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Especial Washington letter.

Especial Washington letter.
Ut is now whispered about that Pres
ident Roosevelt has relinquished
his determination to bounce Gen
eral Nelson A. Miles by placing
him on the retired list. Where
fore? Because some observant per-
sonage connected with the administra-
ton has had his ear to the ground and
has heard the roar of disapproyal from
all over the country-that's why. At
the Grant banquet in New York dis
tinguished officer of both the civil and
Spanish wars told me that the enemies
of Miles were making spectacular asses
of themselves; not that he loves Miles,
for evidently he does not, but because
he knows public sentiment. He fur
ther added that if the president could
not get along with General Miles,
which he most probably could not, the
sensible thing was to have free and
frank talk with him, explaining to
him that he was tired Of the chickering's
in military circles and proposed to end
them by placing the general not on the
retired list, which would be construed
by all the Miles crowd as an insult, but
upon waiting orders, to which nobody
could reasonably object This is vet
eran soldiers opinion. 1t ought to be
worth something and / give it for
what it is worth. So far Miles has
been helped by the rumpus.
Wisdom.
And so Captain Clark declines to ac-
cept the position as envoy eXtraor
binary to attend the coronation of Ed
ward VII and to do the kotowing be-
fore his royal and imperial majesty! A
level head has Captain Clark. His
standing, already extremely high in
the estimation of his country and of
the world, will be increased by his
declination. Now, if General Wilson
and Hon. Whitelaw Reid would also
decline, everything would be lovely
and the goose would honk high. But
will they do SO? General Wilson might,
for his whole distinguished career
shows that he does not care a rap for
the trappings and ceremonials of roy
atty. If he goes to London at all, it
will be to have lark and to recreate
himself, but with Hon. Whitelaw Reid
it is somewhat different. He regards
the performance as a great function-a
serious business-and perhaps would
feel affronted were the president to
undo the whole scheme, which has
been unfortunate and unpopular from
the beginning Of course the editorial
postmasters have indorsed the thing
as piece of wise craftsmanship. So
they would enthusiastically indorse
Colonel Roosevelt if he tried to make
himself emperor; but, barring these
editorial postmasters and other pap
suckers, this extraordinary embassy to
the coronation has not been enthusias-
tically indorsed anywhere.
In QuaysyIvania.
In the language of the late Professor
Squeers Of Dotheboys Hall, Here is
richnessw And it is from the Philadel-
phia Inquirer, which until quite recent
ly has been a thick and thin Quay or
gan. 1t shows the utter demoraliza-
tion and rottenness of Republicanism
in Pennsylvania. The Inquirer is mad
, through and through. 1t says:
| The question before the Republican par
| ty of Pennsylvania today is this:
| Are two Pittsburg millionaires going to
| be allowed to dictate to Senator Quay
| and through him to dominate and practi-
| cally to own Pennsylvania?
! Is Doodle to be permitted to buy this
state, for the Pittsburg millionaire COM
| bine spells Doodle and nothing else.
This nil1i0nairn noodle combine is OD-
| posed to Elkin for governor. Elkin is
honest. He is a candidate of the people.
The Pittsburg millionaire combine does
not understand an honest candidate. 1t
would have some person whom 1t could
| control, and yet it is so afraid of the peo-
| pie that it does not dare to name its rep
resentative. 1t prefers to wait until the
| last moment and then to foist upon the
| Republican party some candidate, at pres
| ent unknown, who could be relied upon to
| carry out the millionaire combines or
| ders.
date, all that it has to do is to go to the
| primaries yet to be held in the country
! districts and vote for Doodle.
On the other hand, if it wishes gov
ernor of the people, governor who is not
in touch with the millionaire combine of
Pittsburg, but who has the best interests
Of the state at heart, then let its sturdy
!, Republican citizens in every county stand
by John P. Elkin.
Mr.. Elkin appeals to the people, not to
"boss' dictation, and his nomination
would save Pennsylvania to the Repub-
lican party.
Since the pot called the kettle black
there has been nothing so excruciating-
ly funny as to hear the Philadelphia
Inquirer preach political morality and
to hear it yell, Doodle and bossw 1t
has for years supported the Philadel-
phia boodlers, the worst gang outside
the penitentiary, and has whooped it
up for Senator Matthew Stanley Quay,
who deems 'sboss' an honorable title.
MuzzIed.
The best thing President Roosevelt
has done since he got into the White
House was the muzzling of General
Funston of Kansas, whose tongue ap-
peared to be tied in the middle and
loose at both ends. Funston's abuse of
the venerable and cherubic senior SEN
ator from Massachusetts, George Fris-
bic Hoar, seems to have been the straw
which broke the camel's back. Sena-
tor Hoar is a scholarly man; so is the
president. He is trying to surround
his administration with literary at
mosphere by having poets, orators and
authors in high places, and he does not
! propose that Funston shall jump on
any of the literati. So he jumped on
Funston, and he jumped good and
hard. 1t is quite safe to predict that
the next ticket will not be "Teddy and
Freddie" whatever else it may happen
to be.
SibIey Flags Smith.
When the Hon. Joseph Crocker Sib-
ley left the Democrats and went over
to the Republicans, he took his human
ity with him. The truth is that, while
Sibley is somewhat erratic in politics,
kinder hearted or more generous man
never lived. Hitherto he has gone the
whole hog on expansion in the orient,
but recent atrocities committed by yir-
tue of General Smiths order have dis
gusted Sibley and outraged his ideas
of right. The other day in the house
he hoped on to General Smith in the
following vigorous fashion:
Therefore when am compelled to read
utterances contained in military orders
that make the blood of man run cold.
when I have heard the statements made
that we were cruel in the conduct of that
war, have thought perhaps the partisan
was speaking, but when have read, as