Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-10-31 | Page 2 | Serious Charge Made

SERIOUS CHARGE MADE. Smootler Committee of Manti Mails Matter in. Violation of Law. Special to Tho Tribune. MT. PLEASANT, Oct. 30. Probablv tho most dcsplcablo thing that tho Re" Subllcan county committee at Mantl has cen guilty of Is the improper uso of the flanking privilege In the sending out of their campaign literature. On Frlilav - a big batch was received at this office, sent from Mantl, and addressed to almost al-most every cltlzon in tho town. Upon opening tho franked envelopes, some of which were those of Congressman 'faw-noy. 'faw-noy. was found the Ropublican State platform in pamphlut form. The matter was al once brought to the attention of Postmaster Braby, and tne result is that ho reported it to tho post-office post-office officials at Washington, D. 6 On Saturday morning after a lot of It had gono out as a Congressional document, docu-ment, tho county committee at Manti telephoned to tho postmaster to have all that had not been given out pronorly stamped. This was done, but not "until tho matter had been exposed. Just how and why Congressman Taw-ney Taw-ney came to send out the Republican platform under his frank from Washington Washing-ton is a mystery to some, but there ia rcf-son to believe that tho Tawnoy franked unsealed envelopes were sent to the commltteo in Salt Lako City contaln-lng contaln-lng parts of tho Congressional record. The commltteo then. In violation of tho postal laws, slipped in matter that Is not official and sunt the envelopes to Mantl to be addressed and mailed by thc.com-mUtce thc.com-mUtce through tho '.ocal postofflce. Tho Postoifico department will be asked to make thorough Investigation. The penalty for tho abuse or tho franking frank-ing privileges Is WOO.