Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1903-05-01
WASHINGTON LETTER
fFrom our REGULAR Correspondent. J

w asn1DgtOn, April 81 ueTe Ado
been, within the past week, open avOW-
al of the determination on the part OF
certain Influential republicans to de
feat Mr.. Roosevelt in the national re-
publican convention. This opposition
ls based on his alleged erraticlsm and
the ground that he Is not safe man.
1t is An i'll wind which blows nobody
good, however. and the same men who
are opposing Mr. Roosevelt are con;
templating the support OF the demo-
| cratic ticket if careful and couserva-
tive man should be the nominee. A
prominent New Yorker who has been
recently in Washington said, on this
subject, I'VE do not want man IN the
White House who is always looking
| for a new sensation and who is willing
to abandon even the thing of his own
invention as soon as they cease to be
novel. The enforcement of laws which
exist and the advocacy of more effec
tive legislation to a desired end is not
! 70 be objected to in a President, but
we do not want President to whom
the sensational appeals and who would
| do thing in the wrong way rather
Than in the right in order toappear in
the glare of the lime light
|
| in which the Postn aster General has
been conducting the Investigations OF
dered by the President has produced
a startling result during the past week.
| Tue wife of the Assistant Attorney.
General for the Postoffice Department,
with the assistance of her sister and
safe expert, has distracted for the
safe which contained, presumably, the
| 1ontioI aTerS Of the
division, all the documents it contain
ed and refused to surrender them to
the Postmaster-Gcne when it was
made. The sister of Mrs Tyner, who
| accompanied her on the expedition, is
the mother of Hamilton j. Barrett,
late law clerk of the Postotfice, whose
cCuduct is how under investigation,
| because of his known association with
| a turf investment company some OF
whose officers have been recently SEN
fenced to terms in the penitentiary for
fraud. II is alleged in some quarters
that the object of the raid was the alb
stractiOn of papers which would have
incriminated young Barrett.
There is CONSERVATION in the State
Department as result of advices from
China TO the effect that Russia has re-
fused to withdraw her troops from
| Manchuria, has demanded partial SOW
ereignty over the province, has further
demanded the exclusion of all other
nations. This is regarded as in direct
violation of treaty pledges made to the
| United States, as well as to European
Dations, and the situation is regarded
as serious although it is not likely that
this country would go to war with
RusSio avQp if the latter violated her
treaty obligations. 1t is more than
possible, however, that the United
States will join with the European
that remains for the President to de-
eide. Secretary Hay says be will sub
| NIT the case to Mr.. Roosevelt at st.
| Louis.
/ A party of forty-six German agricul-s
turists will arrive in New York the
| first week in May and will make 10,
900 mile tour of the United States,
studying the agricultural methods OF
this country. The expected visitors
are members of an "up-to date" Ger.
man agricultural society whose mem
BEES make an annual excursion to some
foreign country with view TO learn
ing improved methods and being able
to estimate the competition which con-
fronts them in the various departments
of agriculture. The party will be &C
companied in this country by repre-
sentatives of the Department of Agri
culture will afford them every assist
ance in seeing the country. They will
first visit the northwest, then go on to
the Pacific slope and return through
the southwest section OF the country.