The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1910-01-08

IN TINA TIE
Correspondence

Washington, d. c., Dec. 8, 1909.
Dear Dad: have it on the best
authority that President Roosevelt
investigated the record of Judge
Horace Fl. Lurton at the time the
Brown vacancy existed on the sup
rene court, and rejected Lurton on
the ground that the Judge possessed
''the railroad mind"
The health of Chief Justice Mel
The chief justice has resumed his
old habit of working evenings. All
of which is not good news to Phil
ander Chase Knox, who has the
| promise of Melville's gown, in
| see in the papers much talk
about proposed investigation" OF
the sugar trust. | thought that be.
gan when Atty. Gen. Moody was in
| office. | have an impression that
there is large bundle of dOcumen-
tary evidence which is now in the
hands of Henry l.. Stimson in New
York and it would occur to me that
| we had about reached the stage
where prosecution" would be the
word When Hercules took that
Augean stable assignment it wasn't
exactly an investigation"
The president has written a letter
to Clifford Pinchot in which he says
II still have entire confidence in
Mr.. Ballinger."
What the president needs is to
get into wireless communication
with the outside world" said-well,
he is an office holder and friend of
the administration. Taft is
hemmed in completely. He does not
know what Is happening, is not
diligent reader of the newspapers,
and what he hears from his official
family does not enlighten him on
the real state of public sentiment
Taft's greatest blunder was made
when he cut communication with
the Washington correspondents and
decided to get and give all news
through Aldrich & Co." Which to
my mind, is only half the truth
Perhaps not that much.
You ask about this Nicaraguan
war" To tell the honest truth the
only real interest l feel is drawn
from a feeling of curiosity as to
who has financed this other fellow
Brother Knox and the opposition
party seem to be in partnership
Now it was Kuhn, Loeb & Co. who
got the contract to collect the Gus
toms Of San Domingo. Who is in
on this?
"A thousand marines are rushing
upon Nicaragua read the copy OF
the state department press agent
when, in fact, the converted yacht
Prairie was hard and fast on a mud
bank in the Delaware bay Speak
ing of our shipyards, their available
ity. the reason they are located in
certain places, the influence of Pen.
rose. the juggling OF Senator Hale
but why muddy the waters? It's
a perfectly grand war Of course
and we are all going to take off our
hats and cheer for little Phil
Chats Knox when the Prairie
gets off the bank and the press
agent starts her rushing" again.
Admiral w. A. Kimball was chos.
en- for command of Secretary
KnoX's war ON -Zelaya because OF
his experience just after the Span
| ish war with revolution" at Blue
fields. Kimball has been placed on
the retired list, but he was called
back for this K-z assignment.
President Taft's message, you no
ticed, was two days behind. It was
too late to be sent to the western
press through the mails. You re
member what l told you about
Taft's besetting sin. What he needs
is strenuous person with a bis
stick right behind him all the
time.
They talk Of T. r. taking the jot
of digging the Panama canal. AL
I know is that if he takes the jot
he will get it done in time for the
1912 elections, and be ready to quit
it by March 4, 1918.
! Secretary Wilson says the retail
butchers make enormous profits
Now, who told the secretary about
the retailers buying prices? Was
it the beef trust?
His constituents are now asking
Jonathan Bourne Ga senator from
Oregon) If he is still in favor of "a
second elective term" :
Once a senator ran and was
elected on the platform, Friends-I
in-Washington. but his
name has not been preserved in the
chronicles of the recent centuries
| Sincerely, RATH.
Manila, p. Manila Medical So