Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-07-16

f0A A10sA08- Az H. I3As3LaeS "a A0W
yer and newspaper editor he has
read everything and be has a
memory like tar bucket; every
thing that gets in il sticks. Hispet
hobbies in the past two Congresses
have been the war in the Philippines
and the Boer war in South Africa
On those two subjects he has hit the
republicans more hard ticks than
any two men in Congress.
Another big man in the Missouri
delegation IS the Hon. William 5.
Cowherd. OF Kansas City He not
only is one Of the best debaters in
the House. but one OF the best law
yers. His cogent reasoning and
invineible logic compel admiration
and knock down all barriers. There
was an attempt in the last Congress
to put through steal Of half million
dollars, and il came from the Com
mittee on the District OF Columbia,
Of which Mr.. Cowherd is a member.
With his trip hammer logic and
unanswereable argument Cowherd
proceeded to hit it in the head. and
when he got through talking il was
as dead, as Hector, the republicans
even refusing TO vote for it, Mr.
Cowherd has a future. Look out
for him.
The President Of the United States
is just now coming in for some Sc
we're criticism in the capital of the
nation which is causing democrats
to smile audibly and administration
republicans TO vince perceptibly.
There are several reasons for this
criticism. One is the gag rule"
applied to the PostOffice Department
investigation promulgated by him
before he left for his summer home
at Oyster Bay. That means simply
that the Investigation will be farce
from this time on and that the details
shall not be given TO the public
for fear Of hurting the party OF pub
lie plumber. No honest man or
party ever was afraid of investiga-
tion Or of being watched. 1t is the
thief that is afraid of.espionage or
publicity. Only a short time ago
Mr.. President Roosevelt was Justify
proclaiming from thestump and thru
his messages to the Congress that
publicity was the panacea for the
trust evils that now beset the no
nest consumers of the country. If
publicity is the specific for trust
evils, why is not publicity good for
the evils, the boodleism, grating
and unheard of corruption that
honeycombs the Postoffice Depart
ment? II he will reconcile those
two divergent opinions of benefits
of publicity | will apologize for any
criticism anent the matter / may
have made concerning him.
Another criticism that one hears
talked about in the corridors OF the
hotels in this political center is the
close personal relations of the Presi-
dent and Congressman Littauer. of
New York, who has been caught
grating while a member of Con
gress by grabbing a contract
TO furnish gloves 10 the army.
Mr. Littauer has boasted of
mis- intimacy with the President
and of his pull at the White House.
Did that pull have anything to
do with landing the glove contract
while he was a member of Congress
and therefore against the lawp The
people would like to have an answer
to that question.
Another criticism of the President
IS based on an action OF his that
comes as a sort of sequel to some
thing that occurred during his late
political iunket through the West.
and which was commented on at the
time in this correspondence. It will
De remembered by the readers of this
correspondence that | had some
thing to say about the failure, the
inexplicable neglect of the President
OF the University of California. Mr..
Benjamin Ide Wheeler, to mention
the names of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst
and Mr.. William Randolph Hearst in
the list OF donors aud patrons OF the
University when they donated more
than ali the others combined, on the
occasion of the visit OF the President
of the United States to that institu.
ton. Wonderment was then ex-
pressed that such a thing should
have occurred unless President
Wheeler had been specifically asked
by some one to omit the names of
these two generous donors 10 the
upbuilding of the University of Cal