Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1903-06-25

WASHINGTON. d. C. June q, 1903.

tire day at Princeton as the guest |
OF Grover Cleveland. His con-
versation, it was more than an
interview, with the ex-President
mutually turned on the political
situation and after the day was done
he wired his paper 'The man who
knows more about the desires and
ambitions of Grover Cleveland than
anybody else in the world utterly
repudiates the suggestion that the
Sage of Princeton is trimming his
sails for another experience In the
presidency. That man is Grover
Cleveland. The correspondent
writes at great length regarding
the Cleveland situation. He says
that Mr.. Cleveland has on numerous
occasions, repudiated the suggestion
that he desires to return to public
life but that he feels that it WOULD
be ridiculous for him TO come out
with q statement to the effect that
he was not a candidate for the pre-
sidency when il has never bten Of
fered 10 him. Had one delegation
been instructed for him the situa-
ton would be different but, as it
stands, he considers that there is no
occasion for any public Inference
from him. Mr.. Cleveland has deni-
cd that thegave permission to the cor
respondent to quote him and says
that in some details he was incor-
rectly quoted but the interviewer
assures your correspondent that
he quoted the ex-president correc-
tly.
There is no more unhappy man
in Washington today, over the Post
Office Department scandal than Pre-
sident Roosevelt, save Postmaster
General Payne. The press and the
people are clamoring for Payne's
L
President regards Payne as the one
man who binds to the Roose yelt in
terests the Hanna contingent and
he dares not intimate that his resig-
nation would be acceptable although
many of the most loyal republican
papers insist that Payne should re-
sign. BY a cheap attempt to get
behind McKinley's skirts and re-
putation Payne has angered the
republicans. By his utter incompe-
tence, moral and mental, Payne has
disguised the democrats and in fact
every right thinking citizen ac-
quainted with the facts. He has
been forced by the pressure of
public opinion to make public the
Bristow reply TO the Tulloch char
ges. That reply, accompanied by
the reports of several Postof1ice in
spectors, supports the Tulloch char
ges in every instance and reveals a
confederation of petty pilfering and
official debauchery sufficient to
discredit the entire republican par
ty. In every line, former First AS
sistant Postmaster General Perry
Heath is shown up in the most
damaging light and every one who
knows the facts knows that Post
master General Smith was but n
figurehead, while Heath was the
actual Postmaster General, nut
there by Hanna for the sole purpose
of furthering the Hanna political
interests, regardless of the amount
of the rascality which that entailed.
Heath did his work well. Hanna
became the dictator of the republi.
can party, so much so that Roose-
welt is today afraid to seriously Of
fend him. and now Payne, the piti-
full tool of Hanna, is receiving the
blame for his weak attempt to cover
up his master S trail.
Notwithstanding the attempt to
gain glory by advocacyof tariff by
Joseph Chamberlain in the British
Parliament that same advocacy is
the occasion of serious anxiety to |
the republicans have q clearly out
lined policy. 1t has three planks:
one. TO deceive the low tariff adyo-
Gates OF the west into believing that
the republican party will eventually |
revise the tariff along protection |
lines; two, to make the high tariff |
beneficiaries of the east believe that
the tariff will never be lowered by |
by the republicans; and, three. TO |
hold the question in allegiance so
that, in the event of any increase in |
the tariff revision sentiment, they
can adopt the Mckinley Buffalo
speech as a part of the platform of |
1904 and this steal the tariff revision
thunder of the democrats. The at
titude of Chamberlain, however.
gives promise of precipitating the
tariff question and forcing the re-
w~.w hi a.