The St. Johns herald., 1897-08-28
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Hanna's Man Dick Badly Bun
 gled the Job.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, August 20, 1897.
 Boss Hanna's man, Dick, may he re- lIeved of the management of the Hanna campaign in Ohio. He has got himself the ill will of the republican magnates for having bungled hls work in bribing certain Ohio populists. Instead of us ing cash, he was thoughtless enough to have used checks. and these disagree able proofs of bribery have gotten into the wrong hands. The magnates afore- said expected Dick to arrange for the nomination of straight populist state ticket in Ohio, and for other populst as sistance to to the republican state and legislative tickets, especially the latter but they didn't expect him to do it so cIumsilY as to be caught at it. As no explanation has been or can be put for ward by Dick that will satisfy an intelli- gent .r.# u..... ....i.sd U1uu ana, t.e i,ss0 no. ,.rH engaged ir wholesale bribery, t is a.'...-f .- .-..u2..u that Boss ;Iduua ,,4., s,,, .- ,..,-,f fe .--. e.- .iH.. for the bribery by pretending to rebuke Dick by taking the management of the campaign out of his hands. Dicks brib- cry has greatly strengthened democratic hopes of defeating Hanna.
 Teddy" Roosevelt has shown that the limit of his versatility has not yet been reached by assuming the role of of- fcial whitewasher. His letter exoner- ating Constructor Bowles, who has had charge of the Brooklyn navy yard and who was charged with political and other favoritism III running that yard, gives Mir BowleS an unusually thick coat of whitewash. But there IS one black streak that Teddy may have put in as sort of tip to Mir. Bowles- It
 is the following language Tn ''Teddy's' official letter. "The attention of Con- structor Bowles will be especially called to that part of Commander Davis re port (Davis was the officer detailed to make the Investigation warning him as  lowing too implicitly the recommends tions of leading-men and quarter men" Notwithstanding 'Teddy's" whitewash, the New York Tribune said editorially since the publication of ''Teddy' 's'' al- Ieged opinion: Politics in the navy yard cannot be too strongly condemned. The deplorable condition of the Brooklyn dry dock and the consequent sending of the Indiana to Halifax, form an impress sive object lesson" A prominent naval officer remarked aftef reading the above: sR 1oseyelt and Wnitelaw Reid onght to hold an expcI tive session and try to get tOge,aet on prgontyrI uo-yy se..,: .-.-,- ters "
 Itis fact of more than passing un- portauOe lhat the interest pubH" atta.r ever made on the present civil service system is contained in fifty-column sueech in one of the belated numbers of the Congressional Record. which was occasionally published up to last week for the purpose of giving members oI conoress q chance 10 talk to theIr con stituents through the medium ot leave to-print'' speeches which purPoit to have been spoken on the floor. This at tack on the civil service system was pre- pared by Representative Grosvenor, of Ohio the bosom friend of Mir. Mckinley and one of the lieutenants of Boss Hanna. In it he claims 10 have the records of 271 men who wore criminals, hut who secured offices under the ,ivil service rule, and accuses the civil serv- ice commission of violating the law daily.
 Ex-Secretary Carlisle and ex-Assist- ant Secretary Hamhn made arguments before the attorney general against the application Of the ten per cent. discrim- mating duty imposed by the Dingley tariff upon importatiOns from Canada to importations from other countries which come into the United States oyer Ca