Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-10-18
WASHINGTON NEWS

unities of Congressman and poll
icians who desire government APP
continents for their friends or con
,tituents. He is a warm advocate
Of Civil Service and does not pro
pose to make any changes il the
government service for exclusively !
reasons. Neither will he
submit the members of his cabinet
to the inconvenience of making
changes in their departments for
the purpose Of creating positions
for his own or for Congressional |
proteges. These facts he has been
expressing sauvely, but firmly, to
the host of callers that have been
besieging him for patronage, but the
siege continues and i'll way to tell |
upon the most stoical patience, and
patience, it is said, does not go with
the Presidents alleged tempera-
ment. Already he has announced
that he will receive no callers after
D. m, as he desires to devote the
afternoons to the preparation OF his
message, which he hopes to get well
under way before he leaves for
Yale College commencement, where
he goes to take his degree as doctor
of law on the 23rd inst 1t is more
than likely that he will be obliged
TO deny himself to the public to an
even greater extent and refuse to
see all visitors for a stated period,
a custom which has been adopted
| by several Of his predecessors while
preparing their messages to Con
gress.
1 do not intimate that Mr.. Roose-
welt is not a staunch Republican,
nor that he will fail to use the pat
ronage at his disposal to further the
interests of the party, but that he IS
committed by his antecedents to
the policy that the interest of party
will be most surely maintained by
the appointment of men who will
never fail to do credit to the party,
Iii a word Mr.. Roosevelt S concep-
ton of his duty to his country and
to his party is the precise antithe-
sis of Tammany methods.
Rumors concerning the Isthmiar
Canal treaty still serve to fill space
= in the air. They are asserted be
yond doubt one day and denied tn,
next. As a matter of fact, nothing
is nor can be positively known. A
member of the Cabinet who will
not allow his name to be used, tells
;, me that diplomatic negotiations arr
practically completed and that ;
treaty will be presented to the Sen
ate which will be acceptable to En-
5 gland and which will meet will
the hearty approval of the Senate
# He further says that Mr.. Roosevelt
has given this matter his persona
attention and believes he has effeC
y ted an agreement with Great Brit
it ain that will reflect credit upon tn
n party and incidentally upon hi
v administration, but that the detail
q are closely guarded and that ever
one connected with the State De
partment and with the White House
? understands that it will cause tn
e President serious annoyance
e "they are permitted to leak out.
The question of our relation wit
!, Cuba is a complex and difficult one
q Cuban prosperity is largely, if nc
! completely, dependent upon tn
It trade relations she is able to estat
il fish with this country. Unless sh
! is able to find sale for her sugar i
the United States, she cannot pro:
. per. On the other hand the admi.
p sion of Cuban sugar, free of duty
|, would sound the death knell of OF
lie own beet sugar industry, which
\ still in its infancy but which ,unde
!. the beni6cent influence of protet
= ton, has made a satisfactory growtl
d This seems to be an instance whei
Of a generous bounty might be subst
i tuted for the protective tariff to IL
NJ advantage of all concerned. A Iii
eral bounty to the beet sugar pr,
ducers would offset the injury dor
d by the admission of Cuban sug;
lie free, while such admission won
al restore prosperity to Cuba and Il
II amount of the bounty could
raised by an increase of duty levit
y on goods imported from countri
Sc i'll which we are less intereste
IL The Republicans in WashingtC
ne are remarking, with no little anus
= ment, upon the self-evident, thoug
=. so far uneXpressed change of hea
y of the Democrats, as Witnessed
1t, the complete subsistence of Villa
n, Jennings Bryan. Although cal
m paigns are in progress in eig
% States, four of them at least more
less doubtful, in no one of them a
d heard the megaphOne notes of t
IN orator of Nebraska Not one
in the State Democratic committe
m has invited Mr.. Bryan to take t
20 stump, but Mr.. Bryan has offer
his services to the Ohio comm
nc tee, which committee has so
re. failed to make any reply to t
Ir. offer, and it is whispered in tor
an that can be heard outside the De
- Ocratic camp that the committee
CARDS itself in dilemma and wish
the offer had been "lost in t
ne mails"
Tor Rumor has it that Ambassad
S" Choate, who is now on his way
in Washington, will not return to Lie
e don after his conference with t
" President, and that he will be 81
lOr ceeded at the Court of St. lam,
en- by ex-senator Wolcott of ColoraC
,ut The officials of the State Depa
pc ment affirm that they know not
- ing of such a change, and it seel
ny likely that the report arises me
ng from a general knowledge of t
red incompatibility of the characters
he the President and the AmbassaC
IL, to England, than from fact. It
-, we'll known that Mr.. Choate is
nc antithesis of Mr.. Roosevelt in te
TO permanent and inspiration, and eV