The citizen., 1897-08-20
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in a Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
tCommunicatedl
IVVIIIIII uIIIUtINtW'T
WASHINGTON, August Is. 1897.

Boss Hanna's man, Dick, may he re-
lleved of the management of the
Hanna campaign in Ohio. He has got
himself the i'll will of the Republican
magnates for having bungled his work
in brbing certain Ohio Populists.
Instead of using cash, he was thought
less enough to have used checks and
these disagreeable proofs of bribery
have gotten into the wrong hands.
The magnates aforesaid expected Dick
TO arrange for the nomination of a
straight Populist State ticket in Ohio,
and for other Populist assistants to the
Republican State and legislative tick
cts, especially the latter, but they
did not expect him to do it so clumsily
as to be caught aeit. As no explana-
by Dick that Will satisfy an intelligent
and unprejudiced mind that he has not
been engaged in Wholesale bribery, it
is believed in Washington that Boss
Hanna will seek to escape responsible
ity for the bribery by pretending to re-
buke Dick by taking the management
of the campaign out of his hands.
Dicks bribery has greatly strength
ened 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
official whitewasher. His letter exon
Grating Constructor Bowles, who has
charge of the BROOKLYN Navy Yard,
and who was charged with political
aud other favoritlsm in running that
yard, gives Mr.. Bpwles AN unusually
thick coat of whitewash. But there
is one black streak that Teddy" may
have put in as a sort of tip to Mr..
Bowles. 1t is The following language
in "Ieddy's official letter: The atten-
ton of Constr uct0r BoWles Will be es-
pecially called To that part of Com
mander Davis report Davis was the
officer detailed 10 make the iuvestiga-
tion) warning him as to being some
| times over harsh and following too inl-
| plicitly the recommendations of lead
| ing-men and quartermen Notwith-
stonding "Teddy's" whitewash, the
New York Tribune said editoriaIly
since the publication of "Teddy's al
legged opinion: "Politics in the navy
yard cannot be tco strongly condemned.
The deplorable condition of the Brook
lyn dry docks and the consequent
4 Gnnhinfr of tho TnNinno - Ii,
| form an impressive object lesson.n A
| prominent naval officer remarked after
reading the above: "RooseMelt and
Whitelaw Reid ought to hold au exec
utive session and try to get together on
Brooklyn Navy Yard matters"
1t is a fact of more than passing i'm
/ p0rtance that the bitIerest public at
! tack ever made on the present civil
service system is contained in fifty
column speech in one of the belated
! numbers of the Congressional Record,
which was occasionally published up
| to last week for the purpose of giving
members of Congress an opportunity
TO talk to their 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 Grosvenor, of Ohio,
the bosom friend of Mr.. Mckinley
and one of the lieutenants of Boss
Hanna. In it he claims to have the
records of 2Sl men who were criminals,
but who secured offices under the civil
service rule. aud accuses the Civil Ser
vice Commission of violating the law
daily.
EX-Secretary Carlisle and Ex.Assis-
tant Secretary Hamlin made argu-
ments before the Attorney-General
against the application of the 10 per
cent. discriminating duty imposed
by the Dingley tariff upon importa-
tions from Canada to importations
from other countries which come into
the United States over a Canadian
railroad. Messrs. Carlisle and Ham
lin represent New England business
and railroads. Secretary Gage asked
the AttorneyGeneral for an opinion
and will withhold his ruling until he
gets it.
Mr. Carlisle still has an idea that
gold Democrats should keep away
from the regular Democrats and he has
advised the putting up of gold DEM
ocratic ticket in every State in which
an election is to be held this year, and
announces his intention to drop his
law practice long enough to go to Ken
tucky and speak for the gold Demo-
Gratis. The regular Democrats smile at
Mr.. Carlisle's talk and say that there
can be no future for gold Democratic
organization.