Sunday Washington globe., 1902-03-16

The resignation Of First Assistant Post
master General Johnson has not come any
too soon He has been tried in the scales
and found to be a very light weight. Such
was not our opinion of him on his induc-
tiou into office as the successor of that
notorious corrupuonist Perry Heath. But
Johnson has gone over bag and baggage TO
the Machen-Louis gang of political pirates.
In fact Mr.. Johnson has announced his de-
termination not to remove Mikey Louis,
Superintendent of the Supply Division,
and proposes to let his successor deal with
chat freak importation. Recently it has
been alleged that Mikey Louis sent out
private lette& to thessuccessfu bidders for
postofice rubber stamps, etc. that they
must construct them so that the ink alone
of Ault & Wiboug. Of Cincinnati, can be
used! IF this is true, and Mr.. Johnson is
in position to know, Mikey Louis should
be immediately severed from the public
service.
Mr.. Johnson has the King report in his
possession containing the investigation into
Nikey Louis management of the Supply
division. This report is in type written
form and every fact it contains has been
sworn to. Why has Mr.. Johnson neglected
TO print that report Why did Charles
Emory Smith refuse to let Congressman
Sulzer see i2 Simply because if the facts
sworn to were laid before Congress, not
only Mikey Louis, but ms protectors would
have to jump the city. Congressman Sulzer
has in his possession a sealed can of ink
picked up from the dump where Mikey
Louis spilled thousands Of dollars worth of
ink to make room for a supply by Ault &
WibOug, of Cincinnati. Will Congressman
Sulzer visit First Assistant Postmaster-Gen-
eral Johnson and secure that King report
into Mikey Louis mismanagenent before
the said report is conveniently lost or de-
liberately destroyed?
The past week Mikey Louis got rid by
transfer of the last man in his department
whom he could neither corrupt nor intimi-
date. This man had charge Of the twiue
account. II Is about the season now to in
vite bids for the twine, some two hundred
thousand dollars worth of which is pur-
chased by Mikey Louis. II was incon-
venient for Mikey to have a bookkeeper
who not only kept accurate accounts but
had the bad taste aud excellent record of
saving thousands of dollars TO the tax
payers. Nov he is out of the way and
Mikey has substituted him with one of his
own heuchmen. who can be relied upon in
the matter of the twiue
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testify for the Government in the Stover
assignment StOver had the contract for
Manila paper. Between paying generous
rake-Offs and the sudden rise of the material
he was unable to fulfill his contract, where
upon Mikey rushed into the open market
and purchased the paper at his own sweet
Will and with a net loss to Mr.. Slower of
$1,000 The Government is now suing 10
recover this amount aud Mikey will be the
star witness. There is a rumor that there
will be an effort made to impeach Mikey's
veracity, aud we have been informed by
several gentlemen that they hope TO be
called as witnesses along tdat line.
We conclude the present excerpt by the
Insertion of the following communication
from prominent gentlemen in New York:
New YORK, March 70, I002.
Editor .SuHaQY Globe
AT last the edict has gone forth that the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General J. NJ
Bristow, Is TO retire, or, perhaps, to be a
little more plain and honest about it, is to
be retired.
II has beeu known for a long time that he
was the stumbling block in the way of sew
eral high officials wno had pet schemes 10
get through the Department and the slick
P. S. Heath knew that the men in the
Bureau Of the Fourth Assistant were instru-
mental in showing up the rotteuness Of the
Bureau Of the First Assistant under his ad-
mnistration aud il would seem he has
bided his time aud is now getting back at
him, for 1t looks as though the National Re
publican Committee was simply being trans
terred 10 the POst-oifice Department and
man with any backbone is not wanted
there.
II was currently reported that when Payne
took charge he called his assistants up aud
turned over the affairs of the separate bu-
reaus to the respective heads, thereby max.
in each assistant responsible for the work
ings of hrs bureau, but 1t was also under
stood that they were not to 60 back into
past history, 50 such men as Macheu and
Mikey Louis landed squarely on their feet
and immediately held up their hands to
show how clean they are now and hence the
old reports Of Jobbery, etc. will have to rest
among the dusty archives if not already de-
stroyed for it would seem that there Is not
even Democratic Congressman that cares
to bring them TO lIght But mark the pre-
dicton the gang will get in their sly work and
the Auit & Wiborg Co.. Helms and Baum.
gartuers will be on deck when the contracts
are to be let, and no Irish need apply. " ex.
cept they are prepared 10 hand over the us.
ual per centum to the gang who, for several
years have controlled the letting Of the
contracts, with the exception Of one slight
spasmodic effort which seemed to miscarry
in certain Instances for IL is we'll known
that the department Is paying to-day nearly
twice as much for canceling ink, as it could
buy an equally good article for from any
good responsible manufacturer, but then
we must remember the close relation be-
tween the irm that furnishes this article
and the chairman and secretary Of the afore-
said national committee besides if we are
not very much mistaken the superintendent
of the Supply Division was snided into the
Civil Service for purpose II no. why
was he given the position when in fact he
stood at the foot Of the list in a good square
examination and is to-day the laughing
stock OF the whole department There is
one thing Bristow could have learned Of
rra.eh that - 10 have known where TO put