Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1901-10-17
WARRINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent
WAcuTNcsTON Oct ID 1Q01


from our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct IA, 1901.
President Roosevelt entered the White
House, no doubt, with some very praise
worthy ideas as to what would be his
course in the disposition of Presidential
patronage, and the ward-heeler and the
machine worker had no place in his calcu-
lations. Mr.. Roosevelt had been a Civil
Service Commissioner, and he had at least
formulated IDEALS ideals which had been
well-nigh shattered after his acceptance OF
the governorship of New York, at the
hands of the machine, it is true, but ideals
still and ideals which he believed that,
having become President, almost in spite
of the machine, he could put into practice.
He is rapidly being undeceived. Every
day it is borne in upon him that he is
neither free man nor the servant OF the
people, but the servant of mighty and
constituencies power known as "The Re
publican Machine"
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.. Roosevelt's own
State, came to Washington 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 Pres-
ident knows who deserves recognition in
New York." and this of the Roosevelt,
who when he was Commissioner, had said
that 'He 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 receives long
line of Republican Congressman and ma
chine workers who demand recognition,
in the shape of Presidential patronage, as
reward for the political services of their
constituents and henchmen. And the
price of refusal is the forfeiture OF a second
term. Mr.. Roosevelt is clean man and
he has ideals, but he is fast learning that
Republican methods and ideals are incom-
patible, that the Republican party has
gained the ascendency, not by serving the
people, but by hoodwinking them, that it
wins its victories, not by appeals to Ameri-
can intelligence, but by tempting cupidity
through the operation of perfectly or
ganized machine.
Rumor is still rife concerning the 18TH
milan Canal treaty, but all is conjecture. l
have it on no less an authority than mem
Der 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 Cabinet
Minister, who will not permit the use OF
his name, expresses the belief that the
treaty will be perfectly satisfactory to the
Senate and the people. He further states
that every one 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 himself.
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 appreciates thoroughly how
essential to Cuban good will and to Cuban
prosperity is the admission to the United
States, free of duty, Of Cuban sugar On
the other hand, any such recommendation
would bring about his head swarm of
| indignant protests from the beet sugar pro-
ducers Of the North and West, and from
the cane-sugar producers of the South, that
South in which he has strong hopes OF
| building up a brand new "white mans"
Republican party. There the matter stands.
The Schley Court of Inquiry still holds
daily sessions. Judge Advocate Lemley
announces that he will not be ready to rest
his case before the middle of next week,
and Mr.. Rayner estimates that it will be
the middle of November before the defense
is concluded. 1t does not appear to have
dawned upon the Navy Department that if
Judge Advocate Lemly were to prove his
case against Admiral Schley the whole
| Burean of Navigation would stand proven
of the gravest dereliction of duty and
deserving of the severest censure for not
having long ago brought Smiley before a
court martial on the charges Of cowardice
and characterization. We're Lemly to
prove the case he has attempted, Schley
would deserve to be drummed out of the
service.
The Hemp Inquiry Committee has adj
| journed to Nov. 49, The evidence is
| practically in, and it will, it is presumed,
have little more to do than render a decision
when it convenes
| There is a rumor afloat that Ambassador
| Choate, who has started for Washington,
ostensibly to confer with the President in
regard to the canal treaty, comes at the
| Presidents request and that he will bring
with him his resignation, ex-senator VOL
colt, of Colorado, being named as his sue
cessor. The only information which the
most persistent interrogation can elicit
from the State Department is that nothing
is known Of the change. The fact that Mr..
Roosevelt is decided positivist or as his
| Western friends would say, HUSTLER" and
that Mr.. Choate is not, some people describe
him as supine, probably gave rise to the
rumor, together with the fact that Mr..
Wolcott has recently acted as a special en-
missary to the Court of st. James. Never
theless the change is by no means unlikely
even if the President has not already
signifed its desirability to Mr. Choate.
Secretary Hay emphatically denies all
intention of resigning and declares that
Secretary Gage must have been misquoted.
Perhaps he has, but some people who know
him say that he has frequent attacks Of
edcoethes loquendi.
That the ways of imperialism are not
laid in easy lines is amusingly demonstrated
by statement of Capt. Allan D. Mclean,
surgeon in the United States Hospital at
Muntilupa in the Philippines. He reports
that the seven hundred school teachers
shipped to the Philippines are proving a
white elephant, " that they "have raised
more pow-wow and disturbance than the
whole army did during the palmy days of
the insurrection p that they cannot live on
their pay, s'75 per month, without COM
missary privileges, y which have not been
extended to them; that "about one hundred
have already married and the remaining
six hundred are busying themselves right
and left trying to get into the matrimonial