The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-03-15
POLITICAL HORIZON
MUCH TROUBLED
pISCoRD IN BOTH GREAT PART
les LIKELY TO CAUSE OPEN
RUPTURE SOON.
GOVERNMENT SCANDAL
Being Brought TO the Surface BY Off
cal Embellishments Not
Free From Disturbing
Factors.

Special Correspondence to The Bull0
tin.
Washington, d. c.. March 14.-Con-
gress Is still standing pat. Even the
emergency currency measures are in
doubt. though | think the senate will
pass the Aldrich bill, after it has been
further amended. The Fowler bill.
which provides for q radical reform of
banking and currency has been gain
ing friends in the house CT representa-
tiVes. but Speaker Cannon aud other
leaders are opposed to 1t, and are sup
posed to favor the passage of the Aid
rich bill when it comes from the sen
ate
Though the Republican leaders are
anxious tc appear ready and wiling to
pass reform legislation, they, in fact
have determined to throw every oh
stacle in the way Of bills that would
intensity new issues in the campaign.
What they desire is to pass the appro-
priatiou bills, with show of economy
and adjourn.
Many Scandals.
The exposure of alleged corruption
in Indian affairs, which threatens t.
implicatc the chairman Of the Repub-
lean state committee Of North Caro-
lima and ether Taft boomers, and per
haps involve Secretary Garfield, is
alarming the Republican managers.
Tho submarine boat scandal has
reached the stage whore a committee
has been appointed by Speaker Can
non to investigate, but the general OF
mi is that the committee is so con
stituted that white washing report
Will follow. 1t will be remembered
there was a Holland Submarine boat
scandal in 1909, which resulted in
white wash, although the regulations
Of some leading Republicans were so
smirched that it resulted in their polit
icaI undoing.
The government printing office scan
DIAL Is still on the apis. The electric
lamp patent scandal Is resting until
tine court trial takes place, when IN
teresting exposures may result, Then
there is a fresh naval scandal which
has resulted from the criticism of dc
iects in the G. instruction Of warships
and the evident intention Of the con
etruction department of the navy to
throw all the obstacles possible In the
way of witnesses who have testified to
conditions which appear to impair tn
efficiency and security of our war
ships But the chief scandal, one in
vClving President Roosevelt, is about
the election Of delegates to the Repub
lican national convention. 1t is charg
ed that federal officcholders, especially
in the southern states, are obnoxiously
active, and that the pins have been sci
up by Assistant Postmaster Genera
Hitchcock who has since been allowed
to resign with the approval Of the
president. to continue the work o.
packing the Republican conventions
with federal officeholders President
Roosevelt has thrown civil service re-
form to the winds In his great desirH
to control the Republican national
convention. Former Republican presi.
dents have done the same, but the re
suit has been to disorganize their own
party audshclp the opposition.
The Ohio Platform.
The Republican brethren are having
such strenuous times these days that
the wiscst of them are in the darf
ab ut the outcome. The platform
adopted by the Ohio Republicans In
dicates how loath they are to make
specific declarations Of policies, al
though that platform is reputed to
have been revised at the White House
1t declares for tariff revision after
election, but there is nothing in the
plank on that subject t. prevent re
vising the tariff higher if the Repub
leans elect a majority Of the next con
eIcss. Then there is aniequally vagu
and cvasivc financial plank that means
nothing or everything. Get copy OF
tnat platform and read 1t. and it III gh'
bother strenuous Republican neigh
Dor to ask him to interpret what il
really means.
Trouble in Massachusetts.
There does not appear t. be one
spot where there is Republican har
mony. not even IN Massachusetts,. Hear
what Colonel Sill Bicney of Attlebor0
has to say to those who evidently in
tend to refuse him the small political
favor G; being one Of the delegates
TO the convention: Il will not stand
for Governor Long or a senator of the
United states interfering in this fight
If | am lcked--and mind YOU, ! will
not admit that there is a probability
of 1.-THE doors of the deed will have
occasion to remember it
Colosel Ed would rather fight thar
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