Sunday morning globe., 1901-11-17
NACHEN AND SPEICH,
Lovely in Life and in Theil
Official Death
THEY WILL NOT Be DIVIDED.
Chief OF the Mail DeErsdailons Division
SoaIped and Joins MaohenS Gang as a
Common Clerk The Superintendent Of Tho
Rural Free Delivery and His Official Record
The Globe is Nov Afier his Scalp.


Mr. Emanuel Speich. chief of the
Mail Depredations Division Of the
Postofice Department, has come to
grief and been trnsferred very appro-
priately to Mr. Machens Rural Free
Delivery branch as a common clerk.
Mr. Speich is indebted to the sunday
Morning Globe for this change i'm his
fortunes. Mr.. Speicn, it will be re-
membered undertook to manage the
Widow HIS farm and I'm doing SO man
aged TO do the widow TO such an eX-
tent that she invoked the assistance
of The Globe through her friends, and
while we have been unable to make
Mr.. Speich disgorge we have succeed
ed in securing his degradation from
chief clerk. The Widow II. armed
with the articles i'm The Globe and cor
roborated by her own documentary evil
dence, sought the head OF the depart
ment and that official, after investiga-
ton, did the rest
Mr.. Speich, although a Swede and
foreign born, exercised the most com
plete and absolute tyranny over the
Americans subordinate to him I'm the
Depredations Division and we had com
plants Of his imperious conduct long
before the Widow II. solicited our as
sistance but we waited-as all things
come to those who wait and Mr..
Speich's official scalp as a chief came
along i'm due time and now adorns
The Globes sanctum sanctorium. So
much for Mr. Spech, let us turn to
his present boss.
In reviewing and coming the official
record of our felicitous friend Gus
Machen, as it appears IN the report
published by the Senate, we inadvert.
emily overlooked one very brilliant
quality of his marvellous genius.
Going back to ,ne time wnen he
hourished I'm the zenith or his glory,
as a proselyte Of CLEVELAND Democracy
we have discovered that he possessed
/ mania for secret espionage lie was
perfectly happy it appears, wnen ne
| spotted something, or had somebody
else to do it for him. Naturally treacn-
erous himself as old LuufCr. he sus.
poets everybody else of Jreachery. Any
man afflicted with such natural, per-
verted attributes, deceives himself
quite as often as he deCeiyes others.
TO substanuate this predominant fea-
ture of his character The Globe recalls
one paragraph from his sworn state
ment before the Senate Committee:
1--WE caught him I'm several lies and
finally became suspicious Of him all
around, and had a regular postohlce
inspector-two regular postotlice in
spectors-come to Washington and run
down the trio who had Joined together,
namely II. S. and b. H.-alleged to be
a Democrat, S. was a Democrat, and
b. was a Republican. After the de-
partment satisfied itself, through the
reports Of these inspectors, both of
whom were Republicans, Of the under
handed work of Mr.. H., Postmaster
General Wilson promptly dismissed
him from the service"
What was the underhanded work or
which these three men we're adjudgeo
guilty by the inspectors and Gus"
Machen? Had they conspired to rob
the United States Treasury, or murder
somebody? What crime had they com
mitted? With the debates in Con-
gress and Machens sworn evidence be-
fore us The Globe unhesltatingiy ayOws
that these three men diO their duty.
They succeeded, through the loss Of
their own positions, i'm breaking up
gang of public brigands foisted on the
Treasury by Gus Machen, every one
OF whom was equally as irresponsible
as the promoter Of the deyilish scheme.
Why were they dismissed? Gus"
says for conspiracy but when he
was asked by Senator Pritchard to eX-
plain the nature Of the conspiracy
he foundered like a huge black bass
with a treacherous spoon-hook in his
mouth. His explanation is a tissue of
transparent falsehOod from A to L.
zard, and he knows il is false.
The editor Of The Globe does not
claim to be an adept at figures. but,
like Mark Twains Nicodemus Dodge,
"As far as twelve times twelve 7 am
no slouch, but 'tother side Of that is
what gets me- We have made some
calculations on Machen's Secret Agen-
cy fraud and here is our solution. If
il is erroneous, the record in the Post
Office Department, If lC can be found,
will prove or disprove it;
Fifty-eight Machen spies at S5 per
day, for one year. not including Sun
days, $90770 Add to this their aver
age daily expenses, including, Of
course Brother-in-law Bellman's sal
ary and expenses, who got about S12
per day, the grand total exceeds S175.
600.
Is it any wonder that under Cleve-
lands second administration Uncle
Sam had to borrow money to meet
running expenses with such an official
as Mr.. Machen 10 relieve his strong
box?
The Globe will endeavor to ascertain,
II possible, whether any one has been
detailed from the Washington Detec-
tive Agency TO spot the suspects" in
the Postofice Department as Il is
doubtful II Gus can now divert one,
let alone two, regular postoffce inspec-