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GALLOWAY FILES CHARGES
AGAINST POSTMASTER GENERAL
REPUBLICANS TO
TRAIL PRESIDENT
HYDE PERFECTING
APPEAL TO COURT
Galloway’s Friends Threaten “PitJleM
Pobiltety” of Postmaster General in
Case Galloway is Forced Out.
(By > Lewis Wood in Columbia
Record.)
Washington, August 29.—Charges
against Postmaster General Burleson
were filed at the White House last
February, by Charles M. Galloway,'bf
Columbia, one of the Democratic mem-
vers or the Civil Service commission.
Speakers Opposed to Peace Treaty to
Follow WOsOn on Swing Around
Circle.
Washington, Aug. 29.—As the final
itinery for President Wilson's speak
ing tour in support of the peace treaty
was announced'today, Republican sen
ators began conferences to decide on
plans for sending opposition speakers
along bebind^-bRn; :
Charleston Mayor Objects to Commit*
tee Decision. To Claim Nomination.
Charleston, Aug. 28.—The city Dem
ocratic convention, which recessed on
May 5, has been called to reconvene
Friday evelng August 29. at 8:30
o’clock at the Hibernian Hall for sudh
business as may come before it Con
trary to the usual practice, the city
couveutlOfi aw not adjourn
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it was learned today. Simultaneous
ly, it was asserted that the postmas
ter general has been campaigning so
determinedly for Mr. Galloway’s re
moval from office, that President Wil
son must decide, within a short time
whether he would demand the resig
nation of Mr. Burleson or Mr. Gallo
way.
The issue is sharply defined, the
president must so choose between
Burleson and Galloway, one or the
other will have to go,” was the state
ment.
If Galloway is forced out, the most
“pitiless publicity” will be given to
the charges the Civil Service Comrais-
sioner filed at the White House, de
clared Mr. Galloway’s friends today.
3= Renewed accusations were made^by
these friends that Burleson has at
tempted to use the Civil Service, es
pecially in the matter of the appoint
ments of postmasters, to further po
litical ends. The 'latest one of these
charges, made some weeks ago was
that Mr. Burleson tried to induce Mr.
Galloway to certify Miss Emma K.
Burleson, the postmaster general’s
niece, above the heads of three other
candidates who stood higher than she
did in an examination.
Further charges made today were:
1. That Colonel Edward M. House
has come to the rescue of Lis fellow
Texan, Mr. Burleson.
2. That Mr. Galloway, and Her
man W. Craven, a Republican mem
ber of the commission, were invited
twice to the White House, in July,
1917, and preferred charges against
the former chairman of the commis
sion, John A. Mcllhenny, Mr. Craven
asking the president to summon Mr.
Mcllhenny so the accusations could
be made to his face.
3. That following these visits, Post
master General Burleson told Messrs.
Galloway and Craven that Mr. Mcll
henny would be removed as soon as
a man could be found to take his place.
4. That the post was offered to
Victor Murdock, now of the Federal
Trade Commission, and to Robert W.
Woolley, now of >the Interstate Com
merce Commission, with the result
Jthat both declined, and Mr. Mcllhenny
The president’s plans call for
speeches in the thirty cities^ through
out the west between the time h^
leaves here next Wednesday and his
return to Washington, September 30th.
While resolutions were being offer
ed in the house by Republican mem
bers calling upon the president to
abandon his tour and engage himself
in Washington with domestic affairs of
the nation, republican senators who
opposed the'treaty met with Senator
McCormick, of Illinois. Nothing was
finaly decided and another confer
ence will be held tomorrow after
which it Is expected a definite pro
gram will be announced.
Leaving Washington on a special
train, the pregident will ’ swing
through the middle_west, thence across
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ites to the Pacific coast
at Washington and down the coast as
far as San Diego. On the return trip
he will speak in Nevada, Utah, Wyom
ing, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ar
kansas, Tennessee and Kentucky, his
last address being at Louisville, on
September 29.
Whether the president will make
speeches from the rear platform of his
train has not yet been decided. He
has set for himself the task of mak-
in gthirty addresses in 26 days and to
carry out this program It will 'be
necessarj for him to deliver two
speeches a day for eight days of the
trip as his itinerary does not call for
any addresses on Sundays.
The president will leave Washing
ton before General Pershing returns
from overseas.
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meeting on May &, but recessed to be
called by the president at the in
struction of the chairman of the exec
utive committee, provided such In
struction Chould be given within ten
days after the holding of the city
primary. As this was held on August
19, today is the last day on which the
call to reconvene could be made. A.
Marlon Stone is president of the con
vention and W. Turner Logan is chair
man of the executive committee.
It is not known for what special
purpose if any the convention is to be
reconvened and in an appeal to Hyde
delegates to attend the convention
Mayor Hyde referred to the fact that
very brief notice had been given. The
control of the convention is with the
body last May, the validity of the or
ganization having been at first con
tested by the Hyde faction, but con
firmed by the court.
Attorneys representing Mayor Hyde
are at work preparing the necessarv
papers and gathering evidence in sub-
tantiation of complaints which they
will lay before the court, asking for a
judicial review and investigation of
the procedure of the city executive
nominee for mayor. Mayor Hyde has
declared that a fair determination of
the 70-odd challenged votes would have
added substantially to his majority of
one based on the original returns, and
he has announced his intention of ap
plying promptly to the court for jus
tice.
