Saint Mary's beacon., 1903-12-17
ICoMsuNrcATEp.

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There is going to be a whole lot @
fun here on or about the 11th an
18th of the present month when tn
Republican National Committe
meets for the purpose of selecting
the time and place for the holding O
the next Republican National Con
Vention. There is going to be al
attempt made at that meeting to fir,
the Hon. Perry S. Heath, Secretary
of the Republican National Com
mittee. The late report of Hon Jos
Bristow, Fourth Assistant Postmas
ter General, has thrown the harpoor
into Nr Heath wifh ~ slsa eaersz
OF man who wanted to get even fol
some things, and that report has
stirred up the President to the
sticking stage, and he says that Mr..
Heath must go. Senator Hanna, the
Chairman of the Committee, is the
friend of Heath, and he is as insis-
tent that Mr.. Heath must not be dis
turbed. This presents an issue at
once between the the President and
the Senator from Ohio, who is the
real leader of the republican party.
The President apparently forgets
that he did not make up the present
National Committee of the republi-
can party, which wields the influen-
ce and controls things until it is cleo
ted at the next national republican
convention, but that it was made up
by Mckinley and Hanna, and there
fore is under the control of Hanna.
This being the case, the committee
viii! accept the dictum of Hanna and
refused to fire" Heath. That will
discredit Roosevelt and at the same
time place the republican party in
the attitude of working i'm the inter
est of a man who practically has
been indicted for boodling in the
Post Office Department. There Is
going TO be warm time and much re-
publican dirty linen will be washed
for delectation of the general public
1t will be straight fight between
Hanna and Roosevelt and Hanna is
going to win. Watch the game.
The letter OF Grover Cleveland
absolutely declining to be consi-
dered as a candidate for the Presi-
dental nomination on the democratic
ticket is scausing much comment here,
and the attempt of the people who
were touting Cleveland TO make
Judge Parker, of New York, the
residuary legatee of Cleveland, has
had exactly the opposite effect on
the leaders of the democratic party
here, that they expected and hoped
it would. 1t has shown up those
people as opposed to the true princ;-
pies of the party. AS was stated in
this correspondence some months
ago, the attempt to tout Cleveland
was simply an effort on the part oI
the reorganizing element of the party
in the east TO feel the pulse of the
people. They had no idea that Mr..
Cleveland would stand for renomin.
alton, but they wanted to see how
far the people would stand for the
idea. After they had worked it as
far as they desired, they would
bring out the real man behind the
movement, a man who is entirely
satisfactory to Wall Street interests
1t seems that Judge Parker is the
man. The democratic leaders In
Congress are laughing at the efforts
of these people to stampede the de
mocratic party to man who is the
choice of the men who manipulate
stocks and bonds and all the new
tangled get-rich- quick games thai
originate in the Maelstroom O
Money. They say that if that is thu
game of those people, they will have
none of Judge Paaker in theirs
They see no difference in a republi
can and man who is acceptable Il
the. Wall Street gang in the demo
cratic party. They say we may a.
well have a republican in the Whit,
House as man who has to go t,
the Wall Street interests and get tn,
money with which to elect him, anC
who must make ante election pro
misses in order to get it. In conse
quence of this feeling the stock O
the Hon. William Randolph Hears
as the candidate of the democracy il
the next contest, the only man so fa
mentioned for the nomination who il
not dominated by that gang of com
mercial pirates, who hate him cor
daily, has gone up several percep
tible points.
The Panama deal is still topic G
political discussion here, and tn
democrats are as determined aseve
to make it an issue in the next cam
paign. If they do they will sho,
up one of the most stupendous out