The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-05-20
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Cleveland Can Beat Roosevelt
Postomee Investigation Pro-
crossing Other Matters.

Washington, May 1S.-That the Ohio
republican convention will be the
scene Of a bitter contest between the
Hanna and the Foraker factions in
Ohio politics is confirmed by State
Senator Samuel Patterson who is in
Washington and who says that the
republicans Of his state are so much
in earnest in their opposition to any
resolution endorsing Mr.. Roosevelt for
another term that the Presidents
would do well to think twice before
introducing such a resolution in the
convention. Senator Patterson, it
should be said, was the Hanna leader
in the last Ohio legislature and is re-
garded as competent to voice the SEN
riments of the Hanna faction. Sena-
tor Foraker, on the other hand, has
said unequivocally that such a reso-
luton would be introduced and press
ed for adoption. It is acknowledged by
Mr.. Roosevelt's friends that it would
be severe blow to his prospects if a
resolution Of endorsement were reject
ed by the Ohio convention, but so bit
ter is the feud between Messrs. Fo-
raker and Hanna that it is hardly
likely that the former can be dis
suaded from forcing his enemy to
show his hand. Should the resolution
be adopted over the protest of the
Hannaites, moreover. it would not
only strengthen Mr.. Roosevelt's s. posi-
ton but would materially weaken that
of Senator Hanna.
Representative Sulzer, OF New York,
has been in Washington for several
days and talked freely on the subject
Of presidential possibilities. Mr..
Sulzer is a Bryan admirer but says
that if Clevland and Roosevelt we're
nominated the former would sweep
the country. Mr.. Sulzer would not
say, however, that ne favored Mr..
Cleveland's nomination, nor did he
believe Mr.. Roosevelt would be the
republican nominee. 'There can
be no Doubt but that the financial in
terests of the country still control its
afairs,' said Mr.. Sulzer,'' and it
cannot be denied that the financial in
terests distrust Mr.. Roosevelt. If the
republicans should nominate Roose-
velt believe the financial interests
would attempt to secure the nomina-
ton of Cleveland and then back him
to any amount necessary. This, in my
| judgement, would serve as rebuke to
the republican party and would have
the desired effect in 1908, when the
organization would nominate some
such men as NJ. A. Hama, Jno. G.
| Spooner or Chas. ". Fairbank.
The investigations Of the Postoffce
/ To r4h
| erous instances Of violated law and
loose administrative methods, although
the Postmaster General is doing every
thing in his power to belittle the dis
coveries made and keep them from the
public, priding himself on the extent
| to which he has been able to keep the
facts from the press and the people.
It is known, for instance, that circu.
lars were sent to all carriers on rural
routes requesting them to forward to
the free delivery division the names
and addresses of persons residing on
their routes and it is believed that the
lists of such names were sold to stget-
rich-ouick'' concerns, mail order hous-
es and others for a generous sum.
The Department itself had no use fol
the names. A recent discovery is to
the effect that large number OF
physicians have been carried on the
rolls as clerks in the various post
Offices, the nominal duties of these
doctors being to ascertain if men who
| claimed disability to work on account
| of sickness were actually i'll or were
shaming. There is no appropriation in
| the law for doctors for the postofice
department and the practice will be
discontinued. In one instance, in st.
Paul, Mimi, the postof6ce doctor was
required to treat all employees free Of
charge. The most sensational state
| ment yet published is that of Mr.. Tul-
loch, formerly cashier in the Washing
ton City postofice. Mr.. Tulloch's
charges impiicate Bx-Postmaster Gen
eral Smith, ex-First Assistant Post
master General Perry Heath and a
| number Of other officials.
Secretary Shaw has dismissed from
| the service the women immigrant in
,spectors who were employed some time
ago at the instance of certain religious
and philanthropic associations with a
view to preventing the importation of
yOuAS WHICH 1O4 PAoIOA AHS9SS'
The immigration office found that the
women inspectors were incapacitated
for the work for several reasons, but
chiefly because of the fact that the
young women whom they found it
necessary to single out for inspection
and catechetical examination resented
what they regarded as suspicion cast
upon their character or appearance
and on most instances positively refus-
ed to answer any questions put to
them. Commissioner Williams reports
that in no instance have the women
inspectors detected a case of the class,
for the detection of which they were
employed, and in his opinion men are
much better suited for the work in
every way.
CONSERVATION has beer caused in
the Census Bureau by the announce
ment that on July one hundred clerks
will be dropped from the rolls. No an
nouncement of the identity Of the en-
plovees whose services will be dispens-
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