Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1916 — BURLESON’S “THREE STRIKE” [ARTICLE]

BURLESON’S “THREE STRIKE”

“The Democratic party seems to have enough capacity to run the Post Office Department. Postmaster General Burleson has deposited a check for $5,200,000 with Secretary McAdoo, being the profits of the fiscal year of 1916.” Sounds like a Democratic campaign orator, doesn’t It? But it isn’t; it is the Philadelphia Public Ledger, a paper that is supporting Hughes, telling its host of readers about merely one of the deeds ,of the Wilson Administration. Continues the Ledger: “The Secretary oT'the Treasury replies that his department has experi-

enced the sensation of receiving a postal surplus only three times, and those three times have been under the Administration of President Wilson and Mr. Burleson. But we have no hope that this will satisfy Mr. Hughes. He will tell the next audience he gets hold of that the service is not nearly so good as it used to be when Postmaster Generals were Republicans and there was a deficit every year, the amount being something over $17,000,000.”