Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1905 — HUNTING A HOLE TO GET OUT. [ARTICLE]

HUNTING A HOLE TO GET OUT.

Nothing has as yet been heard from the postoffice department regarding its decision No. 2 in The Democrat’s piano contest in which the assistant attorney general reversed himself on his decision of last July on the same identical matter. The postmaster here wrote the department at once on receiving their late decision in the matter, holding that the proposition was in conflict with the postal rules, and therefore advertising regarding it was not admissable to the mails, and called their attention to the previous ruling in the same identical matter. He has received no reply as yet, nor has the writer to a similar letter. It is probable that the official has seen that he is in a hole over the matter and is hunting a place to crawl out gracefully. The contest can in no way be classed as a lottery. There are no tickets or chances given out, no “drawing” takes place nor is there any valuable consideration paid for the privilege of expressing a choice in the matter. If there is no politics in the recent decision brought about by Olarkey of the Journal and his man Friday, it is likely that a more careful investigation of the matter will show the official who gave the decision that he is in error, and he will so state. This blowing hot and then cold ought to be above Uncle Sam’s officials in the postoffice department.