, 1906-12-26
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HITCHCOCK ATTACKS WARREN.

The Washington correspondent OF
the Chicago Tribune sends his paper
a column and a half relating to an at
tack made by Secretary Hitchcock of
the interior department upon Senator
Warren OF Wyoming. The old charges
of alleged employees carried by the sen
ator upon the government payroll, the
renting of a building at Cheyenne to
the government and Illegal fencing are
referred to. but the correspondent says
that the secretary has directed particu-
lar attention to the matter of illegal
fencing.
The charges relaing to the p~ostofice
at Cheyenne are already familiar to the
Wyoming public. Senator Warren
owned stock in the Warren Mercantile
company and that company owned a
suitable building for a postofice. The
government was advised fully of the
situation prior to making the lease and
inspectors of the department and the
postmaster general urged hat the fact
that the senator was Interested be not
held as n bar to the making thereof,
as 1t was at the time the only suitable
place the department could get and
the rent was most reasonable. with
this full understanding the lease was
made by the manager of the company
at Cheyenne.
At the present time Secretary Hitch
cock seems to be insistent in his en-
deavor to injure the Wyoming senator
and appears to be willing to go to al.
most any length to accomplish his pur-
pose. 1t is stated in the dispatches that
he has submitted a chart with his
statement to the president. In refer
ring to this matter the Tribune CORE
spondent says:
"A chart showing the alleged fences
of Warren which Secretary Hitchcock
transmitted with his report to the pres
ident was prepared upon information
furnished by inspectors. Senator War
rem declares this chart is false; that
the fences alleged TO belong to him in,
close land over which he never has had
any control. Some of the fences be
long to other persons, but some are
his own property and he claims to have
a clear title to the land they inclose.
The senator is confident of his ability
to prove the charges OF illegal fencing
made against him is absolutely with
Il foundation. and he will make a hot
fight, his friends assert, If the matter
should ever be brought into court The
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should be convicted of violation of the
law he cannot remain in the senate.
AT h same time 1t may be stated he
has no intention of resigning or OF
abandoning his candidacy to succeed
himself in the senate. An election will
occur next month In Wyoming &c
choose his successor, and friends OF
the senator are asserting hal the
charges made against him are for the
sole purpose of embarrassing his cam
paign."
In Wyoming it has heen known for
many months past that the Warren
Live Stock company has brought it.
self squarely within the provisions of
the statute prohibiting illegal fencing.
1t VIII be recalled by those who heard
Senator Warren speak at Laramie and
other points during the recent cam.
paign that he said in the most earnest.
unqualified manner that he had moth.
ing to e from his accusers: that the
charges being made against him by the
opposition were g%roundless.
If Secretary Hitchcock has undisput.
ed evidence against Senator Warren
why is it necessary Tor him to make
special report upon the matter to the
president of the United States? Why,
does he not order the removal of the
alleged illegal fences and prosecute the
matter in the courts. just as he has
done in many other cases?
There remains the probability he dis
coveredthrough his agents that Senator
Warren was not a law-breaker and that
he believed this public report TO the
president would answer his purpose al.
most as well as a prosecution, for the
reason that it would be published
broadcast n thus work incaIculable
injury to the reputation of Senator
Warren.
The Cheyenne Tribune this after
noon received a telegram from Senator
Warren, in answer to a query from
that paper. that the eport that the
president is to investigate Senator
Warren is absolutely untrue. but that
the secretary of the interior himself is |
being investigated by a committee of
congress and others. The Denver Post
and Cheyenne Leader stories, like
many others emanating from the same
sources in the past few years. are alb
solute fakes and so pronounced by Sen.
ator Warren.