Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-08-06

DENY, educated In the service /
schools and winning honors in those !
higher schools of responsibility Of
camp, field, campaign and battle,
who never were found wanting in |
any hour Of danger. are TO be for
ever debarred Of the American sol
dier's brightest hope, TO command .
American armies, all certain to be
retired in order TO make the best
possible place for Roosevelt's pet.
But IL is not all TO be an easy rout
step march to more glory for would
be Major General Wood. The Uni
ted States Senate is yet TO con-
slider the nomination Of Wood. Pre-
sident Roosevelt was informed by
several Senator'S as soon as he re-
turned from his western vote and
varmint hunt that IL he sent 70 the
Senate the name OF Leonard Wood TO
be Major General, a strong effort
WOut0 NC HteAuC w uCtC<hb uiS COu~
firmation. Nearly all the members
Of the Senate Committee on Military
Affairs have expressed themselves
as opposed 70 Wood. at least on the
ground that he has not done enough
to merit this extraordinary advan-
cement. These Senator'S have said
that If the President persists, there
viii be an investigation Of all Wood s
doings in Cuba. The members OF
the Senate Committee ON Military
Affairs are Hawley, Proctor, War
ren, Quarles. Scott, Foraker and
Alger, republicans, aud Bate, Cock
rell and Pettus, democrats, with one
democratic vancancy left by the re-
! tirement of Harris, of Kansas.
Should the republicans weaken, as
they may do, and as many have re-
Gently done before the tideof Roose-
veltism in state politics. such demo
Gratis as Bate, COckrell and Pettus,
all three grand old soldiers and
lovers of justice, are hardly the sort
of men to permit this fragrant IA
voritism and undeserved recogni-
ton to pass unresisted and unre-
buked. Woods promotion to be
major general in the regular army,
is, in all c0nso, ace. bad enough,
but the certainty that in the ordi-
nary course of human events, this
erstwhile army doctor. this military
pill pcddler is TO be lieutenant gen.
eral and commander of the United
States army is quite more than
enough to disgust the civilized
| world.
Before this letter is read by the
good people OF this country the sta
tute of limitations will have run,
and Mr.. Perry S. Heath, Secretary
of the Republican National Commit
tee and former First Assistant Post
master General, and the Lord knows
how many more, will be free from
danger of indictment on account of
anything that may have come or
will come out of the present inves-
tigation of Post-O Office Department
rottenness. Ii is the general belief
here among the people who are lin
the know" that Perry Heath was
one of the first men spotted by
Bristow. 1t also is believed that
Hanna then went to see the Presi-
dent and q deal was made where
by heath's sclap was saved and
the party saved the humiliation and
degradation of seeingitsSecretaayo of
Its national committee dragged be-
fore the bar of justice for boodiing.
On the last day of July, however.
the statute of limitations allows
Heath and all others who are not
now in the clutches of the law. and
who quit the department three wears
ago, to breath freely and give the
people the "hoarse hoot," Thus do
some people go unwhipped of JUS
tice and the people never will know
who are in order to chastise them
at the ballot box should they ever
ask for office in future. The Presi-
dent has now demanded of Bristow
that he get through with the inves-
tigation by the first of September
In other words, the thing must be
out of the way before Congress con-
venes, and any man who is NOT
caught by that time will GO free
Until there is change of admins
tration the people never will know
how much VAS stolen by the pos
tai gang.
l wish to call the attention of
Secretary Cortelyou and the Depart-
ment of Commerce, whose business
1t is to obtain and publish facts
against the trusts, TO at least one
great trust that is doing business
openly and in most brazen defiance
OF the laws. The Iron Age of Julv