Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1907-04-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Special correspondents.

Special Correspondence.
Washington d. c.. April. ], 1907
The things on tap at the nation s
capital just now seem to be the
springing OF Presidential boOms and
the Presidents war with the rail
road managers.
The Taft boom seems to be the only
Presidential boom that shows any
thing like a growth in the ranks of
the Republicans, and it comes as
straight from the White House as
anything that ever came from there.
Roosevelt simply dominates his party
and bestrides it like Colossus. He
is 1T and everything he says must
90 or something will bust. The party
leaders stand aghast at every thing
he says and does. They get tongue
paralysis and wobbly in the legs like
a young calf every time he pops his
whip or yields the big stick. The
so-called leaders of toe Republican
party are the worst set of political
dougbfaces / ever saw. They allow
Roosevelt to completely dominate
them and run over them like they
were a lot of pigmies. He is now
setting up his own candidate to sue
coed him, and there is no one to say
him nay, apparently. How have the
mighty fallenl Think Of what would
happen to Roosevelt If there were
still men in the Senate like Conkling
and Blame, and Edmunds and Thad
Stevens and Zach Chandler and Oil
YER p Morton. Why, they, would
bend him over a political barrel aud
spank him with q board. They
would convince him at one sitting
that there were enough brains and
and power and sure enough men in
the Senate, and that they would not
submit to his dictation as TO laws or
candidates. The first time he whis,
tied for the grizzly the grizzly would
come. Alasi the giants are gone
aud the pigmies of Congress are
ruled as with rod of iron by the
greatest fakir and fraud in American
politics. Every other newspaper
correspondent here would say the
same thing il he dared to do so. He
does not dare. His paper is edited
from the business Office and it would
cost him his Job. defy the whole
outfit. and the country press of the
country is now the only place where
the people can get the truth.
II the Republican party is satisfied
to sit down and allow the President
to dictate who it shall and must vote
for at the next election, and also
write its platform. then the Demo
Gratis can look on complacently. 1t
is a family row and is no concern of
ours. II they are so weak kneed as
10 allow him to walk on their necks
it will simply add to the gaietv of
nations in the next election. Let it
60 st that.
So for as the Democrats are con.
cerned, they are not doing much talk
ing as yet, concerning Democratic
Presidential candidates. IL would
seem from the newspaper talk allover
the country that Mr.. BRYAN has the
field all to himself. but | note that he
recently said that be had not made
up his mind to be candidate. That
is taken here TO mean that if Roose-
welt intends TO force his own nomina-
tion on the Republican convention,
which he can do If be wants to, and
many people believe that is what be
means by all his recent grandstand
plays, that Mr.. Bryan would think
it useless to run, inasmuch as Roose-
Welt has stolen all his thunder
and he (Bryan) recently has been
booming Roosevelt in his paper. the
Commoner.
1t would be rather embarrassing
for Mr.. Bryan to run against.a man
who has been advocating (even
though it had string TO IT'D every
theory and idea that Bryan has ad-
vocated in the last ten years with
the exception of the silver question.
and that is dead issue. There is
only one thing in which Roosevelt
has not gone as far as Bryan. and
that is the Government ownership
Of railroads. Mr.. Bryan probably
would not have that as an issue in
his platform, because every South
ern State would stand against him