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Show TRUTH. 10 HEATH UP AGAINST IT. Although our esteemed friend and fellow citizen, Perry S. Heatn, denies the irregularities and misdeeds charged against him by Seymour W. Tulloch, former cashier in the Washington post office; although the postmaster general of the United States insists that Tullochs allegations are hot air and glittering generalities, It must be admitted, painful as the task Is,1 that what has been said demands an Investigation. The conservative press of the nation demands 'that the searchlight of publicity be thrown upon all the official acts of Heath and the assertion made by the Washington correspondent iof the ,New York Post, to the effect that all the lines of the Tulloch charges converge into Heaths office seems to be about the correct position. Despite the postmaster general it looks as if a rigid investigation willnot be avoided and that the official doings of our fellow citizen will be probed to the core and everything done by him durterm of ofing his fice will be laid bare for the perusal of get-busy-qui- ck the public. HP m BY INSTALLING A At the time of my removal most of V, the offices in Porto Rico were in ar rears. The recordfe of the depart should show whether these bal ment Hi ances were collected in or not! Hi and, if not, may it not befull asked why the Department did not proceed against the parties in arrears upon their bonds, paid for, contrary to HU by the Government itself by orof the First Assistant? der ib Instances enough have been given to make good my charges that the vli whole tendency of the post office department is to convert the local office into a mere bureau of the departs ment, disburse its funds and appoint and promote its employees. So strict Hi is legislation covering the Hi itself that irregularities aredepartment more difbut with a ficult, Hi complaisant postr master and cashier everything is simb plified, and one official of the departt ment need not know what another la g cus-to- ( You can talk from your office or residence OTHER TELEPHONES IN SALT LAKE CITY. 4j (f b And to any point in UTAH, IDAHO, WYOMING AND MONTANA- - ..RATES TO SUIT ANY INCOME.. doing. more gall than any living creature within the confines of the United States of America and its island possessions. He has the title Doctor, obtained from some cheap institution of learning. That he is a good and able physician is evidenced by the fact that before he began the practice of medicine he was a reporter on the Washington Star, and that he did not begin the practice of medicine until he had found a place for himself as a physician in government service. Tulloch makes the following specific charge against Heath Mr. Heath has replied to the made by Tulloch. His reply charges been has printed in the papers here. Mr, Tulloch also makes the followHe says Tulloch is a liar. That is ali ing juicy charge: The postmaster one day brought the statement amounts to. Of course me an order of the First Assistant he mentions once more his scheme. It is now up to the Postmaster General appointing Emma Janes and Fanny R. Winans as clean- postmaster general to probe the ers or charwomen. He stated that it charges to the bottom. To call in and was the order of the department that publicly examine every man connectthe names of the. women should not ed with the affairs mentioned by Tulappear on any payroll, that they loch. Let there be no dark lantern must be paid by individual vouchers, business. It is a duty the Republithat I must arrange the payments so can party owes to the memory of the that the parties designated should not late William McKinley, who appoint know, the other was in receipt of any ed our genial fellow townsman to ofmoney. He also stated that neither of fice. to ascertain just what Heath did them was expected to report for any while serving his country in what appears to have been the biggest kind duty. of a private snap. Truth makes this two or one With but exceptions, charsuggestion, fully realizing what the the appointments as cleaners, women, laborers, etc., were evasions consequences may be. Heath may be of the. civil service, and the parties in disgrace; he may even have to go did not perform the duties implied in to jail. Sad as such a happening their official designations, often no would be to the people of Utah, nevertheless we are firm in our demand. service whatever. Abraham was ready to offer Isaac as Transfers were made by the First Assistant Postmaster General from a sacrifice, Brutus condemned his outside offices without any request or son that law might take its course. So with us. Much as the people of demand from the local postmaster. love him; much as they would Utah were Salaries given and designato see him suffer they love dislike tions made to fit, irrespective of duties performed. Especially was this their country more and will not per true of sundry persons designated mit their own feelings to stand In the finance clerks, auditors, etc., and paid way. Let the gas be turned on; the from $1,600 to $1,700 each per an- electric lights flash up in all their num, who by no accident handled pub- ten thousand candle power glitter; let lic funds or postal accounts and the blinds be raised, the shutters were paid