Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-06-05

investigation Proceeds - Senator German
| Eliminated From Democratic Possibilities
for Presidential Candidacy-A Significant
Appointment Of Assistant Secretary Of the
/ Treasury-A $I5.O0O.OOO Irrigation Fund to
| Be Provided.
| (From our regular correspondent)
WASHINGTON, May %, 1903.
The most sensational political devel-
opment OF the summer has taken place
during the past week and the details
have been watched with the keenest
interest by politicians in Washington.
The effort Of Senator Hanna to pre-
vent the endorsement OF President
Roosevelt's candidacy in 1904, the de-
termination of Senator Foraker TO
"smoke out" his colleague, the Presi-
dents defiance of the Ohio Senator
and the latter's surrender in the face
| OF an anticipated situation in the Ohio
convention which he could not control,
have combined to make active politics
and situation which lacked nothing
in dramatic interest. Although Sena.
tor Hanna has played and lost he is
now attempting to put the best posi-.
BILE face upon the situation and pre-
tends that his surrender was made at
the request of the President. The
truth OF the affair, as explained to your
correspondent by Republican Sena-
tor, was that Mr.. Hanna wished to
keep the question of the Republican
candidate open for another year and
that he at least was loath to permit
Mr.. Roosevelt to secure the nomina-
ton until he had exacted from him
pledges which would protect the Han.
ma interests during the next admins
tration if the Republicans won. Sen.
ator Foraker said to your correspond.
ent, before leaving Washington, that
it was a complete back down for Sena-
tor Hanna but that it evidently arose
from the fact that the Senator found
that he would be unable to control the
Ohio CONVEX ton. This is the second
time that Mr.. Roosevelt has signally
defeated Mr.. Hanna, the first instance
having been at the Republican con.
vention at Philadelphia when Mr..
Hanna spent two hours at a long dis.
lance telephone trying to persuade
President Mckinley to permit the de-
feat Of Roosevelts candidacy for the
Vice-Presidency but could not secure
Mr.. McKinley's sanction.
Hardly less sensational and perhaps
more important is the latest develop.
ment in the Postoffice scandal. Au.
gust w. Machen. the Congressman
friend" and General Superintendent OF
Free Delivery. having been dismissed
from the service for malfeasance in |
Office, arrested, charged with having
received bride of $22, 900 and released
on bail to appear for preliminary ex.
animation June s. The entire case
against Machen was worked up with.
out knowledge of Postmaster General
Payne, who has protected him from
the first, and only when the entire and |
unequivOcal evidence had been secured, |
as result OF information filed BY First
Assistant Postmaster General Wynne
with Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow, was Mr.. Payne &C.
quainted with the facts. As Machen |
and his cohorts have been proteges OF |
Senator Hanna, and as Payne is recog-
nized as the loyal servant OF the Ohio
Senator, some significance may attach
to the fact that Mschen's arrest came
Immediately after Hanna had demon
strsted his sustained hostility to the
President, It being known that
throughout this investigation Wynue
aud Bristow have acted on the direct
instruction Of Mr.. Roosevelt and have
frequently incurred the displeasure of
the Postmaster General for the zeal
with which they have prosecuted the
investigation.
The arrest OF Machen was preceded
only two days ago by the arrest, on q
similar charge, of Daniel v. Miller,
who, it is claimed. accepted bride OF
approximately $4,000 in return for
which he rendered decision for Ryan
u Co., OF st. Louis, " "get.rich.quick"
concern, which wished to use the mails
for fraudulent purposes. The case
against Miller was worked up by At.
torney Robb Of the Department Of JUS.
tice who il now acting Attorney Gen.
eral for the Postoffice Department, vice
Judge Tyner, whom Mr.. Payne de.
posed on order of the President, with
evident reluctance, not until two
months after Mr.. Roosevelt issued the
order for Tyner's dismissal, and not
until Tyner's agent had removed from
the office.safe papers which it is be.
lieved would have aided materially in
prosecuting the frauds which have
long been Q scandal to the service, in
the law department OF the Postal SER
vice. It is freely intimated that the
Mschen arrest is only the first of many
sensational developments which will
soon follow and which in the aggre-
gate will rival the famous Star Route
cases in the extent to which the Gov
eminent has been swindled and the
prominence of the officials involved.
1t is of interest to learn, on the au-
thority of a close friend OF Senator
Martin of Virginia, that Senator Cor
man will not be candidate for the
Democratic Presidential nomination.
It is stated by this authority that a
conference was held recently, which
was attended by q number of promi.
nent Democratic politicians and the
whole situation was discussed in detail.
Senator German himself raised the
question of his attitude towards the |
Wilson tariff bill and it was decided |
that the Maryland Senator's opposi.
ton to the bill as it came from the
House would be certain to insure his
defeat, even if he secured the Demo-
cratic nomination. Senator German,
it is said, agreed with the reasoning of
his friends and told them that they
could say freely and positively that he
would not permit himself to be con-
sidered as Democratic possibility.
Charles Hallam Keen has been an.