| Show Partisan Postmasters Get the Bounce WASHINGTON June 16The postmaster at Bozeman M T was suspended upon the report of the inspector showing gross carelessness in managing the office and failure to collect and account for box rents and especially failure to make reports of the deposits and quarterly account as required by the Third Assistant PostmasterGeneral and the Sixth Auditor After this notice the department desires the announcement to come to the knowledge of all postmasters in the service that the failure of postmasters to make reports of deposits on accounts after notice will be ground for removal without further inquiry The postmasters post-masters at Winona Minn Oscola Iowa and Laporte City Iowa North Manchester Indiana Cambridge Ohio Augusta Au-gusta Ga and Ballston N Y were suspended sus-pended upon proofs of acts of partisanship while in office These acts were of various kinds Some were editors as well as postmasters post-masters and their newspapers in some cases since as well as efore election have con tamed scurrilous and indecent attacks upon officers of the Government as well as malig nancy of political feeling toward their adversaries in general In some instances in-stances it has also been established that postmasters have kept hanging in the postoffice political placards of one party and refused to permit those of the other party to be there displayed these placards being sometimes indecent pictures or cartoons car-toons unfit for the eyes of respectable persons per-sons In other cases the postmasters were shown to have been efficient political agents of their party members of its working committees com-mittees in its organization well known in it as such and taking particular part in the conduct of election business often to the impairment of the performance of the duties of their office In several of these cases political notices circulars and newspapers of the opposite political party were shown to have been detained in postoffices |
