Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1902-03-22
A BRONCO-BUSTER
IN THE WHITE HOUSE
WattersOn Declares Roosevelt In
Considerable and COmbative.

In a letter written from Washington.
Henry Watterson throws his searchlight
on President Roosevelt, as follows:
ITO hayseed like myself. who comes
to Washington to pick mp little infor.
nation and polish. the outlook is discour-
aging. Chaos everywhere, in society,
which has not quite received its equipoise,
though the Prince has been gone fort
night i'll politics, where bronco buster
in the White House is making fingers
and thumbs of things. so that no man
can fortell what next
There is but one thing. and that at
this moment stands out bold and clear
upon the horizon of the national capital
before the eyes of all intelligent men.
That is that the Democratic party has in
front of it great opportunity, if it but
knows how to improve it, For the first
time in thirty years it is the Republicans
who are at sea. Their boat may not
have yet sprung leak. Both compass
and rudder may still be intact, but there
are two pilots aboard and rocks are
ahead.
FACTIONS OUT IN SUBMARINES.
I'm the first place, on the Republican
side the situation revolves also on the
succession. II is Teddy and anti
Teddy. Little of this yet appears upon
the surface. Both factions are out in
submarine boats. But those will be
loaded with explosives.
Observe that sleek. smooth shaven
gentleman crossing the rotunda between
the House and Senate. Not cloud
across his brow. not a care in his eyes.
You might take him for prosperous
professor, and so he is-of the shoals
and depths of party management. for
that is the chairman of the National
Republican Committee, the Junior Sen
ator from Ohio, Mr. Hanna-Mr. Mark
A. Hanna-and don't let it escape your
memory.
He is field marshal of the old guard
past grand master of Mckinley Lodge.
knights of the American Protective
System. dean of the Ancient Order of
Robber Barons. What he doesn' I know
about ritual and sign manual is hardly
worth knowing.
WEDDING OUT McKINLEYTTEs.
Gradually but surely Roosevelt has
been wedding out the distinctly McKin-
ley element from his Cabinet. In the
fullness of time they will all GO He is
filling each vacated post with a practi-
cal politician made in the Roosevelt
Iimage-that is TO say, with politician
who knows how to work the civil serv
ice racket for all its worth.
Bronco. buster though he be. there is
method i'll his bronco. busting Mind
full of the fate of John Tyler and Andrew
johnson, he draws the line about where
Grover Cleveland left it, That he is a
clean, honest man of good impulses and
that his intentions are right is undeni-
able. But he is an inconsiderate man,
combative and aggressive.
INITIATING CLEVELAND.
MIR. Cleveland made no mistakes at
least i'll padding his own canoe. II re
mains 10 be seen whether Mr. Roosevelt
can duplicate the peculiar tactics of Mr..
Cleveland
There Is just one thing for the Dem
ocrats on the Philippine Committee
there are five of them-to do. and that
is to force the Republicans-therc are
sight of them-to Il show down 4 sub
committee should Ice at once sent To
Manila. Ii could go and come between
now and the middle of June. making its
report to the present session of Congress.
If the Republicans refuse this. let the
Democrats constitute each and one an
other subcommittee and 20 them
selves. Doubtless General, Chaffce
would arrest them OH their arrival.