Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1907-07-02
HITCHCOCK oFF
 ON 4 L0NG TOU| May Look Into the Taft seI tllnent Over the countd -confers With Presided Roosevelt at Oyster Ba1 THAT G. W. UNIvERs1H Objects of Doctor t!ariau- Forts and Army ro>ts-some fl! Free l'afks-el,arIe>ton io Bela Portland en IuIy 1.
THAT G. W. UNIVERSITY
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 Washington, July 22.-First t5}s
 ant Postmaster General Hitch1c
 who is becoming known as the pk1i
 lcaI pathfinder for the Admfai4 4rs
 ton, is leaving in two or three lay
 for an extended western tour, IHi trip this time will really begin in khi
 and will go as far west as the F diff
 coast. The postof1ice departmental Joai elal is now at Oyster Bay, where 1e i receiving his final instructions Iron the President It is believed by Aom( that MT. Hitchcock is being seaS t make careful analysis of tue Eaf sentiment, while others are of the opinion that he is under secret o2lers from President Roosevelt himsG to ascertain just how deep and earllkst is the third term idea. So far ash MT. Hitchcock is concerned, there il no nope of getting any informationf ffrom him. He protests against the News papers Of the country desis1ating these frequent trips as political Hours It is a fact, nevertheless, that tl&re is is good deal more politics in lthese flying journeys than there is po3affce business. On his recent tour H the Southern States, for instanc( ha rounded up the ehairmen of llt Re publican committees, the "pattmage referees and got in touch wi& Re publieans generally. The newsapers. without regard to political eomptxior, insist that he saw these men bt al together on behalf of the posti ser vice bat more largely on stfictlypar9 political business. Thereford Me HitcAeock's forthcoming westeh tho is exciting considerable speculation.
 Dr. Richard D. Harlan, son Of Jua tica Harlan Of the Supreme BeH1 and special representative of hi George Washington Universitt bft Washington this week for tout o h. veStigation abroad. He goes p 'ls and London principally, b ntak I close study of the schools of Fha O. litical sciences in those citiee. he French institution is one of the st noted of it's kind in the world. c- cordng to Ambassador Jusserand, )r the last ten years all appointments made by the French government to he diplomatic or consular service hve been, with three exceptions. graduaes of this school. Through following ais policy. French commerce has ben built up more rapidly in the last 1e- cade than ever before in the hisory of the republic. The school at pes ent has more than 1000 students It is the intention of the George Wsh ington University trustees, who lave launched a movement for the naion- alization of the University, to adopt the most valuable features found in this Paris school and in the one sit uated in London. It is the hope ot the authorities to make their new College of the Political Sciences, which is reorganized this year, the training school for representatives of the United States in foreign countries. This ambition has ben applauded by Secretary Root and by John Barrett, director of the Bureau of American Republics. While he is abroad, pr. Harlan expects to lay the matter be- ore leading members of the American colonies in both the French and Eng ish capitals, and believes that he VIII ,otain considerable financial assist lnce from chose who hope to sae the and political prastlse 0f he Unted States st sngthened \ for ign lands.