The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-05-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special Correspondence of Intelligemcer.

Washington, d. c., May II, 1908.
While the President of the United
States is loudly inveighing against cor
ruption in public and private life in
his speeches at the dedication of the
Worlds Fair buildings at st. Louis,
tile corruption in the Post Office De-
partment under his own administration
which is being daily unearthcd by the
investigation now proceeding smells to
ion of many officials of the government
here that it would be tho policy of
consistency for tho President to return
here at once and see to it that the in
VestlgatiOn is made thorough and that
no guilty man escapes the punishment
which is his just due. The tt u of
the matter is that this investigation in
the Post Office Department is digging
up moro snakes than the administra-
ton an&onveniently kill. and the ad-
mililstration would like nothing better
than to kill the investigation When
postmaster General Payne returned
here from his trip among the West
Indies islands with hSecretaryM Moody and
others, lie was amazed and terrified at
what he found. When he left here
ana told First Assistant Postmaster
General Wynne to go ahead with tho
investigation he supposed nothing
you'd be unearthed beyond few
Irregularities which could be fixed by
the suspension or discharge of a few
scnpegOats.
What he found was that number of
the divisions of his department were
rotten to the core and that several of
the heads Of those divisions had already
resigned under fire, and that several
more would have to resign or be kick
ed out: The investigation was either
unearthlng more seriOuschRrgesa against
receiving from other sources serious
charges. One of the men who already
had resigned had his wife go to his old
office in the p. o. Dept. and rife o
safe OF papers that would, presumably,
:ncriminate him and perhaps others In
his division of the Department. Now
comes man named Seymour Tulloch,
who had been cashier Of the Washing
ton City, post Office for over twenty
Merritt Mt the dictation Of Pesry
Heath, who then!was the First A.ssis-
tant Postmaster General, because Tul-
lOch refused to pay people who were
carried on the rolls of the city post
office in fraudulent:manner. Tulfoch
charges that some men were on the
pay rolls three times under different
names and were drawing three salaries;
that certain newspaper man was on
the rolls as the physician to the city
tho practice of medicine than hog
knows about navigating ship, yet he
was receiving salary of 51,700 a year.
tde says these frauds and irregularities
nave been going on ever since Perry
q catil. WHO now is the Secretary Of
the Republican National Committee,
was installed 0s First Assistant Posi-
master General: that he has the papers
IN his possession to prove oil his charges
1nd only asks the opportunity to do so.
will not get the chance to
prove his charges. Mr.. Payne is max
ng bluffst Investigating these charg-
% made By Tulloch. but from his
notions he hardly will give Mr.. Tul-
och an opportunity to go on the wit
less stand. He sees what ta0 whole |
hing is lending to and is doing his :
,est to squelch any further inyestiga.
ion. He is a shrewd politician, was |
placed in the cabinet as Roosevelt's |
'o!ttical gnide and counsellor, and it |
'vidently Is his belief that continu-
nee OF the investigation will result in I
erious consequences to the admins
ration. senator Henry Cabot Lodge, !
4 Massachusetts, who is the spokesman !
or Roosevelt on the floor of the Senate, |
'vidently thinks otherwise, for he |
aid here the other day after reading !
q tue Washington Evening Starr q !
!efence Of A. w. Machen, Superir,en.
!ent OF Free Delivery, by Postmaster
General Payne, that he would have fn !!
70 and that h1s suspension or llieuharps |
lau Deem ordered by the Prehf1ent ha |
ore he left on his Western trip; that If |
Il Machen there would be something
Ioing in the resignation line in Mr..
,,ayne's ofice, and the. Postmaster
4ecerAl would be forced out of the |
Cabinet. Mf. Payne is now between !:
he devil and the deep blue sea. IF he !
kicks out Bob Wynne, who started the |
nvestigation, Wynne will pull down
he temple. Machen knows too much,
md If he is kicked out he will play the
,he same game, and there you are.
N the meantime the Democrats are
lolding their noses and watching the
'un.
There are nenrly &c, 900 Immigrants a
week landing in New York. These
nen are coming over to enjoy the great
prosperity in this country. The way
they will lind it is by taking the places
higher wages. In this way they will
act, as strike-breakers for the trusts
and the trusts will thereby experience
no diminutiOn in their own prosperity.