Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-10-14
BLOW HOT AND COLD.
REPUBLICAN PRESS SAY ROOSE-
WELT MOST POPULAR EAST.
The "world." Carl Schurz and Senator Rayner,
Keep the Republican Heart Stirred to Fever
heat-The Government Weather Prophet
Objects to the Otherwise Weatherwise.


Objects to the Otherwise Weatherwise.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. Z.
The Washington correspondents of
Republican newspapers seem to have
entered into an amiable conspiracy to
represent that the President is rapidly
acquiring popularity in the East. 1t
has been assumed for months by both
parties that he was not particularly
popular along the Atlantic coast but
was more i'll favor as one travelled
towards the Pacific. Now every Re-
publican of prominence who comes
here is waylaid and induced to repeat
his customary eulogies of the Presi.
dent. 1t should be added that most of
the Republican spellbinders are max
ing it point to visit the White House,
at least once before election, and many
Of them several times. Of course they
sing but one song. 1t was thus with
office. holders OF all administrations
They rush feverish!y back and forth
cxtolling the executive head to the
skies as the most wonderful man
America has ever seen.
Next to the editorials of Pulitzer
in the World and the remarkable letter
of Eorl Schnr, who moo N ,,o,,bor og
Republican Presidents cabinet when
Theodore Roosevelt was a child. the
speech of Senator Rayner OF Mary.
land is attracting great attention for
its startling frankness. He says ::
1.-The President promised to give Ad.
miral Schley fair hearing. He broke
his promise and was guilty Of duplic-
ity. Schley was deprived of his con.
stitutional right to confront or cross.
examine n single witness, and upon
the er-parte statements of bis malig-
nent enemies, the President, who was
n mere tyro and apprentice in the art
of military warfare, and his Secretary
MIR. Long. who was metaphysician,
and whose great naval battles had all
been fought with lead.pencil and strips
of india rubber and wads of blotting
paper, pronounced sentence against
this soldier of the seas, which has
decorated their heads with a crown of
immortal infamy." For caustic Sc
verify this will probably not be sur
passed in the campaign.
Secretary Wilson is in heap of
trouble. The CHIEF of his Weather
Bureau, Mr.. Willis Moore, has had his
feelings terribly outraged by some
Western yahoo who has had the impu.
dence to make weather predictions
which turned out a great deal more
accurate than Moore predictions. Oh
viously, the only way in which Moore
could dispose OF the frontier meteor
ologist was to 60 and see him aud offer
him salary sufficient to entice him
to join the official Bureau of Weather
Guessers. Instead of this, what does
he do but fly into an obvious and fu-
tile rage, and give notice to Western
newspapers that if they continue to
announce the predictions of the una
hOahsCu PiophCC. tiCy ouaii hcIlCoioith
be deprived Of the invaluable Moore
conjectures This was indiscreet. Of
course, nobody has any right to FORE
tell the weather except those who re-
ceive large salary out OF Uncle Sans
pocket-book for doing it. But the
miscreants who trespass on Professor
Moore's preserves ought to be dealt
with more automatically. Instead of
adopting a resentful policy which
would inevitably precipatate into ruin
most of the Western newspapers, he
should have csjoled and beguiled the
learned yokel from his lonely hut
and Moored him to q salaried desk in
the Agricultural Department before he
had again an opportunity to in
spect the circumambient atmosphere.
Everybody will sympathize with secro-
tary Wilson DEM