The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-08
POLITICS
in SUGAR
FRAUDS?
,eclal To Inc Daily Leader.

Special to The Daily Leader.
Baltimore. Jan. S.--Addressing a
meeting held here this morning un-
der the auspices OF the Women's Aux
iliary of the Maryland Civil Service
Reform association. Winifred T. Dem
son, assistant United States attor-
ney General. asserted that the sugar
frauds in the customs service at
New York and Philadelphia were due
to politics MIR. Denson also declar-
ed the political appointment made in
1902 To the office of surveyor at the
port OF New York 'perpetrates those
frauds tat New York; untrammeled
and cost the government over $1,000
600 on sugar alone,
Mr.. Denison was, however. en-
phatic in saying he did not believe
the surveyor in question was corrupt
There was not a scintilla OF rea-
son to suppose and | do net believe
for a moment. that the surveyor in
question was corrupt, he said.
Points Cited.
In support of his statement the
assistant attorney general cited fol
lowing points:
lector Loeb by the New York deputy
surveyor in charge of the weighing
division that the sugar frauds were
due to politics.
- The fact that the political ap-
pointment made in 1902 TO the office
Of surveyor at the port of New York
and which at the time was bitterly
opposed by the civil service reform
ers. perpetrated those frauds un-
trammeled and cost the government
over $1,000,000 on sugar alone.
'3. The Philadelphia sugar frauds
have Just been reported by the spe-
cial federal grand jury, there, as
having been due 10 politics.
When Collector Loeb began his
custom house cleaning in pursuance
If Secretary MacVeagh's policy, con-
sequently upon the revelations IN the
sugar cases." the assistant attorney
general continued. ''he called in the
deputy surveyor in charge OF the
weighing division and asked why he
should not be dismissed.
The officer protested that he had
been honest and had never taken a
cent.
Collector Loeb asked how it was
possible that all of those frauds
should have gone one for all those
years without his taking any effec-
tive steps TO stop them, or at least
to report them to mis- superiorss
Offer Helpless.
Well, Mr.. Collector" said the Of
ficer, was helpless. II mad taken
any steps to stop those frauds, the
politicians would have had me re-
moved and ! would have been with
out any means to support my family.
suppose for example, one OF the sug-
ar superintendent called me up on
the telephone and told me that gov
ernment assistant weigher was un-
satist actory. If | refused to trans
fer him he would go to mis- political
organization and the oislers would
come around through the surveyor
to detail some other man to that po,
sition. 1t would be on some plea
that the weigher objected to was 100
slow o rthat the new man lived near
By and wanted the detail In that
way the sugar people could get what
ever they needed Il
This experience of the practical
e1ect or practlcdl p0lltlcs was not by
any means limited to New York. At
Philadelphia as well as New York
that had been determined officially
The special federal grand jury
which has just made its report at
Philadelphia found that the concerns
whose importations the employees
were to watch were of great financial
Importance to the Republican politi-
cal organization, and made heavy
campaign contributions to it,
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