Show vandervoort valedictory written by the tho editor of the omaha daily ilee postmaster general gresh gresham am deserves great credit for prompt and decisive action in deposing paul vandervoort from the position of chief of the railway mail service in this division vandervoort hag has for years paid no attention to the service ice and his substitutes detailed from active service in violation oy of the postal regulations have for the most part been incompetent and recklessly negligent Vau vandervoort made his advent in omaha eight years 0 ago 00 0 with the avowed design of belaying playing a conspicuous part in no nebraska politics he bent all his energies in that direction and became the associate and boon companion of ward bum mers and dead beats his conduct scandalized the railway mail ser vice vice during nealy every campaign gi agn the postal cars were manned by all sorts of riffraff riff raff picked up in our streets and tempora temporarily r ily mustered into the mail service as reward for dirt dirty work and to relieve regular postal postal clerks whom vandervoort had trained to assist in in packing primaries and caucuses every protest against this flagrant abuse was defiantly autly jeered at boasted that ho he was above the reach of anybody including even the senators from nebraska he ile asserted that the post mastered general dared dar not remove him because it would give offense to justice miller of the united states supreme court who is a relative of mrs vandervoort if it is true that justice miller did lid interpose his influence to ke keep ep an ino inefficient and disreputable officer in the postal service it aff affords lords a most humiliating commentary on the degradation of the high tribunal of which mr justice miller is a member we ave imagine however that vandervoort rt has as been supported by another influence and that is the great union pacific monopoly it is notorious that vandervoort hai had unlimited authority to furnish free transportation over the union pacific road he ile carried blank pass books and passed hundreds deeds of his friende friends over tho the road wherever they desired to go it was by the judicious use of these union pacific pa pacers acs that vandervoort succeeded in working worling up his ills boom as commander of the grand army it is presumable however that the union pacific railroad ma managers have rete received ived full pay for fur this unlimited supply of free rida vandervoort has served the monopoly in more inore ways than one not only as an active assistant in packing primaries and manipulating conventions in the railroad interest ter esst but in matters that affect their income from the mail service whether vandervoort Vau through this influence luence in will bo be restored to the mail service at some sonic other point us as lie confidently expects remains to be seen suffice it to say that the railway mail service in this section haa has been placed under more corn competent potent and reliable management for this the citizens of omaha and people of the whole section between omaha and ogden tender devout thanks to postmaster gen gresham and general superintendent thorn son |