Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-07-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, July 10th, 1904

Whatever the President does,
whether in this city, or out of it
is read with interest by the vast
number of people employed in
the departments here, as well as
population generally. While the
work of the Government must go
on without intermission, and while
the heat of the city is at times in
tense, it is a pleasure to know that
President Roosevelt is sleeping out
of doors with his boys, or is tax
ing row on the Sound, grabbing
or fishing, or sets a good example
by chopping at the family wood
pile, or is playing tennis, and per-
haps receiving delegations of visit
ors from all points of the compass
who want him to settle the
affairs of the world, and do it
at once by rule of thumb. Mean
while he is preparing his speech to
be delivered on the 9th inst,
when he will be officially notified
of his nomination.
1t is denied that there is any
politics in the recent strikes, or
that any action the President NAV
have taken has anything to do
with current labor trubles. The
fact hat the packing hOnse mag
mates and their striking employees
are willing to arbitrate their differ
ences is proof that the trouble is
non partisan. Nor is it at all
probable, as has been stated,
that the President has issued
orders through the Department of
Justice, that the injunction case
against the beef packers must be
taken up by the Supreme Court
Immediately after convening for
the October term. The President
cannot issue such orders The
Court is a coordinate branch of the
Government, and attends to it's
business according to its own
rules, without pressure from any
source. 1t is as Independent Of
the Executive as the Executive is
of it.
Prominent Republicans who
have returned to Washington since
the Chicago conventio ion, express
utmost satisfaction with the polit-
ical attitude of the West. Sena-
tor Foraker of Ohio, who lives on
Sixteenth street in this city, said
yesterday that everything is calm,
confident aud prosperous in the
great middle western states. He
says the sentiment is overwhelm-
ing for Roosevelt, and he predicts
a large Republican majority in In
diana and Wisconsin. Senator
Dick says: II am unable to see
how the Democratic party has
even the ghost of chanc e to win.
One reason why there will be no
Democratic vistory is the eminent
success of the Administration of
President Roosevelt, and the fact
that people have not forgotten the
last Democratic Administration" "
The new Secretary of the Navy
has a brother named Joy, who
lives at Arbor Lodge, the home of
the late Sterling j. Morton, Secre-
tary of Agriculture under Cleve-
land. Mr.. Joy Morton is natural
ly much rejoiced that his brother
has Cabinet position under Re-
publican President as renowned as
is President Roosevelt. He has
arranged to fetch a train load of
eastern people to Nebraska city to
attend a banquet which he will
give to his brother Paul. The en-
tertainment is booked for this
evening, and the Secretary has left
Washington to be present. One
special train will run from Chicago
and another from Omaha. Both
Joy and Paul were raised on the
home farm in Nebraska. 1t is
sometimes the farmer boy who
wins. Senator Fairbanks was an
Ohio farmers boy.