Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-17
PROBABLE CHANGES.
The Incoming Executive, While a Con trast to Mckinley in Outward Ac- tion, May Not Depart Radi-
 eally from Administration
as Marked Out.

1 the report of his assassination. It IS hardly yet possible for the people or Washington to realize that his famll- far and kindly presence is gone TOT | ever from the White House. Although 1 the emblems of mourning are every 1 where visible, perhaps only the state | funeral with it's solemn and impfessl-
 ble ceremonies can wholly efface the vivid memory which almost everyone here has of the president as he lived, and make it possible to think of hlm as dead.
 With the incoming of the new cx- | ecutive there will inevitably be many
 changes in the official and social life of the city. A hundred minor currents are disturbed and thwarted by the great event which has just taken place. There will of course be no offi-
 cial gayeties during the coming season; , there may be small army of office seekers, but this will depend largely
 on the course which President Roose- welt takes in regard to the appoint
 ments not under the civil service law.
 There may also be sweeping changes
 in the cabinet.
 There has seldom been so great a contrast in the characters of two men
 closely associated in official life as that between Mckinley and Roosevelt.
 Even astute political prophets are l somewhat at sea in attempting to pre-
 dict the executive actions during the next three years. Nobody seems to be quite sure what Roosevelt, as presi-
 dent, will do about anything. Tn his past career he has too often been the apothesis of the unexpected to make | it safe to risk too many prophecies on
 his conduct now. Many people expect
 that he will make radical changes in | the policy of the administration, but | this is by no means certain.
 l. Mckinley was careful, shrewd, per suasive; but he never made an enemy if he could help it. Roosevelt is reso-
 lute, fearless and entirely careless of
 appearances or consequences. The
 anomaly of the presence of these two
 men on the same ticket, supporting the same policy, is explained by the fact l that starting from opposite points, and with opposite temperaments, they had
 reached, for widely different reasons,
 very much the same conclusions. To
 take one among the many questions of
 the day, that of expansion: President
 Mckinley favored expansion because he believed it to be wise from con- merc1al point of view; Roosevelt be- cause he saw a chance for a lot of nghtmg and strenuous life generally: put they both came out at the same end of the horn. It is not necessary to anticipate that Roosevelt will de part radically from the course of the administration as now marked out, but
 he will probably go over that course in more of a hurry than some of his advisers think he ought to, and he may
 take short cuts which will discommode people. It is pretty we'll known that Snn1fOP Hanna the ticket because he thought it would
 get the strenuous young man out of
 the way; but instead of being tucked
 nicely away in the sleepy retirement or the senate, Roosevelt is in the White House. It will be interesting to see what Hanna can find to do about it now.
 Another person who may view the new development with horror is See
 retary Long. There was a legend
 about the time of the Spanish Ameri- can war to the effect that MT Long
 tried to take a vacation, but before he had been away a week stories of he way in which the assistant secretary
 was stirring up things reached his
 ears, and he had to come back in a
 hurry. The question whether Long
 stays in the cabinet or not will de pend partly upon the result of the | Schley- Sampson business and partly on Roosevelts disposition to play pol 1tics. If he starts in to break up the
 navy department ring. he will probably do it, but some of the leaders of his
 party will not be pleased. And all that sort of thing counts in work l ing for q reelection.
 It is reported that Secretary Hay is much broken in health since the | h hIcJ | likely to resign. In that case the
 selection of a new secretary of state
 would be an interesting subject for | speculation. Wolcott, Lodge and De l pew are all near the president. But | Wolcott is from Colorado and there
 are not enough votes out that way
 to make his selection a good one from
 q geographical point of view. Depew
 is from New York, as Roosevelt is,
 and New York cabinet would be bad
 election material, for Root is also
 from the Empire state. Moreover. De- l pew's reputation as a jester would be fatal to any aspirations he might | have toward the state portfolio. No l body wants that honored article turned into a Joe Miller's joke book or a l farmers almanac. Wilson, coming from the middle west. and being a canny Scot. without offensive political
 bias. would probably stay; and SO. perhaps, would the rest The gene
 ral opinion seems to De that the new
 executive will later on give some
 thing shaking up, but he may sur prise us all by being tame and gentle. The only thing that the Schley court
 of inquiry has done thus far is to re- l place Admiral Howison with Admiral
 Ramsay, which arrangement is said i to be very satisfactory to the former.
 Howison is not exactly the sort or a
 man to deal with problem as intri-
 cate as this is, especially when his pre- | judices are on the side of it that are | snarled up. If he had kept on talking
 he might have convicted Sampson ef l almost anything. Ramsay, on the contrary, is cool, quiet and deliberate. l and seems to be the man for the place.
 X little story which is causing | some amusement here Just now con | cerns Ex-Secretary Chandler. That peppery gentleman wrote a letter to | Secretary Long about the Bob Evans | affair, and part of it was as follows:
 'I am somewhat surprised that you l have not acted upon q communication
 addressed to me by you, in regard to | an attack made on me by Captain
 Robley Evans in a book recently pub lished by him under the title, "A Sail- l Or's Log" I wish VOu to understand