Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-04-30
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From our Regular Correspondent)
Washington, April 27, 1908.

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A remarkable and significant
development in the political situa-
tion has occurred this week, one OF
the leading newspapers of the
country and one that has always
been regarded as strictly republi-
can, having published series of
articles attaching President Roose-
welt and finally contrasting the
President administration with the
presumptive conduct of ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland, to the credit of the
latter. The most significant feat
ure of the situation, however, is
the fact that the publication re-
ferred to is practically governed, in
so far as it's editorial policy is con-
cerned, by Mr.. j. Pierpont Morgan
and the interests with which the
financier is allied. At first blush
some of the more timid souls in the
republican ranks were startled by
these attacks on the President but
when it became evident that their
whole animus was due to the Presi-
dents action in connection with
the Anthracite coal strike, his at
titude towards organized labor and
his enforcement of the Sherman
antitrust law against the Northern
Securities Company, even the timid
ones took heart and concluded that
opposition on such grounds could
not but sire ngthen the President
in the high estimation in which he
is held by the people.
A prominent member of the SEN
ate who has the President interests
at heart said to your correspc pdent
to-day, "The situation in anutshell
is this: The President has refused
to be dictated to by the Wall Street
interests; he has regarded it as his
duty to protect the people from the
greed to corporate wealth by enforc-
ing the laws which the people,
through their duly elected Congress,
have placed on the statutes. He
hasrecognized that the workingman
is factor in the prosperity OF the
country and that the laborer is en-
titled to his hire. No arraignment
of the President on those grounds
can iniure him. Mr.. Roosevelt
will not only be the next candidate
of the republican party but he will
be elected by the largest majority
ever given a presidential candidate,
He is an honest, fearless, energetic
man that is precisely the type OF
man the people want in the White
House. The effort to boom Mr..
Cleveland at Mr.. Roosevelt's cx-
pense, while surprising in q news
paper professedy republican, is not
surprising Wall Street standpoint,
for Mr.. Cleveland was always the
friend of "the street, No, the
friends of Mr.. Roosevelt have moth
ing to fear from the attack to which
you refer"
Ex-Representative Mercer oi
Nebraska "blew into Washington
this week to use his own words
and expressed himself in terms Of
the utmost enthusiasm regarding
the President. He said, "It i!
perfectly ridiculous to think OF
talk of any other candidate. Tht
people of the west are for him to /
man. He speaks their language
thinks their thoughts and pursue;
their methods. He is straight from
the shoulder and that is what the
western people love. Any mai
with half an eye for politics can Sc,
that Democrats and Republican,
will outvy each other in getting tt
the polls to vote for him.
Grave annoyance has been causeC
the State Department officials by
the unofficial news that Russia ha
presented a claim for sovereignty
over Manchuria and the exclusion
of all other nations. This is hell
to be in absolute violation to treat,
stipulation with the United States
and it is expected that protest viii
bemade by the governments although
Secretary Hay says he will take nj
action until he has consulted will
the President, which he will d.
this week at Saint Louis. Som
officials believe Russia will b
inclined to make some concession
in favor of the United States bu
others hold this would he impos
sible.