The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1897-08-20
Washington Letter,
rom our Reg ular Correspondent.

From our Reg ulaT Correspondent.
W4SHINGTOI Aug. 10. lS9. Boss Hanna :
man, Dick, may be relieved OF the management
of the Hanna campaign in Ohio. He has got
himself the i'll viii of the Republican hIagnates
for having bunpI ii his work In bribing certain
Ohio POpullsts. Instead Of using cash, he was
thoughtless enough to have used checks and
these disagreeable proofs of bribery have got
nlnto the wrong hands. The magnates afOrc-
SAID expected Dick to arrange for the nomna-
ton of straight Populist State ticket in Ohio,
aud for other Populist assistance to the Repub
lcan State and Legislative tickets, especially
the latter, but they didn't expect him to do it
SO clumsily as to be caught ut it. As no ex-
| PLANTATION has been or can be put forward by
| Dick that will satisfy intelligent and I'M
prejudiced mind that he has not been engaged
| in wholesale bribery it is believed in Washing
| ton that Boss Hanna will seek to escape re-
| sponsibility for the bribery by pretending to
| rchuke Dick by taking the management of the
campaign out of his hands. Dicks bribery has
| greatly strengthened Democratic hopes of de-
| feating Hanna.
Teddy" Roosevelt has shown that the limit
| of his versatility has not yet been reached by
assuming the role of official whitewasher His
| letter eXonerating Constructor BOwles, who
has charge Of tue Brooklyn Navy Yard and
who was charged with political and other
favoritism i'll running that yard, gives MIR
Bowles an unusually thick coat of whitewash
But there is one black streak that Teddy
may have put in us Il sort of tip to Mr.. wles
Its the following language III ''Teddy's'' official
letter: The at ention of Constructor Bowles
viii be especially called to that part OF Com
nander Davis report DAVIS was the officer de-
lid
Ms TO being sometimes overharsh and following
too implicitly the recommendations of leading
men and quarternen." Notwithstanding
"Teddy's" whitcwash, the Nt1 FORK 7tiJune
said editoriaIly since the publication of
'Teddy's" alleged opinion: Politics i'll the
Navy Yard cannot be too strongly condemned
The deplorabe condition OF the Brooklyn dry
docks and the consequent sending of thcIndiana
to Halifax, form an impressive object lesson"
A prominent Naval Official remarked after
reading the above: Roosevelt and Whitclaw
Read ought to hold an executive session and
try TO get together Oh Brooklyn Navy Yard
matters"
1t is Il fact of more than passing i'm portance
that the bitterost attack ever made on the pres
ent civil service system is contained IN fifty
column speech in one of the belated numbers
of the Congressional Record, which was occa-
sionally published up TO last week for the pur-
pose OF giving members of Congress chance
to talk to the constituents through the
medium of "leave-to-print" speeches which
purport to have been spoken on the floor
This attack on the civil service system was
prepared by Representative Grosvcnor, of
Ohio, the bosom friend of Mr.. Mckinney and
one of the lcutcnants of Boss Hanna In it he
claims to have the records of 27I men who
were criminals, but who secured offices under
the civil service rule, and accuses the civil ser
vice commission of violating the law daily.
ExSecrctary Carlisle and ex-Assistant Score
tary Hamlin made arguments before the Attor-
ney General against the application of the 10
per cent discriminating duty imposed by the
Dingley tariff upon impOrtations from Canada
to imp0rtations from other countries which
come into the L. :. over a Canadian railroad.
Messrs. Carlisle and IIamin represent New
England Railroad and business interests. Sec
rotary Gage asked the Attorney General for
an opinion and will withhold his ruling until
he gets it,
Mr. Carlisle still has an idea that the god
Democrats should keep away from the regular
Democrats and he has advised the putting up
of a gold Democratic ticket in every State in
which an election is to be held this year, and
announced his intention to drop his law prac-
tice long enough to go to Kentucky and speak
for the gold Democrats. The Icgulnr Demo-
Gratis smile at Mr.. Carlisle's talk and say that
there can be no future for gold Democratic
organization.