The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1907-09-05
WASHINGTON
From our Regular Correspondent.

Washington, d. c. Aug. 2o, 1907.
"Our friends, the enemy" have
contributed most largely to the
gayety of nations during the last
week by public exposition of their
differences, differences which, if
properly handled, should make for
Democratic success at the polls in
November, 1908. Speaker Cannon,
who insists that he is "seventy-one
years young" has announced his
candidacy for the presidency, and
at the same time has bid defiance to
the President by emphasizing the
great prosperity and declaring that
it would be "crime" for Congress
to do anything which would upset
the business of the country, busi-
ness as Mr.. Cannon Uses it always
meaning the tariff and the protect
ed industries. Politicians i'll Wash
ington understand the Speakers S
words moreover, to be warning
to the President that he will have
none of the proposed extension Of
the railway regulation laws, tariff
revision or other legislation which
would prove obnoxious to the in
terests which support the wing OF
the party which Mr.. Cannon rep
resents.
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Up in New York state Governor
Hughes has, in thinly veiled terms,
been declaring his disapproval of
the Railway Rate Law and other
legislation which has or may serve
to curtail the power of the corpora
tions. The states are all sufficient
to do the work, says Governor
Hughes, all of which is good old
fashioned Democratic doctrine, but
which sounds peculiar,coming from
the man whom Theodore Roosevelt
made governor OF New York. Mr..
Hughes believes in conservatism
with big c, and perhaps that is
but natural, since all his old friends
and associates are to be found be-
tween 26 Broadway, the office of
the Standard Oil Company, and the
lower end of Wall Street.
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Secretary Taft is still making
professions of faith on his way west,
and is endorsing most of the Presi-
dents policies, much to the chagrin
of the conservative faction of the
Republican party, which had hoped
that Taft, who seems most likely
to get the nomination, would get
behind the breatworks OF Republi-
canism and refrain from the "radi-
calism" which has marked the
Roosevelt era. Out in Ohio, For
aker is making frequent speeches
condemning the President for fore
ing him and others to pass the Rail-
way Rate Law, which is so obnox-
ious to Mr.. Foraker's railway affil-
iations, and denouncing the Presi-
dent for dismissing without honor
the NEGRO soldiers of the 25th In
fantry, denunciation which is of
course an appeal to Ohio's 100, 900
negro voters.
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The President has once more es-
sayed the role of peacemaker, this
time attempting to bring order out
of the chaos which for some time
has existed in the Central American
countries. In conjunction with
President Diaz of Mexico, Presi.
dent Roosevelt has addressed tel.
egraphic note to the Presidents of
Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador,
Costa Rica and Guatamala, begging
them to meet in peace conference
and adopt joint treaty binding all |
FIVE to submit to arbitration any
differences which cannot be settled
by diplomatic negotiations. The
two executives promise the good
omces OF their respective countries
to assist in this praiseworthy move,
and will doubtless act as arbitrators,
if SO desired. The President and
Secretary Root have long contem-
plated some such move as that now
taken, but they waited until they
had diplomatic assurances that the
suggestions would not prove un-
welcome to any of the powers ad-
dressed. Recent information, COM
ing from unofficial sources. to the
effect that Nicaragua was again
preparing an expedition against
Salvador, led to the dispatching of
the note by telegraph.
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The Navy Department has decid-
ii to bring "Old Ironsides," in
other words, "the good ship Con-
stitution, down to Annapolis