BRYAN’S PLAN IS
DUAL OWNERSHIP
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was not removed, but remained in of
fice for 18 months and then received
an appointment with a $10,000 salary
in Haitii.
That Commissioners Galloway
and Craven opposed, as susceptible to
abuse and. favoritism, a method of
examining candidates for postmaster
ships, which Messrs. Burleson and Mc
llhenny approved and which the
president sustained.
6. That numerous appointments of
•postmasters, already certified by the
Civil Service Commission, are being
held up by Mr. Burleson with the re
sult that there is great dissatisfaction,
especially by two Democratic sena
tors, Walsh of Massachusetts and
Pemerene of Ohio.
Supporters of Mr. Galloway said to
day that he and Mr. Craven received
the first summons to White House
July 5, 1917, and that the president
sent for them again on July 9 of that
year. It is said that on both of these
occasions, they discussed the official
conduct of Mr, Mcllhenny as chair
man of the commission, and declared
he was arbitrary in his rulings. Feel
ing between Galloway and Craven, on
the one hand, and Mclllhenny on the
other had existed for some time, and
increased during 1917 and 1918. When
the president returned from France in
February, 1918, he demanded the im
mediate resignations of Craven and
Galloway. ^Both handed in their resig
nations. That of Craven, the Republi
can, was accepted, but Galloway’s was
not, and he is still in office. It was
at the time that he sent in his resig
nation, that Mr. Galloway filed charges
against the postmaster general, so It
was said today.
The fo^m of examination to which
Messrs. Galloway and Craven objected
involves sending a postofflee inspector
to a town, accompanied by some one
from the Civil Service Commission, to
interview citizens regarding the qual
ifications of candidates for the post
masterships. It is understood that the
commissioners felt that too much '
tude is allowed to the postofflee inspec
tor who selects the persons to be in
terviewed, with tke result that the in
terviews may be prejudicial.
Another objection which the two
commissioners made to present meth
ods, is that after the Civil Service
Commission certifies the applicants in
respective orders, the postmaster gen
eral has the opportunity of selecting
one of the three, men highest in the
Hit without being forced to accept
the one highest in the examinations,
irrespective of political or other as-.
Former Secretary of State Would Have
Railroads Belong to Nation and
States.
Washington, Aug. 29.—William Jen
nings Bryan today laid before the
House Interstate Commerce Committee
his dual plan of state^and federal own
ership of railway lines as a solution of
the railroad reorganization program.
In doing so, the former secretary of
state denounced private ownership of
the railroads as indefensible and in-
NOTICE TO STOCKHOLDERS
A peeling of the Stockholders of
the First National Bank of Clinton,
S. C., will be held September 9, 1919,
at 4 o’clock p. m., in the Directors’
room, to decide upon an increase of
the Capital Stock, and to transact
such business as may come before the
meeting.
B. H. BOYD,
4t President.
Money left at this bank never takes a
vacation, but the one who leaves it can,
as money deposited in this bank’s sav
ings department draws four per cent in
terest. Make your money work fof
you, so that you can take an occasional
rest. Get the savings habit. It will
grow on you. Once you see your
money addingto itself through payment
olinterje&t, you aregoingfo make special
efforts to increase your savings deposits
so as to further increase your interests
earnings. And, then, first thing you
know you have sufficient funds with
which to take advantage of an oppor
tunity when it presents itself to you.
Successfulmen got their start by saving.
You can do the same thing.
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tolerable and characterized railway
magnates as political corruptionists.
"We have never tried government
ownership,” declared Mr. Bryan, re
ferring to the railroad administra
tion. A subsized newspaper never
thinks to tell that the government
took over the roalroads when the pri
vate owners could not run them.
The government has been Only in
temporary control, and the roads in
the hands of those who wanted to
see government ownership fail so
they could get the roads back.”
Mr. Bryan advocated that the fed
eral government own a skeleton
trunk line system, reaching into every
state, which in turn would own the
other carriers within the state boun
daries. His plan, he estimated, would
cost the government four or five bil
lion dollaiH, while state ownership
would be decided by the people, who
might decide for the temporary pri
vate ownership. __
The committee also heard fl*. Da
vies Warfield, who said his railroad
of six per cent on rail securities
through a mandatory adjustment of
rates by the interstate commerce
commission was in principle endors
ed by “fifty millions of persons own
ing or directly interested In rail
road securities.” Representatives of
the coastwise shipping companies
urged that port-to-port rates should
not be put under the control of the
interstate commerce commission in
reorganization legislation.
Arguing against private monopoly,
Mr. Bryan said the railroads must be
considered as a monopoly, and that
"no one can defend a private mon
opoly unless he has so much stock
in it that it silences his conscience.”
Mr. Bryan agreed with the funda
mental proposition of the Plumb plan
that the government should own the
roads, and such nationalization be as
serted, were better than private
monopoly.
As for political power under a
nationalization scheme, Mr. Bryan
declared the government could do no
worse than private ownership, for the
•'railroads have been In politics ev
ery day for the last 25 years.” Sena
tors and representatives, state offi
cials and others have been elected
because of railroad Influence, be
charged.
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