New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-02
FRAUD ORDER STANDS,
Cabinet Approres Postofce Ban on
Charles N. Jackson.
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Washington, Nov. POSTMASTER General
Wynne took occasion to expose another Demo-
cratic canard at to-day's Cabinet meeting. All
that was required to accomplish the feat was
the mere publication Of the truth of the case in
voved. man known variously as Charles NJ.
Jackson and Mitchell who conducted an alleged
school for the instruction of applicants for
places in the Philippines. barred from the
use of the United States mails.
The attention of the Insular Bureau of the
War Department early in September was
directed to advertisements appearing in various
papers offering information not procurable else
where" to those persons DESTROYS Of entering the
Philippine Civil Service. Other advertisements,
in which Charles NJ. Jackson appeared as the
principal. said that stenographers were wanted
in the government service in Manila, and offered
Inducements in the way of short hours, pleasant
work and high pay. The advertisements were
considered to be so suspicious that on Septem-
Der 81 the postmaster in New-York was in
structed to withhold Jackson's mail temporarily
pending additional investigation.
The inspectors who worked on the case report
ed that Jackson held out promises of positions
that he could not possibly award and was plain
ly engaged in a fraudulent business in the eyes
of the law. Soon after the department officials
decided to exclude Jackson's Mitchell's bust
ness correspondence from the postal service he
published a book called How We Run the
Civil Service in Our Colonial POSSESSIONS
which, II is said, contained. among other feat
ures a bitter attack upon the administration
The fraud order, which operated against the
mans other correspondence, of course included
the book. the postmaster of New-York, act
ing under his old instructions. probably held up
a number of letters. pending further instruc-
lions from Washington. Jackson or Mitchell
then sent the Postmaster General the following
insulting telegram:
Postmaster General, Washington:
Am publishing book Philippine Civil Ser
vice. Have had Thousand orders in mail
without explanation. Unless the same deliv-
cred by Wednesday must accept Democratic
party's offer to distribute my book gratis to
every office man in the Union causing me fnan
clal loss and considerable notoriety to the Phil
ippnes government. Please wire. Urgent.
CHARLES NJ. JACKSON.
The telegram was dated September 81. AS
soon as the Postmaster General could reach the
in the ordinary routine of business he de-
cided that the mans telegram was a attempt
to coerce the department into a reversal Of it's
former action and allowed the fraud order to
stand.
At the Ca binet meeting to-day Mr. Wynne
produced the papers in the and in
dcrsed by the approval of the other members of
the Cabinet as well as by the President for the
stand he had taken. Democratic papers, trying
to make political capital of the incident.
have painted Jackson as a martyr, sacrificed
upon the altar of his political beliefs. alleging
that the fraud order issued only to prevent
the circulation of his book criticising the Re
publican administration. The papers in the
case effectually disproved the charges.