Show MADDEN DEMANDS INVESTI1ATION OF CHARGE ALLEGED S Third Assistant Postmaster Genera Talks Plainly I I REPLIES TO ALLEGATIONS r Calls Upon Gen Payne for Immediate Im-mediate Inquiry t Demands Origin Charges Be Learned Vliother Prom Department or I I Correspondents Invention te Detroit Mich June 23Thlrd Assistant Assist-ant PostmasterGeneral Edwin C Madden i Mad-den who Is visiting In this city today pent a letter to PostmasterGeneral 1 Payne dcnylnir that he let a contract a for carbon DaDer for tho registry division di-vision of the postoffice without permitting permit-ting competition and asking the Post masterGeneral to Immediately Investigate Investi-gate the story and Its source The letter Is as follows kt Henry C Payne PostmasterGeneral Washington1 This mornings Free Press i of this city tells Its reactors In an article QLj with Hcnrc head lines that Third Assistant Assist-ant PostmnstcrGenornl Madden Is to be Investigated It Is alleged that I drew cpoclllcatlons of contract for supplying the department with carbon paper and that they worn so framed rtM to allow of no competition The article makes Mr Wynne say that ho merely approved as a routine matter It gives the Impression 113 that the contract Is on over which tho i Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral has control and there hru broad Inference that you consider tho transaction corrupt j STATEMENT IS FALSE L Tho whole statement Insofar as It attempts tL at-tempts to Involve me Is absolutely false I had nothing to do with the details of tho contract I drew no specifications I did not Initiate I did not sign In fact I never taw the contract If thero Is one My sole Interest and connection with tho subject Ja llmltod to an expression of approval L ap-proval of tho particular farbon paper In quemon because It la IaborEnvlhg and In other ways a great Improvement over tho oldalyJc manifolding process and much better serves tho needs or the Gr posUl service and this approval wan not if1 given until after an Investigation and recommendation to mo by my superintendent superin-tendent of registry system and a reconi TPS inundation by the superintendent of division l rl di-vision of poatofflco supplies of tho first nualHtant of lice HOLDS WYNNE RESPONSIBLE 1 The contract If there be ono was both drawn and kt by the office or tho First Assistant PostmasterGeneral and with It goz I hud absolutely nothing to do except L that before stated If these statements printed wore given the Free Press correspondent from tho office of the First or the Fourth Assistant c Assist-ant PostmasterGeneral they t misrepresent I misrepre-sent the facts und the publication thereof there-of specially In my homo city Is calcu aI lated to put me In a hard position In tho riS city In which I have lived for upward of forty years and where I have earned what reputation I have It IH I malicious cruel and without tho slightest justifica i tion t DEMANDS INQUIRY I know you too well to bellevo that you lL will sanction this attempt to Involve and besmirch mo unjustly and I beg you not 11 only as man to man but as a considera tion due to my office to Institute an In vestigation and do what you can to ascer ctt tain whether these absolutely false and c1 damaging statements were actually given out at the Poatofflce department and by whom or whether they an purely l tho Invention of the writer I ask that the at publication of tho facts be not tardy E C MADDEN Third Assistant PgstmasterGcnoral r MR HEATH SPEAKS PLAINLY Shows Statements of Yellow Journals to Bo Absolutely Poise Cincinnati O June 23 Perry SHeath S-Heath telegraphs tho TimesStar from Salt Iake City as followa There haio recently been many brutal ly1 malicious vlclouo and wholly untrue yij Continued on Pago 14 ttC5 = WANTS INVESTGA Continued from Page 1 statements published against me but none of them havo been QuIto ao low and entirely falao un thu one that I had transferred trans-ferred my property at Muncie to my brother or anyone I have neither rauilo nor contemplate any transfer of any property to anyone Somo yearn ago I transferred a small block of stock In tho Cincinnati Commercial Tribune to my nephew and I presume lint In the transaction trans-action which In now made the subject of another attack upon mo by the yollow newspapers PERRY S HEATH After Mr Heath rccclved from the Cincinnati newspaper the telegram which elicited the above reply ho received re-ceived one from the New York World that was both provoking and humorous humor-ous He was asked if It was true as published that he had transferred property to the value of JCOOOO or moro to his nephew and a cotton plantation of 3000 acres in Nicaragua to his father fath-er Mr Heaths reply was as follows Salt Lake City Utah June 23 19CO To the Editor Now York World New York Thero la not tho slightest truth or foundation for the statement that I huvo transferred property at Muncie or elsewhere else-where to my nephew or anyone 3My father died lust October and I never owned any propertv In Nicaragua I liavo neither transferred nor contemplated contem-plated transferring any property and newspapers which have published such statement and aome other statements will answer for them In court About two or three years ago I transferred for purpoao of Boiling a small block of stock In tho Cincinnati Commercial Tribune to my nephmv and I presume that I transaction ID taken afc another provocation or excuse to assail mc PERRY S HEATH |