The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1903-11-05
WASHINGTON LETTER
(FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT,
Washington, d. c., Nov. 3, 100

the public, just at present, while there
is al election about to take place in
eleven states of the Union. 1t is said
that the President is going over the re-
port carefully and that before making
it public he will supplement it with
some comments of his own. AS it con-
tains over a million words, which would
make 1000 pages Of al ordinary govern
ment document document, it will pro-
badly take Mr.. Roosevelt some time to
finish it. Postmaster General Payne is
now preparing his letter of transmittal,
to accompany the report. There seems
good authority for the statement that
Mr.. Bristow makes grave accusations
against Perry S. Heath, the former First
Assistant Postmaster General and pre-
sent secretary Of the republican nation
al committee of which Mark Hanna is
chairman. The Tulloch charges ac-
cused Heath of Juggling payrolls Civ
ing sinecures to women and political
friends, and sending politicians around
the country at government expense os-
tensibly on official business; but it is
said that Mr. Bristow charges him with
official corruption similar to that for
which Beavers and Machen are now in
dicted However, like Congressman
Littauer in the glove contracts, he will
probably be saved by the statute Of
limitations 1t LOOKS as if the republi-
cans will hardly dare retain him as sec
retary of the national committee; but
perhaps he hopes for something equal
ly as good. The irregularities dis
covered in the New York Post Office are
of such grave character that the Presi-
dent has directed Mr. Bristows inspeC-
tors to subject it to rigid investigation.
They will leave for New York in few
| days and will have month or six
weeks to complete their work. The
head Of the New York Office Is Post
master Van Cott, close personal
friend of Senator Plat who has done
all he can to defend him and who will
fight any attempt to remove him. AL
though no direct charges have rs yet
been made against Van Cctt, his
removal has been so frequently dis
cussed as to alarm Senator Platt and
his other friends.
The Maryland campaign is the chief
topic among politicians here. Senator
German has taken the stump and Is
leading the democrats in an attack on
the administration, which is causing
the republicans the gravest alarm. He
again scores the President for his inter
ference in the state campaign and for
his championing the colored race by
dining Booker Washington. He said
in his last speech, unfortunately the
President of the United States
speak of him as the President ought al
ways to be spoken Of, with respect, goes
from one end of the country to the other
intensifying the race issue. He well
knows that all thoughtful men Of the
South without exception, unless 1T be
politicians who want the votes OF the
negroes and every thoughtful man of
the North, has reached the con
clusion that no greater crime was ever
committed against good government,
no greater crime has ever been perpe'
trated against the women Of the South,
than the emancipation ofne gros by con
stitutional amendment. The President
of the United States with an impulsive
ness and thoughtlessness which
would hardly be excused in a small boy
in this community, has a faculty of ex
pressing himself which has become
dangerous to the peace of the communi
ty. He has nterferei in our state and
has tried to stimulate the republicans
by inviting them to a harmony meeting
and to sit around the same table a,
which Booker Washington sat. He
declared further that by his imprudenct
in interfering with matters which did
not properly belong to his Office the
President had unsettled business in
terests. Isidor Rayner, the democratic
candidate for ihe United States Senate
spoke along the same lines declaring
himself for the disfranchisement Of the
negro AZ matter Of self preservation
Senator German now stands out HI the
leader Of the opposition to the President
on his attitude on the race question
and this will probably be made the is
sue of the coming presidential cam
paign; unless the republicans refuse tc
nominate Mr. Roosevelt who stands fol
equal opportunity for black and white
According to the official figures oul
merchant marine has now reached the
highest point in the history Of the coun
try. and this remarkable growth was
regardless OF the fact that there was nc
ship subsidy act passed. The tota
tonnage amounts to 60s7,3 ,3i5 tons