The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1901-10-18
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ingtOn.
(COumunicatedl.
w ASHINGTON,


President Roosevelt entered the
White House, no doubt, with some
very praiSeworthy ideas as to
what would he his course in the
disposition of Presidential patron
age, and the ward hecler and the
machine worker had no place in
his calculations. Mr.. Roosevelt
had been a Civil Service Com
missioner, and he had at least
formulated ideals, ideals whlch
had been well-nigh shattered
after his acceptance of the COVER
YorShip Of New York at the hands
of the machine, t is true, but
ideals still and ideals which he
believed that, having become
President, almost in spite of the
machine, he could put into prac-
tice. He is rapidly being I'M
deceived. Every day it is borne
in upon him that he is neither a
free man nor the servant of the
people, but the servant of a
mighty and constituencies power
known as "The Republican Ma
chine".
He was hardly seated in the
Presidential chair when Platt,
the representative of all that is
partisan and Objectionable in re-
publican politics in Mr.. Roose-
velt's own state, come to Wash
ington and laid down the law and
after leaving him, made use of an
expression which Mr.. Roosevelt,
the Civil Service Commissioner,
would have quickly repudiated.
He said "The President knows
who deserves recognition in New
York;, and this of the Roosevelt,
who when he was Commissioner,
had said that "EIe who rewards
political services with government
patronage, is worse than he who
offers bride because he is steal.
ing from the whole people,.
Every day Mr.. Roosevelt re.
ceiveS a long line of republican
Congressman and machine work
ers who demand "recognition", in
the shape of Presidential patron
age, as reward for the political
services of their constituents and
henchmen. And the price of re.
fuSal is the forfeiture of a second
term. Mr.. Roosevelt is a clean
man and he has ideals, but he is
fast learning that republican
meathods and ideals are incom-
patible, that the republican party
has gained the ascendency, not
by serving the people but by hood
winking them. that it wins its
victories, not by appeals to Ameri
can intelligence, but by tempting
Gupidity through the operation of
a perfectly organized machine.
Rumor is still rife concerning
the ISthmian Canal treaty, but all
is conjecture. | have it on no less
an authority than a member of
the Cabinet that the salient points
of the treaty with great Britain
have been agreed upon and that
the treaty will be completed and
submitted to the Senate as soon
as Congress assemblies. The Cahi.
net Minister, who will not permit
the use of his name, expresses the
belief that the treaty will be
perfectly satisfactory to the Sen
ate and the people. He further
states that everyone in the White
House and the State Department
has been given notice that the
President will be seriously dis
pleased if the details are made
public by anyone other than him.
self.
1t is we'll understood in inner
circles that the President finds
himself in a serious dilemma in
regard to his recommendations to
Congress, concerning our relations
with Cuba. He apprecia tes
thoroughly how esse tial to
Cuban goodwill and to Cuban
prosperity is the admission to the