The San Francisco call., 1904-10-29

hereto which have the honor TO request may
Hoping to know you personally in a short
time and to be. able to 90 you official favors;
in your position to make or post
master and your letter certainly implies that
favors may be given or withheld In the discre-
tion of the man making the request.
The postmaster at Portage, accord
ing to Secretary Loeb's letter, declined
to make the arrangement proposed
and Miss Tyner was transferred to
Chicago and the position she held at
Portage abolished and no appointment
to the vacancy made. The letter con-
tinues:
1t appears clear that you were keeping your
daughter in the postal service simply for the
sake of giving her the salary, and that when
she did not occupy the position II was not
deemed necessary to I'LL IL at all; and you
actually called the attention OF the postmaster
at Portage to this fact in order to induce him
to retain your daughter, pointing out 10 him
that as actually happened. he would lose
the appropriation for the position unless he
acted as you desired
On April of the same year you wrote to
the postmaster at Ware, Mass. requesting
that he appoint one Cora Watson a clerk
in his office on condition that he was pro-
vided with allowance to pay her salary.
In this letter you. the law official OF the Post
postmaster 10 violate the law by appointing
Cora Watson in the Ware postofhce. where
| of your action is shown by this statement
! in your letter to the postmaster:
You can do as you wish about giving out
the impression that she is there as a repre-
sentative Of the postofhce to assist in the es-
tablishment Of free delivery. II is only frank,
| expert"
! II was not a bona hde appointment. but one
| designed improperly to get Miss Watson in
| the classified service When the Postmaster
! objected you assumed an offended tone in your
/ letter to him OF April IA, asking him why he
''timd in the matter. assuring him that the
/ appointment was proper and correct and war
wiser not only OF the Postoffice Department.
/ but of the entire Postal Service. and yet you
could not possibly have been ignorant that the
| transaction was illegal one.
] For the reasons above set forth, the Presi-
/ dent regrets to have to state to you that he
| tion of your guilt on the criminal charge on
which you were tried having been passed upon
/ by jury. the President Of course acquiesces
i in its findings; but the evidence seems to him
| overwhelming that you were guilty either Of
| moral obiquity in the performance OF your
| duty. OF the grossest inefflciency. Very
| truly yours. WILLIAM LOEB JR-,
| Secretary to the President
Mr.. Tyner tonight issued a state
ment to the public. in which he af-
firmed that the President had mis-
stated facts in the letter made public
! to-day. He declared the statement
that he had favored Barrett's clients
was untrue and that the records show
ed that in about twenty instances
where Barrett had presented plans of
business for ruling they were in most
cases passed on by Tyner's assistant
and subsequently approved by the At
+, torney General.
The allegation that his wife had
committed burglary at the Postofice
Department. says Tyner. was las un-
manly as it was unjustihed." Mrs.
Tyner's visit. he said, was in Office
hours and was perfectly open and she
took nothing from the safe except his
private papers and batch OF semi
official papers. which he returned at
once, and also sent the private papers
tn the Postofice Department for ex-
animation, although they consisted of
nothing except letters and gifts to his
wife. He denounced as indefensible
the suggestion that some incriminating
papers were in the safe
In conclusion the statement says:
Half of the Presidents letter Is devoted to
extracts from correspondence with certain
Postmasters relative to two appointments and
comments thereon These appointments were
entirtiT in accordance with the law and civil
service rules, and my letters sDeak for them
selves.