The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-01
A PLAIN sPrAKrNG GAEL.

The New York Gaelic American is evidently not enamoured of the present administrators nor of the President ol his Premier. John Hay. After bitteri, contemptuous aiiusion to some recent verses in laudation of one Theodore Roosevelt. which It evidently attributes to Hay. or to his suggestion. 1t con tinues:
 Now. If John Hay should be re-eiect. heaven forbid-the author of these 'powtherin" grand poems will believe firmly of course. that 1t was his mighty pen that .asn 1t all. ..,n II ,ss, vas ,S. st greatest enemy of religion was piou. fool. Well we don't know that and don't expect to worry over 1t. But wt do know by long-standingA and sad ex. perfence that the worst enemy of a national cause is an honest and patriotic blatherskite.
 The American evidently looks on John as the whole push. to use some appro- priate slang. Whether that Is true we do not know, but we do know that . frequent argument put forth by, the Republicans in favor of Rooseveits election is that Hay is to be retained They seem to think this valid argu- ment, and that if the country can be assured that the present Secretary or State will remain and run the admins tration there can be no possible objec- ton to the administration.
 Well, we may admit that with Hay Fin power there is some less danger or any Berserker business. but that worthy has given evidence that he Is not above a little biatherskiting him self. Tn a recent speech in New York he said; DO we want to give our gallant little army to the care of those who think 1t ought to be disbandedT And again: DO we want our navy handed over to the men who say II ought to be thrown into the scrap heap?" And yet again: DO we want to sneak out of the Isthmus of Pana- ma and basely surrender the hope and dream of centdries?r
 Now we unhesitatingly affirm that such expressions are pure tommy'rot, and such as might be expected from . bIathering third-rate politician. but not from a man who is posed by his friends and admirers as the balance wheel of the administration and the check-rein on a too excitabie President.
 A faisehood by insinuation or sug- restion is no better than one in direct terms, and Mir. Hay was certainly gull ty of the former. The plain inference which any one not properly informed would draw from his language is that the Democrats if placed in power. would disband the5 army and leave the gov ernment practically helpless. Mir. Hay knows that is not true, and knew 1t when he was uttering 1t. Democrats would be far from following the bius- tering, big stick policy of Roosevelt and would not try to make 1t appear that our government depends for It's power, its influence and its very ex- istence on the military arm, but they would show in tns future, as they have done in the past, that they feel as much concern for the efficiency of oui army as the Republicans do. and woulc 20 as far to sustain 1t. More thar that. a Democratic President would not violate all sense of propriety and justice | in order to humiliate brave officer, noi ! would it lower the standard of military honor by advancing pet friends to higi position, as Roosevelt has done. Mir Hay may reflect on that and get wha comfort he can out of it.
 l And that nonsensical utterance abou throwing our navy into the scrap heal Is worse than the other. To a Demo cratic President, MT. Cleveland, and t' his Democratic Secretary, Mir. Herbert the navy owes as much as to any tw' men who have held office since the war at least. That administration has no as many naval scandals to its credi as some later ones have. and so fla MT. Hay may claim an advantage, if h likes that sort of thing. It Is nor
 than propable. also. that a Democrati President would not use governmen vessels as freely and extensively fo himself and friends as a high .Repub lican official has done, and that ma be another grievance in Hays min' against Democrats. He Is welcome t all he can get out of 1t.
 Then. again, that intimation that Democratic administration woul
 sneak out of the Isthmus of Panama is another implied charge which tn versatile author of Little Brooches should be ashamed of, if he has an of that quality in his composition. l is safe to say that a Democratic Presi dent would not have sneaked into tn | Isthmus in the Roosevelt style, but W feel perfectly safe in asserting that the Democrats come into power tn work of canal building will go on wit more expedition and economy and wit far less scandal than is likely to b the case if the Republicans remain fl power.
 But 1t is useless to devote furthe time or space to such pot-hous speeches. and we join our Irish contem porary in the prayer that the countr may be spared another term O Theodore Roosevelt and John Hay.
 
 IT IS NOT QUITE SATISFIED.
 The esteemed Hartford courant com plains that we have not fairly replie, to a supposed case 1t put in relation