Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-10-14

twenty-eight persons indicted by
various grand juries for completely
In the frauds and pecuIations in the
Post Office Department. but not
one has. SO far, been brought to
trial, and the chances are not one
of the indicted will be as vigorously
prosecuted as he deserves or be con-
victed In the end. The distin-
guished politician who presides
over the Post Office Department
seems to think that his mill has
ground exceeding fine, and that he
has fine mess of rotten mill stuff
to present TO the people of the coun-
try as the result of the labors of
his inspectors. He is now con-
graduating himself and the eoun-
try that the end has been reached
and that the official reports will
soon be forthcoming; at least they
will soon be in the hands of the
President, who will give them TO
the public If he sees fit TO do so.
and if he does not the people can
go To-, and there you are. As
| said above, not one man has been
brought to trial, and if the United
States Courts keep up the record
they are making none of them will
ever be brought to trial or con-
vlcted after they are brought to
the bar of justice. Beavers is fight
ing like a Turk over in New York
TO keep from being tried, and the
court is helping him. 1t not only
has postponed his trial several
times at the instigation of his cOun-
sci, but it has summoned the
| United States District Attorney
TO come in and show cause why he
should not be sentenced for con-
tempt of court for refusing some
plea set up by Beavers. The
courts seem TO be fighting for the
accused grafters, and if things
keep on as they now are going not
one of the gang of thieves will be
convicted. The republicans here
are congratulating themselves and
one another that the end of the in
vestigation is in sight and that the
attention of the country will soon
be taken off their misdeeds by the
assembling of Congress. The end
of the investigating is in sight be-
cause they want it to be and not
because there is not plenty more
things TO investigate If they wanted
TO. They have only scraped the
surface in the Postoffice Depart
ment. They have not touched the
bureau where the mail contracts
are made with the railroads for
carrying the mail.
There is n perfect mine of rot
tenness To be unearthed i'm those
contracts if they would 90 after
them, but they will not do so.
They are sick and tired of the
whole business and are anxious to
hush it up as soon as possible. If
there is Congressional investiga-
ton next winter look out for snagS
In that bureau. Somebody is go
ing to be hung up on them. For,
Notwithstanding the fact that a
republican investigation is very
much like man looking for some
thing nasty in the dark-looking
for it but hoping he will not find
1.-THE democrats are going to dig
for keeps.
There is considerable comment
here over the charges recently
made by Col. Henry Watterson,
in the Louisville "Courier-Jour-
nal, " that the reason the Panama
Canal bill was allowed to take the
place of the House bill, which de
clared for the Nicaragua Canal,
was that the Senate was corrupted,
bought like sheep in the shambles.
There is no doubt in the minds of
the people here who have been
watching the game from start to
finish that the charges of Col. Wat
terson are correct. He has the
right SOW by the ear, but he does
not explain the details of how she
5 was caught. The Senator's who
1 were prominent in their advocacy
2 of the Panama route we're not
: brought outright. The Panama
: people had no money to buy any
D thing. If steamboats, had been
q selling at five cents apiece they
? could not have bought a canoe
q paddle. They worked their game,
$ however, and they worked it well,
a l have been informed by man
a A. =