The National tribune., 1907-05-16


senior vice-president is Mr.. Wang. for
merly Chinese minister to London, wht
was recalled to Picking to assist in the
reorganization of the Chinese foreign
service because of his eXceptiona
ability.
The "Retirers' are after Attorney
General Bonaparte now. and declare
that because of i'll health. which has
icon tinued thru most of the Winter, thai
he is going to step down and out. This
he strenuously denies. Attorney Gen.
eral Bonaparte spends good deal OF
time in his Baltimore home,-the
Bonapartes may be said to have only
"camped' in Washington, for they
have only apartments in an apartment
house here and when they entertain
have private cars to carry their guests
over to the Baltimore home, where Mrs
| Bonaparte positively declines to have
dismantled to furnish a rented fiat in
! Washington. No one can blame her
One room in the Baltimore home
would make six in an apartment in
Washington. 1t is said that Attorney
General Bonaparte does not put away
would like, and it is said again that
this is not true. You have both sides
and you can take your choice.
Mr.. Fred e. Woodward. of WASH
| ington, has greatly interested himself
in the boundary stones of the District
of Columbia and has taken pains to
photograph them. He lectured on the
subject the other evening. hoping to
arouse enough interest in them 10 have
them restored. Mr.. Woodward de-
Scribed the very bad condition OF these
historic landmarks. There are forty
of these boundary stones. one being
placed at every mile, and ten, there
fore. bounding the District on each
| side. They were placed on the Vir-
ginia side in 1891 and on the Maryland
side in 1892. and on many the letter.
ing and date have been almost oblit-
Ierated.
When S. Takaishi. correspondent of
the Mainishi Shimbun. an influential
newspaper published at Osaka, was
presented to the President he told Mr..
Roosevelt that his name was better
known in Japan than that of any other
| foreigner in the world.
1.-The President is held in very high
regard turnout my country said, Mr..
Takaishi, subsequently,. land his good
traits are known to the people of all
classes"
In the dying hours of the Legislature
at Springfield. Ill, Speaker Cannon
home from Washington and lonesome
took 1t into his head to go down and
see the boys" He was hailed with
delight. and "All hailed the next Presi-
dent of the United States.'' the which
he accepted with the remark, they
might go further and fare worse"
which is the naked truth.
Ex-senator Edmunds has some very
decided ideas about several things, and
here is one of them:
President Roosevelt IS man of
wide and patriotic views. However
much he might be demanded tc carry
on the Government for another four
years. he would see what an enormous
ly bad precedent it would be. BY and
by the man who might go up for
third term might take a majority of
the voters of the country with him
and 1t would then require revolution
TO get rid Of him, or else, like some of
our Southern republics, we would have
to take him as President for life, just
as Diaz is in Mexico the supreme ruler.
Diaz Is the absolute master of the sit
uation in Mexico and has been for
years and years.
Now. my belief is that President
Roosevelt cannot be forced into set
ting a precedent of going beyond two
terms. When General Grant. as de-
servedly popular and as beloved as he
was was put forward by his misguided
political friends for a third term he
had so many real friends that they
would not let him consent to be re-
nominated for the very reason that I
have here suggested. If Grant had
been nominated / have not the slight
est doubt he would have been badly
defeated, because the sensible and
thinking patriotic people of this coun-
try do not wish under any circum-
stances that can be reasonably expect
ed to happen to have a continuous run
OF more than two Presidential terms
Therefore, I am sure that President
Roosevelt cannot be bullied into it."
Representative Gillett, of Massachu-
sets. an old Bachelor, is out for his
candidate for President, and it is Sec
rotary Root.
Secretary Root is the biggest man
who has appeared in public life in my
time. and / am in favor of his nomina-
ton by the Republican Party next year
for President" said Representative
Gillett. Mr.. Gillett has been in the
House fourteen years, and has actively
figured in politics almost continuously
since 1879, when he became assistant
attorney general Of his State.
He is the biggest man in the sense
that he Is the br3fnleSt man., continued
Mr.. Giilett. HE measures up to the
full hight of a statesman. because of
his native ability, wide experience,
breadth Of view, and knowledge of the
science of government He has the
constructive intellect and would be
safe man to guide the Nation thru any
emergency that might arise.
Il do not see why his legal service
to corporations in the past should work
against him, particularly in the minds
of the labor people. for there is no
reason in the world why good law
yer should not be retained by corpor-
atoms. They were his clients then: in
| the White House the people of the en-
tire country would be his clients
II he can't have Root. he Is willing to
| take Secretary Taft, whom he believes
will carry out the policies of the Presi-
dent as no other man would.
appointment of special commission
to investigate the housing of the poor
of Washington, and to recommend re-
forms and improve the housing code
| of the District. The action of the
Chief Executive followed the submittal
of the report of James b. Reynolds,
who, by the Presidents authority. has
been acting since January, 1906, as a
special commissioner in the pursu-
ance of Investigations of various social
problems Of the Capital City.
The labor troubles on the Panama
| Canal which at one time threatened tn