Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-07-23

pride and emotion that his closest |
personal friend and political adviser
was Dir. Lucius II. Littauer, men,
Der Of Congress from New York.
To quote his exact language: 81
want 70 tell you that il lisa Congress
man who is my most intimate per-
sonal friend. and who is my closest
political adviser.
Who il her" came from all sides.
"Lucius Lttauer." said Roose-
welt.
The laws Of the United States for
bid a member Of Congress TO take
any Government contract. The New
York Sun, republican newspaper.
friendly to Mr.. Roosevelt. of course,
reveals the fact that Dir. Littauer,
during the Spanish-American war,
manufactured some five hundred
thousand dollars worth of gloves
and other supplies bought by the
United States Government. A man
named Lyon got the contract from
the Government, and Littauer asks
whether he Q.ittauer) shall go and
see the responsible War Department
officials, General Luddington, I'm
regard TO other glove contracts. I"
And Littauer's brother acted as
bondsHan for Lyon in the procuring
OF contracts.
What will Dir. Roosevelt do I'M
der the circumstances? viii he
instruct the Attorney General to
investigate the matter? He cannot
doubt that his Endorsement OF Mr..
Littauer would have great weight
with the War Department. Mr..
Littauer may not have known, in
spite of his offer to see a certain
official, that Lyon really got the
contracts on the strength of repre-
senting Mr.. ROosevelt's intimate
friend.
But what will Mr.. Roosevelt do?
He has not hesitated to gives us
his views OF official purity. He has
said, Words are good when back
ed up by deeds, and only So" Will
his words be backed by deeds in
this case? Or is there difference
between an ordinary individual and
the Harvard graduate who happens
to be the Presidents closest poll
tical friend and adviser.
The people would perhaps like to
ask Mr.. Roosevelt this question:
What can be expected of the Post
Office people il the intimate politi-
cal friend and most trusted adviser
of the President makes a profit of
some ninety thousand dollars on
Government contracts, when the
law says that no member of Con
gress shall profit by such q con-
tract, directly or indirectly?
Mr.. Roosevelt has said that he
proposes to have everything about
him AS clean as hounds tooth. {"
Isn't it about time for him to buy
a carload of tooth brushes?
##%
There is another phase OF this
glove contract matter that has never
been exploited in the press of the
country. The people know nothing
about it and it contains a whole lot
of meat for meditation upon the WAYS
that are dark and the tricks that are
vain, as practiced by the astute and
INSCRIPTIONS Secretary of War, Mr..
Root. He is at present making a
lot OF fuss about investigating this
glove contract, but he is doing the
cuttle-tish act. He is spewiug out
lot of stuff that darkens the waters.
and no one can see his work. In
stead of placing the investigation of
this glove contract in the hands of
the regular army inspector in charge,
and who is thoroughly familiar with
it in every detail, he sends for a new
man, Mr.. Darlington, who knows
nothing about the true inwardness
of it, and gives him his instructions
as to how he is to carry on the in
vestigation and what he is to inves-
tigate. He circumscribes and lin.
its his discretion i'm the matter. He
tells him TO investigate everything
except one, and that one contains
the milk in the cocoanut. That is
the manner in which the contract is
drawn. 1t is drawn in such a man.
ner as to call for q certain and speci-
fic kind of glove, and that kind of
glove is made only by the Littauer
Brothers, glove manufacturers of
New York. Thus, no matter who
got the contract from the War De-
partment he would have to go to the
Littauer Brothers to have the gloves
made and they would reap the pro-
fits. Will President Roosevelt please
have that phase of the contract in
vestigated2 II he does, his "close
political and personal friend and ad-