Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-10
"TEDDY" IS TIRED.
HE CHAFES UNDER THE SAFETY
BRAKE ON HIS TONGUE.

6hANE YIN HIS TONGUE.
The Presidents Utterances Justfyins Mob Law
and Slurs at Farmers. Mechanics and Work
men Of Cities Cortelyous lnsffIciency a
Campaign Manager Death Of Augustus c
Buell.. a Washington Old Time Celebrity
Villas Named for Democratic Nomination fol
! Vice Observation-Disclosures Lawyers Dissat
isfied Over Award Of a Small Loaf
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., June ..
The air resounds with the first nut
terings of the November storm, AM
until the chief parsonage of the cam
paign betakes him to Oyster Bay
Washington will be the center of pc
litical interest. He will go somewha
earlier than usual, for he is thoroughly
tired of trying to bring harmony Ou
of discord, and he does not enjoy life
so we'll since he voluntarily put re
straint upon his own speech making
To let day after day and week aftel
week pass without irrigating the arid
country with the fountains of hi:
speech is very trying to him. Like
Hobson sympathizing with the people
of Alabama for not electing him. the
President suffers keenly in behalf Of
those who cannot hear him. But the
campaign is on and he remembers that
for saying five words too much Zach
arias was condemned to forty weeks
silence, and that the four words, "Rum,
Romanism and Rebellion" defeated
Blaine.
The Democratic National Commit
tee, under Senator Jones and Repre-
sentative Cowherd, is now completely
organized in its headquarters at the
Riggs House, where it occupies seven
fine rooms on the first floor up. Your
correspondent ascertained this morn
ing that considerable work will be
done even before the nominating con-
vention of July 6. Mr.. Cowherd will
go TO st. Louis in two or three weeks
to get ready for that important func-
ton. The committee is now making
selections of and from the Democratic
speeches OF the winter Of which it in
tends to circulate millions. Meantime
the literary bureau, under Robert Mil
Ter, is irrigating the parched places
with invigorating streams Of eloquence.
One of the most startling documents
to 60 in carloads through the country
this summer is Claude Kitchin's speech
on Roosevelt, a Presidential Csndi-
date" in which he quotes Col. Roose.
welt as arguing in favor OF the Occa-
sional necessity of lynch law and as
saying of cowboys that though when
drunk on villainous whiskey they cut
mad antics. They are much
better fellows and pleasanter fellows
than small farmers or agricultural la.
borers, nor are the mechanics and
workmen Of a great city TO be men,
toned in the same breath"
Mr.. Cortelyou has tackled the bust
ness OF managing the Republican cam
paIku thC AColhCliS btsCo IuA
support. 1t is said that fortnight
ago Senator Quay from his sickbed
sent to the President a kindly remon-
STRANGE against calling in Mr.. Cortel-
you as campaign manager. He stated
that his warning was based not merely
on the youth and inexperience of the
new incumbent, but on the fact that
this was to be the "most important,
difficult and trying campaign for many
years." and that its direction required
the services of the most sagacious and
discreet politician.
Augustus c. Buell. is dead-the last
Of the brilliant trio who from 1870 to
1885 made the Washington Capital
one OF the best known American week.
lies-his associates being Dom Piatt
and George Butler. They were Bo.
hemian bon rirdnts, and Butler and
Piatt have been dead for years. Wash
ington is full of "reminiscences and an
ecdotes OF their wild capers, especially
of Butler, the most irregular of the
three. One day after having borrowed
all that friends would lend him and
spent it in the usual way, and having
pawned his clothes till he looked like
q tramp, he tiptoed into Chamberlain's
and in a wheeling voice struck him
for quarter" The prince Of gour-
mands replied, mo, not quarter,
nor drink, nor cent. George, you
are miserable loafer; get out of
here" Butler side.stepped to the open
door, grabbed beautiful ormolu clock
from the mantel, and made off with it
down the street on q full run, shouting
behind him, "All right, John; Time is
money"
A strong movement has been begun
here and in New York city in favor of
the nomination of ex-senator Villas, of
Wisconsin, for Vice President on the
Democratic ticket. He is popular in
Wisconsin, is a favorite of the immense
German element in the Northwest,
has been U. S. Senator for six years,
and twice . member of the Presidents
Cabinet, and is undoubtedly one of the
ablest and best informed publicists in
this country. Moreover, he is known
to ten times as many of the people OF
America as is the unobjectionable gen.
tleman whom the Wisconsin delegates
will put forward.
The lawyers Of this city are very
angry at the President because he has
appointed a Justice of the District
Supreme Court without taking him
from among them. Yet 1865 people
OF the District of Columbia are in gov.
eminent employ. Dem.
THE Washington, Seattle's leading
hotel, lately placed under the manage
ment OF ID. H. Porter, by a ten-year
lease, has reverted to ]. H. Moore, its
former manager, owing to the i'll
health OF Mr.. Porter, who goes to Los
Angeles for a rest that is deemed an
imperative necessity for recuperation.