Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-06-15

fruit Industry OF the United states.
That is pretty strong talk, but no
man can come TO any other conclusion
after hearing the men engaged in
the business tell about IL and what
the refrigerator car service means
to them and to the business. For
instance, a fruit grower named ].
A. Davis, Of Goldsboro, Caroline
County, Md, testified that he had
been growing fruit for about fifteen
years and had learned that fruit
must be put in the car in good con-
dition in order to get good prices
that If fruit is put in the refrigera-
tor car in good condition it certain
ly will come out in good condition 10
the market. Otherwise the refri-
gerator car would be of no service
at all.
The strenuous President has STIR
red up another hornets nest here
in the appointment OF the Hon.
Charles Joseph Bonaparte, OF Balti-
more, 10 be Secretary OF the Navy,
upon the retirement OF the present
late OF Atchison, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad. | believe / submitted
few desultory remarks sometime
ago in this letter anent the Hon.
Paul Morton, in which ] said that
the President, on his return from his
bear hunt stunt, would be confront
ed with a problem in the person of
the aforesaid Mr.. Morton and his con-
nection with some rebates he had
been giving 70 the Colorado Fuel and
Iron Co., during the time he was
Vice President Of the A. T. & S. +.
Railroad. Well, il seems that the
resignation route was the quickest
and the shortest way out Of the diff
iculty for the administration, and
Mr.. Morton was tod to take that
route which he did. Ofcourse, when
he resigned the President slobbered
all over him and told him OF his great
services to the people as Secretary
OF the Navy he had been performing,
and all that sort of rot, when the
truth is he would not know q Delay
ing pin from a coupling pin.
He is out any way and the admin
istration has got rid of one white ele-
plant only to acquire another, or
rather it has taken into it's official
family q wild man OF Borneo. This
man BOnaparte, a grand son of the
brother of the great Napoleon, is
built on the same order as all the
family and he surely will run amuck
with everything and everybody in
and around the Navy Department
before he is there many moons.
He is a professional reformer and
an aristocrat. He refuses to recog-
nize the every day man and carries
his head in the air as if he were con-
stantly hunting bees in a bee tree.
He firmly believes it to be his mis-
sion on earth to reform it. He has
been trying to reform the Republi-
can party of the city of Baltimore
and the State Of Maryland for many
years until he has reformed il out OF
Office and almost out of existence.
The rank and file of his party in the
State OF Maryland are mad as wet
hens over the appointment and are
grinding their teeth in impotent
rage.
They know that he will be the sole
dispenser of Federal patronage in
the State and that means that the So
called machine will eat the husks OF
Office for the next four years and on
ly the silk stockings will feed at the
trough. 1t is a tough dose for all
the stalwart gang all over the coun-
try, for Bonaparte never has been
regular, but has delighted in being
independent. Teddy is showing the
gang that he is running this thing
to suit himself and if they do not like
his way Of doing things they can take
a running jump half harmon to
hades. Oh, there will be something
doing all the time from now on.
CHARLES a. EDWARDS.