The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-06-11
WASHINGTON.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, June 8, 1903.

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So great is popular interest IN Wash
ington in the Postoffice investigation
that it is d fficut To- find anyone will
ing or prepared to talk on any other
subject. While no remarkably SEN
sational developments have occurred
since the arrest of Machen, many
minor incidents have happened which
90 to make up convincing evidence
of the reluctance Of Postmaster Cen
eral Payne to make a clean breast Of
the rottenness which has permeated
the republican administration of one
Of the most important departments OF
the Government. Just at present,
Payne is severely critcising First
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne,
to whom belongs the credit of expos
ing Machen, Miller, ct. al, getting
rid of Beavers, Tyner, Christiancy
and others. The purging of the
Department of these officials has oc-
Cured only as a result of the power
OF the press and doubtless Wynne has
avaied himself of that power to ac-
complsh what he regarded as a most
laudable end. Because, however, the
press has also placed ex-Postmaster
General Smith, ex.Assistant Post.
master General Perry Heath and
others in most unenviable light be-
fore the public and is on the high
road to showing that Hanna was not
above the most practical of "practical
politics. Payne considers til t
Wynne has been guilty of grave par
tisan disloyaity and will urge the
President to get rid of him.
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Postmaster General Payne, after
characerlzing the charges OF ex-Cash-
ier Seymour Tulloch as shot air"
"wind," a ''stump speech" etc, has
fastened to publish the replies OF
Smith, Heath and other officials who
deal in generalties and fail in every
instance to snake good" as Mr..
Payne exposes it. In fact, the chief
motive of all their letters Is personal
animus toward Tulloch. The one
reply to the Tuloch charges in which
the public is interested, Payne keeps
on his desk and refuses TO make
public. 1t is a report made by
| Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Bristow, going very thoroughly into
the conditions which have existed in
the Washington Postoffice and support
ing, 1t is understood, Tulloch in many
details.
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| According to the most confidential
reports received from Columbus this
week there is weeping and walling
and gnashing of teeth in the Hanna
camp at the State convention. The
Grid.ron Club of Washington once
greeted German with song which
ran, Arthur Pue, Arthur Pue, What
| in the world is the matter with you
We've heard of you downed, unseat-
ed, uncrowned," etc and those words
would appropriately apply to Hanna
1t is gall aud wormwood to the Han
mates to see their peerless leader
beaten and compelled to suplnely &C
cept the Foraker resolution, bu
such is the situation and they dare
not take any steps to get even witt
Foraker because Hanna's reelection
to the Senate is close at hand ant
that election depends on peace an(
harmony. Senator Hanna himsel
has little difficulty in conceallng hi
resentment and acting in harmon.
with Senator Foraker but the Hanna
lieutenants, henchmen and "grafters
are bewaillng the situation.
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With Hanna out of the way, tn
nomination of Roosevelt by the re
publlcans is regarded as certain, ant
the fight of the democrats is all CD
out. They must nominate a mai
who can beat the President. Tha
such a man must be conservative /
admitted by all. He must comman
the respect of that large element il
the east which regards Roosevelt a
cratic and unsafe. He must com
mand the support of the Independent
voters, that large and constantly In
creaslng number which refuses to &C
cept bravado for bravery, shoutin
about Americansm for loyalty, milital
lsm for patriotism. The most astut
democratic politicians do not regar
it as at all essential that their nomlne
be named at this early date. II
would become the butt OF republlca
ridcule and invectlve. So the polio
will be to keep the republicans guess
ing for while longer and then nom
nate strong man, conduct whlr
wind campaign and land the propf
- ,La Mbita IJonca