Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1892 — “Holy" John’s Experiments. [ARTICLE]

“Holy" John’s Experiments.

The always present administration scandal has temporarily shifted from the pension office to the postoffice department, where Pious John Wanamaker is charged with being interested in a pneumatic tube company, of Philadelphia, to which he has shown especial favor in the way of postoffice contracts, discriminating against other companies, one of which has memorialized congress in the matter. He has been “experimenting” with pneumatic tubee in Philadelphia and St. Louis, though the worlffknows that the pneumatic system of short-route mail delivery has been in successful operation in numerous European cities for years and that no “experimenting” is necessary. With tne knowledge the country has of Wanamaker’s connection with the great corruption fund of 1888, with the rotten Keystone bank affair, and the Baltimore ballot-box staffers, the people are almost ready to believe anything of this hypocritical old fraud,