The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1903-06-22
satisfaction Expressed B,
President at Outcome of
Meeting of Miners
|Hf WON'T BE TURNED ASIDE
r,om His Determination to SO
10 the Very Bottom Of POST
office Scandal

correspondence to the Silver State
The administration is much pleas
Al With the outcome of the meeting
a miners at Scranton, Pa, and the
outstanding reached between them
sud the operators, as represented by
jbbn Mitchell and President Baer. IT
a fitting result of the work begun
by President Roosevelt when he Sc
cured the consent of both sides 10
The appointment of the strike COM
mission and represents in its conser-
vative treatment of an embarrassing
situation the substantial advance that
has been made in the adjustment of
dificulties between employer and en-
ploye.' This statement was made
today by Secretary Cortelyou to an
Equiry
In this statement is defined the
Presidents attitude towards capital
bnd labor. He knows that when.
Near ago. he interferred aud brought
the coal strike to an end he relieved
the country from serious condition.
Ordinarily law-abiding citizens were
FEARING down fences for fuel, stopping
trains and seizing coal and laboring
casses were at fever heat. Now that
President Baer and John Mitchell have
again come together on peaceful terms
the President feels that ms policy mas
been doubly vindicated. Mr.. Roose-
welt has been in no way disturbed
by the criticisms indulged in by those
who have suggested that his inter-
ference at that time was unwarranted
and would tend only to increase the
arrogance of the labor organizations
and give encouragement to strikers to
maintain an irreconcilable conlct
with capital. In view of the recent
agreement between Baer and Mitchell.
the President feels that his part in in
terference is going TO be fruitful OF
peaceful relations between capital and
labor. A day or two ago the Presl-
[dent was denounced by miners as
ISOLATION for sending troops into Ari-
z6na to prevent riot and disorder. Al
the other extreme is the attitude or
certain capitalists in Wall street who
have criticised the President for what
they regard as interference with their
private business affairs, involving i'm
nense combinations of capital. The
President feels that criticism from
Regarded with complacency and that
ne can adhere to the course that he
has laid down for himself of invoking
the law wherever 1t is violated, either
| by capitalistic combinations or
through riot and disorder.
A decided political turn has been
I gwen to the postoffice investigation
during the past week by the EFFORTS
Of the Democratic press to make po-
hical capital out of the situation.
hat they will be successful, however
doubtful. The President has lis
Iened to the plants of some politi-
clans who want to curtail the search
ing methods of Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow, but after
nearing their complaints Mr.. Roose-
Welt has invariably said, Il regard it
as a duty | owe to the public to go
10 the bottom of this affair and to
make public the results of the inves-
leauon and | do not propose to be
turned aside. No one who has been
guilty shall escape" In this connec-
uon 1t is worthy of note that it is
NOT the exposure of actual stealing
which the politicians fear, but the
disclosure of the methods of practical
poiltlcians in using the postoffice de-
partment to further their political for
tunes.
The reply of Bristow to the Tulloch
eharges, made public today, not only
sustalns Tulloch, who. by the way
mas been a lifelong Republican, but
PAGES Former Postmaster General
slhlth and Former Assistant Postmas-
@l General Heath in most unfor-
innate light. 1t does not. however
a. postmaster General Payne says II
uoes, implicate President Mckinley
Nno was doubtless entirely ignorant
% ~ The methods employed in the post
once department This report also
puts Mr.. Payne in a very bad light
Oecause of his former attempt to sup
press the Bristow charges and his ref
TIehce to them as 'hot air" etc. The
resident does not, however. desire 10
nave Mr.. Payne resign. He feels now
Adt the postmaster generals eyes
nave been opened he will make nc
nrther attempt to cover things up
= TACT, the worst is all out. and he
sohsiders that it would be grave in
Justice to Mr.. Payne to do anything
mat would cause his resignation a.
mis- time.
The most perplexing feature of the
ss'uation in the postoffice department
me implacab'e and unwarrantee
,nuuagonism of the postmaster genera
cewards Fist Assistant POSTMASTER