illegally from $200 to $300 thrown aside and let us see what was each per annum over and above the done by the publisher of the Tribune duties of their lawful positions. when he had his arm in the public In regard to financial conditions crib. We dont car6 if it does cost in the service, Mr. Tulloch says: him a senatorship here. We have lots of material for senators in Utah. Any old thing will do us. Turn on the light. F t , a demand for traveling expenses. When Informed it was not regular to allow such art account he replied: Look here now, this is a new administration and a new crowd and we intend to make our own precedents. It is an iron clad rule in the post office department not to give an outsider any addresses. No matter how well known or popular one may be he cannot go to a post office and ascertain the address of any person, for any reason. Yet in the face of this rule, which has not been violated in the history of the department, Tulloch declares Heath directed the postmaster at Washington to turn over the route books of all carriers to collection box coma so it that might address a company munication to each on the subject of selling a letter box to every family. Of course this instance is not of such grave Importance to the readers of Truth as the one which we quote next in order. Everyone who reads this paper has heard of Doc Jones, one of Senator Kearns' private secrewith taries, He Is proWy ft Bell Telep&oge jj Rocy Aoui?tM0 As is usual with news in which our own people here are connected, a r goodly portion of the alleged official misconduct of Mr. Heath has been suppressed by the daily papers of Zion. Hence it falls to the lot of Truth to supply to the public what has been held out, because the people of Utah are entitled to the current in connection with the Doc. Another case of favoritism was events of the day and the week and of Mr. J. E. Jones, a reporter on dlsthat even the month, if the same be the Washington Evening Star, whose tasteful. To relate facts, the daily papers of duties took him constantly to the post Salt Lake have not printed a tithe office department. He had been shiftof the allegations against Mr. Heath. ed there when his course had proThey have been content to publish the voked the resignation of Hon. John bare announcements in most cases W. Ross as District Commissioner. and where particulars were entered Mr. Jones was appointed September into, selected only the more trivial 8, 1898, as physician to the Washingevents. There were fifty pages of ton post office at $1,700 per annum, charges filed by Tulloch. That would from September 6, 1898, for a period mean twelve and one half columns in of ninety days. The office was a. sineMr. Heaths newspaper. He has cure and took but little, if any,' of his caused to be printed about a column, time seriously v On December 21, ' the least important matters being se- 1898, by order of First Assistant Postlected. It appears, according to Tul- master General Heath the appointment loch, that where the actions of Mr. was continued until further orders. I Heaths department were the most have been told that he was also in requestionable, the records were most ceipt of a salary of $1,800 from the carefully kept. The shadier the trans- pest office department, but never gave action, the more accurate the docu- - it. any credence. An uncle of his, I ments. The real facts, says Tul- believe a Mr. Williams, he caused to and be appointed a laborer in the Washthe allowances behind loch, on not record and are ington office. vouchers are known to few; those interested who will not, and others, clerks, who dare not talk. Tulloch asserts that when Heath first assumed the role of an assistant postmaster general, he made 3' '. 1 i a k" . . There will be a lot of low rates east this summer, and if you will tell me where you want to go I will telj you the best and cheapest way i to make the trip. o SPORTING GOSSIP. v ve beep in the passenger busi- ness twenty years, and the knowl-- i edge Tve gained by experience, the 'oply.'jgood teacher, is entirely at y.6ur. service. v s, f J10 BurlinBton Is the short lino the east, and there is no better from ser- chaiices!10 WrW lhUn W0 felve youNVhy ntke any e nJi,,ne.mbMr to nil - house-to-hous- e TICKETS: 79 W. Second South R. F. NESLEN, General Agent, SALT LAKE CITY, There is little less than a mutiny among the athletes of the State university as a result of the poor showing made by their team against the track team of the Nevada university last Saturday. A student who has been a member of the track and football teams of the varsity for the past six years said, on the return of the team from Reno Monday, The boys wont work for Holmes any longer, and if he is kept as coach for another two years, the varsity wont have a team of any description. We have bet-trmaterial in our team than Nevada, but we lost every event in which coaching is needed to perfect an athlete. Our men could vault as high, jump as far and throw the weights as well as the Nevada boys if we had the proper training, but our records are not better in these events now than they were when we met Nevada four years ago. Then we excused our defeat because we were new at the business, but after four years with little If any improvement tbe &V1 S li i A |