasts of
its simplicity, there is in its management alto
gether too much red tape and too many titled
and extra-oficious officials, and the burden of
testimony clearly convicts Mr., French of being
just such an individual.
A PERTINENT QUERY.
Richmond Palladium:
In the French investigation at Indianapolis
the accused is bringing in a lot of postal clerks
as witnesses to prove that he has not been tyran-
nical to them. i \ \ How would it do for a
man charged with cruelty 20 his wife to bring in
his neighbors to swear he had always been kind
to them! Or how would it do for man charged
with murder to bring in fifty or Il hundred men
to swear he had never murdered theml That is
the French style exactly.
MIR. FRENCH's U-NPoPULARITY.
New Castle Mercury.
c.. Jay French may have wonderful tact in
managing the mail service in his division, but
he lacks a great deal of managing to have the
good will of those under him. No more unpopu-
lar officer ever retained a place, and the expen-
sive so-called investigation is SUCH a farce that it
will greatly damage trenchs superiors.
THE JOURNALS COURSE APPROVED.
Michigan City Dispatch.
The course of the indianapolis journal to-
wards Col" c. Jay French, the dude superin-
tendent of mails. is commendable. The Journal
is a Republican newspaper and French a Repub-
lican official, yet the journal joins with the mail
agents as well as other good citizens in demand
ing his removal.
GUILTY OF PETTY TRICKS.
Michigan City Dispatch.
There is no doubt but he is guilty of petty
tricks to which a man would not stoop, but 50
far, none of the agents on either the Wabash
or the L.. N. A. & c.. roads, running out of
Indianapolis, have mustered up courage enough
to express their convictions. They are afraid of
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