The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-12-25

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! thing is unlikely. One is that Win
field Scott Schley has too much sense
| TO permit it. The other is that it takes
! something more than grievance TO
make any man eligible for a nomina-
| ton by either of the great political
parties in this cOuntry.-Hartford
| Weekly Times.
OF course Secretary Long will not
resign. The country would not allow
| it. Never has he been more needed at
his post in Washington than now. He
has made no mistakes, and people have
| in him the same confidence that they
have in the United States Supreme
| Court. He is the right hand man of
I the President. Theodore Roosevelt and
John D. Long know perfectly how to
work together.-BOstOn Journal.
! If is welcome news that Capt. Cook
of the Brooklyn is recovering from
his severe illness. The country cannot
afford to lose this gallant officer, who
Iought to live to become an admiral and
| to enjoy the honors and emoluments
of highest rank. Like Capt Clark OF
| the Oregon, Capt. Cook is New Eng
| lander of the sturdy, od-tashloned
stock. that is so brilliantly Identified
with our naval triumphs of hundred
years.-Boston Journal.
| If is not pleasant to think that Gen.
Miles has quarreled with Secretary
Root, as he quarreled before with Sec
retarv Alger. 1t suggests that the
blame may not all have been on one
side in the Alder controversy, for MI
Root is a very different kind OF man.
/ energetic, straightforward, a superb
executive. 1t seems to be very difficult
/ oh officers
handing the United States army TO
| COMPREHEND that. after all, CIVILIAN
authority is above them.-Boston
| Journal.
The caricaturist has a good chance
| Just now to portray the Navy Depart
| ment in the character OF the oIq "o-
man of nursery rhyme, who lived IN
! shoe and had so many children she
| didn't know what to do. A cruiser to
! represent the navy could easily be
| transferred into the shoe and the good
| dame should be represented as spank
| ing her children all round with flne I'M
| partiality. But instead Of being sent
! to bed, Historian Maclay is turned
| out of his berth.-Springheld Repubh-
can.
It is plainly evident that President
| Roosevelt believes in public officials
| attending strictly to their own business
and letting the business Of other people
| alone. The garrulOus officeholder, civil
or military can count pretty confident
| ly on a hard jolt from headquarters
Kansas City Journal.
! General Miles, as head of the army
was clearly outside of his province in
| commenting for the press on the find
| ings of the naval court. President
| Roosevelt, as n-chief of
both army and navy, was clearly With
| in his duty in reprimanding him. 1t
| is lamentable that such a censure
| should be visited on such an officer;
it is still more lamentable that occa-
| sion called for it.-BOston Transcript.
| The state authorities of Texas have
| decided to erect a large sugar mill, to
| be worked by convict labor, in order
to give employment to their idle pris-
! oners. In Pennsylvania convicts are
| not permitted to do any work that
| completes with free labor, There are
| two sides to the convict labor prob
| lem: Pennsylvania takes one and Tex
as the Philadelphia Ledger.
Secretary Long has approved the
| findings in the Schley case and refused
! to consider the question of who was
| in command during the Battle of san
| tiago. This is we'll. The incident
| ought to be closed. 1t has occupied
| the public mind long enough and 1t is
time to turn to better things 1t will
be the worst possible politics if any
| partisans try to make Schley a Pres
| idential candidate upon the strength of
| any supposed sympathy with him.
| Fitchburg Sentinel.