Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-08-01
Oh, Consistency +.

/ political fences that he has request
cd" the members OF the cabinet to 60
on the stump for support OF the Ad-
ministration policy this fall While
the request was politely wordcd, it
amounts in effect TO command, and
/ the cabinet members who have had
any practice in speaking are preparing
to obey.
Secretary Shaw, it has been de-
termined, will help open the campaign
in Maine and will 60 West with the
President in September. He will
spend the last week of the campaign
in Iowa, his own State. Secretary
Moody will! 60 through New England
with the President. Secretary Root
will make some speeches when he re-
turns from Europe, probably in New
York. AttorneyGeneral Knox never
made political speech in his life, but
at the suggestion of the President he
will make several this fall.
want you to tell the people what
you are doing about the trusts" the
President said to him. Secretary Hay
will make speech or two and Secre.
tary Wilson will put in most OF the
campaign in the West.
The only members of the cabinet
who will not be ON the stump during
some part of the campaign are Secre-
tary Hitchcock and Postmaster Gen
eral Payne. Neither is public
speaker and neither will make the at
tempt.
The President himself will make
speeches in twenty States. He will
talk politics, too, straight from the
shoulder, including Cuban reciprocity
and trusts. He is very anxious that
the Republicans shall win everywhere
this fall, and he has pressed the Cabi-
net into the campaign with that very
end in view. He will expect them to
work as hard for the success OF the
party everywhere as he will. Some
Of the Secretaries do not think very
favorably of the plan, but that does
not bother the President, nor does he
seem to see the inconsistency of his
own acts when taken in connection
with his orders to Federal officers to
abstain from party politics.
-o
MORE OF RoosEvELT's INcoNsIs.
TENcY.-Senator McLaurin has de-.
clined an Office which President Roose.
welt offered him as reward for party
treachery. How the President justi-
fies his action in appointing one of the
parties to disgraceful slugging.match
in the u. s. Senate, while he charged
the other with having forfeited his
title to the respect of manhood suffi-
GENTLY to withdraw his invitation to q
state dinner at the Presidential board,
however, is An unanswered query.
But then, Mr.. Roosevelt is bundle
of inconsistencies. He may sign
"round.robbin" criticising unmerci.
fully and censuring immeasurably his
superiors in Office, and then shake his
fist in the face of the General OF the
U. 8. army for mild expression of
sympathy for a brother officer while
deprecating the injustice with which
he had been treated by the notorious
naval clique" He may issue orders
for Federal appointees to keep out Of
politics, while be sends out his whole
cabinet to aid him in enforcing his
policy, and he may even climb the
stump himself for that object, without
blame. Truly, Teddy must be imbued
with the idea which is conceded only to
monarchial reign" The king can do
no wrong"
| RIOT IN THE Pennsylvania Coal
REGIoN.-The coal strike in the Shen-
andoah valley has assumed the form