The Sunday globe., 1901-06-02

retired politically to the little town OF
Bradford, and slumbered unheard of
until John Wannamaker attempted TO
wrest the political machine Of the Key
stone State from Quay. Brown had
something of standing in the local
G. A. r. circles of Pennsylvania, having
been a hospital steward during the civil
war, but his long suit was in the religi-
GUS line, being iervent if not an elo-
quent eXhorter in Baptist revivals.
Brown saw great possibilities for
Brown in the Wannamaker.Qua brawl,
and was elected as a delegate to a county
convention, where he espoused the re-
form movement led by Quay.
Mckinley was elected President, and
it was up to Quay to look out for his re-
llgious worker, Brown As the story
goes, Quay did not know what to do
with Brown, but being politician of re-
sources, he nailed President Mckinley
on railroad train to give Brown the
Authorship for the War Department
and was successful.
Bro Wn's personality is not OF the pre-.
possessing order, and his abilities, ac.
quired or natural, are not up TO the stan
nhlN lNIA lih ny lNdb ltlOlUltIg NUuIlte
Lyman, for copyists in the Treasury De-
partment. BE that as it may Brown
was duly installed as Auditor, with a
salary Of $4,000 per aunum That he
was a misit became very evident from
the first rattle out of the box, but he
struggled along in way, and aside from
penchant for inditng letters to Demo
cratic clerks on their habits and his ever
ready psalm like utterances, was little
heard Of Everything went along in a
sort Of way, the work of the Office being
two or three years backward. He had a
cabinet, composed Of dead beat chief
of division, "a jew, and a cOterie Of sun
day-school uperintendents, who practi.
Cally managed the Office for the benefit
OF themselves.
Browns troubles came when the work
accruing from the war with Spain was to
be disposed Of 1t flowed into the office
steadily and it was evident that he
could not handle it. He pleaded for
more clerks. The clerks were given TO
him, but the work remained stacked up
untouched, The Secretary Of The Treas
ury and Congressman ~ ere appealed to
by the heirs Of old soldiers of the Spanish
published that the claims would not be
disposed OF for years; that claims of vet
Grams of the civil war remained unad.
justed The Secretary had to take ac-
tiOn, and Brown was about TO be re-
moved for incOmpetency, when a bril-
liant thought filtered through the MIND
Of Assistant Secretary Vanderlip. Ii
was to put the late Frank II Morris ir
the place of Brown, and Brown in place
of Morris as the Auditor for the Navy
| Department. The transfer was made
| Brown went to an office with few clerks
which was up to date, and his salary wal
saved to him.
The tragic death of Morris is but re
| cent history, and il is unnecessary tC
! drag the acts of a man who has gone t
| the Great Beyond into this recital
Auditor Rittman was appointed, and
bis friends say, found the personnel o
! the office and the WORK suffering from
the incompetent administration Of Brown
| and the nervous tension of the clerks uu
| strung from the radical changes inauCu
! rated by the late Mr. Morris.
The Globe has no words Of CDndemna
! ton for Mr. Rittman and believes, al
his friends request, "uhat he should b,
! given a chance" Il is in the line. how
ever, to remark that Mr. Ritman ha
! beeL dropped into an Office that for NOR,
than 30 year,-since the rebellion, il
iact-has been a hotbed Of bgotry anC
chiccanery. The Globe is informed by
a clerk \ no has served in the Office i6
80 years that since the days of an Audi
tor by the name of French that the plac,
has been ruled by clique. Unde
French ii was boldly proclaimed tlat n,
man with Irish blood in his veins coulC
be employed in the office This, we AZ,
safe in asserting will not be the cas-
with Mr.. Rittman, as his character il
! Ohio was not that Of either "a Know
nothing, us French seems TO have been
| or religious hypocrit, which one Of hi
! successors was known To be.
As for the Auditor Of the Navy, Wal
lace w. Brown, 10 would perhaps bu
charity to pass him by, for rumor has /
that he j. suffering from troubles of hi
own in the probable dccapitation of hi
! official head for the hen, fl of negro eX
! Congressman from North Carolina.