The Minneapolis journal., 1902-08-20
WEDNESDAY, EVENING. AUGUST 20, 1907
A STRONG RECORD
The Presidents Position on the
Civil Service. -.
AS TO RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA
Opposition to 1t Is Dying Out-What
Its Triumph Would
Mean.


Building, Washirsgtoss,
Washington, Aug 2O.-President Roose-
velt's civil service record, which is long
and interesting, has been compiled for
publication in the republican handbook
1or the current campaign year, and 1t will
also see service in 1904, should the ma
tlonal convention give him the presi-
Dental nomination, which is altogether
likely: It's publication this year, while
intended primarily to strengthen the
party IN general way, will no doubt be
Of important benefit to the president
personally, since 1t will call attention,
during the heat Of a congressional cam
pa1gn, to the fact that as a civil service
reformer he is entitled to the respect
and confidence of all people who believe
in that idea.
The people have come to regard the
civil service as moral force. 1t stands
for clean government in those states
whose votes will nominate and after
wards elect the next president, and it Is
| In these states that President Roosevelt
! has his greatest strength to-day. Take
| Michigan as an example. Her people
are putting their money into new sugar
beet factories and into sugar beet acre
| age this year in larger way than ever
before, and the state now is the greatest
sugar beet state in the union. Strange
he ts anywhere else in the country.
he Is eanywhere else in the country.
The people out ther believe in him. and
| the delegates from that state to the re-
publican convention of 1904 will support
him enthusiastically. They know, how
ever, that SO long as he is president he
will insist on reciprocity with Cuba.
which is supposedly hostile to beet sugar
but they are not supporting him because
he is friendly to their particular industry,
but because he is honest, courageous and
manly. They like his public utterances,
| which have the true ring of sincerity
and they believe in having in the White
House man whom the whole people can
unreservedly trust.
What is true of Michigan is true Of
the other president-making states of
the middle west, Wisconsin, Indiana.
Illinois. Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Kansas
and Nebraska. The president is strong in
all of them, and all their delegates to the
national republican convention will sup
port him. The presentation of his civil
service record this year in the repub-
lican handbook, in a concrete way.
eminent and appeal to the plain peo-
ple."
| Reciprocity With Cuba.
| Speaking of Cuba, it is pretty generally
believed here that in congress next win
| loA. d leClpIOClly measure, 6lCQeT as
| special act, or as treaty will be passed
without difficulty. In the several insurgent
| st it is believed that the campaign
will bring out better understanding OF
party sentiment, and that members OF
both houses, who during the late ses-
| sion were leaders in the insurgent ranks
will reconsider their position and almost
entirely withdraw their opposition. Sc
strong is this feeling that even among
the beet circles in Washington there is
/ small hope that reciprocity can be pre-
vented. In Minnesota, for example, it is
known now that the republican party is
overwhelmingly in favor of the PRESIDENT
policy and that the recent state conven-
tion did not express its views Some
thing is now understood also, as to the
methods which were resorted to in order
to secure the adoption of the platform
and the fact Is accepted without ques
tion that If the convention were to bt
4 held again, no such miscarriage would b.
permitted. 1t is believed that durins
the present campaign the several mem
bers Of the Minnesota delegation will b.
4 compelled to see what their constituent
want, and that in congress next winte
their attitude will be considerably mod
flied.
To win this reciprocity victory will ado
immensely to the prestige of the presi
dent, and lift him considerably above the
low levels Of practical politics into the
domain where morals have sway. Thi.
lifting" process will be done by the
people themselves. which will make tn,
presidents position with them all the
stronger.
That the president is himself certain
Of success is shown by his Pittsburt
speech, in which he said that reciprocit!
with Cuba was sure to come. That state
ment was not made on the impulse of th,
moment, during the excitement attendin,
a great occasion. 1t was written out as
part of a carefully prepared address.
w W. Jermane