Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-01-10

'se s wfien g diisflfiguisneu Il fnsin
as Senator Hale nakes~p protest against
lit Tog IA Me sure that itwlll become
m ues in. Congress as soon as that
body shah settle down to work
fhere has been no precedent set for
giving command of ship to a doctor,
a paymaster or a chaplain. MIR. Roose-
yelts h0wever. rises superior to proceed
Eence, andaeven I'M the face OF the resig-
nation of Rear Admiral Brownson and
of the general criticism of his action he
has carried thgough his programme so
that Captain Stokes ofathe medical de-
partment of the navy is to be given
command of the ship. OF course, as an
army doctor, Leonard Wood was Jump
ed from the rank of captain in the
medical department of the army TO
major general of the line in eight
years, chiefly because he. used to play
football With Theodore Roosevelt, so it
seems quite possible that another fa-
vored friend in the medical corps of
the navy may yet come to be an adj
miral. There was never an administra-
ton in which personal favoritism play
ed SO great part in the advancement
Of officials as in this one, never an adj
ministrations in which either the basic
principles of civil service reform or the
law intended to give them effect has
been so continually ignored as by
Theodore Roosevelt, who made his en-
trance upon public life by way of the
civil Service reform crusade.
And apropOs of what has happened in
the army, where he dismissed without
trial IA whole battalion ofstroops, and
in the navy, which he is trying to rule
without any sort of guidance or sug-
gestion from congress, it might be
worth while to recur to a message sent
by him. to. congress in the last session
of the Fifty -nint1 congress in which he
asked that the president be given au-
thority to dismiss "for the good of the
service" any officerAof man in either
the army or navy without court martial
or any formal hearing. In other words,
his proposition was that the articles of
war;. which have been enforced flor
nearly< three-quarters : Of century,
which nave beer debated and amended
by many congresses, should be abro-
gated and that the man in the White
House should be given absolute control
over the lives and the fortunes of men
who had enlisted in the armed service
of the United States.
Could insistence upon absolute au-
toerafy go further?
s' a Story of Taft.
Now, this story may or may not be
true. 1t is current in Washington and
has come to me from men of the ut
most prominence on athe Republican
side of the senate and of politics. 1t
! is to the effect that an arrangement
has been. made between Mr.. Roosevelt
and Mr.. Taft, representing the radical
end Of the Republican party, and Sen
| ator Aldrich, who isfwell known to be
the representative in the senate and in
! Republican politics of the interests"
/ President Roosevelt has but one am
bition immediately-na to have
the credit of naming his own successor
who will stand for hiS'policies. Secre-
! tary Taft has but one ambition-name-
ly, to get the nomination for the presi-
dency. The Proposition has been made
! to both of these gentlemen by the re-
dictionary forces which are now in the
| saddle to toss Taft nomination if he
will leave the Republican machine
alone in the various states. In other
words, what is known as the senate
rial combine is to Have the national
committee and Taft have fhe nomina-
ton. There is one little joker in the
proposition The senatorial combine
will not interfere in Ohio. The reason
is pfausible.>- Senator Foraker, one of
/ the most eminent senator's, is a. power
there and is himself candidate for
nomination. so Ohio is to be left en-
'tirefy to the outr6hre of fight be-
tween Foraker and Taft If Mr., Taft
should win, then no contests will be
made iniother states. If he should lose,
the whole compact is to be off As
most people believe that Foraker can
carry the primaries in his state, this
suggests that the gentlemen with
whom Mr.. Taft has been so eager to
traffic are planning to give him what
ins politics : is slSnown as the double
ergss" However thsh may be, it is
perfectly evident that practically all
the strong forces in the Republican
party are lining up against Taft's NOM
ination, while President Roosevelt is
Showing lack of enthusiasm in it's be-
half. Few people in Washington think
that the nomination will go to Taft.
Most people think that it's wise thing
to Keep an eye on Uncle Joe Cannon.
At the same time Washington opinion
is so much influenced by immediate po-
lltical fame thatit is not wholly accu-
|. rate. M
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