The Sunday globe., 1901-07-14

gang of spies, including brotherin-
law Bellman. The letter is addressed
to Mr.. Pickler, and was read on the
floor of the House 1t ought to have
"pickled" Machen, but he swan ashore,
to the injury and disgrace of the pub
lie service:
Dear Sir; If the correspondence con
nected with the present villainous
Spy system could be disclosed to the
people of this country, they would exc
crate the manipulators of in Ian
guage more forcible than elegant, /
know something about it, and for the
very reason that could not sit silent
ly at my desk in the Free Delivery Di-
vision and acquiesce IN the iniquity
of the scheme, Mr. Jones dismissed me
for conspiracy to belittle the De-
paptment, and to bring the officials into
disrepute." | wrote to Mr.. Quigg last
evening, and gave one notable instance
of the work Of the spies" and this re-
suit was applauded by the officials Of
the Postoffice Department.
The statement / made is from the re-
cord, and can not be gainsaid. On the
18th of October, 1894, eighJy-one addi-
tional carriers we're appointed at the
Philadelphia Office. In less than two
months thereafter a force of special
mechanics Cthey were not known as
secret agents them were sent to that
place to inspect the service mot to
mend letter boxesD, and upon the ba-
sis of their report one hundred and ten
letter carriers we're reduced to the
substitute roll, seventy-eight at $1,000,
and twenty-five at $500, thus showing
that not a single carrier at $500 was
touched. Was this an accident? Can
it be possible that carriers in the SER
vice less than one year were more COM
petent to serve the people of Philadel-
phia than those who had been in the
service for years and among them COM
rades in the war Of the rebellion? This
must be accepted as the crowning
farce of the ingenious invention so
skilfully operated by the present Su.
perintendent of the Free Delivery Sys.
TEN in the Postoffice Department.
This system was inauguratsd at Co.
lumbus, O.. September IS, 1894, not.
withstanding the fact that the First
Assistant Postmaster General in his
published report page 30, says that
the service was established February
/, 1895. / assert boldly, publicly, and
privately, without favor or fear of
successful contradiction, that a score
or more of the secret agents were or.
dered into the State of Ohio for parti.
san work in the election. That a
forced contribution was levied for the
Ohio campaign, is conclusively shown
/ by the letter of one o. the agents ad
dressed to his chief, Mr.. William NJ
| Bellman, Washington, d, c., from
which the following is an extract:
Before I knew 1 was expected to con
tribute to the Ohio campaign fund
had made an investment at home
which required all my spare money
This, together with its being held made
my funds rur low" The statute for
bidding the collection OF money IN a
Government building for political pur
poses was openly violated in room 8
/ Free Delivery Division, Postoffice De
partment. Either Mr.. William NJ
Bellman and August W, Machen, EN-
/ ployes in the Postoffice Department
should be dismissed from the public
service and criminally prosecuted, OF
the three clerks dismissed on the 7th
Of last December ON the charge OF
conspiracy" should be locked up fol
malicious perjury,
Very truly yours,
SAMUEL BRGHT
Hon. J. A, Pickler, NJ g., City,
The Globe will continue developing
this mine in next Sundays kssueand &c
more into details into the villianous
business. For the present it has re
ceiyed all the space at our disposal.