The age-herald., 1899-08-20
DEMOCRATS IN WASHINGTON NOT
 CERTAIN OF CROKER'S SINCERITY

tfon of the negro In the meantime, the ne- gro is turning on the republican party for not protecting him, and on the New Eng | lander who is encouraging him in this final l piece of folly.
 The Carter Scandal
 Renewed interest is felt in the Carter scandal for the reason that another delay is announced. It is stated by Attorney 1 General Griggs now that he will hold the case in abeyance until Captain Carter's lawyers return from Europe. Carter and the influences back of him are rich enough, 1 it might be said, to keep Wayne MeVeigh a continuous globe-trotter for the end or his days without feeling financially embar- rassed The friends of Carter are becom- ing conspicuous in their boldness. There is a report here that one boasted the other evening that as long as Mckinley was president there would be nothing done with Carter. President Mckinley Is al- legged to have assured Carters powerful friends of this No one believes it, save a few for to accept such statement as true would be to indict the president Of crime quite as enormous as that of which the culprit himself was guilty.
 But there is no doubt that the presf- dents closest friends have begun to feel that patience in this case has ceased to be virtue and that further delay is add ing scandal to his administration that no president could afford to carry. The case now hangs on the right of the courtmar- tiaI which convicted him to look over his private papers. This excuse or claim admits that either Carter is guilty and of ir- regular testimony, or else that the private papers would prove his guilty even to one so lenienty inclined as the president himself. When Carter first came to this country to meet the charges he gave Judge Lieber the key to his desk to go through his papers, but was present when 1t was opened.
 Carter's ExcuteI
 Whenever anything was going to be taken out he would say: Don't touch that for it compromises a lady" And again, "Those letters must not be opened, as they would destroy happy family" This went on until the patience of Lieber and Barr was exhausted, and they finally took what they pleased and found that Carter had lied about the contents of several of the pigeon holes.
 He then pleaded the statute of limitation on part of his three million dollar steal, which would have convicted anyone else before any courtmartial in the world, for the rules of a courtmartial are not the same as those in a civil court know 1t to be fact that his fellow officers expected him to commit suicide when confronted with his guilt in the secretary's office and two of them were ordered to stand by to keep him from laying violent hands on himself The testimony was so over whelming that it was thought, of course, there would be nothing left for him to do but kill himself, but such was not his na- ture. The product of the cobbler's bench was unequal even to such pseudo valor. It Is common to hear the Carter case re- ferred to as the Dreyfus case of America. The moral effect is as incidious.
 Secretary Roots Policy
 Secretary Roots policy is that of activity. He believes that an ounce of prevention is worth more than pound of cure, and so he intends to push the campaign vigorously in the Philippines. Ten more regiments have been called for, and there is reason to beleve that he will yet call forten more before the winter season opens. The dem- ocratic position on the Philippines is hav- ing its effect upon the enlistments from the south. The enlistments for the first last call from the south and Atlantic and Gulf states was so slow that the department has not proportioned the new regiments with view of getting many recruits from these states There is not near as large a floating and idle population in the south as there Is in the north, which may ac- count to a certain extent for the few re- cruits In the south, bu the department thinks it is due to the position of Mr. Bryan and the attitude of the party gen. orally in those states.
 The fact that the southern youth does not enlist for the Philippines does not show any decrease in patriotism, but only goes to prove that the Philippine war is unpop- ular in the southern states.
 Secretary Root has rented one of the handsomest homes in Washington, and in- tends to entertain OF q lavish scale next winter. The home chosen for him is owned by the Berneys. and last year was occupied by the Phipps, of the Carnegie Phdpps steel combination. %
 Plans for Mobilization
 1I1S planS or the war department for the mobilization of the army for the Philip pines contemplate the landing of the last of the troops in Manila by November 25. The army is to be carried across the Pa cffic ocean by the transport service This service ds remarkably well equipped for such a gigantic work when one thinks that it was organized little over year ago. When the war with Spain broke out last year the army knew practically nothing about the transportation of troops. The army then did not own ship, and the of- fcials were confronted with the problem of carrying twenty thousand men over thousand miles of water. The task was ac- complished with little loss of life, com paratively speaking. The officials since then have been busy studying the system of transporting troops, and now they have one as complete as almost any country in the world Today the government owns fleet of eighteen steam transports four hospital ships and twelve smaller vessels. In addition to these there is chartered fleet of fifteen ships on the Pacific.
 The big transports owned by the govern ment arc modelled troop ships. British of- ficers who have had great deal of expe-