The Savannah morning news., 1901-07-16
CAPITAL POLITICAL TALK.
Yormony Dinner sugses'ed-Ap-
ITS for Dawes, Place.

Is for Dawes
,;,-+on July 15.-Conservative
~,sponsible Democratic leaders are
a'-1- ,..nosed to become excited over
mo- ,to,, of the Democratic conven-
~. in ohio last week. Politics IN
- Is a profession, and the action OF
49,. nolitical bosses in the BucKeSe
wy ire often actuated by personal
ZOOS and ambitions rather than by
''.',-ion and fidelity to party princi-
This applies to Republicans as
we'll as Democrats. OF course tne
.-.s+,oent of Mr.. Bryan by the ONO
,,--,,ocracv in convention assembled, is
rslisbed by those consistent DEM
-.-.+s who are earnestly and faithful
.ooring to bring about the reorgan-
..+.o1 of the Democratic party on
harmonious basis.
,r5ose Democrats. whose opinions
,.orI5 be valuable if they could be
ouofsd. assert privately, that the 1T
ti.r4 prospects for Democratic success
-. brighter now than they have been
a. many years past, providing the
-,,~+,- managers can be induced to put
l-j5a personal aspirations and faction
80 iaalousies and take advantage of
tra opDortunities offered by the lack
If unity in the Republican ranks, grow
mo ont of the proposition to revise the
t4ri4. There is evidently trouble in
The Republican household, and 1t VIII
require the enforcement of the strict
est marty discipline to hold the several
factions in the party together during
another presidential campaign. Pres
dent AIcKinley's personality, of course,
has its political value, but, at the same
+io7a il is not difficult to find promi-
mont Republicans who are growing
and grumbling at the way the present
administration is being controlled by
a small circle of Republican bosses.
A Dinner Suggested.
distinguished Democrat who visit
"a Washington few days ago ex-
messed the opinion that an old-time
democratic love-feast should be held
with q view to burying past personal
differences and organizing an agreSs-
i've and vigorous crusade against Re
publicanism. Our first move" said
he. should be to invite representatives
of all shades of Democratic opinion to
come together. If we could secure
President McKinleys recipe for pacif-
icatory dinners, l would suggest that
we round them all up at the biggest
and best banqeting hall in the United
States. In view of the success of
President Mckinley in pacifying those
who disagree with him by means OF
one OF his famous dinners, l am a con-
vert to the theory that the average
man is often Influenced by an appro-
pirate appeal to his stomach
This gentleman went on to say that
in his Judgment the first and most inn
. for namnpra tic
success is united action by a solid
and thoroughly disciplined organiza-
ton He says Republican success is
due entirely to the superior discipline
and compact party organization. Time
and time again the Republican ranks
have been threatened with dissolution
and Generalization because of wide
differences of opinion on national and
local questions, but when the lines of
battle are finally drawn kickers are
driven, like so many sheep, UP to the
rack by the party leaders and made
to take the administration medicine
however bitter it may be.
Just how such a love-feast is to be
assembled, and who has the courage
and the audacity to lead in such
movement no one seems able to pre-
dict one of the great difficulties is
finding man or a set of men who
NOulA AllAEl NdhE Tie lash II ID SUS
gested that all of the old leaders, who
for the past ten or twelve years have
/ been unsuccessful in the management
OF the partys affairs, might come for
ward in body and give up the direc-
ton Of the Democratic organization,
allow an entirely new set of men to
assume control and make the issue
with the Republicans on up-to-date
IDEAS and methods without waiting to
600 u.f7 1fY7a nr 49, 7
propose to take in shaping their cam
paign.
New blood, new methods, new organ
lzation and a new brand of fidelity to
Democratic principles is what is need
ed to rehabilitate the party and place
II IN position where il may have a
reasonable prospect of throttling the
Republican trust. The way things have
been going in the political world of
late years has enabled the Republi-
cans to form a gigantic monopoly for
Inc absolute control of the national
government The Sugar Trust, the Oil
trust and all the other commercial
trusts combined are but insignificant
oH-shoots of the great National Re-
publican Trust which controls the ex-
ecutlve, legislative and judicial
Branches of this government.
An Army of Applicants.
Hungry Republican office-seekers
are casting longing eyes in the direc-
uon OF Treasury and Navy Depart
ments. The public announcement that
charles G. Dawes will voluntarily re-
uIe from the Office of Controller of the
currency in October, and also that AS
siStant Secretary Hackett is to retire
from the Navy Department at an early
uay has brought to the front an army
Oh applicants for these two very desira-
oe positions. There have been loud
murmurs of discomfort all along the
republican line since the second ad-
MhlStration of President Mckinley
commenced. The boys outside of the
breast works had hoped and expected
eldt there would be a number of
manages in the public service, thus en-
aoHhg them or some of their number
10 get up to the pie counter Several
moilns have elapsed and but very few
~ une predicted vacancies have oc-
eu,tH All the members of the
S'Huel nave been reappointed,
sseorly all of the old officials in the
lsh and domestic service have been
,. 9,j1unued in Office so that the "unpro-
MagQ ior' have almost despaired of Sc
/ I1'Hls such recognition as they be-
lhey are entitled to.
"' position of controller Of the cur
4 n,ts Us perhaps one of the most val
", within the gift of the President.
COW mat the salary is large, but be-
e"uSe OF the OppOrtupf+ias a. e,,-..iat. -