The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-10-18

WASHINGTON, D. c., October 14th.


would be his course in the disposition Of
Presidential patronage, and the ward
heeler and the machine-worker had no
place in his calculations. 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 SER
want of mighty and constituencies power
known as The Republican 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 Washin gton and laid down
the law, and, after leaving him, made use
of an expression which Mr.. Roosevelt, the
Civil Service Commissioner, would have
| quickly repudated. He said: The Presi-
| dent 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
machine workers who demand "recogni
tion," in the shape of Presidential patron
age, as reward for the political services
of their constituents and henchmen. And
the price of refusal is the forfeiture of
second term. Mr.. Roosevelt is a clean
man and he has ideals, but he is fast learn
ing that republican methods and ideals
are incompatible, 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 American intelligence, but by tempting
cupidity through the operation of per-
| fectly organized machine.
Rumor is still rife concerning the 18th
milan Canal treaty, but all is conjecture.
/ have it on no less an authority than
member 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 per-
nit the use of his name, expresses the be-
lief that the treaty will be perfectly salts
factory to the Senate and the people. He
further states that everyone in the White
House and the State department has been
given notice that the President will be
seriously displeased if the details are made
public by anyone other than himself.
1t is well understood in inner circles
that the President finds himself in a seri-
Gus dilemma in regard to his recommends
tions, to Congress, concerning our rela-
tons with Cuba. He appreciates thor
oughly how essential to Cuban goodwill
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 producers 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
brand new "white mans republican
party There the matter stands.
The Schley Court of Inquiry still holds
daily sessions. Judge Advocate Lemly
announces that he will not be ready to
rest his case before the middle of next
week, and Mr.. Rayncr estimates that it
the defense is concluded. 1t does not ap-
pear to have dawned upon the Navy De-
partment that if Judge Advocate Lemly
were to prove his case against. Admiral
Schley the whole Bureau of Navigation
| would stand proven Of the gravest dire
LECTION of duty and deserving of the
severest censure for not having long ago
brought Schley before court martial on
the charges of cowardice and insubordi-
nation. Were Lemly to prove the case he
has attempted Schley would deserve to be
drummed out of the service.
| There is a rumor afloat that Ambassador
Choate who has started for Washing ton,
ostensibly to confer with the President in
regard to the canal treaty, comes at the
Presidents request and that he will brin 9
with him his resignation, ex-senator VOL
colt, of Colorado, being named as mis- sue
cessor. The only information which the
most persistent interrogation can elicit
from the State Department is that moth
ing 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 supinc, prob
ably gave rise to the rumor, together with
the fact that Mr.. Wolcott has recently
acted as a special cmmissary to the Court
| Of st. James. Nevertheless the change is
| by no means unlikely even if the Presi,
dent has not already significd its desira-
| bility to Mr.. Choate.
Secretary Hay emphatically denies all
| intention of resisning and declares that
Secretary Gage must have been misquoted.
Perhaps he has, but some people who
know him say that he has frequent at
tacks of cacoeM's lCqtenN.
That the ways of Imperialism are not
laid in easy lines is amusingly demon
| strated by {. statement of Capt. Allen D.
Mclean, surgeon in the United States
hospital at Muntilupa in the Philippines.
He reports tLat the seven hundred school
teachers shipped to the Philippines are
proving white elephant;' that they
have raised more powwow and disturb
ance than the whole army did during the
palmy days of the Instruction. that they
cannot live on their pay, $15 per month,
without commissary privileges" which
have not been extended to them; that
a.. =