The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1901-10-28
TILLMAN'S
PITCHFORK
1t Is to Be Turned Against
President Roosevelt.
ROOSEVELT TS READY
ROOSEVELT is READY
South Carolina Appointment the
Bone of Contention.
ARMY POST AT FORT SMELLING
Formidable Objections to the Pro-
posed Location of One
at That Point.
tStItEGtsaO, Vaccination.

washington, Oct. 2S.-President Roose-
yelt has already drawn up the articles, as
the matchmakers would say, for a merry
llutIe light with the senate early in the
sess1on-at least as much of a fight as
Senator Tillman of South Carolina @n
give him. Southern democrats here first
announce the news. The fun will start
when the appointment of George E. Koes-
ter for collector Of internal revenue, made
py the president a few days ago, is taken
up for confirmation, and with Senator
I1llman as principal it goes without say
ing that the fight will be merry one.
The office of collector of internal reve-
nue. Is the best paying one in South Caro-
| lima. Had the president appointed auy
republican of even passing respectability
Tillman would have acquiesed. 1t is a
| republican administration and no demo-
crat has license to kick if the president
appoints only republicans to Office. That
| is the philosophical way that Tillman
views 1t. But when the president appoints
| a gold democrat to the best Office in the
! state upon the recommendation of Till
| mans colleague in the senate, colleague
who was elected as a democrat but who
only last summer was read out of the
party by the South Carolina democratic
state committee, that is another thing.
Senator Ttllman is a pretty good hater
and there is said to be no man in the state
that he hates like this particular col
| league-Senator McLaurin. The latter in
| the last congress supported practically all
| of the more important administration
measures and is representative Of the
new progressive element Of the south that
would discard the cherished traditions Of
| that section and accept new ideas with
| the promptness of the north. President
| Roosevelt is in sympathy with this new
element and he likes McLauren.
The way Senator Tillman proposes to
go about it is to work the senatorial cour-
| tesy racket. Senatorial courtesy means
throwing down a man named by the presi-
| dent for an Office when the senator from
Fthat state<in which the appointee lives
| submits that confirmation would be often
! sive to him. Not that ,Koester himself is
offensive but he became so because Nc
Lauren asked to have him appointed. 1t
| is a racket that has worked all right on
past occasions regardless Of the politics
with Tillman.
| OBJECTIONS Adjutant General Cor
bin authorizes the state
TO FORT ment that it will be a
number of weeks before
SMELLING the war department gets
around to the question OF
| the selection of four army posts in accord
ance with the plans of the secretary OF
war for having regular and systematic in
struction given the regulars and state
troops in field maneuvers. This subject
is at the bottom of a long list Of business
which Secretary Root has before him, T"
said General Corbin, "and he will not
reach 1t soon. The secretary was away
for long time on account of illness, and
the accumulation of important business,
which has been very large, must first re-
ceive attention. 1t is not known what
posts will be selected. This will prop
ably be left to the commanders of the sew
eral military departments of the coun-
try who will be asked to make recommen-
dations."
In this connection it should be said, for
the benefit of those who are booming Fort
Smelling for one of the four places, that
the war department will probably In
struct the department commanders that
only those posts which are located on the
larger military reservations will be ell
gible for selection. 1t is conceded that
Fort Ripley, in Kansas, will be one of
them, for the reservation there contains
thirty one square miles of territory, which
Is sufficient for the operation of a large
force. The friends of Fort Smelling may
very easily determine whether it will be
eligible under the instructions which the
war department is to issue to the depart
ment commanders. Its reservation en-
braces 1881 acres, or not quite two square
miles and a half, and cannot be enlarged.
Then again, the war department wants
these four posts located favorably with
reference to long continued out door work.
1t is limited here, although nothing Off
cial has yet been said, that Fort Shell
ing is rather too far north. The summers
are too short for the purpose which the
department has in mind. AS the matter
is understood here, it is the intention Of
the secretary Of war to begin field maneu-
yers at each of the four posts to be Sc
lected as early in the season as possible,
rapidly replacing each detachment of reg
ulars and state troops with fresh detach-
ments, and carrying the work from April
until late in November. BY crowding and
stretching the work over 3 period of eight
months annually at each post, 1t has been
figured that once a year every regiment
the exercise and drill which the depart
ment thinks so necessary.
These objections to the selection of
Fort Smelling are not pointed out with
view to discouraging the northwest, or to
influencing the action Of the board which
will make the final selection. This selec-
tion will be made on the merits Of the
case in each instance, and there will be no
chance anywhere for the operation Of a
political pull"
1t will be well for the friends of Fort
Smelling. however, to understand that
lection as one of the four posts, and that
overcome, at present they appear to be
quite formidable. Everything, however,
will rest with the board of department
commanders, and as the board will not be
appointed for several weeks to come. it
is perhaps idle to pursue the subject fur
tber at present in the newspapers.
FEARS FOR In republican circles
here 1t is feared that the
MARYLAND. Booker T. Washington
incident may have an eff
feet on the Maryland election. That state
is busy electing legislature which will
choose q member of the United States
senate to succeed George l.. Wellington.
The state has been republican, both sena-
tors from there being of that persuasion.
The state was brought into the republican
ranks by the vote OF the gold democrats.
But now that the silver issue is dead
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