Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 March 1904 — Rural Router Cunningham Vindicated. [ARTICLE]

Rural Router Cunningham Vindicated.

Inasmuch as the Indianapolis Star, through its Washington correspondent, Louis Ludlow, and who also is Congressman Crumpacker’s special mouthpiece, was the chief instrumentality in proclaiming the alleged wrongful methods of Frank H. Cunningham, president of the National Association of Roi:''' Carriers, as revealed by Mr. Crumpacker in a sensational attack on the floor of congress; it wilt be of genera 1 as well as local interest to quote the following quite different statement from this same Ludlow’s correspondence, in today's Indianapolis Star. It is learned at the Postoffice Department that the charges Frank H Cunningham, president of the National Association of Rural Carriers, have been investigated thoroughly and that, in the opinion of the department, Mr. Cunningham has done nothing to warrant action by the postal authorities He has had several pleasant interviews with Fourth Assistant Postmaster Bristow and has explained his course while here looking after the interests of the rural carriers, in a manly and straightforward way, without any attempt at concealment He admitted sending out m<-ny letters to carriers and showed that, in doing so, he has been actuated solely, by an honest purpose to improve the living conditions of the men who have honored him by electing him as their president. His explanation was satisfactory and the best of relations exist between him and the department. Mr Cunningham said tonight: “Whatever may be said against me by way of falsehood and misrepresentation I have the satisfaction of knowing that I have followed the dictates of my judgment and conscience and have tried, to the best of my ability, to discharge the trust which the carriers have imposed in me. During more than a month spent here I have been kindly treated by members of Congress and by the newspapers of the country with one or two exceptions.”