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Show MUST PROSECUTE PERRY HEATH, SAYS PRESIDENT. Roosevelt Angrily Declares Secretary of Republican Republi-can National Committee Must Have Known ' of Rascalities Practiced Under His , Nose in Postoffice Department by His Subordinates. (Special to The Denver Times.)' Washington, Oct. 30. "Perry Heath must be prosecuted with all the vigor and resources at the command of the government," angrily declared President Roosevelt today to three friends who had " called upon him at different times. The president pounded the table and showed his teeth tightly clenched when he made this declaration about the secretary of the Republican National Committee. ' "'I have delved deep enough into the voluminous volumi-nous Bristow report on the scandals in the post-office post-office department," the president went on, "to be convinced that Heath must have known of the rascalities being practiced right under his nose B by the bureau chiefs and other subordinates of his division who have been indicted. B "The purging of the postoffice department of B the rottenness and corruption shown to have ex- B isted there will not be complete Unless all the evi- B dence available against Heath is properly pitted B to the judge or the grand jury, just as has been B done in the cases of men who worked under B Heath." B The President frankly intimates that he does B not believe there Is sufficient evidence in the B Bristow report upon which to base criminal ac- B tlon agafnst Heath, but he plainly is of the opln- B ion that the action he has ordered within the last B few days will result in an indictment being found H against Senator Hanna's right-hand man. |
