The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-23
Spschh Correspondence Of Mtcliigcnccr.

Washington, u. g., Sept. u, 1908.
The lightning In the Post Office De
strike about in places close to the
t"rone. Beavers, who has given him
self up voluntarily after the police
seemed to be unable to get him, has
had Postmaster General Payne sub
p0enaed to appear as Il witrcss IN his
case, and the p. NJ &. promptly rcpu-
dates the subpoena and refuses :" np-
pear. He says he is sick, and must
pcrforce spend few weeks down N
Virginia lot Springs to rccupe rate his
health. He probably knows too much
OF tho doings of his private secretary,
MIR. ii. IL. Rand, in connection with
Beavers and Machen's industry in the
grating game in the Post Otlice De-
partmcnt, and does not desire to be
questioned under oath. In fact, he is
doing all in his power to stop the pub
licity of.dctails of the Post Office De-
partmcnt scandal, and now he gives it
out that the end is in sight and that
there will be nothing more doing after
the first of October. He knows full
well that there are too many members
of Congress and republican leaders
mixed up in the matter who must pro-
tect the looters, and some OF them too
the matter to proceed further. Such
competent machine politician as tho
=. M. G. knows that the republican
party cannot receive any more such
hard knocks as it has received by even
q small part of the scandal thus ex-
posed &c public view, ind survive the
treatment. How the republican party
leaders are praying that something will
turn up to distract the minds of the
public from this nasty mess. See how
the Beirut incident was seized upon to
take the minds of the people from the
scandals cropping out in the admins
tration of the affairs of government
The Panama Canal affair is also being
used to get the minds Of the people
as adm inistered by the republican
party, but all in vain. Those little in
cidents aro but tho wonder of an hour,
and tho minds Of the people wander
back 20 their muttOns, the scandals in
depi rtmcnts at Washington. Like
Bar quo's ghost, they will not down,
but return with perplcxire nersistency
to plague an administration that is rot
ten to tho core The :" nple have a
specific for this cancer on The body
polite it they will go to the polls and
administer it. 1t is mp to chem.
The trusts are still in the saddle
The anthracite coal trust is advancing
the price OF coal again, though it is
reported to have mined and stored
some millions of tons moro than can
be sold this year., and yet this trust
also files notice that it intends to raise
the price OF it's products to n level
more in accord with the times and per-
missive of the garnering of larger
profits. Congress, last winter, when
the coal trust was live issue. appro-
PIatsd special dg f9pd l.9i. Of fes
prosecute trusts. Congress also pro-
vided for number of assistant Attor-
neys General to prepare cases against
the trusts. Many months have elapsed
since this money and those attorneys
were placed Of the disposal of the ad-
ministratioDs but no action has been
begun. There is on file with the At
against trusts, prepared by private en-
terprise, such as the case against the
coal trust prepared by William R.
Hearst, and the case against the to-
bacco trust has been on file for over
two years. but IL has reposed in q
pigeon hole in the department, and
even the extra money and the extra
court.
There seems to be nothing TINT can
stop this Unsuitable greed of blonted
trusts, except business depression.
That with its resultant reduction iii
the peoples purchasing power, will
prove the only effective means to bring
prices down again to reasonable limit,
so long as the republican party remains
in the saddle. So far as legislatures
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