The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1903-11-05
WASHINGTON.
From our Reeular Correspondent.


scandals has been gwen to the Pres
dent, but there is no danger of it.
being given to the public, just al
present, while there is an electlor
about to take place in eleven state,
of the Union. 1t is said that the
President is going over the report
carefully and that before making II
public he will supplement it with som.
comments of his own. As it contains
over million words, which would
make 1000 pages of an ordinary
government document, it will probably
take Mr.. Roosevelt some time to
finish it, Postmaster General Payne
is now preparing his letter of trans
initial, to accompany the report.
There seems good authority for the
statement that Mr.. BriStow makes
grave accusations against Perry S.
Heath, the former irst Assistant
Postmaster General and present secre.
tary Of the republican national con-
mittee, of which Mark Hanna is chair
man. The Tulloch charges accused
Heath of juggling payrolls. giving
s:necures to women and political
friends, and sending politicians around
the country at government expense
ostensibly on official business but Il
is SAID that Mr.. Bristow charges him
with official corruption similar to that
for which Beavers and Machen are
now indicted. However, like Con-
gressman Littauer in the glove con-
tracts, he will probably be saved by
the statute of limitations. 1t looks as
if the republicans will hardly dare re.
tain him as secretary of the national
committee; but perhaps he hopes for
something "equally as good" The
irregularities discovered in the New
York Post Office are of such a grave
character that the President has direct
ed Mr.. Bristow's inspectors to subject
it to rigid investigation. They will
leave for New York in a few days and
will have a month or SIX weeks 10
complete their work. The heal OF
the New York office is Postmaster
Van Cott, a close personal friend Of
Senator Platt who has done all he can
to defend him and who will fight any
attempt to remove him. Although
no distinct charges have as yet been
made against Van Cot, his removal
has been SO frequently discussed as to
alarm Senator Plat and his other
friends.
XXX
The Maryland campaign is the
chief topic among politicians here.
Senator German has taken the stump
and is leading the democrats IN an
attack on the administration, which is
causing the republicans the gravest
alarm. He again scores the Pres-
dent for his interference in the state
campaign and for his champloning the
colored race by dining Booker Was
hington. He said in his last speech,
unfortunately the President of the
United States-and l speak of him
as the President ought always be
spoken of, with respect, goes from
one end OF the country to the other
intensifying the race issue. He well
knows that all thoughtful men of the
South without exception, unless it be
politicians who want the votes Of the
negroes, and every thoughtful man of
the North, has reached the conclusion
that no greater crime was ever COM
mitted against good government, no
greater crime has ever been perpet.
rated against the women of the South,
than the emancipation of the negro
by constitutional amendment. The
President of the United States with
an impulsiveness and thoughtlessness
which would hardly be excused in a
small boy in this community, has a
faculty of expressing himself which
has become dangerous to the peace
of the community. He has lnterfer-
ed in our state and has tried to stimu-
late the republicans by inviting them
to harmony meeting and to sit
around the table at which Booker
Washington sat-, He declared fur
ther that by his interfering with mat.
tiers which did not properly belong to
his Office the President had unsettled
business interests. lsidor Rayner,
rhe democratic candidate for the
United States Senate spoke along the
same lines declaring himself for the
dlsfranchisement of the negro as a
matter of self preservation. Senator
German now stands out as the leader
of the opposition to the President on
his attitude on the race question and
this will probably be made the issue
of the coming presidential campaign !;
unless the republicans refuse to nomi-
nate Mr.. Roosevelt who stands for
equal opportunity for black and