The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-03

cratic Administration to Go Where IL
has Been Going Headions for the Past
Three Yesrs-Iu Addition TO That He
Said Some Naughty Things Throug the
MsiI-He is a Trusty Now.
Yesterday Glass II. Pierce. postmast-
cr Of Liverpool. Kansas, was brought
to Wichita by DR.. Medley and lodged
in the county jail TO await trial in the
federal court.
Glass is charged with grossly insult
ing his Uucle Sam in this that in a
hit of i'll humor he sent letter through
the mails TO the postoffice department
that was replete with profanity and OBJ
scenity.
Five years ago Mr. Glass was ap-
pointed postmaster at Liverpool, Stan
ton county, by President Harrison and
when Cleveland came into power he
was retained principally for the reason
that il was hard 10 find a successor for
him.
Now. then, Liverpool is not a big
place by any means, but il is smaller
now than il has ever been before on
account of a general idea that pre-
vailed there recently that ii was not
nearly so healthy a climate as the re-
gion in which the fathers-in-law of the
inhabitants live. This foolish idea
caused such a general exodus Of the
patrons of Mr.. Pierces postoffice that
his receipts fell SO low that he didn't
give three straws whether he was post
master or not. The lower the receipts
became the less he honored the post
"a ~ Ar1f at An1 ~. i'm IL
wanted 10 resign several times and
they would not let him for the reason
that they We're una BILE 20 find anybody
TO take his place.
There was one month that Mr. Pierce
sold only eleven two cent stamps and
three one cent stamps and this made
him little tired as he could not very
well live for thirty days on a sixty per
cent commission of that income
But while Mr.. Pierce was starving
the postofflce clerks in Washington
were living off the fat of the land and
they were correspondingly saucy.
They wrote pointed letters to Mr. Pierce
urging him TO send in his returns on
time and this made Mr.. Pierce hot He
made out his returns and sent them in
but the postoffice department dudes
had always some fault 10 find. Mr..
Pierce concluded about this time that
the only way he could get rid OF the
posto.fice was TO cUSs the department
for all ii was worth and the first tiIne
another request was made on him TO
send in a report he didn't do a thing
but write TO Washington expressing
his desire and wish that the entire ad-
ministration would go TO HI and car
~ its postOffice there with IT.
in h.
Of Mr.. Pierce and something that was
entirely unnecessary on his part TO
urge as the Democratic administration
has been going in that direction during
the past three years and are due there
in just one year from tomorrow a Z high
noon. According to the suggestion of
Mr.. Pierce they will carry the post
office with them. Well, to make a long
story short. the postoffice department
reprimanded Mr.. Pierce in manner
that made him mad and while his tenn
per was thus disturbed he again wrote
60 the postmaster general with a more
extraordinary request than the pre-
vious one. The postmaster general aid
not comply with il nor was he plea sci
with the suggestion for he Immediately
asked the Democratic bosses of Kan
sas TO suggest another man for the
place winch they did ana MT. pierce
was fired. He was not only fired but
he was arrested for sending unparlis-
mentary and undiplomstic language
through the mails and he is now in
jail.
When Marshal Neeley brought Pierce
here yesterday morning ne told Sheriff
Cone that ne could treat him as a
trusty and give him as much liberty as
he wanted to. In the forenoon Mr..
Pierce told Sheriff Cone that he would
like 10 go down town and the sheriff
hardly knew what 70 do except TO obey
the instruction of Marshal Neeley al
though he did not expect 10 see Pierce
anymore. He was mistaken for after
Pierce had been gone few hours he
returned to the jail struggling his
shoulders and guessing that ~ was
little too chilly TO be out Of doors.
Pierce is A man about forty years OF
age and looks Ike good nstured cow
boy. He will be defended by Milton
Brown of Garden City and Il is half
way expected that he will show some
mitigating circumstances. In telling
his sad story to an Eagle reporter he
said there was nothing in the postoffice
but sggravatlOn.