Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1903-09-09


legislation, it can readily be seen
what opposition Territory man
must encounter in his effort to Sc
cure congressional action, for any
change means that some pet of a
congressman loses a job, and that
is the milk in the cocoanut. The
remedy for the present situation is
an act of Congress providing for a
delegate from the Indian Territory
elected by the people to legislate
for the people, and the complete
abolition of the carpetbag regime. :"
Chairman James NJ. Griggs, of
the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee, was in this city last week
and the first question he asked on
his arrival here was Has the
President left for Turkey yet 2"
That seems to be the question up
permost in the minds of nearly
everybody ever since the action of
the President in sending our war
ships to Turkish waters on the
strength of a cablegram, which af-
forwards proved to be incorrect.
that our vice-consul had been as
sassinated. He has acted with his
customary head-long, head-strong
precipitancy which may involve the
country in endless trouble and ex-
pense. There is no man who tries
to defend the "unspeakable" Turk
and his methods, but the business
interests Of the country are emit
tied to some consideration from the
man who occupies the highest po-
sition in the nation. and To those
interests he gives no thought at all.
He is looking for the limelight, and
he wants TO stand in il at all times
or else he is not happy. Things
have not been happening fast
enough To suit him lately. and he
intends to make them happen in
order 20 attract the attention of the
general public to himself and his
personality. He knows that he
does not stand well with certain
coterie of the United States SEN
ators; he has already surrendered
To the standpatters' on the tariff
question after all his brag and blus-
ter about how he will demolish the
trusts by reducing certain Schcd-
uleS; he has antagOniZed the Grand
Army by his treatment of General
Miles; he has acquired the enmity
of all the officers of the army by
his boosting of Gen. Leonard Wood
over their heads. and he has been
put To il to find something that
would relieve him and again place
him before the public i'm something
like a decent attitude and attract
the plaudits of the people. In these
straits, he has gladly seized on this
Turkish matter as something that
would rehabilitate his fallen for
tunes and place him once more en-
rapport with the people. There is
no telling how far he will go with
this thing, nor what will he its out
come. Ii the people knew the
man AZ we do here in Washington,
they would not be surprised at any
action ON his part. There are some
things you can't say about a man
because he is the President OF the
United States, but some day the
) truth will he told. Look out for
business snags.
\ good many of the warm al.
ministration organs have, with
great frankneSS, been discussing
the possibility and propriety OF
SELLING the strip of land through
which it is proposed To build the
Panama Canal. They argue that
: if Colombia will not grant.the con.
r ceSsiOn that the United States
= cannot afford to he baked from the
, great enterprise by the constltu.
: tional obstacles that the Colombians
: say are in the way of the ratifica-
ton of the treaty. Others of these
? republican newspapers favor tn,
= fOmenting of q rebellion in the State
4 of Panama against the Colombian
{ government and then landing ;
force of marines to make it sue
\ cessful. This bald way of stating
r that the United States should eXer
+, else its undouhted physical ability
{ to coerce a weaker State. is on
a par with other imperialistic idea,
: that have been rampant under tn,
e present regime. But these vicious
), public advisers forget the terms o
), the congressional enactment which
5 authorized the building of an inter