The Farmington times and herald. (Farmington, St. Francois Co., Mo.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-21
CORRUPTION PLENTY.
In the Post Office Department, but the
P. N. General is 10th 10
Push Investigation

corruption in the Post Office De
partmcnt under his own admins
trati0n, which is being daily un
earthcd by the investigation now
proceeding, smells to high heaven.
1t is the expression of many officials
Of the Government here that II
would be- the policy Of consistency !
for the President TO return here al |
once and see To il that the lnvcstl. |
CATION is made thorough aud that |
no guilty man escapes the punish !
mcnt which is his just due. The
truth of the matter is that this III
vcstigaiOn III the Post Office De.
partment is digging mp more
snakes than the administration can
conveniently kill, and the admins
tration would like nothing better
than to kill the investigation.
When Postmaster General Payne
returned here from his trip among
the West Indies islands with Score
tary Moody and others, he was
amazed and terrified at what he
found When he left here and
told First Assistant Postmaster
General Wynnc to go ahead with
the Investigation he supposed moth
ING would be uncarthed beyond n
few Irregularities which could be
fixed by the suspension or dis
charge Of Il few scapcgoats.
What he found was that II mum
Der of the divisions Of his depart
mcnt were rotton to the core and
that several of the heads of those
divisions mad already resigned un
der fire. and that several more
would have to resign or be kicked
out. The investigation was either
unearthlng more serious charges
against these men every day or else
he was receiving from other
sources serious charges One OF
the men who already had resigned
had his wife 90 to his old office IL
the L, o. Department and rifle Il
safe Of papers that would, prrsum
ably, incriminatr him and perhaps
others in this department.
Now come a man named Seymour
Tulloch, who had been cashier Of
the Washington City post office
for over twenty years, and was
fired 10y Postmaster Merritt at th,
dlctatlon of Perry Heath. who then
was the first Assistant postmaster
General, because Tulloch refused
to pay people who were carried on
the rolls of the city post office IL
a fraudulent manner TulIoch
charges that some mon were on the
pay rolls three times under differ
cnt names and were drawing three
salaries; that Il certain newspaper
man was on the rolls rs the physl.
elan to the city post Office, and
that he knew no more about the
practice Of medicine than n hog
knows about the navigating Of II
ship, yet he was receiving salary
of ~. 200 a ycnr. He says these
frauds and irregularities have been
going ON ever since Perry Heath,
who now is the Secretary of the
Republican National Committee,
was installed as First Assistant
Postmaster General; that h. has
the papers in his possession to
prove all his charges and only asks
the opportunity to do so.
From the way things look now
he probably will not get to prove
his charges. Mr. sPaync is making
Il bluff Mt investigating these
charges made by Tulloch, but from
his motions he hardly will give Mr.
Tulloch m opportunity to 90 on
the witness stand. He sees what
the whole thing is leading to and
is doing his best to SQuclch any
further Investigation. He is a
shrcwd politician, was placed in
the cabinet ms ROoscvclts political
guide and counsellor, and it evil
deutly is his belief that Il cUntin.
uunrc of the investigation will re
suit III serious consequences to the
administration
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. of
| Massachusetts, who is the spokcs
man for Roosevelt on the floor in
the Senate, evidently thinks other
wise, for he said here the other
day after reading in the Washing.
ton Evening Star n defence of a.
W. Machcn, Superintendent of
Free Delivery, by Postmaster Gen.
eral Payne. that Machcn would
have to 90 and that his sus
pension or discharge had been or e.
dcrcd by the President before he
left on his western trip; that if the
Postmaster General did not get rid
Of Machen there would he some.
thing doing in the resignation line
in Mr.. Paync's Office, and the Post.
master General would be forced
out of the Cabinet. Mr.. Payne
is now between the devil and the
deep blue sea. II he kicks out Bob
Wynnc, who started the investiga.
ton, Wynne will pull down the
temple. Machcn knows too much
and if he is kicked out he will play
the same game. and there you are =.
In the meantime the Democrats are
holding their noses aud watching
the fun.
CHARLES A. EDWARDS.
Marriage Licenses.