The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-10-21
And Refuses to BE Dictated To I'm the
Wedderburn Case by Rivals of
the Patent Attorney.
NEW ARCHITECT APPOINTED
JAMES K. TAYLOR, CIV PENNsYLvA-
MA GIVEN A GOOD PLACE.
First-CIass Craftsman, but n Cigar
ette Fiend-Senator Hanna's Health
Injured by Campaigning.

Special 10 the Indianapolis JOufilhl
WASHINGTON, oct. 20.-Judge Tyner OF
Indiana, assistant attorney for the Post
Office Department, has made himself unpop-
ular with the Washington Association of
Patent Lawyers by refusing to permit them
to take possession of his office and running
the Wedderburn investigation to suit them
selves. They had succeeded in getting We'd
derburn disbarred on charges of unprofes-
sionaI conduct and were seeking to enlist
the Postofice Department in the campaign,
to the extent of throwing him out Of the
mails. Wedderburn's real ofense was
building up huge patent business by ad-
vertising. He was doing about % per cent.
of the whole patent business in Washing
ton when the combination of seventy other
patent solicitors who were suffering by his
growth brought him down. Some of the
methods employed by them to wreck We'd
derburn savored of persecution and the
same methods were sought to be introduced
into the proceedings before the Postoftice
Department. Judge Tyner has hatred of
practices inimical to public morality and
it is his delight to break up anybody who
makes improper use of the mails, but at the
same time he has a deep-seated objection
to outsiders taking charge of his Office
whether or no. He accordingly baked when
the patent attorneys burst in on him, and
when the argument that followed was over
the Indiana gentleman had largely the best
of it. The judge had the last say this after
noon and tonight the storming party is
growing outside the battlements Judge
Tyner may rule against Wedderburn, but
it will be his own act and not that Of an
outside mob. ""*
w. b. Hoton, of Indianapolis, president
of the Keyless Lock Company, is awaiting
patiently for the Treasury Department
committee to award the 1900 contract for
postoff1ce lockboxes All of the bidders have
been heard and an award will probably be
made in a day or two. In an interview in
the Post this morning Mr. Holton pre-
sents a lively picture of Mayor Taggart's
future predicting for him great triumphs
and higher honors than he has yet reached.
James X. Taylor, of Pennsylvania, was
to-day appointed supervising architect OF
the treasury. He is believed to be the best
equipped man who ever had charge of that
important bureau. He has the entire con-
fidence of his superiors and the respect and
regard of the office force. He has been con-
nected with the bureau as draughtsman for
several years and knows its requirements
thoroughly. Mr.. Taylor is over six feet tall.
is large framed, big headed and broad
gauged. He has one besetting weakness,
however. He is cigarette fend.
Democrats in Washington are gleeful
over the reports they hear from Ohio. as
well as from New York. They are passing
it along the line this afternoon with great
4l.t hoe
ten gloomily about the Ohio situation to
the President and that the latter has sent
Mr.. Charles Gates Dawes, of Chicago. out
into the Buckeye State to see what can be-
done. This information about Senator
Hanna does not tally with a statement I
heard a day or two ago from an intimate
personal friend of the senator, who had
just seen him the day before. My informant
said: Senator Hanna is not in the best
of health and the wear and tear of eigh-
teen months tremendous labors and re-
sponsbility which he has endured are be-
ginning to tell on him, but he has no doubt
of Republican success in Ohio this fall He
is not man however, to deceive himself
in the slightest degree and he never hesi-
tates TO tell his close friends the exact facts
as they appear to him. He has had keen
appreciation Of the difficulties to be en-
countered in Ohio this fall and he has or
ganized his forces to overcome them. He
has no doubt of his success and feels more
confident now than he did at the beginning,
although he has told his associates that
there must be no let up and that ii would
not do any harm for the Republicans to
get pretty thoroughly frightened before
election day / would not be surprised
though if Senator Hanna were not obliged
to cancel his speaking engagements before
the end of the campaign on account of his
health. There is limit even TO his powers
of endurance -