Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-10-11
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SchIey Court of Inquiry.

Schley Court of Inquiry.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Oct. >, 1901.
. From chance remarks dropped in
hotel Hobbies and government CORR
!. doris, il may be easily surmised that
. Republican leaders. that j. the Re-
publican party workers, are very much
OF the impression they have in the
, White House an entirely unknown
not TO say cratic, quantity. When
J Roosevelt was Civil Service Commits
!. sioner he WAS enthusiastic for Civil
Service reform, insisting that merit
was the only qualification for govern.
mental employment and, at times, sc.
riously irritating those politicians who
considered that party fealty should re-
; ceiye lis reward in patronage.
When Mr.. Roosevelt became Cover
nor of the State of New York, he
found himself so seriously obligated to
the politicians that it was impossible
to disregard their advice and their
claims. Nevertheless in his attitude
towards the great corporations, in his
efforts 10 effect State civil service re.
form and in his defeating the scheme
for making the New York police force
the tool of the Republican politicians,
he so antagonized 1.-the machine" that
Senator Platt exerted his utmost eff.
tort to clay him on the shelf by
showing him into that political grave
yard, the Vice Presidency.
As result OF all this Mr.. Roosevelt
has assumed command untrammeled
by any promise or debt to any indi-
vidual or faction and, while he has
proved urbanity itself to those politi-
clans who have had occasion to call
upon him, no one can in the least
fOretell how he is going to handle the
practical side of Republican politics
and every faction is on the anxious
seat.
Another source Of anxiety is the
probability of the Democratic candi-
date being dark horse. ii MIR.
Roosevelt will subordinate his person.
al views to the party coed the party
will, its leaders believe, stand every
chance of reelection, but if the adj
ministration is cratic from the politi-
clans standpoint, if the President
does not do all in his power to concili-
ate the varying factions and does not
enable the party bosses to properly re-
ward the line workers, there is no tell
ing what havoc a good Democrat,
brought forward at the last moment
and properly managed, may play.
On the other hand the politicians
are trying TO reassure themselves by
the report that Mr.. Roosevelt has
summoned Mr.. Plat 10 Washington
for conference on the situation in
New York and that he will bring to
Platts aid all the resources of his ex-
perie nee both as candidate for Mayor
and as Governor of New York. 1t is
certain that. il he will. the President
can put some valuable ammunition
into the hands of the New York Sen.
ator, in the way OF patronage. But
will he? That is the question.
1t certainly looks as if the steel
trust ought to add little more water
to its stock. The spectacle of this gil
ganiic "infant industry" showing a
profit of nearly 5000 900 on the six
months business just ended and that
notwithstanding it was during those
six months the great strike occurred,
is not one that is likely to prove OF
benefit TO the Republican party.
After the all too realistic pictures we
have seen OF the suffering among la.
boring men caused by the strike and
the comfortless, cherries and crowded
condition Of the laborers' homes, even
before the strike. we cannot help ask
ing where is the benefit to the Ameri-
can laboring man which this govern.
ment fed "infanr is supposed to
work? This is q question the Repub-
lican party will probably have to an.
swer in the next campaign.
There promises TO be lively con-
test over the Governorship of Hawaii
in the near future, and the people may
have an opportunity of judging how
eminently American in spirit is Re.
publican administration OF govern
mental affairs in "the colonies" The
presence of Secretary Henry Z. Coop.
er Of the Hawaiian Territory in Wash.
ington is still subject Of speculation.
He has not yet seen the President,
his only conferences having been with
Secretary Hitchcock, but there seems
to be little doubt that the real object
OF his visit 10 TO present to Mr. RoOse-
welt defense of Governor Dole as Cd.
posed TO the representations Of Judge
Humphreys, ct al. Judge Humph-
reys, before he left Washington, de.
clared himself unconditionally ia IA
vor OF the candidacy of Harold NJ.
Sewall.
When il was first heralded abroad,
the proposition of Jno. w. Mackay
and others to lay cable to Hawaii
and the Philippines without asking OF
the government a cent of bounty
seemed most worthy OF acceptance and
certainly preferable to the proposition
submitted to the last Congress that a
large share of the expense of laying q
cable, which was to become the prop.
erty of private individuals, should he
borne by the government.
The Schley Court of Inquiry pro.
ceeds steadily and with no particularly
sensational features. For the third
time death has effected the Court, the
last time necessitating the temporary
absence of Judge.Advocate Lemley,
who was called away to attend the fu-
neral of his sister in North Carolina.
So far nothing has been brought out
which reflects seriously on Admiral
Schley although q series of coinci-
dences seem to haye operated 10 pre-
vent his receiving information and in.
structions which the Navy Depart
ment attempted to communicate to
him.
While il is hard to locate any par.
ticular blame for the failure to deliver
the important dispatch announcing
Admiral Cervera's presence in Santi.
ago harbor and instructing Admiral
1Schley to 60 there, the experience
should prove warning to the Navy
Department in the future.