The Washington times., 1901-09-25
POLITICAL COMMENT.

The talk about an aggressive campaign
on the part of Tammany this year seems
to have died away. The suggestion was
absurd. Apologies and excuses will be
Tammany's only ammunition in the fight
OF this autumn. But IL the Tiger were
really desperate enough to wage an ag-
gressive warfare, what an ideal Tammany
candidate for mayor Devery would be-
New York Tribune.
1t is not too much to say that the IL
legal trust. the trust that kills competi-
tion, that dictates the prices of the neces-
sarios of life, that produces for its mem
bers fortunes so colossal as to be simply
startling, Is a greater menace to the
safety OF the Republic than is the whole
brood of anarchy. dangerous and damn
able as the latter confeSsedly is II is
not necessary to reason about this state
ment, because feeling runs with judgment
in the Acknowledgement of its truth. After
ell, Ii is the people who are to blame
Trusts are fostered, grow fat and fatter
because the public permits it.-Minneapo-
lis Times.
If it were wrong for SchIey not to en-
danger his ships by going under the Nor
ro at Santiago to fire upon the Colon,
why was it right for Sampson to obey the
Navy Departments order to keep out of
range of the MORO at HaVana?-Balti-
more World.
After the Cuban general election in De-
of the successful candidates the substitu-
tion of domestic civil authority for alien
military control on the island should be
accomplished with ease and celerity-
Philadelphia Record.
Platt and Hanna are both friends of the
new President, but it does not appear
that he is in the hands of either of them.
Philadelphia Ledger.
Unfortunately If it were not for the
law. which they so despise. there would
not be an ana rchist alive in this country
today TO tell the tale.-Atlanta Journal.
The chances are that President Roose-
welt is more familiar with the affairs of
the Navy Department and the character
of the men who are in control of the
same than was President Mckinley He
served as Assistant Secretary for sea-
son. and there was some suspicion that
he had little use for some of his asso-
ciates.-Peoria Herald.
Nortn Carolina is said to be squirting
toward compulsory education laws Is it
possible that the State will apply such
laws to the colored population and COM
pei them to acquire sufficient education
to make them voters?-Minneapolis
Tribune.
While Mr.. Croker is being heartily
abused by all respectable people for let
ting Tammany government be so bad. it
doubtless has not escaped his observation
that he is being beaten by Tim Sullivan
because he has not made il worSe.-Buf-
falo Express.
Rear Admiral Howison seems TO have
retired with Big Jim Parker into the
deco seclusion reserved for heroes who
have failed to make good.-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
1t is said that office-seekers have al
ready been importunlng the President for
places. Men who have no sense of de-
cency. as importuning the President for
office before his predecessor was buried
is evidence should have their names
stricken from the list Of applicants
Indianapolis Journal.
Rear Admiral IIigginson, whose "opin-
ions" were rejected by the Schley Court
of Enquiry, was captain of the battleship
Massa chusetts at the time of the fight
at Santiago. and. like Sampson, was not
present. He and his ship We're at Guam
tanamo when the Spaniards sought to es-
cape, and. naturally enough. he feels that
If he had been on the scene he might have
gained some of the credit which people
persist in awarding to Schcy. Ii is to be
Sentoeism of Sampson and Higgiason,
Schley was on deck and not one of the
Spaniards got away.-ChicaSo Chronicle.
1t will be difficult for the foreign OBJ
server to understand why in Washington,
the Capital of the United States, only a
few battalions of the Regular Army were
present while the body of William Nc
Kinley was lying in state, while at the
little city of Canton. in Ohio, the streets
through which the funeral cortege passed |
were lined three deep with volunteer
troops. This seeming anomaly to u for
eigncr eXempiified the spirit of the Amer
lean Government. The national power. |
with resources unlimited and strong
that nothing can shake 1t, is represented
by a man in frock coat. who goes about
without a bodyguard The Government |
makes no display of its force.-Kansas |
City Star.
Senator Culom apparently feels himself |
the father-in-law of the national Admin |
istration since the appointment of Comp |
troller Ridgely to ofilce.-Chicago News.