Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1907-10-03
Washington LETTER
DEMOCRATS find Encourage.
MENT In OKLAHOMA.
NaChine Politicians Urge President
to Refuse Admission prOCIama.
tiOn, but He Has Troubles cnOuah
in That Line at Cleveland, Ohio,
In NayOralty Election.

Special Correspondence, Washing
ton, D. c., Sept. 80.
The result of the Oklahoma cleo
tiOn, and the glorious Democratic
victory is of immense Importance to
the Democracy of the United States.
Indeed it may change the result of
the next National election. No
wonder the Republican politicians
are urging President Roosevelt to re-
fuse to issue his proclamation admit
ting the State on the technical
ground that the Constitution as
adopted does not provide Republi-
can form of government. But ma
chine politicians are selfish and often
shortsighted, and if the President
should refuse to allow Oklahoma to
be admitted he would raise an issue
that would overshadow perhaps all
other issues, namely, the right of the
people to govern themselves without
interference from the federal govern
ment, or the partisan scheming of
interested politicians. To oppose
the admittance of Oklahoma, because
the Democrats have carried the cleo
tion, would be viewed as a partisan
effort, and enough votes in the close
and doubtful States would show their
displeasure to overwhelm the party
that attempt it. The question of
Executive interference in home af-
fairs has also been injected into the
campaign in Cleveland by the letter
of President Roosevelt to Mr.. Burton
advising him to run against Tom
Johnson for Mayor of that city on
partisan grounds, but the Republi-
cans appear to be already sick of that
issue, and the cent fare on street
railroad will predominate. Presi-
dent Roosevelt after over three
months vacation is again here, but
will leave tomorrow on his speech
making tour, and a trip down the
Mississippi river. This is to be fol-
lowed by bear hunt of II days in
the swamps of Mississippi, which to
safe and sane man would be more
feared at this time of the year than
all other dangers for the cane break
els are free breeders of fever and
ague from which, let us hope the
proverbial luck of the President will
allow him to escape.
The Hague fiasco is the last we
shall hear of International peace and
arbitration for a long time, and the
Roosevelt delegates will come home
with no laurels, and the subject is
sore one in Administration circles.
There is recrudesence of fraud
and grating, for besides the Oregon
and Idaho scandal for which United
States Senator Borah is now on trial,
other land frauds are reported in
New Mexico, in which the late Re-
publican Governor is said to be i'm
plicated and are reported to cover a
vast acreage of the public land. A
serious scandal is also reported in the
War Department involving high Of
ficials in connection with appliances
for launching life boats on army
transports. Mayor Rathbone, who
attained notoriety in connection with
the Cuban post office frauds appears
to be mixed up in the matter, and it
is stated by Captain Irvine that every
effort to induce President Roosevelt
to order an investigation has failed
What is this strange and occult in
huence that Mayor Rathbone APP
pears to WELD over his Republican
associates who hold official positions?
We will probably never know until
there is a Democratic Congress to un-
ravel it.