Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-11-25
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HOLOERS-W ASHINGTON.

The Pension Commissioner Likely to Resign
for Expecting His Clerks to Work for Their
Salaries - The Solid West Arrayed Against
the Solid South The Philippine Policy
The Gag Is Removed and Roosevelt is to
Make Many Speeches
From our regular correspondent)
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Nov. II.
This city is as tranquil to-day as if
there never had been an election. The
Cabinet arc mostly back in town and,
having offered congratulations to their
chief, are disposing of the accumulated
work upon their desks. After March
there will probably be three or four
large vac aucies for the President to fill.
There is a little furry over the an
nouncement of the resignation of Mr..
Ware, Pension Commissioner, it be-
ing widely believed that the resigna-
ton was not voluntary. 1t should be
added that Wares unpopulariiy is
most inside OF the Pension Office itself
and results from bis attempt to COM
pei the clerks to obey the law and not
make affidavit that they are sick when
they are we'll, and not indulge in ma.
lingering when they ought to be at
work. Many of them hold that the
government is tyranny for expecting
them to do any work at all, especially
as their average wages are only vi or
IS a day. Commissioner Ware has
perhaps made a mistake in not con-
cealing the fact that he has written
poetry and in permitting himself to
perpetrate joke now and then. 1t is
probable that, like DR.. Holmes hero,
he will henceforth "never dare to be
as funny as he can"
Van Duzer, Congressman, of Nevada,
WAS believed to have pulled through
by handful OF votes, but at this writ.
ing it looks as if he too was beaten,
like Shafroth of Colorado. If this
should be true, there will be thirteen
States beyond the Mississippi without
any Democratic representation in the
national House of Representatives
North and South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming,
Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Washington,
Oregon and California. Why do they
not constitute the Solid West in the
same sense rs the thirteen inflexible
Democratic States constitute the Solid
South? Ii Van Duzer is beaten, he
will be greatly missed, especially by
Nevada, ior he never opens his mouth
without uttering vociferous eulogy
on that commonwealth. He was FORM
erly Congressman's clerk and he is
quite as valuable and volatile as John
ny Fitzgerald of Boston who was long
the only Democratic member from
New England.
If the President insists on his new
demand for revision of the Philippine
tariff, and free shipping he will make
himself very unpopular in some com.
mercial quarters. 1t is one of Secre-
tary Taft's chickens. His successor,
Luke Wright, Governor General of the
Philippines, issues another warning to
the people OF Manila that they cannot
be permitted to discuss the possibility
of ultimate independence-the same
Superior classes" who have just re-
turned home from visit to the United
States at our expense! But this same
Governor Wright told your correspond
ent in an interview two years ago, that
"The islands ought, OF course, to be
independent as quick as they are able
to govern themselves, and the whole
purpose Of my work there will be TO
make them fit just as quick as posi-.
ble." / suggested at the time that
this was fearfully inflammatory lam
guage, and the recent demand OF the
banqueters in Manila indicates that
his words have not been wholly for
gotten.
All who have seen the President
lately agree that he is in the highest
physical condition, capable of great
endurance and enormous activity. He
swore off from oratory during his cam-
paign, but within the last week has
accepted invitations that will involve
from a dozen to twenty speeches. He
will make an address on accepting the
statue of Frederick the Great TO be
unveiled at the War College on Satur-
day by Baroness Won Sternburg. who
was once an American. and within the
next two or three days will speak at
the dedication of the parochial schools
of St. Patrick Church, and at the
annual meeting of the American For
estry Association. He has some bot
tled.up speeches for St. Louis, for
which city he leaves on Thanksgiving
evening, after his family turkey.
The Japanese Prince Fushimi is Wis.
iting the Capitol and Library. To-
morrow evening the President will
give dinner to the German officers
who are here participating in the erec-
ton OF the statue Of Frederick the
Great. There are 1927 vessels in the
U. S. Navy. Eleven are first.class
battie.ships, and this number will be
doubled in II few years There is no
probability that an extra session will
be called next summer to revise the
tariff The question is deemed to
have been settled by the election. -.
The President intends to make tour
through the Gulf States after his re.
turn from st. Louis. The wedding
OF Miss Mamie Letter to Major Colin
Campbell OF the British army, will
take place 10 this city next week. -.
Preparations on large scale are being
made for March 4th. 1t ia proposed
to bring the United States iron build
ing from St. Louis and set it up here
for permanent hall ut cost OF $780,
600. ;. There is trouble in one of our
schools over the presence of child
alleged 10 be OF mixed blood. Many
of the Presidents champions hold
that as this is Federal territory a negro