Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1898-10-07
AFTER THE SPOILS.
HOPE LONG DEFERRED MAkgTH
THE HEART SICK.
Civil SerNicc Rules Must Relax
" Party Necessity" Demands II
Roosevelt j. to NJ knitted, Etc.

NAsIIlNGToN, sept. 90, lS9S.

WAsiilNGrON, sept. %, 1898.
Frantic appeals are being made tC
Mr.. Mckinley 10y the Rcpuhllcar
Congressional Campaign Committc,
and 10y Republican candidates fol
Congress for assistance in variou,
ways. The most pressure Is prOba
bly, being brought to get the long de.
laycd executive order. throwing down
the civil service bars to a large mum
bcr Of Federal positions, issued bcfur,
thc congressional elections. Mr.. Nc.
kinlcy has been told that the issuing
of that order within the next two or
three weeks will bc worth many votes
To Republican candidates for Congress.
because by promising those positions
many of those who were Mt the las,
election Republican workers but who
nrc now sulking could he got to work
again. lie is also being urged To de-
clare the Government Printing Office
to he outside the civil service law and
rules. Mr.. Mckinley has been told
that If lac doesn't do these things now,
there will be no occasion, 50 far as
party politics are concerned, for him
To do them at all. 1t is doubtful
whether he will do all that he has
been asked to do, but he has intimated
that he will do something.
Boss Platt had q conference with
Mr.. Mckinley this week, and there
are reasons to believe that he told him
that the Democrats had more than a
fighting chance to carry New York
York this year, and asked him to use
his influence with the anti-Platt Re-
publ,cans. There was report that
Mr.. Mckinley did not want Roosevelt
nominated for Governor by the New
York Republicans, but if he had any
idea of trying to throw Teddy down
IN the convention, lie gave it up after
talking with Boss Platt and "Teddy"
is going to he nominated. While Mr.
Mckinley will go through the form of
throwing the administration influence
10 Roosevelt after he is nominated, he
would rather see him defeated than
elected. IL he is defeated he will be
shelTed for awhile; il he is elected, he
may become the young Republicans
candidate for the Presidential nomina-
ton in 1000.
A War Department official is quoted
as having said of Secretary Alger's
trip OF inspection: "Alger is shrewd.
During his swing around the camps
he will find any number OF men who
will be willing to appear before the
investigating committee to testify that
camp life had been one long, sweet
dream; that they had been fed on the
fat of the land; had been provided
with all the comforts of home, and
that they had never seen any sickness,
suffering, starvation, or dying. 1t is a
good thing to pick out your witnesses
and have quiet little talk with them
before they go on the stand"
There is no news in the published
statement that the Commission to de-
eide upon government for Hawaii,
the members of which are now on
their way from Hawaii to Washington,
had settled upon the territorial form
of government for the islands. 1t is
quite we'll known in Washington that
the matter was settled long before an
nexation was accomplished. As long
rs the islands remain under terri
torial form of government there is not
likely to be much trouble, but there
will be trouble, and lots of it, when an
attempt is made to admit them as
State. 1t will be a long time, if ever,
Lefore the people Of this country will
he willing to see two Hawaiian Sena-
tors and three Hawaiian Pre- residential
electors, who may at any time hold
the balance of power in the Senate or
in the electoral college.
No better answer to tie question
of why there was such falling off in
the Republican majorities in Maine
this year has been heard in Washing
ton than that given by Mr.. Il. F.
Allen. of Lewiston, who replied, when
asked thc question a Some Repub-
licans didn't vote; others did-the
Democratic ticket"
Nothing could better illustrate the
existing fright OF the Republicans than
the fact that Postmaster General |
Smith, and Webster Davis, Assistant
Secretary of the Interior, have gone
On stumping tours. OF late years it
has not been considered just the
proper thing for member of the
Cabinet to take the stump, even in
campaigns, and not since
Arthur's administration has one gone
OH the stump in a Congressional or
State campaign.
After many trials and many re-
fusals to serve, Mr. Mckinley has got
together his commission to investi-
gate the War Department, and the
work is to begin right away. Ii Mr..