The Sunday globe., 1901-07-21

ment passed through the Controllers
! Office, or rather the matter was held
up for investigation Mr.. Tracewell
wrote a letter to Postmaster Willett
requesting him to explain the payment
of certain bills-presented by Lorenz,
Hurt, Machen and Willett--the author
ity for payment and giving him twenty
days in which to reply. Willett refer
red the letter to the Department. 1t
was rejected by Tracewell. Now came
the funny part Of the business. The
whole gang-Heath Postmaster Will
| lett, Machen, and the four culprits-
all went personally before the Control
ler. The matter was then and there
| strangled, to protect the honor OF
| Heath, or rather, his office, and the
four culprits got away with the plum.
| der-about $4,000.
This official steal was engineered by
Machen in favor of his uncle and
| brother.
We mentioned in last Sundays Globe
| about the time clocks having been
| taken out of the Treasury by special
| resolution of Congr ~. If one were
! to visit the free delivery postofices in
/ the country they would find that every
one of them has been provided with
! the Bundy time.clock. The price paid
| for these clocks was simply enormous.
| There was "rake-off" of so per cent
Machen engineered that steal right un-
/ der Mr.. Smiths nose, and the latter
suspected nothing.
The travellers through Indiana, Mich
/ igan, Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and
| Western New York will hnd the little
/ "signaI box" strung along the routes
/ established during the first half Of the
/ fiscal year 1899 and 1900. This box is
made at Adrian, Mich. The farmer
pays $3.50 for the box and a fltmsy
| sheetiron post feet long, two feet
under and feet above ground, The
whole outfit-boS, post and freight
/ does not cost IS cents.
"Who runs, or is in charge, Of this
! letterbox plant at Adrian?"
"Wm. NJ. Bellman, the brother-in-law
/ of A. w. Machen, the man who was dis
missed under the last Cleveland Ad-
ministration for collecting campaign
Doodle. at the behest of A. ". Machen,
! in a Government building, contrary to
statute made and provided"
Mr.. Machen sent out pamphlets by
the tens of thousands. The country
was literally flooded with them, espe-
cially the one entitled "Rural Free De-
livery and How to obtain It.
These pamphlets or reports have one
burden of song-letter boxes; always
letter boxes.
Letter boxes are mentioned in the
report of every special agent from New
York to San Francisco.
ranrAgpnfinU nnmnpTgf-
/ ic districts, were given to understand
that if they voted for the appropriation
the route carriers would he appointed
as they suggested.
Mr.. Heath would enter his private
room in the Office with a Democratic
Alember at his heels, and tell his pri-
yate secretary: "Mr. H, / don't
want to be interrupted for few miu-
utes. want to talk to my friend here
about rural free delivery"
When the Republican convention
met in Philadelphia in June, $780, Mr..
Heath left his desk and went over
there, labored with the Committee on
Resolutions, and got in an endorse
ment Of the Rural Free Delivery.
The Republican party is now respon-
sible for the stupendous steal.
The Adrian company got the con-
tract, and Bellman is the "it." What
is there in it? The contract extends
over a period Of four years; the appro-
priations are made, upon estimates sub
mitted, every year.
The forthcoming census will un-
doubtedly disclose that there are sew
eral hundred cities ready for the free
delivery-S10, 900 revenue or 10000
population-either qualification will
bring free delivery. So much as a
starter. The design, really, is to dis
place all the boxes now in use in all
the free delivery cities and put in their
places the new steel box.
The question which strikes The
Globe very forcibly is this:
In view Of the mass Of information
on file in our office touching the Super
intendent Of the Free Delivery, and in
view of what has been already publish
ed, will the Postmaster-General sus-
pend this official pending an investiga-
tion or will he compel us to waste the
valuable space at our disposal in
further exposes Of the official rotten
ness in the Rural Free Delivery De-
partment?
IL 10 UP " 1 UN lllliNlNl -AHdllfl al DallAlA
and the Sunday Globe desires to be re-
spectfully understood by that high Of
fetal in proclaiming that if he persists
in ignoring the matters thus brought
publicly to his attention, of the neces-
sity for the suspension or removal Of
Superintendent Machen, we shall con-
tinue adding chapters to those already
narrated until Congress meets, when
not only will the whole matter be laid
before that body but likewise the fact
that Postmaster-General Smith was
made conversant with and ignored the
same.
Superintendent Machen may be un,
der the protection of that arch corrup
| ZIONIST Marcus A. Hanna, but that he
Is unfit to hold his present position,
and that even Hanna can not save his
official head when Congress investi-
gates his Department we publicly as
sure Mr. Smith.
II Mr.. Smith chooses to identify him
self with Mr.. Machen, by passively
permitting corruption to go on un-
checked and unrebuked in the Free De-
livery Department, that is his affair,
until Congress meets next winter and
then even POstmaster-General Smith
will discover that it is somebody else's
affair, and that the public will have a
say in the matter Mr. Smith is skat-
ing on very thin ice, and his unaccount-
able Indifference to the dangers ahead
is astonishing the press and public.
Judge Kimball recently dismissed
man arrested by officers Turner and