Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-03
HE is BORN LUCKY.
ROOSEvElT'S LUCK MORE THAN
SUPERSTITION.

, H ~ DOltN ACOA .
ROOSEvELT'S LUCK MORE THAN
, SUPERSTITION.
: Senator Hanna Removed by Death. and Now
: Senator Foraker Seems Fated When His Act.
Are Not in Accord With the Presidential Pol
Cheering News From the Isthmian Ca.
nal The Inconvenience. Deprivations and
Inflated Sanitary Conditions Greatly Mis-
stated - The Social Season at Washington
About to Open.
From our regular correspondent
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. &c.
There has been saying among Con-
gressmen since the election of Presi.
dent Roosevelt, "You had better not get
in Roosevelt's way or you'll die" 1t
has always been said with a laugh, bnt
" Roosevelt luck" is something more
than superstition with a great many
people. Since the assassin's bullet
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House death has again come to inter.
fere with those who stood in the way
OF his progress and in the case of SEN
ator Hanna removed the only serious
obstacle to his election. When almost
Immediately after the speech OF Sen.
ator Foraker in opposition to the adj
ministration he was taken sick, people
shook their heads and said Roosevelt
luck again." Senator Foraker still
lies very i'll at Columbus, Ohio, and
the series OF speeches he had planned
and which would doubtless have had
for their theme opposition to govern.
mental control of railroad rates have
had to be abandoned. Senator For.
aker and the President have always
been good friends and the President
has appealed to the Senator for advice
on many questions of policy during
his administration, and entertains for
him high personal regard but they
were unalterably opposed on the rail-
way rate question aud the Senator's
sickness, it must be admitted, removes
from the campaign ono OF the most
powerful opponents Of the Presidents
policy in this matter.
| Senator Foraker has been in i'll
health for some time and his friends
predicted for him a collapse at the
close OF the last session OF Congress
unless he should put aside all work
and take a long vacation. His appear
ance on the streets here in the early
spring left no doubt in the minds of
those that saw him that he was in
need OF rest, if in fact he were not
really sick man then. He had CON-
pleted winter of hard work and close
application. He was a member of the
Foreign Relations committee, Chair.
man of the Committee on Pacific
Islands and Porto Rico, a close attend.
ant of the Reed Smoot hearings and
active in the Military Affairs commit.
tee. He was deeply interested in the
work of the Interstate Commerce
committee which had the cousidera-
ton of the railroad rate question, he
led the fight against Senator Bever-
idge's Statehood bill on the floor OF
the Senate and gave his personal at
tention to large law practice outside
Of his Senatorial work. 1t is small
wonder that he left Washington for
his home in the late spring that he
should have been run down and that
the plunging into campaign work
should have resulted in this illness,
which is serious enough to be giving
his friends considerable concern.
A letter given out by Isham Ran
dolph, one Of the members of the Con-
sulting Board OF Engineers OF the
Panama Canal, says that the canal
will be finished by 1915, or that ten
years will be sufficient for the COM
pletion of the big ditch. This esti-
mate is semi.official and is the first OF
its kind to be made. Mr.. Randolph
has just returned with the Commits.
sion from the Isthmus after having
made an exhaustive examination of
the work to be done and the condi.
tions there. 1t is claimed that his
prediction that the work will be com.
pleted in ten years will be confirmed
by the majority of the other members
of the board which if it is true will
furnish the public the most welcome
news it has had about the canal re-
Gently. The commission will give out
great deal more information about
the canal in its official report which
is about due, and will also make Q re-
port on the disbursement OF the ten
million dollars appropriated by Con-
gress. Mr.. Randolph believes that the
introduction of the eight hour labor
system on the Isthmus has been o ser.
ious mistake, that will add twenty-five
per cent. to the cost of the canal, as
much more to the delay in completion
and be without adequate results to the
workmen. Secretary Taft has been one
OF the prominent men most opposed to
the eight hour labor law in the canal
work and his predictions as to the add
ed cost and time are fully confirmed
by Mr.. Randolph. The latter acknowl.
edges that the climatic and food
conditions are not perfect but he
states that the Inconvenience and de.
privations there have have been great.
~ magnified. He does not commit
himself in regard to the proposition
to award the work to private contract.
ors who will not observe the eight hour
law but it lie known that Secretary Taft
is heartily in favor Of this change and
be is supported by prominent business
men who believe that this is the best,
if not the only way that the work will
ever be done.
The social season is beginning in
Washington and before the first OF thu
year when the season of official enter
tanning begins the program of social
affairs will have been completed. Since
the White House has been occupied
by President Roosevelt and his family
society in Washington has received such
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