Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1901-05-15
Washington Letter.
rom our Regular Correspondent. I


the Patt amendment is only a ques
ton of time. This weeks news from
Havana ali tends to show that tn
secretary has the right idea OF tn
situation, AS the members of the con
| stitutional convention are rapidly get
ting into line.
The overwhelming defeat of Cor
manism in the Baltimore municipal
election this week has opened ex-Sen
ator German s eyes to the fact that the
law he railroaded through the Mary
land legislature for the purpose O.
DISTINGUISHING sufficient number o.
Republican voters to elect legislature
that would send him back to the senate
is far from being the cock sure game
he intended and expected it to be.
Republicans are much pleased with the
result of the Baltimore election be-
cause they believe that it indicates
success for the campaign of education
they have begun among the illiterate
Republican voters of the state. The
colored voters are gladly availing
themselves of the opportunity afforded
them to learn to read and write we'll
enough to comply with the new bal
lot law of the state. while many
Democrats who cannot read and write
are ashamed to acknowledge that fact
by seeking instruction.
General Macarthur has written a
letter to Adjutant General Corbin, in
which he answers letters from the
w. G. T. u. of Columbus, Wis, and
Mr.. j. w. CARLISLE, of Media, Pa,
in regard to the liquor traffic and the
social evil in the Philippines. He
recommends that the writer's of the
letters Or their representative be
given free transportation to Manila.
where they will be afforded every op-
portunity to see things as they are
and to learn how badly misled they
have been as to the facts. He further
says: Il am convinced that the city
of Manila may today challenge COM
parison as to it's moral and orderly
condition with any city of the United
States. The care of the soldiers
health is almost the first duty of tn
and far from pandering to hi.
vices and encouraging him in dissipa-
ton every effort is made to maintair
a true standard of manhood in tn
young soldier and return him to his
country when his service is over, i
citizen who will be a credit to the
hard school from which he has gradu-
qfa6 Should hn RI
Manila, as recommended. they should
also visit other ports on the Atlantic
coast for purpose O. comparison. Hav-
ing done this, am certain that they
will, on concluding their work. take
home to their friends a very different
idea of the American army, both as
an army and as a civilizing agent.
than they appear to have obtained, nor
do | doubt that they will concur
with the wisdom OF the temporary ex-
pedients resorted to to meet the condi-
tons presented. Now it is up to the
critics. Let them go and find out the
facts for themselves and stop dealing
in prejudiced exaggerations.
Senator Hanna is inclined to treat
his latest boom for the Republican
presidential nomination as merely a
bit of friendliness on the part of Perry
Heath secretary of the Republican
National committee. who started it in
an interview given in London and at
once cabled over here. His invariable
reply to all attempts to interview him
on the subject is. Il am not candi
date for the presidency and he al
ways makes it laughingly. Others
are disposed to treat the matter more
seriously, and not few Republicans
endorse Mr.. Heath's statements that
it is entirely too early to begin to
boom any man for the nomination in
1904. Things move rapidly in this
country and many things can happen
in three years, and some Of them are
likely to prove factors in the choice
of the next Republican candidate for
president
Mr. A. W. Machen, superintendent
of the free delivery postal service,
said in the course of a very interesting
conversation: The rural free de-
livery is now an assured permanent
and expanding branch of a postal sys-
TEN, which is so rapidly developing
under trained and skillful guidance
that any conclusion applicable thereto
may be considered within reason.
The public benefits accruing from the
service are many and ramifed. Good
roads are condition precedent to the
establishment of route. Greeks and
streams must be bridged. The high
ways must be kept in permanent re-
pair. A community denied mail
delivery for the reason that its
roads are unfit and its bridges in
secure will at once set about to
place it's thoroughtares in good
repair and keep them so. The
great problem of good roads is thus
happily solved with one stroke of the
postmaster generals pen when he
authorizes the establishment of routes,
and the roads in some sections of the
states where the system has been es-
tablished have been wonderfully i'm
proved. to the decided betterment of
the farmer and the entire community.
This spring by reason of bad roads we
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