Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1907-04-05
Again Loses Self-Control.

Again Loses SelfControl.
1t is said that Roosevelt s Ananias
Club now numbers at least Il score OF
people. all OF whom have ran up
against the President overabun
dant strrnuosity. His classification
Of each. and assignment To a degree
that corresponds with his style of ~
in~ j. certainly unique. if not always
accurate For instance. William r.
Chandler is called Il deliberate
liar: Bethany Storcr. a pcrtdious
liar: Alton H. Parker, liar of the
atrooiouS type; Herbert W. Bowen.
who was removed from the position
of minister to Venezuela. is a disin-
genuouS liar. which raises the pre-
sumption that had he been a smooth
ingenious liar. he would have been
retained in the office; G.. q. Shields.
President of the League of American
SportSmcn. was called an invent
i've liar. for stating that the Presi-
dent favored a bill to prohibit the use
of automatic shotguns by hunters;
and Chief Engineer Wallace, of the
Panama canal. is classified as liar
of the utter" variety, probably for
the reason that the dccollete costume
is described by the term ensemble, to
mean all together Henry f.
Whitney has been placed on the shelf
along with Chandler, as deliber-
ate liar, for alledged misinterpreta-
ton of Presidential ultimatums. And
he has list of common" liars,
those Who have not developed into
sufficient amplitude for Presidential
classification, which includes editors
and press correspondents. f. H.
Hartman, the railroad President has
been, however, accorded the post Of
honor, having aroused surplussage
of Presidential ire that impels dou-
BILE expletive, and he is called a de-
liberate and willful'' liar.
1t is said that the executive cham
Der at the National capital presented
the appearance of a menagerie of wild
animals, one day this week, after the
President had read Mr.. Hartman S
letter to Sidney Webster, regarding
the raising of New York campaign
funds in 1904, when Roosevelt was a
candidate for President. 1t seems
that Hartman exposed the scheme
by which its writer was induced to
contribute 5000 and prod unwill-
ing corporations to increase it to q
quarter million, to carry the State.
Ia consideration for the service, Mr..
Roosevelt agreed to appoint Senator
-Depew to foreign mission (France)
and thus create a vacancy in the Sen
ate, to which Gov. Higgins, it was
arranged, would appoint Hartman.
This exposure of the means for rails
ing campaign sugar" caused the
most violent exhibition of temper
accredited to our volatile President.
Cabinet officers were stirred up with
the same pole that was used to punch
Loeb, and the clerks and stenogra-
piers, and during the Presidents
towering rage, the room-full of I'M
derlings were scolded like refractory
pupils in a classroom. Then it was
that Hartman was assigned q life
membership in the club, with the
prize medal of champion liar. And
that was before Hartman had reas-
serted the charge and stated facts
supported by letters from the Presi-
dent himself to prove them.
Now in all candor-when promi-
nent ROOsevillians are doing all in
their power to boost this Jekyl-Hyde
high oficer-may we not answer ex-
plicitly what should be done with a
man who shows no more respect for
the position, than to sacrifice its dig
nifty by such contemplate conduct?
Nor is this all. 1t will be remem.
bered that he once shook his fist in
the face of the veteran Gen. Miles,
head of the U. S. army, in the White
House, with violent deprecatory Ian.
guage and in the presence of mem
bers of Congress and others, for dar-
ing to commend Admiral Schley for
his brilliant sea-victory at Santiago,
a subject under discussion. Nor will
it be forgotten that he sanctioned
the brutal act of Benz. F. Barnes, in
ejecting Mrs. Morris from the exec
utive mansion for daring to obtrude
herself into the waiting-room in her
anxiety to obtain audience with the
President to present the injustice oil
a military ruling against her hus.
band. Notwithstanding the popular
Indignation the act of this gargon
caused, the President virtually exon
Grated him from blame by appoint
ment to the important position Of
postmaster in the capital city.
How can it be possible for this man
to ride over law, precedent and com.
mon decency, and still pose as the
most popular man of the nation
Have the people gone daft in judg.
ment of qualifications for statesman
ship, or for a patriotism founded
upon the cardinal points Liberty and
Justice as exemplifed by our fore
fathers?
A MACHINE has been invented ant
tested in Minnesota which husks tel
acres of corn per day, and the tire,