Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1903-09-17
IRONTON, MO. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. 1 9O3
Our Washington Correspondence.

partment investigation the Post
master General, Mr.. Payne, said
with lofty air that there was
"nothing in it," and dismissed all
the charges of ex-Cashier Tulloch
with disdain. Well, the general
public now knows how much there
was in it, and how the deeper they
dug into the muck heap the nastier
it got. The Post-Office Depart
ment investigation is now nearing
the end and the report of Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General Bris-
tow will soon be ready for the
public, but the chances are that
the general public will soon forget
all about the post office matter be-
cause it will be entertained with
another investigation that is now
about to be pulled off, the noise OF
which will reverberate from Tad
mor-in- the wilderness to Yuba
Dam. 1t is now up to the Interior
Department to take a turn at the
investigation grindstone, and the
storm center of this investigation
will be in the Indian Territory.
Mr.. Hitchcock, the Secretary of
the Interior, had no idea, when he
summarily dismissed from office
without hearing Mr.. Clarence B..
Douglas, clerk in the land de-
partment Of the Indian Agents
Office at Muskogee, that the situa-
ton down there was loaded with
dynamite. l have known Clar-
ence Douglas ever since we were
barefooted boys together in 1875,
and there is no man of higher
character or cleaner manhood in
the Indian Territory or anywhere
else. He is. not the man to rest
under al imputation against his
honor, and'he has proceeded'to get
busy. He demanded a hearing,
and the recitation of the reasons
for his dismissal. He cared moth
ing for the measley job, but he
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wanted justice. He has got moth
ing, and now there are whole gobs
of trouble pestering the Secretary
Of the Interior. The dismissal of
Douglas was the signal gun that
started the rucus. Douglas is a
fighter from the headwaters OF
Bitter Creek, and is camping Oh
the trail of the man who is at the
bottom of whole lot of the nasti-
ness in the Indian Territory, like a
hungry coyote camping on the
trail of a Compliant jack rabbit.
He is now in Washington, where
he is we'll known, and stands. high
among the newspaper men, in the
fraternity of which he is an honored
member, and he has been cutting
loose lot of facts anent the Indian
fTerritory situation that has blown
the cap off the crater and let day.
Hight into some corners: that: some
people hoped never would be un-
covered. The newspaper boys are
printing what Douglas says be-
cause they know he knows what
he is talking about, and they also
know that he will not lie. He has
been interviewed not only by the
local papers here, but by the CORE
spondents of papers in st. Louis.
Kansas City, and nearly all the
big New York dailies. saw
Douglas and talked this matter
over with him. What he said tc
me about it is substantially as fol-
lows: 'It is only just to say that
Mr.. Hitchcock is honest and thai
he is doing what he believes to be
for the best interests of the people
of the Territory. The trouble is
that he is afflicted with a serious
case of too much j. George Wright
land it is question if any salts.
factory results will ever be attained
by the Interior Department in the
management of Territory affairs sc
long as Mr.. Wright officiates az
the white Czar, defacto governo:
and personal poobah of the ad'
ministration in that country. Al
the official ice man for a north poll
supply company, Inspector Wrigh
would be frozen success, hi
lpresence alone being sufficient tt
prevent loss of stock by rising
temperature. He has administered
misinformation to the Secretary il
large alopathic doses, and th'
Secretary, acting on this, has mad'
himself very ridiculous at times
Until there is radical change il
the management Of affairs Their
will be no relief for the six hun
dred thousand people in the Indial
Territory from the deplorable con
ditions existing at this time. From
informationrreceived since I hav,