Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-05-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.

From our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
Washington, D. c., May 1S.-That
the Ohio republican convention will
be the scene of a bitter cont. st between
the Hanna and the Foraker factions IN
Ohio politics is confirmed by Stale
Senator Samuel Patterson, who Is In
Washington and who says that the
republicans of his state are so much ID
earnest in their opposition to any reso-
luton endorsing Mr.. Roosevelt for an
other term that the Presidents friends
would do well to think twice before
introducing such a resolution IN the
convention. Senator Patterson, 1t
should be said, was the Hanna leader
10 the last Ohio legislature and is re-
garded as competent to voice the senti-
ments of the Hanna faction. Senator
Foraker, on the other hand, has said
unequivOcally that such a resolution
would be introduced and pressed for
adoption. 1t is acknowledged by Mr..
RoOsevelt's friends that it would be a
severe blow to bis prospects if reso
luton of endorsement we're rejected by
the Ohio convention but so bitter is
the feud between Messrs. Foraker and
Hanna that it is hardly likely that the
former can be dlssuaded from forcing
his enemy to show his hand. Should
the resolution be adopted over the pro-
test of the Hannaites, moreover, 1t
would not only strengthen Mr.. Roose-
yelt's position but would materially
weaken that of Senator Hanna.
Representative Sulzer, of New Y ork,
has been in Washington for several
DAYS and talked freely on the subject
of presidential possibilities. Mr.. Sulzer
is Bryan admirer but says that II
Cleveland and Roosevelt were nomi-
mated the former would sweep the
country. Mr.. Sulzer would not say,
however, that be favored Mr.. Cieve-
lands nomination, nor did he believe
Mr.. Roosevelt would be the republican
nominee. "There can be no doubt but
that the financial interests OF the
country control its affairs" said MIR.
Sulzer, land it cannot be denied that
the financial interests distrust MI.
Roosevelt. If the republicans should
nominate Roosevelt believe the finan-
cial interests would attempt to secure
the nomination of Cleveland and then
back him to any amount necessary.
This, in my judgment, would serve as
a rebuke to the republican party and
would have the desired effect In 19OS.
when the organization would nominate
some such man as M. A. Hanna. Jno.
G. Spooner or Chas. w. Fairbanks"
Secretary Shaw has dismissed from
the service the women immigrant in
spectors who were employed some
time ago at the instance of certain
religious and philanthropic associations
with view to preventing the impor-
tation of young women for improper
purposes. The immigration Office found
that the women inspectors were inca
FACILITATED for the work for several rea-
sons, but chiefly because of the fact
that the young women whom they
found it necessary to single out inspec-
ton and catecbetical examination re-
scented what they regarded as suspi-
cion cast upon their character or ap-
pearance and in most instances posi-
lively refused to answer any questions
put to them. Commissioner Williams
reports that in no instance have the
women inspectors detected case OF
the class. for the detection of which
they were employed, and in his opinion
men are much better suited for the
work IN every way.
CONSERVATION has been caused in the
Census Bureau by the announcement
that on July / one hundred clerks will
be dropped from the rolls. No an
nouncement of the identity OF the
employees whose services will be dis
pensed with has as yet been made
This action is made necessary because
of the limited appropriation of Con
gress but it is admitted that the num-
Der remaining will be amply sufficient
to perform such work as will devOlvt
upon the Bureau hereafter, at least un
til the time arrives for another census
A case of modern piracy has just
been discovered by the revenue cuttel
officers who so designate the Captain
of the Inflated Vera Cruz which, witt
All emigrants, went ashore at OcracOk'
Inlet. N. G. Tue Captain has disap
peared with about s., 900 belonging to
the immigrants and it is believed he
ran his vessel ashore at this out of the
way point with that end in view. The
Immigrants were picked up along the
coast of Portugal, charged exhorbitant
prices for passage and induced to &c
post their savings in the Captain 8
safe. The Government will waive The
head tax of So in this case and will
sell the thirty five barrels of whale oil
which constituted the cargo of the
Vera Cruz to recompose it for the ex-
pense of caring for the immigrants
until they reach their destination, New
Bedford, Mass. Meanwhile, ev ry eff
fort is being made to appreheni the
missing Captain"
A Sure Thing.