Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1904-06-03
rom our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., May 26

After fretting and worrying for two
months the Republican party has fin
ally selected manager of its Fall
campaign. His name is Theodore
Roosevelt, and his pseudonym is
George b. Cortelyon. 1t cannot be
that Mr.. Cortelyou is anything more
than a mask for the real manager, for
he is a politician, who has never had
anything to do with politics, mana
ger who has never managed, and a
statesman who has practiced statecraft
only few months and has never at
tended a caucus or convention except
in the guise OF a photographic report.
er. He is an amiable official but what
he doesn't know about the steering OF
parties and the arts of Mark Hanna,
will be likely, if he escapes from his
keeper before the idea of November,
to cause CONSERVATION in such old
stagers as Frye, Quay, Foraker, Fair
banks, Cannon, Platt and Grosvenor.
Barely eight years ago the youngster
graduated from Columbian University
and almost his entire experience has
been acquired as a shorthand writer
and executive chamberlain. The Dem.
ocrats in Congress and out, who still
linger here indulge in broad smile of
acquiescence when the new Republi-
can manager is mentioned.
The announcement Of the Supreme
Court decision upholding the action
of the New York immigration author.
tiles in excluding the anarchist Tur.
ner from this country causes sharp
discussion here. On the one hand it
is held to be an invasion of personal
rights and denial of free speech, and
on the other, to be no infringement OF
free speech but an exercise of that
right which every nation possesses to
say who shall and who shall not come
across its borders. These last hold
that an American anarchist would not
be subject to the same decision, and
that his right to speak freely would
have TO be decided on other grounds.
In London, socialists and anarchists
are turned loose in Hyde Park and
allowed to mount the benches and
harangue the multitudes to their
hearts content.
The experience of the first days sale
Yesterday Of the furnishings of Stewart
Castle, the home of Senator Stewart of
Nevada, suggests that the season is
not propitious for throwing upon the
market lot of elegant and costly
furniture. While many people were
in attendance at the auction, the bid
ding was slow, and the prices obtained
far below the real worth OF the arti-
cles. Rich tapestry curtains were
knocked down for $50 a window
solid mahogany tables went for SIG,
cabinets sold for $22; magnificent
pieces OF Chinese embroideries for $52 :
copies OF famous Modonnas in Floren-
tine carved and gold frames for $37,
and other things in the same proper
ton. The smaller articles OF brio :
brac brought better prices.
Several Congressman of both par.
ties have fingered behind their col
leagues for the purpose Of reviewing
the scandal in the Postoffice Depart
mont and other irregularities which
we're developed during the session. II
is now understood that the next execu-
tive officer to be hauled over the Goals
by Committee of Congress is Secre-
tary Hitchcock of the Interior Depart
ment. Loud complaints are made
of corruption in the Indian Bureau
and peculiar methods in the Geo
logical Survey. Hitchcock is not
believed to be personally dishonest,
but it is alleged that he has permitted
his agents, especially those who are
his personal favorites, to violate the
law to their own emolument. If the
Anadargo Indian agency in Oklahoma
we're investigated it is believed that it
would show how certain pets of the
Department thrive with the acouies.
cence OF its head. One of these men
is known to have drawn three salaries
simultaneously. In investigating the
Anadarko agency the public would like
to know how much land was turned
into town lots and sold as such which
had been taken from the Indians
under pretense that it was needed for
agency purposes.
A case of peculiar cruelty and hard.
ship is that of the Klamath Indians
in Oregon. The administration want.
ed a large part of the klamath reserva.
ton for its favorites,-a million and .
half OF acres, constituting the most
valuable pine forest in America. 1t
WAS q virgin tract never having echoed
to the sound of the axe. By the usual
misrepresentation and fraud these
Indians were induced to sign away
their rich estate. Not only were there
hundreds OF thousands of acres of the
most magnificent forest on this cont.
neut.
continuous woods
where rolls the Oregon and hears NO sound
Save his own dashing,"
gigantic columns of redwood, and
superb oak, but there were vast tracts
OF rich arabic land capable of growing
wheat enough for the whole State.
HsS WYNN 0uo SbCoC 0NlCb hcI0 IudC-
cessible to avarice, but the covetous
white man knew that with the open.
ing OF roads would come vast wealth to
the owner. The mammoth trees on
some single acres are worth $1,000!
SO the crafty speculator got them
drunk and wheedled and coerced them
into agreeing to sell their land for
what q committee should apprise it
at. In the contract was the provision
that the value of burned tracts of
injured trees should be deducted.
Then the fiendish villains who sought
to obtain the land sent men in there
with axe and torch and manned and
burned individual trees here and there.
enough to justify scoundrelly COM
mitteo in appraising the land at sc
cents an acre. The Indians were help.
less and had to submit, though the
purchasers could have sold the whole
tract the next day for $1,000. 900.
Very well a sum was put in an ap-
preparation bill in Congress to pay the
Indians st cents An acre for the reser