Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — ACCUSES SECRETARY GAGE. [ARTICLE]

ACCUSES SECRETARY GAGE.

Worthington C. Ford of Boston Tells Tales Out of hohool. Secretary Lyman J. Gage ia accused of misstatements by Worthington 0. Ford •f Boston, former chief of the bureau of statistics. Mr. Ford* declares that he was requested to resign his office in the bureau of statistics without any excuse being assigned, but that the position was desired for another man... Ford says that his place was taken by O. P. Austin, a Washington journalist, who was not required to pass any examination. Austin has been given, Mr. Ford declares, five “emergency” appoint•ments, thus keeping him in office ever since.