Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-09-09
FROM WASHINGTON
Special Correspondence of the CounrKa.
Washington, September s.


partment investigation the Post
master General, Mr.. Payne, said
with a lofty air that there was
nothing in it" and dismissed all
the charges of ex-Cashier Tulloch
with disdain. Well. the general
public now knows how much there
was in it, and how the deeper they
dug into the muck heap the nastier
it got. The Postoffice Department
investigation is now nearing the
end and the report of Fourth AS
slstant Postmaster General Bristow
will soon be ready for the public,
but the chances are that the gem
eral public will soon forget all
about the Postofiice matter because
1T will be entertained with another
investigation that is now about to
be pulled off, the noise of which
will reverberate from Tadmor-in-
the-wilderness to Yuba Dam. 1t
is now up to the Interior Depart
ment to take turn at the investi-
CATION grindstOne, and the storm
center of this investigation will be
in the Indian Territory. Mr..
Hitchcock, the Secretary of the
Interior, had no idea when he sum
marily dismissed from office with
out hearing, Mr.. Clarence b..
Douglass. clerk in the land de-
partment of the Indian Agent
office at MuscOgee, that the Situa-
ton down there was loaded with
dynamite. have known Clarence
Douglas ever since we were bare
footed boys together in 1875. and
there is no man of higher charac-
ter or cleaner manhood i'm the In
dian Territory or anywhere else.
He is not the man 10 rest under an
imputatiOn against his honor, and
he has proceeded TO get busy. He
demanded hearing, and recita-
ton of the reasons for his dismiss
sal. He cared nothing for the
measly job, but he wanted justice.
He has got nothing, and now there
are whole gobs of trouble Fostering
the Secretary of the Interior. The
dismissal of Douglas was the sig
nal gun that started the rucuS.
Douglas is fighter from the head
waters of Bitter Creek. and is
camping on the trail of the man
who is at the bottom of whole lot
of nastineSS in the Indian Territory,
like hungry cayote camping on
the trailo of corpulent jack rabbit.
He is now in Washington, where
he is well known, and stands high
among the newspaper fraternity of
which he is an honored member,
and he has been cutting loose a lot
of facts anent the Indian Territory
situation that has blown the cap off
the crater and let daylight into
corners that some people hoped
never would be uncovered. The
newspaper boys are printing what
Douglas says because they know
hc knows what he is talking about,
and they also know that ne will not
lie. He has been interviewed not
only by the local papers here, but
by the correspondents of papers
in st. Louis, Kansas City, and near
~ all the big New York dailies.
saw Douglas and talked this mat
tar over with him. What he said
to me about il is substantially a.
follows; ut is only just To say
that Mr. Hitchcock is honest and
that he is doing what he believes
to be for the best interests of the
people of the Territory. The trou,
bile is that he is afflicted with a Sc.
rious case of too much j. Georg,
Wright, and it is a question if any
satisfactory results will ever be at
tanned by the Interior Department
in the management of Territory
affairs so long as Mr.. Wright Off
eiates as the white Gar. defactC
governor and personal pQohah q
the administration in that country
As the official ice man for a nortl
pole supply company, Inspector
Wright would be a frozen success
his presence alone being sutiicien
to prevent the loss of stock by
rising temperature. He has al
ministered misinformation to tn,
Secretary in large allopathic doses
and the Secretary, acting on this
has made himself very ridiculou
at times. Until there is radica
change in the management of af
fairs there will be no relief for tn
six hundred thousand people in th