The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-08-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.

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Washington, Aug. 21.-There Is a
panic among the members OF the
White House cabinet. Who will be
the next victim of the Presidents
strenuosity one anxious member in
quires of the other as they meet on
the street or at far away summer re-
sorts. They fear for themselves.
These tennis cabinet members are
not fearful lest they lose their Of
fetal heads. IL is their health that
is worrying them.
Lawrence o. Murray, one OF the
very first members of the cabinet and
one of the most brilliant personalities
to be found in the inner administra-
tion circle, has been absent from mis-
official duties as comptroller of the
currency for more than three months.
Reports from the seashore are that
he is broken in health and may DE
compelled to resign his job in the au-
tumn.
Now comes Afford w. Cooley, the
tall, rosy checked man from New
York, who, as one of the commission
ers of the civil service, while on the
tennis court, played himself into the
| General. Broken in health, he has
resigned his office, and gone post
haste to New Mexico TO combat tu-
berculosis of the throat, with which
physicians have advised him he is
suffering.
The other members of the cabinet
are wondering II they are strong
enough to keep the grinding pace that
| the President has set. Not one of
them, however, cares to show the yel-
low feather, AMI If he succumbs, 1t
| will be tennis racket In his hands.
Secretary of War Wright will up
hold Governor General Smith, of the
| Philippine Islands, in his summary
I dismissal from the public service of
| DR.. Jose f.. Alemany. Assistant Di-
rector of the Philippine Civil Service,
and leader of the Progressist Party
The axing of Alemany has stirred
the islands as nothing else has done
in years, the population being large
ly divided into two ractions, but
Secretary Wright had enough exper
ience with Alemany, while in the
/ Philippines, to be able to accept
Smiths action without much ques-
tioning.
Smith removed 10 Alemany be-
cause of charges that the Spaniard
had been inimical 70 his administra-
tion, deriling his policies, and hin
dering his efforts to govern the ISL
ands successfully. The principal Of
fense of Alemany was his movement
to ask Washington to punish Smith
for pardoning Assistant Collector of
Customs Mccoy, accused OF falsifying
a public document.
The removal of Alemany has
marked the end of the Progresslst
party. The board OF directors OF
that party has resigned, and although
new one was elected, the party IL
regarded now as without power and
as sure to disappear from the polit.
ical arena in few months.
" should have done 1t had Ale.
many been my cwn brother" explain
ed Smith when appealed to by men,
bers of the Progressist party. 81
might not approve OF the Philippine
policy OF the President of the United
States, or of the Secretary of War.
II | were to announce my adverse
opinions TO the press openly or Sec
eretly, or TO advice my friends to
make propagand2 against these Off
cials, my superioTs, how long do you
suppose | should remain here?
should soon get a two-word cable,
"Your resignation.
The native press in Manila has
said some sharp things about the af-
fair. El Mercantil said that Smiths
action compared with the deportation
of Rial, the Filipino hero, by Gov
ernor General Despujol, in 1892.
TThere Is no comparison OF the
grandeur of the motives" says this
paper. "The deportation of Rizal
was for the crime OF lese patria while
this case is a personalism. AS long
as DR.. Alemany passed his time in
strewing flowers in the Governor Gen
erals path neglecting the duties OF
his office, all went well; but when
the political whirlwind created by
the government itself struck the gov
ernor general, he replied with a
stigma"
The Cable News American defends
the governor. It said: ''When the
Governor General did strike, he hii
the whole tribe OF time-serving, OPP
portunist politicians who hold Of
flee for gain only, and who resent
other feet in the public trough Let
the good work go on. Let the Official
sawdust fly from the stuffed prophets