Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-09-11
WASHINGTON LETTER.
trrom our regular Uorrespondent.)

tFrom our Regular correspondent
Washington, u. O., Sept. 7.-Out of
clear Delaware sky has arisen cloud G
hicb gives promise of becoming a i;
,clone, causing havoc and disaster to fl
,e Roosevelt popularity in that state. r
[iss Hulda b. Todd, postmaster or c
lust we say postmistress. at Gre en- S
roOi. Delaware, has been removed c
rom office at the behest of Senator 8
Allee, the Addicks representative in
he Senate and the consequence OF the
emoval promise to be dire. Accord
NO to the residents of Greenwood, I
Miss Todd made thoroughly efficient
postmaster and according to Senator
Ball she has been the best postmaster
ever had. Nevertheless.
the was summarily dismissed by Post
master General Payne. she came TO
w ashington to learn the occasion OF
her dismissal after service that GOV
cred five years and Mr.. Payne told her
she was personally obnoxious to Sena-
tor Allee.n Since then Postmaster
General Payne has explained that by |
a mutual agreement Senator Ball was
to control the federal patronage for
New Castle county and Senator Alice
that for Kent and Sussex counties.
Miss Todd was an "anti Addlcks re-
pubiican'' in Sussex county and, OF
course, Senator Alice claimed the right
to name her successor. The anti-Ad
dicks republicans have now appealed
the case to the President, asking If the
welfare of the Addicks machine must
be regarded as sufficient reason for dis
missing an efficient federal employee.
II Mr.. Roosevelt supports the POST
master General be will incur the enmi-
ty of all the apti.Addicks republicans,
and of all the respectable element in
the community. If he relnstates Miss
Todd, he will incur the enmity of Ad-
dicks. In either case his. action will
split the Delaware delegation to the
next republican national convention.
New eyidenees Of fraud in the In
dian Territory are coming to light al,
most daily, but Secretary Hitchcock,
| who claims to have been aware OF the
existing abuses ever since last May,
has not yet found a man whom he
deems competent to conduct the in-
vestigation ordered by the President.
The Secretary has also claimed that he
had been conducting an Investigation
for months but when asked to verify
this statement be has been able tC
prove only that last July be asked a
certain. man to undertake al investi.
CATION and that this man refused. The
efforts of the Treasury officials to 80
cure from Secretary Hitchcock an &C
counting of the funds accruing from
the sale of town lots In Hobart. Law
ton and Anadarke, Oklahoma, havI
thus far proved unayailing. The Sec
rotary refuses to recognize any authori
ty on the part OF the Auditors to asl
an accounting and, as Comptroller o
II the Treasury Tracewell is away on hi
:, vacation, no further action has beel
! taken in the premises.
Acting Attorney-General McReynold
has announced that he some weeks ago
put in operation an investigation OF al
the employees of the Department 0
Justice in the Indian Territory, 1nclud
ing four United States attorneys. thel
assistants, marshals and others. MI
McRevnolds also admits that there ar
grave charges against his subordinate
(which have not heretofore come t
light, including the allegation tina
they have shared in the profits fror
illegal liquor selling. have secured
commissiOn on the contracts for feed
ing prisoners and have prostitute
their trusts In several other ways. Tha
the court situation in the Territory
deplorabie is the testimony OF all VIII
have lived there Or who have attemp!
!, ed to conduct a case BEFORE Jhe tefIi
torial courts and it is predicted tina
the results of this investigation Wi
prove most startling.
The officials in charge of the Post
Office Investigation promise more in
, portant indictments in the near future
An apparent attempt to let the lnVes
tigation die out recently met with sue
q storm of indignant editorials iron
the republican as we'll as from III
democratic press, that there seems t
be renewed energy instilled into tn
situation, and the promise OF "mor
Indictments is received in good faith
1t is not judicious to say against whon
these indictments are to be RENDERED
but it may be said that they concerl
the legal end of the Postoffice Depart
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