Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1888-05-08
THE INSPECTION.
OF THE HOPKINSVILLE
/. POST OFFICE.
THE IMPRESSION LEFT THAT
EVERYTHING WAS
LOVELY.

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: Era published that, "a United State
y postoflice inspector was in the cit!
. this week looking into the manage
ment of the office here. lie informed
New Era reporter that he found
= everything in good business shape
and that the complaints did no
amount to much, in fact were moi
. worth considering, as the like were
made against nearly every postmas'
ter in the service. lie left after a
days investigation for st. Louis"
From the above article ii would be
inferred that Mr.. Jet after Scare
9 full days" investigation of affairs per-
7 taining to the postal service, pro-
, nounced that the charges made by us
Q were not worthy of consideration.
, In the first place Mr.. Jet didn't
spend day here as claimed, for he
drove from Cadiz to this place on the
, morning of the oath, arriving at
! about 10 o'clock or after, and from
that time until :l5 in the afternoon
he was supposed to have overhauled
the post.oflice, and interviewed our
Icitizens as to whether our charges
would be sustained or not. We did
not get 10 see Mr.. Jett at all. He
called at our office pretty soon after
his arrival, and asked if we were in,
but just at that time we were not in,
but could have been found in the Of
fee at any time from dinner time I'M
til 4 80 o'clock in the afternoon. Mr..
Jet did not leave his name or bust
ness, in order that we might have
HUNTED him up, which we would
have done, but simply turned and
walked out. On his way to the de-
pot in the afternoon he dropped in
and told Mr.. Rust that if we wanted
any correspondence with him to ad-
dress him at st. Louis. Now, how
did he investigator. lie interviewed
the postmaster and employees, three
bank cashiers, one merchant tailor,
Mr.. Tobin, and the county clerk,
which are all, so far as we can learn,
by interviewing the citizens, and bus
mess men. Mr.. Jet took it for
granted that the banks and county
clerk received the bulk of mail and
it was not worth while to go any
further. The three bank cashiers did
not all give favorable reports as the
public are led TO believe. How is
Mr.. Jett going to excuse himself for
disregarding the opinions of our bus
mess men, and the hundreds of peo-
pie who get their mail at this office
They at least have as much right to
express an opinion as the bank cash
iers. We want to say, too, that thu
mail matter belonging to the bank
is less liable to get mixed becaus,
large amount of 1t has printed ad
dresses, and the names of the bank
are not similar. So you see the in
) terviews with the cashiers could no
be taken as a standard for judgment
) Mr.. Jett did not even see the person
f whose names we had mentioned il
, print, to ascertain if we had misrep
= resented the matter as TO their mai
. being mixed.
Of Hopkinsyille has about 200 differ
: ent business firms, whose opinion
? are worth something at least, to sa
J. nothing of the rights of our privat
. citizens.
d Then again the banks do not ope
I until 8 O'Clock and close at 3 o'cloc
t in the afternoon. They do not re
b quire their mail early and late a
@ business men and private citizens, 8
9 would not be competent to give a
Y opinion as to the opening and closin
! of mails. Mr.. Jett and the Depart
ltment may be satisfied with such in
| vestigations but they are unjust t
/! the people.
Last Tuesday our papers for Cadi
| did not reach their destination tina
etday, but the Montgomery and Belle
| view lists, on the same route, wen
r down. Some of our mail for tn
southern part Of the county also failet
to be sent. On the same Tuesda
morning a postal card wa
mailed to the proprietor o
this paper at Cadiz at 7 o'clock, an,
the mail does not leave until s o
after, but the postal rested quietly il
this Office until next day. Auothe
, postal was mailed to the same addres
next morning at 7 o'clock but failet
to go down. Had these postals con
dyeyed the intelligence that our oflic
had burned they would not hav
amounted TO "much" with Mr.. Jet
or the Office but great deal TO us
| We append little clipping from til,
Greensboro Messenger, which will
probably suggest an idea:
"The IIopkinsville postmaster
against whom the most damaging
charges of Incompetence and negli
gencc were made, specific instances
tof the most indisputable nature being
cited, has been investigated" by q
post-oflice inspector and, of course
''vindicated." 1t appears that the
Federal officers of this administra.
ton, like those of old, have a secret
organization, the watch-word OF
which is, "All stand together. boys
and if one goes down all are sworn
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