Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1897-08-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, August 16, 1897.

Boss danna's man, Dick, may be relieved
of the management ofthe Hanna campaign
in Ohio. He has got himself the i'll will
of the Republican magnates for having
bungled his work in bribing certain Ohio
Populists. Instead of using cash, be was
thoughtless enough to have used checks
and those disagreeable proofs Of bribery
have gotten into wrong hands. The mag
mates aforesaid expected Dick to arrange
for the nomination of straight P0pullst
state ticket in OHIO, and for other Popullst
assistants to the Republican state and le-
gislative tickets, especially the latter, but
they didn't expect him to do it 80 clumslly
as to be caught at it, As no explanation
has been or can be put forward by Dick
that will satisfy an intelligent and unpre-
indeed mind that he has not been engaged
in wholesale bribery, it is believed IN
Washington that Boss Hanna will seek to
escape responsibility for the bribery by
pretending to rebuke Dick by taking the
n anagement of the campaign out of his
hands. Dicks bribery has greatly
strengthened democratic hopes of defeating
Hanna.
Teddy Roosevelt has shown that the
limit of his versatility has not yet been
reach by assuming the role of official
whitewasher His letter generating Con-
structor Bowles, who has charge of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard and who was charged
with political and other favoritism in run
ming that yard, gives Mr.. Bowles an UNI
usually thick coat of whitewash. But
there is one black streak that Teddy" may
have put in as a sort of tip to Mr.. Bowels.
1t is the following language in "Teddy's"
off cial letter: The attention of Constructor
Bowles will be directed especially to that
part of Commander Davis report Davis was
the officer detailed TO make the investiga-
tion) warning him as to being sometimes
oyerharsh and following too implicitythe re-
concentrations of leadlngmen and quarter
man." Notwithstanding Teddy s' white
wash, the New York Tribune said editor
tally since the publication of "Teddy's"
alleged opinion: Politics in the Navy
Yard cannot be too strongly condemned.
The deplorable condition of the Brooklyn
docks and the consequent sending of the
Indiana to HALIFAX, form an impressive OBJ
ject lesson.n prominent Naval Officer
remarked after reading the above: "Roose-
velt and Whltelaw Reid ought to hold an
executive session and try to get together
on Brooklyn Navy Yard matters"
1t is fact of more than passing impor-
lance that the bitterest public attack ever
made on the present civil service system is
contained in fifty-colnmn speech in.one of
the belated numbers of the Congressional
record, which was occasionally published
up to last week tor the purpose of giving
members of Congress a chance to talk to
their constituents through the medium of
Wl.or tn, rtxakU cxNnooho1 xu1foh fr
to have been spoken on the floor. This
attack on the civil service system was pre-
pared by Representative Grosvenor, of
Ohio, the bosom friend Mr.. Mckinley and
one OF the lieutenants of Boss Hanna. In
it he claims to have the record of 271 men
who were criminals, but who secured offices
under the civil service rule, and accuses
the civil service commission of violating
the law daily.
Ex-Secretary Carlisle and ex-Assistant
Secretary Hamlin made arguments before
the Attorney General against the applica-
ton 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 U. s.
over Canadian railroad. Messrs Carlisle
and Hamlin represent New England rail-
road and business interests. Secretary
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
gold Democrats should keep away from the
regular Democrats and he has advised the
putting up of gold Democratic ticket in
every state in which an election is to be
held this year, and announced his intention
to drop his law practice long enough to go
to Kentucky and speak for the gold Demo-
Gratis. The regular Democrats smile at Mr..
CarlisIe's talk and say that there can be no
future for gold Democratic organization.