The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-22

must have subordinates and it is to DC regretted that he has not always been careful as to the manner of selecting them, Cromwell possesses the open ses- anne to the White House. Although a mere selling agent for property or doubtful value, he has been received as freouently and with as much cordiality by the President as the most favored and influential Republican Senators. He likewise has had access to the Secretary of State on all occasions.
 Cromwell is the very incarnation or the spirit of the $40, 100000 which has So seri- ously disturbed the peace and permanence of the Colombian republic. He is the man who first arranged to sell the Pana- ma canal to the United States for that sum. He arranged the details with in- siders of the French company at Paris and subsequently, made satisfactory ar rangements for the purchase by Congress. He became i'll at a critical point Of the negotiation with the Bogota Government and it has been explained that the failure of those negotiations followed as natural consequence.
 If Cromwell had retained his health. his friends say ruefhlly, the treaty would have been ratified by the Colombian Congress and the present complications would have been avoided. By the time Cromwell was up and ready 10 resume business. however, the Colomoians nad managed to grasp the significance or tne gigantic transaction. They say that s4o.- 00o, 0f,o was going to somebody or some- thing that had nothing tangible to sell. while they who were expected eventually to deliver the goods were expected to DC content with s12.0O0.oOo.
 MT. Cromwll, with all of his astuteness, was not able to change this aspect or the case so far as the Colombians were con cerned. Neither was he willing to give them any part of the Ao.0OO,Ooo- Every cent of that sum. it is understood. had been promised; to whom remains to be disclosed.
 Spy in the Waldorf Junta.
 The part that Cromwell played in the revolution remains to be ascertained. but there are Senators who feel that the story must come out before a canal treaty Is ratified. They will send for the lawyer and request him to furnish the Senate with every scrap of correspondence in his possession relating to the affairs of the canal.
 At least three Democratic Senators have within few days been placed in possession of information about the revolution and the conspiracy leading to 1t that is of sensational character. It appSaTS LIlaL tuSiS "ds d spy III tHC walAorf-Astoria junta who furnished his goveknment at Bcgota with accurate ac- counts of everything that that brood of advsnturers did. That man is ready to come forward and testify to everything he knows about the Junta and its connections in Panama. Washington and elsewhere.
 His story is being investigated and If it is found to be reliable he will be brought to the capitol and introduced to the Isthmian Committee as a volunteer wit ness, It is Understood that he is able to shed much light upon the. connections that were maintained between the junta and the administration here.
 Roosevelt's Friends are Anxious. As the rumors multiply about graft and greed being the underlying cause of the Panama revolution the Pres dents friends are becoming anxious to have it under stood that he knew absolutely nothing about that phase of the matter. They say that doubtless many things were kept from him and that he could not be expected to know that the men who were secretly melting him to aid the revoiu- ton hoped to obtain their reward when the $40 000, 900, the purchase price of the canal, was paid to the agents Of the French, company. They would like the public to believe that the president acted only from patriotic purpose. The public will readily believe this. MT. Roosevelt 8 career exempts him from the suspicious attaching to others who enjoy his con- confidence. He did not dream that the purchase money for the canal was vast corruption fund. F. E. 5.