The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1912-01-26

companies of the country to the
department over which he so
ably presides; but it is pertinent
to reminisce IN speculating as 20
just what one Theodore Roose-
welt would have done to cabi-
net officer who had broached
such plan to the general pub
lie without first taking the
president into his confidence The
good-natured Mr.. Taft summoned
Mr.Hitchcock into conferene and
speedily forgave him for his lese
majestic, whereas Teddy would
likely have boxed his ears. Mr..
EIithcock's s plan has been taken
up seriously on Capitol Hill, but
there appears to be a determin-
alton to first dispose of the par
cells post before considering any
further radical Innovations in the
postoffice department. Assistant
Postmaster General DeGraw is
vigorously championing the de-
partment plan for parcels post
delivery along rural mail routes
urging that it would, among other
things, be a great revenue pr
ducer for the government
Old General Sherwood of Ohio
indicates that he is becom ng
petulant over the cries Of econo
my raised against his pension
bill, and in an interview, this
lweek, he spoke his mind upon
some policies of the political
leaders. He asks: Odd we not
recently run in debt to the tune
Of $50,O0O,000 in Panama bond
and did any of the journals OF
processing economy issue a whim-
per or enter a protest against
this 100000 additional debt {?
Has it come to this, that we can
run millions of money into debt
{ Il a 'douF tful experiment in Pan
anna without a whimper from
cold -blooded commercialism, while
the same element is in nervous
panic and agony when it is pro
posed to devote a few millions
of our surplus revenues to make
comfortable in, their last days
earth the men who made the
Panama Canal a possibility
Gen. Sherwood says that the pen.
4 sion bill, as it passed the house,
will. if enacted. cost the treasury
some s43.OOO,OOO
D Jeffersonian simplicity is not
! applied to the practices of Speak
; er Clark, in one instance, at least
: 1t will be remembered that Mr.
( Clark refused to ride in Uncle
Joe Cannon's limousine, and
9 made grand stand play thar
u "the street cars are good
lc enough" Champ has stuck tc
{ the declaration. but he has gone
4 every other former speaker one
0 better in permitting private
q dining room to be installed in tn
g capitol for his use, thus demon
h strating that he is not made OF
r common clay.
is he? Amt he? Does he in
" tend to be candidate? Mean
, ing Colonel Roosevelt, of course
Nobody has been able to extrac
u satisfactory answer from T.
ex-presi'dent, although about al
the emissaries and newspaps
men of the country have tackled
Ut the job. The answer may be
T. vital. one as affecting the neN
g. campaign, and even though ther
e be no direct declaration from
Oyster Bay on the subject, ther
is appears to be very well grouh'
u ed suspicion that Barllis Is vii
ing e
q
s. There are more Job hunter
e. in Washington than in an.
is other city in the country EleN
4 en- hundred census clerks, who's
If homes are in every part OF tn
Id country were canned in tn
census department without cer'
mony, and with only three days
+, notice. The injustice of the pr
N ceeding is recognized, but thu
dOeS not helm matters. and cor