Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-08-16


Number Of Guns and FIipinos Captured
McLaurin's Reward Secretary Long Samp
son Partisan-Senator Stewart WhoopIns il
Up for Hanna.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, August ., 1901.
Teddy Roosevelt's Presidential boom
arrived in Washington this week. /;
was brought by Republican members
of the Kansas Compression delegation,
who declared that the Kansas Repub-
| licans we're for him and intended to
do everything they could to get him
nominated. When it is considered
that the administration is dead op-
posed 10 Roosevelt and that those
Congressman were in Washington ask
ing administration favors, it will be
seen that they had their nerve along
with them. 1t is true that none OF
the big-guns of the administration
we're in town, and that the small-fry.
such as assistant secretaries, were
afraid to tell those Congressman that
they were treading on forbidden
ground, but the telegraph lines were
in good working order and some OF
them found it out before they left, and
they will probably hear more about it
before their applications for admins
tration favors are acted upon. Long
before 1904, it will be sure way for a
Republican to get on the administra-
ton blacklist to declare himself in
favor of Roosevelts nomination.
There is no longer any doubt that
there is Roosevelt machine and that
it is working for strength in the West
and South, ignoring New York, where
the Platt machine makes it impossible
for Roosevelt to hope to control the
delegation. Roosevelts friends are
pointing out that Cleveland was nom-
mated in 1892, although the New
York delegation was pledged to Hill.
Rear Admiral Robley d. Evans
Fighting Bob"-was this week fur.
nished by the Navy Department with
copies of the two letters written by
ex-senator and ex-Secretary Chsnd.
Ter, complaining of the manner in
which he and his administration OF
the Navy Department are treated in
Admiral Evans book, "a Sailors
Log" and he has gone out of town for
few days, during which he will de-
eide whether he will ask for Court
of Inquiry, or let Chandler 60 ahead
and try to force the Navy Department
to order a court-martial. Before leav-
ing Washington Admiral Evans said {:
81 have no idea of falling into Mr..
Chandler's trap, by entering upon a
newspaper discussion of his letters. l
will only say that the only relations
between Mr.. Chandler and myself are
those of private citizens. He is not
my superior, and would not take
any orders from him. If he has
charged me with conduct unbecomiug
an officer and gentleman, we'll"
As Admiral Evans abruptly ended
and turned on his heel there was an
expression on his face that was any
thing but loving. Admiral Evans but
touched upon the dirty politics of
Chambers rule over the Navy Depart
ment, only referring to his personal
experience, in his book, when there is
material enough of the same sort, and
worse, easily accessible, 10 fill several
books. Chambers whole political life
has been that of an INSCRIPTIONS par
tisan who never forgot his own inter-
ests. Consequently he is rich man,
but he is likely also to be . sorry man
before Bob" Evans and his friends
get through with him.
Comment is being made on the
marked discrepancy between the num-
Der of Filipinos who have been cap
tured or have surrendered and the
number of rifles. In an official docu.
ment issued by the War Department
this week the total number OF Fill
pinos captured and surrendered is
given as Al ,029, while the total num-
Der of rifles surrendered and captured
is only 1912. It cannot be that A.
029 Filipinos were fighting with only
1912 rifles. And if the surrendered
Filipinos have secreted their rifles it
indicates that they expect to have use
for them again.
1t is now said in Washington that
Senator McLaurin's reward for trying
to organize white mans Republican
party in South Carolina, in addition TO
the control of the Federal patronage
OF the State, is to be q seat on the
Federal bench for himself, after his
term in the Senate ends.
If the stories alleging that Mr.. Nc.
Kinley has been convinced by the
popularity of Admiral Schley that he
has been greatly maligned by the
Sampson clique in the Navy Depart
ment, and that it was by his express
orders that officers who could be de.
pended upon to give Admiral Schley
fair play were selected for members OF
the Court Of Inquiry, be true, there is
one thing more that he should do in
the interest OF fair play, and that is to
get a new Secretary OF the Navy.
Secretary Long has been VIGOROUSLY
anti-Schley from the beginning OF the
trouble, and it is an open secret that
he will leave no official stone unturned
W COuSiCJ CCulCy Va uuNluk uIoOUcyc Gu
orders, as a failure to secure such con-
viction will be practically q verdict OF
marked uniairness against himself.
Howison, the new member of the
court, has been Sampson partisan, il
he 10 not now.
Senator Stewart, who has been on
all sides OF every question and who
just now calls himself Republican,
was in Washington this week, whoop-
ing things up for Senator Hanna,
whom he declared to be the logical
Republican candidate in 1904. If he
and the other Hanna shouters can
only swell Hanna's head sufficiently
to make him grab the nomination for
himself, instead of putting up a figure.
head who will be under his control,
they will do the Democrats a great ia.
vor. With Hanna for the Republican
candidate The Democrats could elect
anybody on any platform, or on no
platform except opposition to Hanna
ism and all it stands for. Dem.