Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-12-07
TYNER ASKS JUSTICE.
Ex-Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Addresses Roosevelt.
DENIES ALL ACCUSATIONS MADE.
Calls Action of President In Conn
nentins ON Brfsfow Report In His
Case "Premature and unUar-
rnntedv In uning Guilt.

ruhteuD Ia ASS uInlHS cunt.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Mr.. James
n. Tyner, who was assistant attorney
general for the postoflice department
until deposed on account of matters
connected with the postofIice investi-
CATION. has sent the following letter 10.
President Roosevelt:
in your official statement as presi-
dent Of the United States, addressed
to the American public, III connection
with the report of Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General Bristow on the al
legged postal frauds, you make certain
statements concerning my supposed
connection herewith, which l take the
liberty of answering in order that l
may properly go upon your official rec
| ords.
II do not desire to question your
good faith OF sincerity in accepting
the conclusion of your subordinate,
Mr.. Bristow, and in Identifying them
with the weight of your high official
position, but has 1t occurred to you that
pending tie trial OF the three indict-
lnents against me, based on the ale
cations OF the report and without hav-
Ing heard one word from me in my de-
Tense, your premature and unwarrant-
cd announcement of my assumed guilt
and your call to the court and jury to
indorse the same is, to say the least,
extraordinary and dangerous? am
not even asking that should be pre-
suned innocent or that before l am
condemned by you or the department
l should be confronted by proofs and
witnesses or given an opportunity to
be heard in my defense, or that in the
trial which c%onfronts me l should have
d fair trial. All / am asking Is that,
In Wow of the uncertainty of my life
and the fact that my lips may at any
moment be forever sealed, this letter
be filed among your official records OF
my case, together with my letters of
July 81, 1903, TO Mr.. Brlstow, q copy
Of which l attach.
81 desire again specifically to deny
every II of the yelled charges made
by Mr.. Brlstow in his report and to
call your attention to the fact that not
one direct or specific charge is made
against me in the conduct Of my high
office, nor has. 0 can, one cent of
gain be traced TO me. If my life Is
spared | shall fully refute all the sur
misses and i~nsinuations of Mr.. Brlstow
and shall be able to show the reasons
which led him to withhold from you
full data and to garble, misquote and
fals,fy that which he did. submit to
you.
II also desire to state that IL my of
the friends Of Tyner' hayo, as you al
Logged, advanced the theory that in this
case the chief offender vas my nephew
Barrett and that my alleged offenses
were due to my failing mental and
bodily powers they did so without my
knowledge or assent. 1t is true that,
owing to two strokes Of paralysis, my
bodily powers have failed me, and l
may have to face II truer and sterner
Judge ere many days, but my mental
powers, l thank God, have never suf-
fered and l trust will not fail me I'M
til l have convinced the American pub
lie and you, as chief executive, that
/ lily AUS lave DG9l uOlltbt, UOIOEuDIp
and straightforward in the sight of
Cod and man. l am confident that the
relations OF Mr.. Barrett with me and
my department were as innocent and
| honorable as l am sure were all my
motives and acts.
al also wish to deny your utterly I'M
warranted statement that the gross
L. Al4 T.-. -
gone on for a number of years You
should know, and your subordinates
| do know, that no single act of corrup-
| ton. gross or mild, has been dlscov-
cred against me, and the United States
government, with its forty inspectors
and its chief inQuisitor, Mr.. Brlstow,
| will be unable to discover one.
81 have tried by forty odd years of
faithful service TO my country to prove
my zeal for faithfulness and honesty
In the public service, and l now say
to you, the president Of the United
States, my chief accuser, as II it were
| tho last word l shall ever utter, that in
your well recognized and honorable
zeal for the public good you have al
| lowed yourself to be deceived and im-
posed upon, and while l cannot hope
for a hearing at your hands 1 shall at
| least give myself the wrctched solaee
of having denied these wrongs and of
having demanded that hearing which
right and justice ought to accord me-"
Submarine Boat StiH Lies Stranded.
NORFOLK. Va, Dee. T. Advices
from Currituck over the coast wires re-
port that the sea is becoming much
rougher, thus adding to the peril of the
stranded submarine torpedo boat Moe
casin. The Merritt g. Chapman Wrock-
ing company tug has not up to this
time left Norfolk for the scene. The
Yankton and Vixen are still standing
eff the coast near C%urrituck, but are
unable to do anything TO fioat the Moe
casin.