The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-06-19
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D.. c., June 18th.


Mr.. ED1roR:-The Postofice investiga
ton still progresses with such speed as
the Postmaster General is unable to pre-
vent. Mr.. Payne has not yet made public
the reply of Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow to the Tulloch charges
and meanwhile Perry Heath has left the
country, or has left Salt Lake city with
that intention. An instance of the kind
of ~"irregularity" for which Heath stands
responsible is furnished by the case of
Mrs. Fanny R. Winans, formerly society
editor of a small paper in Ohio and sister
in-law of the publisher. When Senator
Hanna was running for the Senate the
support of this paper was regarded as
more or less essential to his success. Ac-
cordingly, Hanna asked Heath to appoint
Mrs. Winans to a position in the Postofice
Department and Heath did so, but Mrs.
Winans was given no work, her only
duties being to draw her salary. She
seriously objected to the continued draw
ing of pay without the performance of
any work in return and "pestercd' Heath
until be told her she was a nuisance"
Then she took her case to Hanna and he
wrote Heath he wonld have to give Mrs.
Winans something to do, but this he
failed to do and finally Mrs. Winans, who
is an exceptionally clever woman, took a
civil service examination and secured an
appointment in the Pension Office, a posi-
ton she now holds. This is but a sample
of the type of abuses which, under politi-
cal administration, has long been common.
1t is not possible to convince Payne that
there is anything improper about this
farming of the Government service for
political ends. He belongs to the old
style of politician who believes anything
is warranted provided it is done for the
success of the party. This is the reason
that President Roosevelt is getting no
satisfaction from his Postmaster General
in his efforts to clean out the Postoffice
Department.
Is Wall Street really opposed to the
election of President Roosevelt? There
is grave doubt on this question expressed
by democratic politicians who come to
Washington. They say that by the ap-
pointment of Payne and other of Hanna's
proteges to good offices Mr.. Roosevelt
secured the friendship of the Ohio boss
and then the Senator permitted it to be
understood that he was opposed to the
President greatly to the %latter's advantage.
Now it is remarked that there is a great
cry of the opposition Of Wall Street to
President Roosevelt, but it all emanates
from republican editors. 1t is beginning
to be suspected that this is a shrcwd game
on the part of the President and his adj
visors to gain the support of the anti trust
element of the voters.
There was an amusing interview be-
tween President Roosevelt and Count
Cassini recently. Strong pressure is being
brought to bear on the President to take
some action with regard to the recent
massacre of the Jews in Kishenev. Now
that the United States has become a
"world power" with certain little "errors
of Judgment" to it's credit in the Philip
| pines, ETC., the President appreciates that
he cannot well c~riticise outrages against
which the Russian government is as help
less as is the United States against similar
outbreaks accruing here. Accordingly it
is said he sent for Cassini and laid the
situation frankly before him, asking the
ambassadors advice as to how much he
| would be safe in saying, for the purpose