West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1903-11-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
MORE IMPORTATION ABOUT The POST
OFFICE SCANDAL.
The Maryland Campaign and the Prcsi
dent and Senator German.
From our regular correspondent.


From our regular correspondent.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 3r.---
Mr.. Bristow's report ON the postal scandal
has been given to the President. but there is
no danger of It being given to the public,
ust at present. whilo there Is an e,eetion
about to take place in eleven States OF the
Union. I, is said that the President is going
over the report carefully, and that before
making It public he will supplement, Il with
some comments of his own. As Il contains
over million words, which would make
,,ooo pages Of an ordinary government doeu.
men,. Il will probably take Mr.. Roosevelt
some time to finish Il. Postmaster General
Payne Is now preparing his letter Of trans.
initial, to accompany the report. There
seems good authority for the statement that
Mr.. Brstow makes grave accusations against
Perry 5. Heath, the former First Assistant
Postmaster General and present Secretary
of the Republican National Committee, of
which Mark Hanna is Chairman. The
Tolloch charges accused Heath of Juggling
pay-rolls, giving sinecures TO women and po.
litical friends, and sending politicians around
the country at government expense ostensi-
bly, on official business; but Il Is said that
Mr.. Bris,ow charges him with official cor.
ruption similar to that for which Beavers
and Machen are now indicted. However,
like Congressman Littauer In the glove con-
tracts, he will probably be saved by the stat
ute OF limitations. IL looks as IL the Repub-
lieans will hardly dare retain him as Sccfe-
tary Of the National Committee; but perhaps
he hopes for something ''equally as good. "
The irregularities discovered In the New
York Post Office are of such grave charac-
ter that the President has directed Mr. Bris.
tow's inspectors to subject Il to a rigid in
yestigation. They will leave for New York
in a few days and will have a month or six
weeks TO complete their work. The head of
the New York Office Is Postmaster Van Colt.
a close personal friend of Senator Plat, who
has done all he can to defend him aud who
will fight any attempt to remove him. AL
though no direct changes have as yet been
made against Van Colt, his removal has been
so frequently discussed as TO alarm Senator
Plat and his other friends.
TT
Tie Maryland campaign is the chief topic
among politicians here. Senator German
has taken the stump aud Is leading the
Democrats in an-attack on the admins,ra-
ton, which Is causing the Republicans the
grayest alarm. lie again scores the Presi-
dent for his interference in the State cam.
paign and for his championing the colored
race by dining Booker Washington. lie
said in his last speech, "Unfortunately the
President of the United States--and I speak
OF him as the President ought always to be
spoken Of, with respeet--goes from one end
OF the country to the .olher intensifying the
race issue. lie well knows that all thought
ful men of the South, without exception,
unless II be politicians who want the votes
OF the negroes, and every thoughtful man of
the North, has reached the conclusion that
no greater crime was ever committed against
good government, no greater crime has ever
been perpetrated against the women of the
South, than the emancipation Of the negro
by constitutional amendment The Pfesi-
dent of the United States with an impul-
siyeness and thoughtIessness which would
hardly excused in small boy 10 this com
community, has faculty Of expressing him
self, which has become dangerous to the
peace Of the community. He has interfered
in our State and has tried to stimulate the
Republicans by inviting them to a harmony
meeting and TO sit around the same table at
which Booker Washington sat. ole de-
clared further that by his imprudence in in
terfering with matters which did not prop
erly belong to his Office the President had
unsettled business interests" Isidor Rayner,
the Democratic candidate for the United
States Senate, spoke along the same lines,
declaring himself for the Acknowledgement
of the negro as a matter Of self preservation.
Senator German now stands out as the lead
er Of the opposition to the President on his
attitude on the race question and this will
probably be made the issue Of the coming
Presidential campaign; unless the Rcpubli.
cans refuse 10 nominate Mr.. Roosevelt, who
stands for equal opportunity for black and
white.