Beyond The Reach Of Justice

BEYOND THE REACH OF JUSTICE

Before this is read by the readers of the Argus the statute of limitations will have run, and Mr. Perry S. Heath, secretary of the republican national committee and former first assistant postmaster general, and the Lord knows how many more, will be free from danger of indictment on account of anything that may have come or will come out of the present investigation of the postoffice department rottenness. It is the general belief, it is said at Washington, among the people who are "in the know," that Perry Heath was one of the first men spotted by Bristow, and enough crookedness found to bring him to the bar of justice. It also is believed that Hanna then went to see the President and a deal was made whereby Heath's scalp was saved and the party saved the humiliation and degradation of seeing its secretary of its national committee dragged before the bar of justice for boodling. On the last day of July, however, the statute of limitations allows Heath and all others who are not now in the clutches of the law, and who quit the department three years ago, to breath freely and give the people the "hoarse hoot." Thus do some people go unwhipped of justice and the people never will know who are in order to chastise them at the ballot box should they ever ask for office in future. The President has now demanded of Bristow that he get through with the investigation by the first of September. In other words, the thing must be out of the way before congress convenes, and any man who is not caught by that time will go free.