Sunday Washington globe., 1901-12-29
Of the Daily Newspapers and
How They Are Worked.
RECIPROCITY IN FAVORs
such as District OficiaIs, Chiefs of
Police and Fire Department with a
VOluminous List OF Minor Appoint
ments for Reporters. Friends "et AL"
The Editor of the "GlObe's" Sons
Personal Explanation.

In the 'jolly column" of the daily Times
appears the most wonderfully constructed
eulogies of department officials, clerks and
employees it has ever been our experience
to read in any newspaper not excepting the
department NEWS whose St. Jacobs oil
salve for SUNDAY GLOBE wounds has been
heretofore referred to. The Times Jolly
column" has been enlarged until almost
two-thirds Of a page is now occupied with
the nauseating stuff A correspondent
noting one Of these twenty cents per line
pufs sends US the following.
Editor SUNDAY Globe.
Charles P. Grandfeld, one of the assist
ant superintendents in the Office of the
First Assistant Postuaster-General,w was ap-
pointed from the Ninth Congressional dis
trict of Missouri, August II, 1885 He is
Que of the best known men in the depart
ment probably from the fact that he has
been in the service longer than any of the
other assistant superintendents, and also
that he has the gift Of making friend of
almost all with whom he comes III contact" "
Times, December a.
It is well remembered by clerks in the
Post-ofice Department that this same best
known (?) Doctor Grandheld" is the iden-
tical person who was investigated a few
years ago. The Post-office inspectors found
him guilty and recommended his removal
from the service. This happened during
Gle ,elaud' second administration. The
d. 4.u tious to do something startling,
concocted a scheme to succeed his chief of
the salary and allowance division. He took
it upon himself to personate some one who
had been dead for nearly century, the re-
nowned John Marshall, Chief Justice Of the
United States.
One day the First Assistant Postmaster
General received letter from person who
signed his name 'John Marshall" In this
letter the writer urged the removal of the
chief of salaries and allowances on the
ground Of general un6tness and incompe-
tency, and suggested the appointment of
Charles P. Grandfeld, who, it was stated, did
about all the work of the chief and in
"John Marshall's" opinion was the At
tenest" man for the head of that division
in the United States The First Assistant
referred John Marshalls letter to the ac.
cused chief, and the latter, after reading it,
located the author and promptly demanded
an investigation.
The matter was referred to the chief post
Office inspector, and during the progress of
the investigation the little doctor did some
tall sprintiug and hustling He felt it in
his anatomy that the result of the inquiry
would be unfavorable, and he hied himself
to his big friends in Congress from Mis-
souri,, and they settled the matter for the
doctor on the plea of youthful indis-
cretiOn"
The findings of the committee, have no
doubt, were removed, or are snugly en-
sconced in the chief pOst-ofice inspectors
receptacle for such cases. The little doc
tor is we'll aware that these are stubborn
facts, and can be easily substantiated by
living Witnesses whose names are on the
editors table When Perry S. Heath be-
came first assistant the little doctor bounded
to the front serenely. like other ueophytes,
and carried off the prize, assistant super
intendent at 81, 900 per. Perry never made
a mistake He could always find the man
he wanted, if old and honored Republicans
were to be humilated. STDOwN
In offering a few comments on "Sit-
downs" communication the GLOBE will
confne itself to the attitude of the Wash
ington newspapers towards the department.
The Times is ,only simply out Heroding
Herod, " in its stereotyped eulogies and taify
Of the department chiefs clerks and tax
eaters, the Post, Star and the penny whistle
weekly papers mirror excepted), which
follow their lead have made it letigimate
business to soft soap the pap distributing Off
cials in every department of the govern
ment Now if an unsophisticated public
imagine that the newspapers making spec
ialty and feature Of this disgusting and
indiscriminate twaddle are in the business
for their health, and that they do not expect
nor receive reciprocal favors let an honest
newspaper, the SUNDAY GLOBE, uudeceive
them.
There is in every department Of the gov
eminent relatives friends, and ex-reporters
of these sheets who have been appointed
and are holding down soft berths through
the influence of the Post, Star, Times, et ak
You tickle me and I'll tickle you, " is the
motto of the Washington newspapers, and
hence we have the chief of police the chief
Of the FIRE department Commission Mac
Farland and a cloud Of lesser newspaper
lights who served on the staffs of the one
or the other of these uewspapersl
An old and am honest scribe who has
lived here for the past quarter of a century,
and who prefers poor pay and long hours
as a working journalist to a government
lob has informed the GLOBE that If he de-
sired or wanted an official position he would
prefer a letter or recommendation from any
one OF the proprietors of the newspapers
named to the combined signatures of the
Senate and House Of Representatives. He
only bars in this sweeping statement the
members on the committee for the District
Of Columbia. This committee secures a
few plums, but nothing in proportion to
the newspapers named
So notorious is this fact that when it was
discovered the editor Of the GLOBE had two