Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-04-30

ton on the part Of certain infiuen-
tial republicans to defeat Mr.. Roose-
welt in the national republican con-
vention. This opposition is based
on his alleged erraticism and the
gFound that he is not a safe man. "
II is an iii wind which blows no
body good, however, and the same
men who are opposing Mr.. Roose-
welt are contemplating the support
Of the democratic ticket If a care
full and conservative man should be
the nominee. A prominent New
Yorker who has been recently in
Washington said, on this subject,
I'VE do not want man in the White
House who is always looking for
o new sensation and who is willing
TO abandon even the things of his
own invention as soon as they cease
tobe novel. The enforcemento of laws
which exist and the advocacy OF
more effective Legislation to q desir-
ed end is not to be objected to in a
President, but we do not want a
President to whom the sensational
appeals and who would do a thing
in the wrong way rather than in
the right in order to appear in the
glare of the lime light" This is
only sample of the arguments ad-
vauced against Mr.. Roosevelt s
candidacy by that element of New
York business men known as con
servatives" aud il is heard so fire.
quently as TO occasion serious con-
Germ to the supporters of the Pre-
sident.
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The weak and half hearted man.
ner in which the Postmaster Gener-
al has been conducting the inves-
LEGATIONS ordered by the President
has produced q startling result
during the past week. The wife OF
the Assistant Attorney General
for the Postoftice Department, with
the assistance of her sister and a
safe expert, has distracted from the
safe which contained, presumably,
the private and confidential papers
OF the division, all the documents il
contained and refused to surrender
them to the Postmaster General
when a demand was made. The
sister of Mrs. Tyner, who accom-
panied her ON the expedition, is
the mother of Hamilton j. Barrett.
late law clerkOf the Postoftice, whose
conduct is now under investigation
because of his known association
with a turf investment company
some of whose officers have been
recently sentenced to terms in the
penitentiary for fraud. 1t is alleg-
ed in some quarters that the object
OF the raid was the abstraction OF
papers which would have incrimina.
ted young Barrett.
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The loose methods pursued by
the Postmaster General are shown in
that, Notwithstanding the fact that
this division has been under inves-
tigation for over q month, by order
OF the President, there is no record
OF the papers in the Tyner safe and
now taat the case has been turned
over to the Attorney General for pro-
secution he has no evidence with
which TO refute the claim of Mrs.
Tyner that she removed only private
papers belonging to herself and her
husband. 1t is alleged that prac,i.
cally the same thing occurred in the
case of Superintendent Macheu s
safe which, when examined by the
inspectors, was found to contain
very few documents. Another re-
markable feature of the Tyner Incl
dent is that Assistant and Acting
Attorney General Christiancy failed
to notify the Postmaster General of
what was going on, although aware
OF the presence of Mrs. Tyner and
her associates, for fifty minutes.
and not until Mrs. Tyner had had
ample time to leave the building
ItispreGicted that there will be furtb-
er sensational developments after
the Presidents visit to Saint Louis
this week.
There is CONSERVATION in the
State Department as a result of
advices from China to the effect that
Russia has refused to withdraw her
troops from Manchuria, has demand
ed partial sovereignty over the pro-
vince and has further demanded the
of all other nations. This
is regarded as in direct violation of
treaty pledges made to the United
States, as well as to European ma
lions, and thesituation is regarded as
serious although it is not likely that
his country would 60 to war with