Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1903-09-11
WASHINGTON letter

i y. IT,. So washington Letter
Sept =, 1t will be remembered that
at the beginning of the Post. Office
Department Investigation the Post
master General. Mr.. Payne, said with
q lofty air that there was nothing
In it. and dismissed all the charges of
ex-Cashier Tulloch with disdain, Well
the general public know how much
there was in 1t, and how the deeper
they dug into the muck heap the mas
tier it got. The Post Office Depart.
ment investigation is not nearing the
end and the report of FourthAssistant
Postmaster General Bristow will soon
be ready for the public, but the
changes are that the general public
will soon forget all about the postof6ce
matter because it will be entertained
with another Investigation that is
now about to be pulled off, the noise
of which will reverberate from Tad
Observation-Disclosures to Yuba Dam.
It is now up to the Interior Depart
ment to take a turn at the investiga-
ton grindstone, and the storm center
of the investigation will be In the..ln-
dian Territory. Mr.. Hitchcock, the
Secretary Of the Interior, had nc idea,
when he summarily dismissed from
Office without hearing Mr.. Clarence
B. Douglas, 8 clerk in the land de-
partment Of the Indian Agents Office
at Muskogee, that the situation
down there was loaded withdynamite.
I have known Clarence Douglas ever
since we were barefoot boys together
in 1875, and there is no man of high
or character or cleaner manhood in
the Indian Territory or anywhere else.
He Is not the man to rest under the
imputation against his honor, and he
has proceeded to get busy. He de-
manded hearing, and recitation
of the reason of hisdismissal. He cared
nothing for the measly job, but he
wanted justice. He has got nothing,
and now there are whole gobs of
trouble Fostering the Secretary of the
Interior. The dismissal of Douglas
was the signal gun that started the
rumpus. Douglas is q fighter from the
headwater of Bitter Creek. and is
camping on the trail of the man who
Is at the bottom of a whole lot of the
nastiness in the Indian Territory, like
hungry coyote camping on the trail
of corpulent jack rabbit. He is now
at Washington, where he is we'll
known and stands high among the
newspaper men, in the fraternity Of
which he is an honored member. and
he has been cutting loose a lot of
facts anent the Indian territory situa-
ton that has blown the cap off the
crater and let daylight into some cor
ners that some people hoped never
would be uncovered. The newspaper
boys are printing what Douglas says
because thew know he knows what he
is talking about, and they also know
that he will not lie.
Chairman James NJ. Griggs, Of the
Democratic Congressional Committee,
was in the city last week and tie
first question he asked on his arrival
here was: "Hss the president left
for Turkey YETI" That seems OF be
the question upp ermost in the minds
Of nearly everybody ever since the
action Of the President In sending our
warships to Turkish waters on the
strength Of q cablegrsm, which af-
forwards proved to be incorrect, that
our vice. had been asassinsted.
He has acted with his customary
headlong. headstrona precipitancy
which may involve the country in
endless trouble and expense. There ia
no man who tried to defend the "un
speakable' Turk and his methods.
but the business interests of the coun
try are entitled to some consideration
from the man who occupies the high
est position in the nation, and to
those interested he gives no thought
at all. He is looking for the lime
light. and he wants to stand:.in it at all
times or else he is not happy. Things
have not been happening fast emo ugh
to suit him lately, and he intends to
make them happen in order to at
tract the attention of the general pub-
lie to himself and his personality. he
knows that he does not stand we'll
with q certain coterie of United
States Senators; he has already sur
rendered to the so-called "standpat-
ters' on the tariff question after all
his brag and buster about how he
will demolish the trusts by reducing
certain schedules; he has antagon: z I'D
the Grand Army of Republic by his
treatment of--General Miles; he has
acquired the enmity of all the officers
OF the army by his boosting of Gener-
al Leonard Wood over their heads