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Especial Washington Letter. j

Especial Washington letter.
Ut is a pretty fight as it stands,
# that is, the fight betwixt Colonel
81 Roosevelt and Senator Hanna for
Ia the Republican nomination for
president. They are leaving no
stone unturned, no card unplayed, no
trick untaken. Recently Senator Mark
attended the good roads convention at
Charlottesville, Va, near Monticello,
where rests the greatest statesman
that ever lived, the profoundest phi
losopher that ever devoted his life to
politics, the chief priest, apostle and
prophet of civil liberty, Thomas Jeffer-
son, and even there the Nlioan re
ceiyed an ovation which Jenkins de-
scribes with rapture. More recently
Teddy ''swung round the circle" sec
tion of it at least, by visiting Charles
ton, S. c., where he was rendered an
ovation-seyeral in fact-which threw
Jenkins into fits of ecstasy and which
perhaps also threw Marcus Alonzo into
a fit of the blues. Both those illus
trious statesmen know how to play to
the galleries, Whoop up hoi polloi and
cause a beating of the tomtoms, It is
youthful enthusiasm and military
glamour versus perfect organization
and an abundance Of the sinews of
war. The country will hold It's breath
while these famous gladiators wrestle
land some man like Senator Spooner
Of Wisconsin or Senator Fairbanks of
Indiana or Uncle Shelby M. Cullom of
Illinois will walk away with the prize.
The Democrats and the country have
nothing to lose by reason of the bitter
ness which the Roosevelt Hanna con-
test will arouse within the G. o. p,
for the more bitterly Republicans fight
each other, even unto the death. the
better off the Democrats and the eoun-
try will be. So apn with the dance"
of war, war to the knife and the knife
to the hilt, petWixt Mark and Teddy!
Good,
1t is given out now that our imperial
embassy, consisting of Whitelaw Reid
ct all, to the coronation of King Ed
ward VII. will have to go down into
their own pockets and pay their own
expenses And it is well. After all it
seems that there is such a thing as
robust American sentiment in this
country which must be needed. No
doubt when this idiotic junket was ar
ranged It was thought by those who
arranged it that the American taxpay-
ers would throw high their sweaty
caps in air and gladly get out their
weasel skins and furnish the where
Withal to pay the fiddler for our
s'blooming haristoerats,' but instead Of
doing that they kicked and sulked and
used language about the administra-
ton not fit to be put in model Let
ter Writer For Young Ladies' Board
ing Schools" So Messrs. Reid ct al.
will enjoy the luxury of footing their
own bills. No man in either branch
of congress will have the gall to rise
in his place and move that their ex
penses be paid out of the public treas
ury.
Without being egotistical, I can fair
" claim part of the credit at least for
this saving to the taxpayers. for on
Jan, 20 I started the first inquiry on
the subject and said inter ALA; $50
far as I am concerned, will never
vote one cent to pay any mans expenses
to go to England or elsewhere to help
crown a king. We went out of the
coronation business July 4, 1776, and
are not yet ready to return to that un-
natural and un-American habit"
For saying that and few more
things in the same line all the dunky
editors in the land jumped on me.
Now they can jump off again. 1t is a
ten to one shot that President Roose-
Welt regrets that he ever appointed the
embassy and would gladly be rid of the
whole thing, for he must realize by this
time that by appointing it he played
directly and largely into the hands
of Senator Marcus A. Hanna as Re-
publican presidential candidate; not
that Mark is opposed to flunkyism, but
because he possesses the acumen to
know that the American people are.
His henehmen will play the embassy
card for all it is worth in the death
struggle with Colonel Roosevelt for
the presidential nomination.
Plain Duty.
1t is the plain duty Of President
Roosevelt to send Mr.. Attorney Gener-
al Knox hot foot after the beef trust.
1t is an octopus and no mistake. Any
concern which deliberately and solely
for it's own behoof puts up meat 3 and
cents per pound without the shadow
of excuse ought to be ruthlessly crush
ed out of existence. Its action in ar
bitrarily increasing the price of an ar
ticle of diet of prime necessity to IT.
100000 people by one-fourth is simply
brutal. 1t means that millions of peo-
pie will have to go without meat. If a
trust so enormous in its operations and
SO aboveboard in its robberies cannot
be throttled, we had as well quit jab-
bering about trusts and confess that
we are utterly impotent in the presence
of these huge modern monsters.
And this rise in price of meats does
nobody any good except the trusts.
Farmers and stock raisers are not the
gamers by one penny, for, while the
trust arbitrarily fixes the price for the
consumer at one end of the line, it ar
fixes the price for the stock
raiser and dealer at the other. 1t has
it's trap set like the nigger's celebrated
coontrap to "kotch 'em both eummin
an gwine" If President Roosevelt will
send Mr.. Knox after this trust and
break it up, millions of people will bless
his name forever and forever; but Ii he
doesn't do so, possessing the power.
people will conclude, and not unreason-
ably, that he is only playing at fighting
the trusts. It is said that he has al
ready become persona non grata to Mr..
]. Pierpont Morgan. The president
during his life as a ranchman no doubt
becs me familiar with the old saw,
zone might as well be hanged for an
old sheep as lamb" If Morgan is al
ready mad at him, he might as well go
the whole hog and make war on the
trusts all along the line. He has moth
ing to lose, for by assaulting them hip
and thigh he will win favor with the
masses, whereas if he keeps mum on
the beef trust and other trusts he wins
them not, though he has already alien
ated Morgan. OF course it is not my
business to advise Colonel Roosevelt in
political matters, although like him