The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-27
WASHINGTON LETTER.
"Teddy" Roosevelt Has Been
 Talking Too Loud.
From Our Regular Correspondent.

Talking Too Loud. From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, November 20, 1897.
 Teddy" Roosevelt may soon he ou of job. if he doesn't learn to bridle hi tongue when talking in public upon sub Jerts on which the administration position is officially nnannounced. H,
 was given a hint of this when he re
 turned from New York, where he made an after-dinner speech on the necessity of our having fighting navy, If w wished to escape the ridicule of the , world, and having our declarations con , corning the Monroe doctrine treated as merely so much buster. Teddy" us..C Hawaii for dummy in order to give the admlnistration's alleged Cuban policy
 two or three heavy body blows, but the
 application was too plain to be over
 looked. He has been warned not to dc
 so again.
 The administration is playing horse
 with the Canadian premier, who, with a
 party of officials, is m Washington, os- tensihly to attend the sealing conference
 but in realityfo sound this government
 on the probability of negotiating re l ciprociiy treaty. Ths p. csideut Iias
 swappsl "tafrr" with tle premier and given him adiauer; Secretary sherman ! has done t..o same, and .- ....- ben turned over to Mir Kasson, chief cook of the reciprocity kitchen, to confer on the subject. He'll get all the confer ence he wants, but when England really authorizes her ambassador. or some one else, to try to negotiate treaty of com mercial reciprocity which shall embrace Canadian products, it will he found that so far as Canada's principal products are concerned, it will be an impossibil- ity. The Canadian premier doesn't seem 10 knoT that in number of states one of the main arguments used in the last national campaign for republican success, was that it would shut out Ga nadian competition.
 The Spanish minister has begun his entertaInmenl of public men on scale which indicates that no matter how hard up Spain may be, it has no intention of reduc ng the amount of money spent m Washington in the attempt to make friends for Spain. The first blowout Of the spanish minister Was an elegant dim ner, a. the swell Metropolitan club, in hon 'r of d Spanish ed tor. The admin IStratun and the United States suplem court were well represented at this dn- nei, but eithei the willy SpaiIard must have thought it needless to waste his expensive dinner on congress. or the sent regrets. Be that as it may, Sena- tor Elkins WAS the only member of the legislative branch of the government that attended the dinner
 The silk stocking element of the Ma ryl,nd republicans, headed by Senator Wellington, are straining every nerve in ,heir efforts to make sure ''faJ the ''a~r. iand legislature does not elect Repre- sentative Mudd to succeed Senator Cor man These men probably know what they sIe doing, bu. .Ae.. ,-@--t--- --e---. Mudd, who is considered i'll Washington as the weakest of all the aspirants to Senator Go mans seat, reminds one oi going after reed birds with Oatl'hg guns.
 The post office department has ofhc- IaIlv decided that tbe interior depart ment was right when II dishaned John Wedderburn and John Weddcrburn & Co. from practice before tLe patent oi- flee. for gross frauds upon gnlllbie eli ents and has issned d fraud order l against John Wedderbuin, John We'd derburn X O. and the National Record CT, newspaper owned ny them. IhIs order shuts them out of the mails, and will cause all matter addressed to them to be returned to the writers, aiier be- ing officially stamped ''franlulent." Newspapers which continue to print | Wedderburn & Go. s advertisement af ter knowledge of tIfis fraud order may also be shut out of the mails.
 The general Op nion among the mos prominen, who have been in Washing i ton since that republican fight upon the election of Boss Hanna, has appeared to grow to such large proportions, is that the democrats of Ohio shsuld have