Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-28

Colonel R~oosevelt's tact in calling
about him the Egyptian newspaper
editors at Cairo and '%jollying" them
out of their resentment of his advice TO
Egyptian aymy officers to keep out of
~(Nationalist) politics, showed the con-
summate art of the politician. When
| Roosevelt was elected Governor of
New York he was regarded by the old
stagers as a "tenderfoot.' Platt
thought he did a clever trick in fore
ing the yice-presidential nomination
on him 20 get him out of New York
State politics, and "shelye" him, but
Plat made a mistake he never ceased
to regret. The success OF Roosevelt in
securing the presidential nomination
in 1904 against the opposition of the
party veterans, and also in procuring
the nomination of Taft in 1908. was due
to a skill in politics equal to that of
Samuel ]. Tilden. See how deity he
overcame an embarrassing situation
created by himself in Egypt!
1t is now proposed that the House Of
Representatives shall elect the stand
ing committees, taking away from the
speaker the power of appointment.
Such a step would at once discrown
the monarch of the House and reduce
him to the level of a mere presiding
officer. But il the House Of Repre-
sentatives shall take that step it will
be initiated in State legislatures, in all
of which the presiding officers appoint
the committees What a revolutionary
change would be effected at Trenton by
such an arrangement!
Certain municipalities, like Newark,
will be relieved of the care and expense
of the voting machines theyl1ave thrown
out, but watch to see how adroitly
Secretary of State Dickinson will place
them in districts where there is an indie
pendent vote to foil. And these dis
tricts will have no inkling of Dickin-
sons plans until it is too late before
the election to vote the machines out.
As a matter of course these plans have
llG StIlCtlOn u liiC q SOiiiiiiittCC'
According to the confident statement
of the outside lawyer who performed
the hasty job for the Republican
County Committee of putting together
a political partisan charter for Newark
for the Legislature to sanction and for
the city to adopt, the bill to impose this
charter on Newark will be passed by
the Legislature. Evidently the lawyer
has had legislative assurances Has he
had any assurance from the governor
that he would sign the bill?
Theorists and idealists' are the
men who want to conserve the nations
great natural wealth for the people.
The term takes in the conservation del
egates and all the public bodies that
are identified with conservation, as
well as that most condemned of all.
Clifford Pinchot. This talk may i'm
press the investigating committee at
Washington, but how will the people
of the country take it?
The state Military Board is naturally
opposed to a reorganization Of the State
guard on the lines laid down by the
Military Code Commission. That. plan
is too modern and too effective to suit
the constipated ideas of the board, and
it is proposed by the board to draw
up a code of its own The model will
surely be borrowed from China.
The man higher up" has been
reached in the Pittsburg grand jury in
v~estigation. He is in evidence today
before the jury. He is q very respecta-
able citizen. who didn't think there
was moral harm in bribing members of
a Common Council. 1t never entered
his mind that the act was crime. RE
saw a profit in 1t and that quoted all
.scruples.
The most interesting part of Balm
gers testimony as a witness in his own
r,,n oo,,,a rttan 20 Hin onr &c II,