The age-herald., 1902-01-20
Railroad Opposition to the Isthmian Canal.

with cheap Chinese labor It is said that Lieut. Mark, of the navy, has placed the contract for the ten vessels with the above named firm deliveries of the ves- sells to be made within eight to eighteen months. The question Is asked and will have to be answered, why these ten ves- sells should be built by Englishmen in China instead of by Americans in Ameri- ca? It is certainly a strange perform ance on the part of Republican ad- ministration, pledged to the support of American industry, resistance to free ships and the restoration of the Ameri- can flag on the ocean. It is all nonsense to say that these vessels could not make the voyage from San Francisco to Man. fla. For smaller ones have done 1t time and again.
 The suggestion that the new state to be formed by the consolidation of Okla homa and the Indian Territory be called Jefferson finds favor with many Repub- lican Congressmen Fifteen states have been carved out of the immense territory which Jefferson without even constitu- tional warrant or authority, of law, pur- chased from the First Napoleon, thus doubling the area of the United States of that day at a single stroke, but so far not upon one of them was the name of the first and greatest of all territorial ex- pansionists bestowed It looks like the proverbial ingratitude of republics Wash ington is the only American after whom state has been named. In our early history there was a movement to honor Franklin in this way, but it fell through. Most of the names of the older states are of English origin. while in those of the younger commonwealths the sonorous Indian nomenclature has been perpetual ed. Room should be found for Jeffer- son in the great territory we annexed. It is due to his superb service in enlarging the boundaries of the Union and thereby averting calamities which a policy of hesitation and delay on his part might in the early part of the last century have produced. This is about the last chance to name a State for the author of the Declaration of Independence. AL though the Democrats claim Jefferson as the founder of their party many of the principles he laid down, the body of them In fact have long been embodied in the policies of the present Republican party. Tn It's first platform it declared that it would restore the principles of Wash ington and Jefferson in the action of the government" When Lincoln became the standard-bearer of the party, the same plank was still there. The Democracy has -.NS A~ AiAOtiOPciS ol JeleTSOnldn QOCIrlne, teaching and inspiration. Again and again, in its variegated career, it has departed from it and thrown it aside as worthless, but the repudiation of it has always been followed by the defeat. Both partes can now consistently claim Jeffer- son and if some idiots in Congress can be kept quiet, and made to efface them selves the memory of Jefferson may be honored in the new century in an appro- priate and dignified way
 Although Henry c. Payne has been con- firmed as Postmaster General, many Re- publican Senators voted for him with re- luctance, and several were absent from the executive session at which his name came up. The universal opinion is that he is In every way far below the stature Of his predecessor. That he is an adroit political wirepuller is not questioned, and those who are hostile to the President and they are many-declare that this was the controlling factor in his selection The postoffice patronage. they assert. will be utilized to the fullest extent possible with view to Roosevelt's nomination in 1904 For this work no better man than Payne could have been chosen MT. Roosevelt's friends say the coming Pres idential contest Is about the very last