Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1903-09-25

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How They Have Been Hoodwinked by
Tariff on Wheat, While Many Industries Sui
fer Thereby - The Postal Department l.
Kept Busy Explaining Why Miss Todd Wa
Removed From Office-Evil Effects from
Adjustment Of the Army Canteen-Mor,
Postoffice Scandals.
/ From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. II, 1903.
As an indication of what one prom.
inent man thinks, Senator Clay oil
Georgia, who is in Washington this
week arranging for winter quarters
as be put it, says that his State, and
he believes most of the Southern
States will send delegations to the
next National Convention instructed
to support Senator German for the
first place on the ticket. When asked
what effect Mr.. Bryau's opposition
would have, the Senator replied
None whatever. Why my dear sir,
we are sick and tired of seeing Bryan
name in the papers. If the press OF
the country could only realize that
he is no longer regarded seriously
by the practical Democrats, the news.
papers would ignore him. AS soon as
the papers drop him, his occupation,
as self-appointed dictator Of the Demo.
cratic party, will be gone. We are not
paying any attention to him in Geor-
gia. We have talked the subject over
among ourselves and we have about
concluded that Senator German is not
only the strongest man in the party
we can nominate, but we believe there
is an excellent opportunity OF electing
him. His Democracy, his ability as q
leader and his safe views on all the
important questions which will figure
in the coming campaign stamp him as
the strongest man we have in our
party to-day. This estimate of Cor
man is not confined to Georgia, but it
extends all the way from Maryland
down through Virginia, the Carolinas,
Florida, Alabama and Louisiana"
Reports from the Northwest are to
the effect that the people of that Sec
ton, Republicans and Democrats alike,
are anxious for tariff reform, and one
Republican Congressman, now in
Washington, admits that were the
Democrats to nominate a safe man,
sound on the money question and with
conservative tariff reform ideas he
could give Mr.. Roosevelt very close
run in Minnesota. 1t appears that
the people of that section have at last
awakened to the fact that the tariff on
wheat was imposed merely to hood
wink the farmers and really does no
one penny's worth of good, while it
prevents the Minneapolis mills from
grinding the thousands of bushels of
wheat and corn harvested in British
Columbia and deprives the northwest
ern railroads of the benefit of hauling
both the wheat and the flour. The
coopers would also be benefited could
this wheat find its way to Minneapolis
as they would supply the flour barrels,
the lumbermen would supply the ma
terial for the barrels and 80 on, until q
large number OF northwestern interests
would benefit directly or indirectly
from free wheat. 1t is also desired
that a general reciprocity treaty with
Canada be effected. OF course such q
treaty would be emphatically opposed
by the Eastern Republicans, but that
very fact may augment the disaffec-
ton OF those in the Northwest.
Postmaster General Payne is under
stood to have devised defense Of his
action in removing Miss Todd, the
Delaware postmaster, at the behest OF
Alice, the Addicks Senator, which will
enable the President to approve
Payne's course and avoid any rupture
with Payne or Addicks, although the
Postmaster General told Miss Todd
that she was removed because she was
personally obnoxious to Senator Alice,
and although in the first interviews he
gave on the subject he plainly showed
that he believed the agreement en-.
tered into between the Delaware Sen.
ators, whereby each was to control
half of the federal patronage and
use it to reward faithful henchmep,
was ample reason for his having re-
moved Miss Todd and replaced her
with an Addicks politician; after the
press of the country manifested un-
qualified disapproval of his action, Mr..
Payne bethought himself Of the advis.
ability OF alleging that Miss Todd was
guilty OF " offensive partisanship" and
alleged that reason in his report to
the President. OF course, Mr.. Roose-
welt is too ardent q civil service reform
er to tolerate a federal employe who
was guilty of taking sides, even though
she be q woman, without q vote, and
even though she took sides against
q notorious corruptionist who had
brought disgrace on her State. Con-
sequently, according to all reports,
Miss Todd will remain removed by Or
der of the President, and Payne will
once moro escape the consequences of
his acts.
General Frank d. Baldwin, COM
manding the Department of the Col
orado. has just made an interesting re-
port to the War Department in which
he deals another blow at the anti-can.
teen movement. General Baldwin
says: "From q somewhat extensive
observation as inspector general and as
q commander of troops, have been
deeply impressed by the very marked
difference in discipline and general
contentment among the enlisted men
since the abolition of the csnteen fea.
ture of the post exchange. If men
are unable to get glass of beer in a
decent and orderly manner in the gar.
rison, they will resort to the vile broth
els which cluster around the borders
of the reservation, where they drink al
manner of alcoholic beverages and
often sink into debauchery and ruin.
In conclusion, the General quotes and
endorses the words of his predecessor
General Funston, who said, "The re-
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