The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-30
HEATH NOT AT
 ALL SURPRISED He NH Publish BrIStOWS Re-
 port in His Paper CHARGES ARE MALICIOUS Former Assistant Postmaster General Says He Has Been Deliberately
 Pursued All Through the
 Postal Investigation.
CHARGES ARE MALICIOUS

Salt Lake. City, Utah, November 29.- When former First Assistant Postmaster General Perry s. Heath, now proprietor of the Salt Lake Tribune, had read the report of MT. Bristow on the postal scan dals and the comments of the President tonight, he said:
 'I shall not hesitate to publish in the Salt Lake Tribune tomorrow morning ev- cry word of this report, and also every word of this memorandum of the Presl- dent. although there Is not a syllable in them, except official comment, so far as pertains to myself that Is news to the public. I hope my enemies, as well as my friends, will do me the justice of reading it all carefully. The newspapers have been kept informed and have been publishing 1t all during the past year. That which has hitherto been generally regarded as newspaper criticism, it is now revealed, was official criticism in disguise.
 No Surprise.
 'It is no surprise to me to see the de- nunciation of me in this report. The au- thor of 1t, from the time he entered the postoffice department up to the present moment, has, in his official capacity, pur- sued me personally in season and out as everyone who has been in public life in Washington during the past six years knows. Inuendo is artfully contrived and malice ill-concealed throughout the en- tire document. as everybody familiar with the facts may see.
 Its very opening pages attack my n XM an a n as the report itself is compelled to admit him to be- and it closes with impertinent and intrusive animadversions upon my ad- ministration. The author seems to have studiously avoided mentioning the impor- tant fact that many If not large major ity of these offenses occurred after had left the service.
 Work Was Heavy.
 'Nor Is the slightest reference made to another important fact that had heaped upon me ten times as much administra- tive and executive work by reason of the Spanish war as should have undertaken, or the fact that during the time most of the onus of performing the military pos tai duties fell upon me, together with the patronage of the service in the way of appointments. and that we had to estab- | fish precedents, as we had no military pos 1 tai laws; and lastly the fact that If any one conjured with my name for corrupt purposes I could not know 1t, except somebody told me. No intimation of the kind ever reached me till lately through the press.
 Men like Louis, whose supplies were purchased through committee of three appointed by the postmaster general, by public advertisement, and the direction of the postmaster general he being merely the distribution clerk, are censured and made to suffer for responsibilities they never had.
 In Demoraized Condition.
 "When Louis entered the service he found his division in demoralized condi- ton. The tremendous increase in the regular postal service required the filing of thousands of new orders in new off ces, as we'll as old ones, and the military postal services necessitated the supplying of thousands of offices in newly acquired territory.
 "Because I cannot be truthfully accused of ever having received any reward, in | cash, bonds, stocks, presents, or other form while I was in the department, or since left 1t, my acts while in the gov ernment employ appear to be especially | disappointing to the author of this re- port But since much of the report is oc- cupied with the cases of men who have been tried and acquitted, I am willing to sions. I welcome the opportunity to pub fish 1t in its entirety in the columns of The Tribune"