Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-07-29
DOLCE FAR NIENTE.
"SWEET IDLENESS" AFFECTS
OUR NATIONS RULER.

This Disposition of the Stalwart incumbent Of
the White House Has Already Led to Sus-
sestion in Congress for. a Seashore Seat Of
Government 1T Is Apins European Royal
Custom, Of Course. but That Objection
Don't Go With lmperialsts Col Bryan's
Course Is acknowledgements Davis Has
Already planked Up 100000 to Campaign
Fund-Jo Cannon to Be Congratulated on
Dodsins the Vice Presidential Nomination.
tFrom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, d. c., July 81.
Oyster Bay is not the summer CAPT
tai, after all, although a great deal
of government business is transacted
there when President Roosevelt is
present. All the machinery remains
whirling in Washington, directed by
Cabinet officers and their subordinates.
To tell the exact truth, things seem
to move along just about the same
even when the members of the Cabinet
are at Bar Harbor or on the distant
mountains.
A suggestion was made by an auda-
ciously enterprising member Of the
last Congress that some seashore re-
sort of the North be selected for
summer capital and that during the
heated months it share with Washing
ton the honors and responsibilities OF
the seat of government. The PROPOSE
ton contemplated the retention of the
files and archives of the Government
here and such occasional visits hither
as members OF the Cabinet might find
necessary; but government should
chiefly remain in the hands of bureau
officers, sitting at the Washington end
Of Geographic and telephone wires.
All official announcements would be
made from Washington and all the
official documents would be dated at
Washington, just as they are at pres
ent while the administration" is fur
Laughed at its various summer resorts
Several of the European governments
have summer capitals which combine
comfort and convenience, but probably
such an establishment for this repub-
lie would be deemed chimerical.
Since the adjournment of the st.
Louis convention Col. Bryan has ex.
hibited great iudicion (if there isn't
such word, there ought to be). The
sagacity he has shown is quite admir-
able. His sharp post convention criti-
cisms Of candidates and platform are
helping his party more than anything
else he could possibly do. If he had
Topped suddenly and accepted plat
form and candidate with effusion, his
admirers would have been less likely
to follow him. They are men who
have minds of their own. Those who
think that Bryan, in lambasting and
ridiculing Parker after having given a
pledge to support him, lie working for
the success OF the ticket, find confirm
alton in the fact that few of his fol.
lowers have bolted. Many Of these
same Bryanites will be in still more
friendly moods three months from
now.
Ex-senator Davis, Democratic can
didate for Vice President. has planked
down his check for 100000 as his
first contribution TO the campaign.
He proposes with the help of German,
Bryan, Stevenson. Hill and Bourke
Cochran to carry West Virginia and
Maryland. 1t looks as if ex-Congress-
man John J. Davis would be nominee
for Governor in West Virginia. He is
not related to Henry G. Davis, but is
warm friend.
"Uncle 10" Common hae lots of
sense. BY repudiating the Vice Presi-
dent nomination he has hilched him.
self to the Speakership by hooks of
steel. He can WELD the gavel of the
House as long as he wants to-unless
he should be compelled to ask permits
sion of Democrats. He knew that the
Vice Presidential nomination would
start him on the road to political OBJ.
livion, check his public career, and
turn him loose without future. He
had the grit peremptorily to decline.
But now, If the Democrats should
carry the next House, he would re.
quire An audience exclusively of gen.
tlemen when he comes to express his
disgust. Dem.