Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-08-25
TOLBERT MAKES DENIAL
No Trut!, in DiaPs Charges, Says
Republican Chairman.

Republican Chairman.
National Executive Republican
Committeeman j. w. Tolbert, of
Ninety Six, was asked today about
further charges made yesterday by
Sen. Dial in the matter of postoffice
appointments in this state and again
made an emphatic denial that any Of
fetal record would support the charge
that he had Invariably recommended
the appointment of others than SOL
diers even when former service men
made the highest marks in the civil
service examination" He stated
further Sen. Dial is persistently max
ing misleading statements or having
them made as TO the procedure of
postoffice appointments"
1t is only in the classified service"
Mr.. Tolbert states, that former service
men have to be selected If they made
sufficient rating to get on the cligi-
BILE list. In the classified service"
soldier who makes rating of 65, the
minimum to get on the list, he has
preference over a man not n soldier
who might make 50.
But in the matter of first, second
ana third class postofficc appoint
mcnts, former service men are only
given five points in addition to what
they make on examination because of
ln; -, hn
this puts them first on the eligible
list it is not incumbent OH him nor on
any other state chairman or whoever
makes the recommendation to take
him. The man who makes the recon-
mcndation, in this state it is Commit
tceman j. w. TOlbert, is allowed 10
sent him.
TOlbert submitted documents show
ing that out of siXty-iivc appointments
known as presidential postofficc ap-
pontmcnts, made on his recommended
ton, forty-five had been rated as
number one on the list of three cligi-
blcs; sixteen had been rated second
on the list of three cligibles; and eight
had been rated third on the list of
three elisibles.
His documents show that he has
recommended total of eighteen SOL
dicrs, some of them ranking third on
the list of cligiblcs.
Asked about the Abbevillc postofflcc
case he showed the list of cligiblcs
bert and r. L. Tolbcrt The last nam
cd was j. w Tolbert's nephew but he
selected the middle man, J. r. Tolbert
who was his, j. w. Tolbert's second
cousin. He did not recommend his
nephew as Sen. Dial states.
| At Clinton, the record shows that
A. J. Milling ranked first on the list
of cligiblcs. Mr.. Milling did not mar
ry a niece of his, Tolbert says. Mrs.
Milling is his first cousin and not his
niece.
Tolbcrt further claims that he has
no niece or nephew in the postal SER
vice and nc has no living sister in the
world, although it was said by one of
the Washington newspaper Corre-
spondents that the wife of the Wal
halla postmaster was his sister. She
is not related 20 him by blood or mar
riagc.
He says that in Greenville he had
nothing to do with the selection of
the postmaster. That was personal
preference" on the part Of the then
Postmaster General Will II. Hays.
Ir the Kerahaw and Mccormick
cases he was not given any ratings of
the three names sent him because he
! is not required to be governed by
ratings in presidential postoflice APP
pointmcnts He can take either of the
three names sent him.-Grecrwood
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