The Washington weekly post., 1900-09-04
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

7~feE - t2Ac <4AtE-tA faaAsE A~--~
civil service msnb@rs Of tbs House q
Representatives. uho are 2iways rs1Sy.
as the annsal nsid Eay Of debate on TIE
legislative. executive. and Judicial appro-
priation eia rcIIs rouaa. with speech ana
sympathy and vote. % whsek the soe1l
eureza. noE realizes hOw chickens may
ooEe home % roost. He i Representative
L&ndis. of Indiana. enc q the most con
genial msa IN the - that are presiaes
over BY Speaker Hesserssa- This. hos
ever. does not deter The DSfsserats IN TIE
Ninth Heosisr district from printing Ia
thsir newspapers extracts from what Ar.
Lands has said IN his own newspaper,
the Delphi Journal. about t0v. Teddy
Roosevelt Ordinary type isL't big enough
for their purposes. They build these ex-
tracts I'D IN fancy shapes. widen the col
umus. and weave filigFee work around the
whole Great banners. duly inscribed. and
hung upon the walls OF the cities Mr..
Lands visits. as vel as borne in Demo
cratic professions, VIII probably Be calcu-
lated 70 inpart nightmare 70 the author
OF she eloquent peroration On Brigham H
Roberts before the campaign is over. The
Democrats 80 as far back as lsss in their
gieeful Work. This quotation about the
Civil Service Commission. from the Dslphi
Journal OF December IS. in that year. has
recently been printed:
ThsOi07e Roosevelt Is TIE zoving Spirit IN Us
eonzissisn- He Is y0Eng duds- Es Is ~ nzturs
a MuESEnp. and consequently Ds=oo-z;- TAsre
is at Pure dr0p 0f Republican blood n his
hody. By zha, right Is be elevated 70 TIE sicta-
torzhip Of the Republican party 70 ore p-stssas to
explain HIS chief slsin % Pro-insncs Is his
r31sz aGfissf-- wz-A Fsrsr-Hu ~
TIE other pUre ard UnEpostss s-ssss vAs sstsssss
Blaine. and worked with TIE energy G, desperation
ssaiast H4rTisoa-
But one OF the later articles from Rep
resentative lands pen about Gov. ROOse-
welt is given equally vide publicity. IL
appeared in the Delphi Journal Of April S.
1887, and reads:
TseoeoEs Roosevelt. eozzoaly knorn as Ted
eJ.' has posed before the people Of thls great
country daring the last ktsea ysz-s as a rsl0-neT.
The chief szoFt Ct Teddy has been 10 tiscourIEs
Osee-ssekins Teddy Is szictss Win nightmare
sbou; eight nights II = week interfering vith bis
sleep and disturbing bis drsans all q seeozHt e
morbid fear that too zzsy people IN Assries
want to hold o1ses- This. at Least. IS what TsasT
would have the peopls believe: but from Nalus to
California and from Canada TO TIRE Gulf. every
e0unty. township. and precinet nav b sssrcasa
and 10 ezse Of o1es itch half 80 bad as Tsaay's
oEn could y discovered. II is both chroaie ard
acute Teddy has held o1ie= almost continuously
for many years in fact ever sizos be Ess old
enough TO hold oaes. Evsa n ths fsE iu;.rins
when ke vzs not in os-ee he occupied his tine in
asking for osze=- He vas a member CT The state
legislature in New Yo-k. He vas a ezndisats fer
mayor Of New YORK. He vas Civil Service Con-
missioner AZ Washington and subsequently,
police commissioner al New York. And McKialsy
Sas no sooner elected than Teddy started . cam
Psisn for the position Of Assistant Secretary Of ths
Navy, to which he appointed a fsE DAYS aga.
And during all these ysErs Teddy has beea vail
ing against the Osics-sesEsr H0E lOng, 0 Lord,
must We endure these shzms7
The most reliable reports from the Maine
campaign are that there viii Be a great
deal OF scratching Of tickets when the
election is held next Monday II is Lot
believed that the Republican candidate
for governor. Mr.. John F. Hill, OF Au-
gusta. viii suffer or that the candidates
for Congress Will be reduced IN their ma
jorities. as all are popular men. But the
farmers. who comprise very consider
able portion OF the voting population.
have been whetting their knives for weeks
20 slash the various Republican candi-
dates for the legislature. Some of the
most prominent lawyers and business
men Of the State, men who have vast
interests intrusted 10 their care, are
among the Republican candidates for the
legislature this year. but there is great
dissatisfaction among the rural voters
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the legislature this winter viii have 10
tackle that problem. Some politicians
wonder whether the general hostility 10
prominent Republican candidates for the
legislature will rot cause falling OF in
the vote for governor, but that remains
70 be seen.
The Illinois State campaign is starting
OF with a whoOp this week. The Demo-
Gratis claim that there is complete har-
mony within their ranks, and that the
Gold Democrats are, for the most part,
working shoulder TO shoulder with them.
The IroquoIs Club. Of Chicago, which Was
at the height OF its influence during Mr..
Cleveland's last administration. will have
prominent part again this year in the
campaign for Bryan and Altshuler. The
Chicago Chronicle says that nearly every
well-knOwn Democrat in Illinois will de-
vote at least a week Of mis- time this falT
10 campaign work. The speakers commit
tee OF the Iroquois Club is cooperating
with a similar committee az Democratic
State headquarters, AMI preparations are
making 10 send several hundred SPELL
binders throughout Illinois before the
close of this week For over ten weeks
tons Of literature has been sent into va
rious counties.
Two Of the Congressional districts in
Illinois have been especial storm centers I
10 date. One Of these is the TWenty-first
district. now represented BY William A.
Rodenburg. a young lawyer. OF East s..
Louis. and Republican. His predecezs5-
was JehL Baker. partially blind, during q
portion OF the Fifty-ffth Congress. Tier
are numerous Germans in East ST Louis.
and an active contest has been OF % Win
their favor. The campaigning has been
fast and furious. without any definite IL
dications as 10 the outcome Mr.. Rodea-
berg had only about so votes 70 spare Two
years ago.
The other district IS the Second. in chi
cago, represented BY William Lorimer, 1
prominent as a Republican boss and as
major general Of the Republican legion in
the Windy City. One John J. Feeley has
been nominated 10 get Mr. Lorimer's seat
II he can. and he has started out As
though be believed be vas going 70 sue
eeed. Mr.. LOrimer vas one of the few
Republicans who stO0i out against the
Porto Rican tarin bill. which made hisa
friends in the district bnt the Democrats
are charging that he has no right 10 de-
fend The Republican administration.
Sc saitary Canal patronage hgEred In the
Congressional campaign Of Two years ago.
bur the Democrats say that. as ne
patronage has been dispensed. Mr. Lori
mer wili not be 50 strong this year. He
had majority of 5.Sse votes In $50. NJ.
Feeley opened his campaign SATURDAY
evening. declaring that the indorsemsnt
o. condemnation OF President MeKinlev's
administration was to Be tae chief issue
OF the campaign.
The anti-imperialist bureau OF Boston
claims 20 be doing 4 thriving business
and 70 oe hearing of many converts. Tke