The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-04-17

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tions and meetings in furtherance of
his candidacy.
Statement by Professor Moore.
Professor Moore has issued
a statement declaring that the
same influences that attempted TO
-'disgrace and remove DR.. Harvey w.
Wiley were responsible for his re-
moval and branding as UNANIMOUSLY
false any intimation that he had CO.
creed employees OF the w we AN Iac re-
taryship, or that public money nau
been expended in his candidacy. his
statement follows:
FsIn reply to President Wilson's let
ter demanding my removal, L will say
that it is the same old influence that
attempted to disgrace and remove Dr-
Harvey w. Wiley without letting MN
see the charges against MIN or con-
fronting his accusers, that IS now
driving me from the public service.
LAS an aspirant for the secretaryshlP
of agriculture, 1 announced tnat
would if appointed. revoke the BEN
zoate of soda decision, aboIlsh the
Remsen board, or any other extra
judicial body in the department that
Durpose of minimizing the effective
ness of the pure food and meat IN
spection laws, rather than in aiding IN
the efficient enforcement, ana tnaI l.
would restrain the activities VI INC
solicitors office to reasonable pre-
negatives and reorganize the depart
ment-
Charges Against Secretary Houston.
ct was not selected and, of course,
have no complaint on that ground But
Secretary Houston almost Immediately
upon entering office demanded that L
forward to the president my reslgna-
ton without ever having set Ioot IN
the office of the weather bureau,
I7fN1
such charges as might have been filed
against me or permitting me to race
my accusers or to be present in per-
son or by proxy and examine the wit
nesses whom he summoned against
me- Literally, third degree methods
were applied to my friends In the
weather bureau under such penalties
that they did not dare speak to me
and the report made to the president
had for it's object driving me into dis
grace from a service where / had had
an honorable career for over a third
of a century
81 do not believe that the great
commercial, agricultural. marine, edu-
cationaI and labor organizations that
have known me for nearly twenty
years as the chief of the weather bu-
reau and who largely Endorsed me for
r. cabinet place, will be satisfied that
] have done anything dishonorable, If
the light of publicity is let in and
Secretary Houston's observation-disclosures
methods give way to American fair
play.
Spent Own Money for Support.
''I brand as UNANIMOUSLY false the in
timation that any man in the weather
bureau had been coerced into sup
porting me for the secretaryship, or
any man promoted for serving me,
or a dollar of public money expended
in my candidacy. 1 worked for the
place and spent my own money and
so did my friends. Is this a crime I'M
der the new dispensation of things?
at shall gladly welcome any investf-
cation to which the press is admitted;
and why limit the inquiry to the
weather bureau? 1t has always had
a clean bill of health from every in
Vestigating committee that has looked
into it's affairs, which is something
which cannot be said of several
branches in the department to which
Secretary Houston's methods have not
been applied
His Resignation Was Accepted.
Moore's resignation recently had
been accepted to take effect July 81,
but after an investigation of his alleged
efforts to become secretary of agri-
culture in the present cabinet, grave
charges of irregularity were preferred
and the president withdrew the
acceptance of the resignation. dismiss
ing Professor Moore. Later he re-