Middletown transcript., 1901-10-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.

DRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is getting
very weary of the continued impor-
tunities of Congress and politicians who
desire government appointments for
their friends or constituents. He is a
warm advocate of civil service and does
not propose to make any changes in the
government service for exclusively par
tisan reasons. Neither will he submit
the members of his cabinet to the incon-
venience of making changes in their de-
partmelts for the purpose of creating po-
sitions for his own or for Congressional
proteges. These facts he has been ex-
pressing suavely, but firmly, to the host
of callers that have been besieging him
for patronage but the siege continues and
in way to tell upon the most stoical pa
tience, 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 P. NJ,
as he desires to devote the afternoon 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 doc
TOR OF law. on the 23d inst It 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 visit
tors ior stated period, custom which
has been adopted by several of his pre-
decessors while preparing their messages
to Congress.
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do not intimate that Mr.. Roosevelt is |
not staunch Republican nor that he |
will fail to use the patronage at his dis
posal to further the Interest of tie party,
but that he is committed by his antece-
dents 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. In word,
Mr.. Roosevelt's conception of his duty to
his country and to his party is the precise
antithesis of Tammany methods.
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Rumors concerning the Isthmian canal
treaty still serve to fill space in the air.
They are asserted beyond doubt one day
and denied next. AS 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 are practically
completed and that treaty will be pre-
sented to the Senate which will be accep-
table to England and which will meet
with the hearty approval of the Senate.
He further says that Mr.. Roosevelt has =
given this matter his personal attention !
and believes he has effected an agreement
with Great Britain that will reflect credit
upon the party and incidentally upon his .
but that the details are \
closely guarded and that everyone con-
nected with the State Department and =
with the White House, understands that
It will cause the President serious annoy a
snce if "they are permitted to leak out" T
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The question of our relations with a
Cuba is complex and difficult one. Gu n
ban prosperity is largely, if not COM t.
pletely, dependent upon the trade rela- II
ions she is able to establish with this h
country. Unless she is able to find sale e
.or her sugar in the United States, she II
;annot prosper. On the other hand, the 81
admission of Cuban sugar, free of duty, b
would sound the death knell of our own "
'eet sugar industry, which is still in its n
infancy, but which, under the benifcent Il
influence of protection, has made a salts o
aetory growth. This seems to be an in. L
tanee where generous bounty might be ca
ubstitnted for the protective tariff to tie
dvantage of all concerned. A liberal
ounty to the beet sugar producers would
ffset the injur, done by the admission u
Cuban sugar free, while such admis- OF
on would restore prosperity to Cuba and til
he amount of the bounty could be re
used by an increase of duty levied on an
,ods imported from countries in which its
e are less interested. General Han A
'ck was once much ridiculed for saying ne
le tariff was ''local issue" 1t is SURELY tn
question with different local points of Nj
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The Republicans in Washington are te,
with no little amusement, an
Jon the self-evident, though SO far un- be
pressed change of heart of the demo- ws
ats, as witnessed by the complete SUBJ tin
lence of William Jennings Bryan. I'm,
though campaigns are in progress in fri.
yht states, four of them at least more
less doubtful, in no one of them are
ard the megaphone notes of the orator
Nebraska. Not one of the state De- no,
oeratic committees has invited Mr.. Of
ran to take the stump, but Mr.. Bryan Jol
8 offered his services to the Ohio Com off
ttee, which Committee has SO far failed NOT
make, any reply to the offer, and it is mt
lispered in tones that cannot be heard dra
tside the Democratic camp that the Mr.
mmittee regards itself in dilema and the
shes the offer had been "lost in the cess
ills" ant
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Rumor has it that Ambassador Choate g..
10 is now on his way to Washington, of
i not return to London after his con- H.,
ence with the President, and that he 49,,
I be succeeded at the Court of st. 80
mes, by Ex-senator Wolcott, of Col
do. The officials of the State Depart
mt affirm that they know nothing of A
h change, and it seems likely that loo
report arises more from general NJ
,wledge of the incompatibility of the na~
racters of the President and the Am - 80
sador to England, than from fact 1t az ~
veil known that Mr.. Choate is the an az
esis of Mr.. Roosevelt in temperament ~.sa
inspiration. and even if not yet de- go, 49,
mined upon, such change is not un- So- lo
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