Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-09-27
President RooseveIt,s Policy.

The Washington correspondent of
the Boston Evening Transcript is one
of the best informed, most sagacious
and most reliable of the men engaged
in newspaper work at the national cap
ital. For this reason his letter to The
Transcript, forecasting the probable
course of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, is of unusual interest. He says
it is believed in Washington that
President Roosevelt's announced pur-
pose to continue absolutely unbroken
the policy of President Mckinley" is
more than a sentimental expression on
the part of the new President. Prob
ably in the calm of the executive Office
a few months hence, when hard work
and routine cares are pressing heavily
upon the young President, it will still
be his purpose to continue the McKin-
ley policy. No two men avowedly car
rying out the same policies do it ex-
actly in the same way, although the re-
sponsibilities of the presidential Office
to a surprising extent take off the
toughest edges of individuality"
The correspondent, in outlining the
important questions to come up, says
that the only large question of national
policy upon which Mr.. Mckinley and
Mr.. Roosevelt have differed has been
that involved in the HayPauncefote
treaty for the construction of the Mic
araguan canal. Mr.. Roosevelt was OPP
posed to that treaty as it was drawn,
and was in sympathy with the Senate
in it's refusal to ratify it. But just
now a new treaty is being drawn up,
in the draft of which Secretary Hay
has taken care to ascertain and follow
the wishes of the leaders of the Sen
ate, and it is believed that when finally
completed it will be endorsed and rati-
fed by both governments, and in a form
which President Roosevelt will will
ingly support. 1t is noted as a fav-
orable fact that the administration
will have the almost unprecedentedly
strong majority of about two-thirds in
the United States Senate for the sup
port of any of its measures.
1t is an apparent fact, shown in his
! last public utterance at Buffalo, as in
other ways, that President Mckinley
had come to recognize the changed
conditions with regard to our tariff
policy, and was looking to it's liberali-
cation on the basis of extension of our
foreign trade in every right and pos
sible way. 1t is not definitely known
what is President Roosevelts feeling
upon this question, but it is belived in
Washington that he will follow in the
path which President Mckinley was
plainly marking out.
Civil service reform ought to find in
the new President the strongest ad
vocate which has ever sat in the pres
idential chair. He was the most cour-
ageous and aggressive civil service
commissioner who ever held a place
on that board, and as governor of New
York he was a pronounced advocate
. of the reform. His purpose to retain
for the present the Mckinley cabinet
is quoted as further indication of the
sincerity of his purpose to continue
unbroken the general Mckinley pol
icy.
It is believed that the fact of Nc
Kinley's assassination will be to make
sure strong Republican majorities in
the state elections to be held this fall
( There is no doubt that this will be the
case in the Presidents native state of
Ohio, because of a feeling of loyalty
to the dead President; and the same
personal feeling will operate in Iowa
and Massachusetts,, though probably
to a lesser extent.
! In conclusion, the correspondent
says; "The transfer of the presidency
from Mckinley to Roosevelt doubtless
marks the end of the civil war Presi-
dents; every Republican elected to
that Office since Lincoln had been a
Union soldier as was Major Mckinley.
Colonel Roosevelt belongs to a later
generation, and it is doubtful if in flu
ture nominations the party can find it's
leaders among those who participated
in the War of the Rebellion"