The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1913-04-23
MOORE GIVES HIS SIDE
CLAIMS THAT THE OLD GANG Is
AFTER HIS HIDE
That Attempted to Disgrace and Re
move DR.. Harvey W. Wiley From

Prof. Moore issued statement
Wednesday night declaring that the
same influences that attempted tc
disgrace and remove DR.. Harvey W.
Wiley were responsible" for his re-
moval and branding as UNANIMOUSLY
false" any intimation that he had
coerced employees of the weather
bureau in supporting him for the sec
retaryship, or that public money had
been expended in his candidacy. His
statement follows:
"I am in receipt Of a letter from
the President saying that an investi-
cation Of my conduct Of the business
Of the weather bureau discloses such
irregularities on my part that the In
terests of the public service demand
my immediate removal.
"In reply, I will say that it Is the
same old influences that attempted to
disgrace and remove Dr.. Harvey W.
Wiley, without letting him see the
charges against him or confront his
accusers that is now driving me from
the public service.
GAS an aspirant for the secretary
ship of agriculture announced that
I would, if appointed, revoke the
benzoate of soda decision, abolish the
Remsen board or any other extra ju-
dicial body in the department that /
thought had been designed for the
purpose Of minimizing the effective
ness Of the pure food and meat in
spection laws rather than aiding in
their efficient enforcement, and I
would restrain the activities Of the
solicitors Office to reasonable pre-
negatives and rsorganize the depart
ment.
81 was not selected, and, Of course,
have no complaint on that ground
But Secretary Houston, almost imme-
diately upon entering the Office, de-
manded that forward to the Pres1-
dent my resignation without ever
having set foot in the Office Of the
weather bureau, without honoring
nv request to see such charges as
might have been filed against me or
permit me to face my accusers or to
be present in person or by proxy and
examine the witnesses whom he sum-
mooed against me. Literally, third
degree methods we're applied to my
friends In the weather bureau under
such penalties that they did not dare
to speak to me and then a report
made to the President that had for
IS object the driving me into dis
grace from service where had mad
IN honorable career for over third
Of a century.
''I do not believe that The great
commercial, agricultural, marine, ed
ucational and labor organizations
that have known me for nearly tWen-
ty wears as the chief of the weather
bureau and who largely endorsed me
for a Cabinet place, will be satisfied
that I have done anything dishonor-
able until the light Of publicity is met
and Secretary Houston's Russian
Siberian methods given way to
American fair play.
81 brand as infamously false the
intimation that any man IN the
weather bureau has been coerced
into supporting me for the Secretary
ship, any man promoted for serving
me or a dollar Of public money ex-
pended in my candidacy. I worked
for the place and spent my own mon
ey, and so did many OF my friends.
Is this a crime under the new dispen-
sation Of things?
"I shall gladly welcome any 1nVes-
tigation to which the press Is admit
ted; and why limit the inquiry into
the weather bureau? It has always
had a clean bill Of health from every
investigating committee that has
looked into it's affairs, which Is
something which cannot be said OF
several bureaus in the department to
which Secretary Houston's methods
have not applied"