The age-herald., 1902-03-28
Washington Day byDaY

dore Roosevelt have ceased to amuse. mingled feeling O. annoyance and appre- hension has taken the place of amuse- ment, and resentful men of affairs are saying openly and frankly that If by sheer good American luck the country escapes calamity during the next two years the political chiefs of his own party will place MT. Roosevelt in a position where his recklessness and vainglory will be power less for mischief
 An aged pubiicist who has spent nearly sixty years in Washington, and who IS possessed of greater general information perhaps than any other man in this coun- try. said today that MT. Roosevelt's poll tical fate was already sealed that as soon as the Republican leaders shall get all the offices from him they wish, they will drop him like a hot potato, ana choose some one of their number, one or great national reputation, and plan ms nomination for President in 1904. The real leaders of the Republican party, he de- clared, were not only weary of MT. Roose- yelt's boyish eccentricities, but were con stantly uneasy with fear that he would do something to imperil the national peace, or to bring disaster to his party All of them realize that the present occu- pant of the :, hite House is an alarming ly unsafe man, and many of them are actually disguested w.-h him-"disgust- ed" was the word me venerable publicist applied to the case, and he spoke feelingly and by conviction, not as one who could have hope of or accept office from the President or any other man.
 In running comment this wise old man referred to the more notorious acts of MT. Roosevelts unconventionality, such as taking .ince Henry of Prussia for a ride in rainstorm, foolhardy. bluff to the public and an effort to con- vince the Prince that the former lieuten- ant-colone1 of the Rough Riders and present commander-in-chief of the Ameri- can army and navy was real 'soldier" and "sailor'' who didn't care hardtack for hard weather. Henry Wattersons title of "Bronco-Buster," applied to MT. Roosevelt, the old man quoted with glee; and then, becoming serious again. he said | there was no room for doubting that MT. Roosevelt instantly and fully determined last week to remove General k4lles from the immediate command of the army; determined in a moment to take an action of the gravest consequence-an assertion | of the despotic power of the Presidency over which any statesman of ordinary common sense would have long deliberat- ed and would have sought the counsel | of the ablest men in public life regard less of politics. Luckily some of the Re- l publican leaders became aware of the Presidents intention to remove General Miles and they hurried to the White | House. After prolonged pleading and rea- soning, the fippant young man who is vested with such vast power consented 1 to postpone his punishment of Miles, through fear of the political conse- | quences," which seems to be as much as to say the young President will wait until after the November election to re- move the famous soldier who is old enough to be his father. General Miles has been in the army as long as Roose- welt has been in the world to trouble mankind and has won his way to the active head of the army. Humbug and money placed Roosevelt in position from which the murderer of another man lift ed him into power over General Miles.
 
 Day by day Roosevelts chances for the Republican Presidential nomination are growing less. and if it seems clear two years hence that the Republicans | xxyin Ia xxyia a1.I.. nate their greatest leader, Senator Han na. Undoubtedly they are now becoming tired of silly Rooseveltism in the White House.
 It Is most reasonably certain that the main purpose of what military men of the highest rank call the 'ridiculous'' army reorganization bill, now under considera- ton by the Senate committee on military affairs, Is to give Mir. Roosevelt the op- portunity to appoint General Leonard Wood general commanding the army. Four years ago Wood was a doctor in Washington. with no more knowledge or military tactics than a cat In the White House grounds. and he probably couldn't now put a company through | Upton's tactics; but that doesn't matter with the Bronco Buster who served un- der Wood. This Bronco Buster wishes to make the quondam doctor the general commanding the army Wood will be out of job in May. as his governor general ship of Cuba will be a played out farce, and he must be provided for" It would be outrageous to make him a mere de- pertinent commander of $75oo year. in cluding allowances, for he Is a real mil itary" "hero" of the Rooseveltian- Funs- | ton type.
 | By the way, Freddie Funston has drop ped out of sight utterly-and within a week, at that. So have all the other professional heroes" except Roosevelt and Wood. It Is too much to hope they all of them have drowned themselves. It 1t too much, likewise, to hope for Roose- welt and Wood committing hari-khari
 "The Republicans have stolen from us the issue of free silver, and we have sim- ply got to follow them in that very im- portant particular" said former Senator James L. Pugh today.
 | Every now and then some man or some newspaper ignorant of existing facts, of current events rises to say free silver is dead That is false-it Is utter non- sense-as the Republicans in Congress and out of 1t are giving us the fullest