The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-03
WIELDERS .....
 OF THE POLE l E Plum Getters lticised
 by BWIj~ AIDED IN NTs!CoRRUPTIoN Beavers Did Not Turn Down
 His Friends. Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the Republican ~ Party Promises to Be of
 Unusual Interest.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Colorado ouitdius,

Colorado oMtdins, I Washington, )ec. 2. Brfstow's sensational litera. production on the widespread stealing in ths F ste office Department will for l,ne time | furnish them,s for discussion O perst ns in every branch of the governm 'nr. TLe i personel of the judicial, as well $ the executive and legislative branches. must | by investigation and trial be iatims teiy involved
 The legislative branch-members and | Senators-did not at first blush rec any, thing in the report to disturb them. But l that some of them have cause to be dis turbed there is quite Jufh;ient evidence in few reflections by the Fpurt Assis- tant Postmaster General upon the inter- ference of Congressman with :he proper administration of the department. There Is consequently growing ois- position of curiosity as to the identity of the Congressmen who have laid 'hem- selves thus conspicuovsly liable to the animadversions of MT. Bristow. Who are the members that have winked at the Rrafters and accepted from them unde- served special privileges for their consti- tuents?
 The report says that the appropriation for clerk hire in third and fous tn. class offices, averaging over million dollars | A
 sonal favor. Says MT. Bristow: "If a Senator, member of Congress. or any prominent politician whom Beavers
 was anxious to serve. requires an increase 1 in the clerk hire allowed a postmaster. Beavers compiled, regardless of the merits | of the case"
 Many instances were cited wheEe merely on the personal favor basis Beavers gave postoffices from two to ten times the proper allowances for clerk hire. Tt 1 was" says Bristow, ''in ofiices of the first and second classes that Beavers reached | the climax of reckless and criminal waste l in the matter of clerk hire" And quite naturally, hecause officers of the first and second class have many times more | clerks than fAoes of tho other classes. ~ Liv1ngst6n's Long Pull. i It happens that one of the Congress- men plainly pointed to as favor-getter 1 was Representative Leonidas F. Living
 ston, of the Atlanta, Ga, district. MT. 1 tion of getting more gum out of the Re- publican tree for his constituents than any other Southern Congressman. The enterprising Georgia statesman has been l the senior Democrat on the Committee on ! Appropriations in the House. and the
 Committee on App opriations is always an overlapping and profoundly respected
 committee in all the departments. To all hints and innunendoes as to his ! conduct MT. Livingston makes crushing | answer:
 Are my people going to blame me for getting all l can for themr"
 MT. Livingston proudly points to the fact that during the war with Spain he got appointments as heutenants in the
 army for thirteen young men in his dis trict.
 The Blue Book. which carries the namse | of every employe of the government to | for work done or to the benefciaries of
 sinecure official donations. attests the un-
 tagging industry of the Atlanta Con- l gressman in the frequency with which 1 appear in the big volumes pages the names of residents of his district. l The Bristow report may cast very som
 Der shadows upon Mr. Livingston's style
 of zeal as a representative, but, after all. there are not few people with good
 memories who are well apprised of the
 fact that the upheaval of ostensible re-
 form in the Postofice Department grew | out of dissensions among the chiefs of the | department and is a mere incident of the
 rows born of envy and disappointed greed
 instead of the logic of an original righte-
 ous impulse or the return to q straighter path by awakened conscience. Nothing I would DcLISE uGfuUnSIEdto IItO hyUOCEicy | of the whole Republican administration
 than a thorough non-partisan investiga-
 ton by Congress as Is proposed in the
 Carmack resolution.
 The Republican Committee.
 Notices of the meeting in this city of
 the Republican National Committee have
 been sent to the members by Chairman Hanna, and 1t is anticipated that it will
 be the most interesting gathering of the
 chosen campaign managers ever assem- bled in the history of the party.
 It Is expected that 1t will be decided
 whether the Ohio Senator will remain
 chairman for the campaign of 1904. as the President desired him to do. It is also an engaging topic of interest what
 is to be done with the case of Perry Heath, secretary of the committee, whose fair name has been recently much tarred in connection with the Bristow .Postomce Department investigation.
 There is conjecture too whether or not
 the committee meeting vii not throw
 some satisfying light upon the real atti-
 tude of Senator Hanna toward the Roose- welt administration. These are some of the main objects of interest in the meet ing Friday, December Il.
 There will of course be other business
 before the committee. notably the selec- 1
 is already keen competition for bott
 national conventions next year. Chicago
 St. Louis. Pittsburg. Detroit, Kansas City
 and Milwaukee are candidates. with Chi,
 cago and St. Louis appa ently in the lead
 It will be remembered that four years
 ago Henry C. Payne, now Postmas el
 General came to Washington Lh g cherished project of cutting down repre-
 sentation from the South in the Repub lican nati-n nal conventions and threatened
 to keep agitattng the question. But tn, present administration has side-trackeC
 the idea, having found a way tn ough tn, power of patronage to Panamaize the
 delegations just as they are. negroes anC
 all. Payne had a notion of curtailnf
 Hanna's hold on the South. Chairman
 Hanna successfully combatted the ider
 and MT. Roosevelt has availed him gal" o
 the situation by fencing in the ~s
 ties in deleg1te-ge ting with his " I \ an nat ero- nA Str,Hx. I. hn