Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-06-10

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political action is new move i'm
politics, and the implied threat
that he would consider as enemies
those who did not forward his
ambition is much below the high
plane upon which the President of
the United States should stand.
What is the meaning of this anx-
iety to secure delegates so long in
advance of the national convention ?
Public opinion may endorse this
open and unseemly fight that
Roosevelt Is making, but hitherto
1t has stamped its disapproval of
Official interference with the free
VIII of the voters. BY this action
on the part Of Roosevelt, all Fed
eral officials are virtually invited. if
not ordered, to take an active inter
est In securing. delegates for their
chief or be considered persona non
grata and outside the pale of his
esteem. If Senator Hanna had
called on all the Federal officers
who are under obligations to him.
to rally to his standard. what a howl
would there have been my country
men. That would have been
called coercion. The Presidents
action is simply the 'eccentricity
of genius No wonder Hanna is
in a satisfied frame of mind over
the turn of affairs; he has forced
the President to throw the ethics
of Civil Service Reform to the four
winds And vet, we are told that
such didocs are making the Presi-
extremely popular. Wen, let it
20 at that.
The Republican program for the
incoming Congress Is to avoid any
political legislation and adjourn i'm
May. There is to be no tariff or
trust legislation, but financial bill
Is TO be passed. This certainly is
not strenuous programme. Per
haps this dO-nothing policy will
prevail and then again perhaps it
wont. SO long as trust prices and
starvation wages are the order of
the day the Democrats are not 90
ing to let up in their endeavor TO
get at the truSt-controllcd schedules
in the Dingley bill. The Repubi-
can majority in the next Congress
will be about thirty, and if sixteen
recalcitrant Republicans Join with
the Democrats some of the trust
sheltered schedules will go glim-
mering so far as the House is con
cerned, and when the bill strikes
the Senate there will he tariff music
in the air tn which the Republicans
will be compelled 10 dance far into
the summer. The Democrats will
have some leadership in the next
Congress, and there will Toe some
thing doing from the very minute
the extra session meets in NQvem-
Der. Mark the prediction.
Since il seems no has scQoped in
the whole political pot, why does
the President continue 10 have
Gen, Jim ClarkSon pursue his
work of branding mavericks in
the SOUTH
With the Post-Oftice investiga-
tion nearing an end, the Iowa idea
dead as hecter and the President $
nomination cinched, it begins To-
look as though the average Wash
ington correspondent would have
to so 10 work.
| have been asked why the name
of Mr.. William Randolph Hearst,
of New York, has appeared SO fire.
!, quently in this correspondence.
In reply | will SAY that it Is for the
simple reason thai he Is Demo
crat who is always doing things
and the kind of things that cause
comment here in the political cen
ter of the nation. He is on the
center of the stage; he is in the
limelight, and he is performing in
Away that delights the Democratic
heart and makes Republicans an
CRY. He is not seeking publicity
for he is one public man in this
country who shaos tbat sort OF
thing, but he does things that com.
pei publicity of his acts because
they have direct bearing on mat.
ters now gGpermost ~ the mind,
OF the people. He is not burrow.
ing in the ground like mole, he is
not cropping in the dark for a hricl
70 thE9w ~ ghe enemy, he is walk.
ing in the bread sunlight and throw.
inc his Ianca fnll and fa;,. =, Il