Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1903-12-01
The BrIstow Report ION Hot Air.
Pittsburg Post .

courage to acquaint the public with
that marvellous document, so long
heralded, but Lermetically sealed
from inspection, the Bristow report
on the postal thievery. From fear
that the American is illiterate, he
kindly imposed upon himself the
composition of a Mem orandum.o
But his courage, Ike Bob Acres be-
fore the duel, was fast oozing from
his FINGER tips. He pens sermon
cite on corruption and forgetting his
Panama performance, obtrudes this:
"Freedom is not gift which will
tarry long in the hands of the dis
honest or of those so foolish or 80
incompetent as to tolerate dishonesty
in their public servants. The toler-
alton of wrong, not the exposure Of
wrong, is the real ofehse." The
solitary important sentence recon
mends extending the statute of linn
itations to five years in cases effect
ing officials.
He advises uUrelenting prosecu-
ton of the indicted officials and he
Incorporates list of the offenders
all of whom he virtually finds guilty
by his review. He bears most
heavily on Tyner, Machen and Beav-
ers, the charges against whom Pay
ne called "hot air" But his. timor-
GUS nature 10 best displayed by his
sole alluson to the case OF Heath.
He puts 1t in parentheses thus:
(The case of First Assistant Post
master General Heath, who had left
the service July 81, 1900 is set forth
in the report of Mr.. Bristow.)
Ne sermonette is devoted to that
worthy's. conduct, which SO richly
affords text. 1t matters us
the statute of limitations ran in his
favor, or that an attempt to indict
him once failed. His conduct was
reprehensible, admitting it not to ne
criminal, and it furnished process
source of suggestion for the charm
ing discourse on corruption.
Letus see what Mr.. Bristow says
in all that is permitted to be seen ir
the abridgement sent FORTH. 1t is
nauseating chronicle of Wholesale
thieyery mainly during Heath's re-
gfme and In his bureau Mr.. Roose-
welt failed to note that consul OF
the United States is implicated by
it. All the species of graft made
familiar when the persons involved
were indicted are detailed carefully.
Mr.. Heath first appears in the
Brandt automatic cashier deal.
Judge George E. Baldwin, OF Canton
0. now consul at Nuremberg, Nc
Kinley's old law partner, has SON
in law named Miller, who becomes
the Washington agent.
Miller writes Strawn. superintend
emit of agencies, that Judge BALDWIN
advises MIN to have Miller find out
hew much Beaver wants in ''dollars
and cents" to insure success in in
PRODUCING the machines In the de-
partnent. Baldwin goes to Wash
fngton by request after this and
Heath buys $50 machines at $3.50
piece, the selling price in open
market being 1925. Mr.. Bristow
says Heath should have been sum
marily removed from Office Did
Charles Emory Smith do it?
Mr.. Heath figures in the Doremus
canceling machine purchases, for
which Mr.. .Roosevelts friend, Stste
Senator Green of New York, is in
dicted, and Heath escaped. The
money transactions went through
the smashed Seventh Avenue 1.-THE
Heath )bank. Green states that he
gave Heath $4,000 in stock in con-
sideration of an order tor not less
than 800 machines. Doremus admits
that he was told of the stock trans
fer. But book entries omit names,
and there the case fell down, with
the statute of limitations helping.
Mr.. Heath also appears in an inter.
teresting stock transaction about
the Montague indicator, device to
time collections from mail boxes.
Some documents which would in.
criminate any ordinary man failed
to convince the district attorney in
Washington of being enough to
warrant Heath's indictment In ALI
the subdivisions of his report touch
ing Heath, Mr. Bristow remarks
that Heath refused to make writ
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