Omaha daily bee., 1918-09-20
HOW DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTED
|COMPELS POSTMASTERS TO DIG UP FUNDS
WHEN POLITICS HAS BEEN "ADJOURNED"|
Assistant Treasurer Jameson
Calls Upon Them for Cash
Donations Between
Liberty Loans.
From a Staff Correspondent.

Lincoln, Neb, Sept. l9.-(Speclal)
Calling attention to the law for
bidding the solicitation of funds
from federal employees by other fed
eral employees or the solicitation OF
funds from civil service employees in
public building of the government
and then calling upon civil service
employees to evade the law by the
aid of special delivery letters sent to
TIE residence only" of postmasters
is shown in a communication sent
out by w. D. Jameson, assistant
treasurer of the democratic national
committee from its headquarters IN
| Washington upon letter head OF
the committee.
That postmasters under civil serv-
ice are generally being solicited tor
funds is indicated by the fact that a
letter sent to certain postmaster i'll
Nebraska is printed on multograph
machine, the name being deftly in
serted at the end of line where
it could be easily removed and an
other name inserted in each letter.
Gives One Postmaster Tired Feeling.
The letter was received at re-
publican headquarters last week
from postmaster, who said that he
had been receiving these letters oc-
casionally for some time, until he
was tired of it. One time they call
ed upon him for a donation of $l0O,
but this time they were only ask
ing for $50. In order to evade the
law against the solicitation of funds
in the postoffice building, the letter
was sent to the postmaster by spe-
cial delivery letter with, To Be De-
livered to Residence Only" stamped
in big letters on the envelope. The
postmaster sending the letter did
not appear to be afraid of losing
his postoffice job, but Chairman
Beach in order to not place him in
position, where he might lose out,
censored the name from the publish
ed letter, although he has the origi-
nal in his possession.
How to Evade Law.
There are many interesting things
in the letter of Mr.. Jameson. One
is his attempt to evade law he
knows prohibits the solicitation of
funds from a civil service employe
or appointee of the government. He
has the audacity to use the United
States mails to commit an unlawful
act and on top of it urges an ap-
pointee of the government to break
the law.
In urging this appointee to break
the law by taking up another notch
in his belt" he shows that the So
licitation is being made by whole
sale by saying that 1--WE have tried
to apportion the amount that must
be raised in the easiest and fairest
way we know of" an indication that
every postmaster in the country has
been apportioned the amount the
democratic national committee be-
lieves he should pay.
Mr.. Jameson shows that this is
not the first time the democratic
national committee has broken the
law by saying in his letter I'VE are
going to ask you to put your shoul-
der to the wheel once more" an in
dication that this is not the first
time that postmasters have been
asked to contribute to the demo-
cratic campaign fund.
Urges Political Task.
Mr.. Jameson gives another demo-
cratic piece of evidence that poll
tics had adjourned" in the follow
ing extract from his letter: "Are we
being loyal to him president Viii
sony and our country if we sit still
now and allow the election of re-
publican house and congress which
will hamper and make more diff
cult the enormous tasks which will
necessarily devolve upon him in the
prosecution of the war to a victor
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