The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, 1907-08-29
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NATIONS CAPITAL.
The POLITICAL KETTLE Is BOILING :
OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST
TO The COUNTRY AT LARGE.

ASHlNGI IUN, ~, AuSus' 81
While the Republican political ket-
tie is already boiling, boiling over
in some instances, the Democrats are
calmly surveying the situation, con-
fideut that there is plenty of time
before their nstional convention,
and determined to profit by any mis-
takes their political opponents may
make Mr. Bryan's friends are re-
jolced at the attention paid to their
leader by Secretary Taft, and argue
that Mr. TAFT and the President must
be confident that Mr. Bryan is to be
the next Democratic candidate. A re-
port has recently been whispered
about in Washington to the effect
that MIR Bryan will not accept an
other nomination if Secretary Taft
is the choice of the Republican con-
vention, and that he has made deal
with William R Hearst that if Taft
is'nominated, Hearst shall have the
Democratic nomination, while if any
other Republican is named, Bryan is
to have it. 1t is impossible to confirm
the story, some Democratic politi-
clans affirming it with emphasis,
whereas others deny it absolutely.
What they term "the spiueless
character" of Secretary Taft's advo-
cacY Of tariff revision is proving
source of comfort to many Democrats
who believe that the country is now
ripe for genuine tariff revision along
Democratic lines. Mr.. Taft, it will
be remembered, advocates revision
of the tariff at a special session of
congress to be called for that purpose
Immediately after March 4,l909, but
he asserts his belief that the tariff
should be rivised along protection
lines, and that doubtless means that
the protected pets of the Republican
party must not be permitted to suffer
any great inconvenience. The Mas
,sschusetts Republican papers are
greatly upset because the man they
regard as most likely to be the presi-
dental candidate of theii party is
not more emphatic IN his declarations
that the tariff should be revised
>downwards, although they try to
find some comfort in the fact that
he openly and frankly advocates
some kind of revision.
President Roosevelt's Provincetown
speech is q source of renewed annoy
,sace and anxiety to the old line,
conservative members of his party
who insist that it is an outrageous
thing for Republican president to
hamper and harry the men Who have
always contributed 80 generously to
Republican campaign funds, even if
they have erected monopolies and
prachced extortion on the people
To these ,men Theodore Roosevelt Is
nothing less than an inconclast, some
90 80 far as to pronance him an au-
srchist, and Judged from their point
of view, perhaps he is.
Silly reports continue to appear
in the public prints relating that
Japanese nave been caught, first here
and then there, sketching American
forts. The latest of these comes
from Atlanta, where two japanese
are reported to have been detected in
act of making pictures of the build
ings at Fort Mcpherson. If any
Japanese were SO caught they were
undoubtedly seeking models with
which to scare away their enemies,
according to the old-fashloned
method of Oriental warefare when
soldiers wore masks to scare their
enemies off the field of battle. Coz
rectly speaking, Fort Mcpherson is
not fort at all. There are no for
tifcations there, only collection of
Barracks and officers quarters, most
of them excellent models of bad
architecture, which any one is privi-
legged to copy, should he be so ILL.,