The San Francisco call., 1905-08-22
MAKE APPEAL
TO PRESIDENT
Cherokee Indians at Here
ford Desire the Removal of
an Unpopular Postmaster
DOUBT HIS CITIZENSHIP
Accuse Incumbent of Being
a Missourian and a Man
Sadly Given to Profanity
Special Dispatch to The Call

Special Dispatch to The Call
CALL BUREAU, POST BUILDING.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.-After enduring
for long time the affliction of an un-
popular postmaster, citizens of Hereford,
little town in the Indian Territory. have
pulled the corks from the vials OF their
wrath and turned them loose upon the
President of the United States. They
want new postmaster and they want
him badly; moreover, they want a native
and not an Importation. The man who
now hands out the mail at Hereford
comes from Missouri. The memorial
which was sent to the President is IN
many respects a model o. self-contain-
ed, calmly fashioned appeal for the cor
rection of an intolerable situation. 1t was
referred by the President to Fourth As
sstant Postmaster General de Graw and
reads as follows
good Indians, come to you with this, our
appeal. since IT seems there is none else VINO
in favor of fair play. We have been taught
that you stand for a fair deal. We have been
taught that you are a friend OF the decent
We believe it and 1t makes our hearts
glad We rejoice in the fact that we may
some day become citizens of country with
such ruler. For many weeks we have de-
sired present to the Great Father our just
cause of complaint. But the paleface brother
who lives among us said NO. the President
is too busy attending to world matters" So
waited, and these good palefaced neigh
bors wrote some letters to big man they
called General Fourth Postmaster telling him
about it. They tell him that the man who
has been placed in charge of our postoffce is
honesty untruthfulness. profanity. vulgarity
and many other bad things. They tell him
citizen at all-his home is in Missouri. They
tell him he has cursed our schools. He has
cursed our Sunday schools. He has cursed
our churches. He has referred to our best citi-
zens in language too vile for publication. They
tell him he spends his Sunday evenings drink
Fourth Postmaster about this and ask him.
please investigate" General Fourth Post
master he write back and say he will.
NO INSPECTOR COMES.
They then wait about six weeks and the
president of our school board he write General
Fourth Postmaster again and tell him about
these letters him sent before and he say to
General Fourth Postmaster, these letters con-
tain specific charges which II true. entitle US
TO new p3s,master iaise. unss ent,i,s .t,
one we have. Please investigate" General
Fourth Postmaster he write back and say he
will Then the palefaced brothers said. IF
get inspector here that will
settle his hash" Then all wait a long
time. Some say. Maybe inspector bring
whitwash brush'
If any inspector has ever been here with
whitewash brush or disinfecting bucket. he
failed to use them, as the stencil has not
been abated. Then some more palefaced,
bretheren. they say, I'VE be Republicans. they
will hear from us They wrote and then
twenty three names signed 1t and they say,
That's about all the decent Republicans we
they write too Then they swear to whole
lot of bad things and put seals on them Then
Amen" Again the weeks go by. but General
Fourth Postmaster he does not answer them
any more fhis time at all Then we feel sad
Then we wonder If this bad white man sure
enough got it so much "strong pull nothing
be done. Then we think we write about
1t ourselves But not acquainted with
General Fourth Postmaster. He may be Rus
sian; SO we think we write to our great, big.
LIKE POOR RUSSIANS.
We read in the paper how our Great Father
work hard for poor Russians to keep Japs
from killing all of 1t. Then we say. Good.
treated just like poor Russians when he is at
home" We do not believe any Russian off,
shep'' what General Fourth Postmaster sent
to handle mail. Some of palefaced
brothers been writing some letters about this
must get caught pull rope somewhere.
don't never hear about it any more.
We like to have some one trace up this
''pull rope and what other end fastened
to. Seems like If tother end tied to rotten
stump as at this end ought to pull up easy
Anyhow seems ought to be able to break it
loose at end
Now, Mr. President If you will have Cen
spector down here. one that don't ride on
pull rope, will show him a condition
that will disgrace any civilized country on
earth. Mr.. President. Injuns by blood
We are of lawful age and residents of the
community from which write. We are en-
deavoring to train up the rising generation
so they may not only make decent citizens of
the great republic by which We hope to be
recognized citizens. but also to reflect
credit upon the once powerful tribe of Chero-
kee Indians. but now your helpless wards. COM
PEELED to submit to the domination of such
characters may be sent down the pull
rope"
General Fourth Postmaster de Graw
is enough of a white Indian to have been
touched by the unique memorial from
Hereford and a real honest inspector
without any pull rope" entanglements is
looking up .'Sheps" record Maybe there
will be something doing, after all, which
will please the Cherokees.