The Anderson daily intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson, S.C.) 1914-1915, 1914-08-18

Guainted with conditions. The other
minister who signed the petition Is
pastor OF small church, and. ] am
toldS spends comparatively little of
his time In the city. None OF the 9th
er 20 or mOie white ministers in the
city signed the petition. although
most. il not all were askeH to do So
Some OF them even went 10 far az to
write Letters to Washington express.
ing their disgust With thes methods
being used against .tke POSTMASTER,
and letting 1t be knLwn' that they
were more than willing fof him to re-
main in office until the expiration Of
his term. These letters are all ON file
been SO easy for Baker to hive quot
cd them II he had bean trying
TO be decent
Baker characterizes Mr.. Cdchrpn as
"a drunken sot.' Mr.. Cochran is able
to take care of himself. arid Baker
will probably be called to acEouht for
ouch language. 1t Is probably, true
that he has been drinking tho hIuch.
/ Any man who drinks at all dfinKs too
much. I can say this,- becaute In my
own young manhood used TO drink,
but l-qait drinking when l was elect
ed to Congress- and L have not taken
drink since. 1t Is - extremely dis
tasteful to, make these personal re-
ferences. but so many ISLANDERS have
been circulated on me that would
not be at all surprised to learn that
The character assassins are saying
hat l. too. have been q drunken sot"
here in Washington
So much for the Anderson postof-
lice. There has been no vacancy. al
1T@
made to cfchte one have not tried
to keep Mr: sGoohran in office, and
have not tried to get him out, for
knew that would be useless unless
there WAS cause. The postoffice depart
ment officials say there was not suffi-
cient cause.
But 1 have~been keeping close up
with the situation as regards the SER
vice, and there has not been one
single complaint az to the service
given by the pos:ofiice in Anderson.
The department officials say the Of
flee ranks second to none in the
country in point OF efficiency. Only
recently it has been my pleasure to
cooperate in securing better mail
service In and out of the city OF An
deison. and right now we are working
on plan to improve the delivery SER
vice in the city and on the rural
routes.
AS have stated. if had had my
way MIR. Cochran and every other Re
publican postmaster in the country
would have been removed long ago.
There is Republican postmaster at
Greenville, and there are Republican
postmasteis still in office at other
places in South Carolina and all over
a nfr~ty Ac For
sions expire they are being. removed
and their PLACES filed by. Democrats.
Baker Knows this, III DGminick does
not. And by the way, why is 1t that
Baker Is so distressed about g Re-
publican remaining as postmaster Mt
Anderson. when he has been working
SO hard to enable Republican employ
es OF the Senate to hold their Jobs
while capable Democrats are asking
for them?
1 have every reason to believe that
IL it were left to the patrons OF the
Anderson postoffice, 90 per cent of
them would vote for Mr.. Cochran to
serve his term out. Baker and
Dominick are not patrons OF the Of
ice, and ! have had many assurances
within the past two or three days
that the people OF Anderson resent
their gratuitlous Inference.
Baker says a certain man has been.
slated" for the job. Another lle;
that is oil there is to that. II there
had been any Stating" Igwould. have
been party to 1t. and Il know moth
Ing OF IL. have mot decided whom I
will recommend for the position, but
when the time comes will give the
mntter careful considerations and do
the best can. All the applicants
are good men, and believe any one
of then woald make a good post
master.