Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-02-07
WASHINGTON LETTER

trron our Regular CORRESPONDENT
Washington, D. g., Feb. LIN spite
OF the talk that William Jennings
Bryan should be asked to step aside
in favor Of some other candidate fer
the nomination for the Pre.idenc =.
Mr.. 6rVan is to day easily the M st
popular man 10 the Democratic party
with vast and idolized personal fol
lowing whose vote can be transferred
to no other. If the Republican man
ayers think it is going to be a holiday
task to beat him they are living in q
fOol's paradise.
Among the many other attributes OF
this remarkable man, be has clearly
demonstrated that he possesses the
ability to forgive and forget IN his IN.
qualified recognition of Representative
William Bourke Cochran as a Demo.
crat before the House Committee en-
elections this week. although there was
no man who more bitterly oppose him
In the campaign of 1895.
Washington extended hospitality
/ this week to three Democrats of Ns.
tional prominence. William Jennings
Bryan appeared at the Capitol to ad.
vocate publicity bill. and delivered a
lecture before the students of George
town University Law School on ''Citi.
zenship." Alton B. Parker spent one
day here hearing testimony before an
examiner in chaDcerv in the Injunction
proc edings brought by the Buck Stove
and Range Company against the fed
Grafton to permanently enjoin a
threatened boycott. Hoke Smith, Gov
ernor of Georgia, and mentioned fire.
quently as a Vice-P candi-
date, appeared before the House Com.
mittee on Agriculture to advocate the
passage OF the bill creating the Appala-
chan forest reserve. 1t was noticea.
bic that Judge Parker and Governor
Smith declined to discuss politics, but
allowed Mr.. Bryan to monopolize that
topic.
The Democratic Senator from Okla
hama. Mr.. Gore. introd uced, this week,
somewhat remarkable anti injunc-
tion bill in the Senate. 1t forbids the
issuance Of any Injunction or restrain.
Ing order in labor disputes, except up
on the proof that it is necessary to pre-
serve property rights and declares that
conferences between labor leaders and
persons employed and those seeking
employment shall not constitute a
conspir..cy.
Governor Magoon is in Washington,
summoned here from Havana for a
conference with President Roosevelt
and Secretary Taft relative to condi-
tions in Cuba. He declares that Cuban
affairs are progressing favorably and
that there is nothing in the situation
to cause uneasiness at the present
time.
A well-known member OF the New
York bar, Mr.. Harrison Clark, Jr..
spent several days In Washington this
week and called upon President Roose.
welt and Secretary Cortelyou. Mr.
Clark is Gold Democrat and when
seen at bis hotel, expressed the opinion
that Judge Clinton Gray is the strong.
est Presidential probability among the
conservative Democrats of New Y ork.
The conservative Democrats of my
State, he declared, regard Mr.. Bryan
as out Of the question, and they will
give him little or 10 support" MIR.
Clark said further that financial con.
ditions in New Y ork are showing mark.
ed signs of improvement. and that the
situation has been materially strength
ened by the recent action of Compt-
roller Ridgely in compelling certain in
situations to procsed to liq uidation.
1t Is declared in Washington that
the suggestion that Col Watterson
should be Secretary of the Treasury if
the next President is Democrat was
doubtless based on the Coloners we'll
known fOndness for the mint.
The reading of the Presidents mes-
sage, in which be urges immediate leg
islation along impo rtant lines and dis.
cusses the financial conditions of the
country, was greeted with wild ap
plauss from tho Democrats in the
House of Representatives and the gen.
eral opinion around that end If the
Capitol seemed to be that this is the
warmest document that has come from
the White House up to date. The
Presidents vigorous denunciation of
wrongdoers was greeted with loud ap.
plause, as was bis defense of federal
judges who punish offenders for viola
tions Of the law. At the Senate wing.
Mr.. Tillman seemed especially pleased
with the document, and Senators Cul.
berson, Teller, DAVIS, Bankhead and
Overman, among tho Democrats, were
attentive to its reading.
Senator Davis of Arkansas, declared
ut is the best Democratic doctrine
that I have heard emnating from a |
source"
There has been a revival OF rumors
about the pr0bab BILE retirems nt of Sec.
rotary CortelyOu, but it is pretty we'll
understood that the Secretary intends
TO stay with the President. Mr.. Cor
Lelyou's health has rapidly improved |
and there is nothing to Indicate that |
The relations of himself and the Presi |
dent were ever disturbed in any way.
Thousands Have Kidney |
Trouble and Never Suspect il.
Prevalency of Kidney Disease.