The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-06-24
NEWS FROM
WASHINGTON
The CoIoneI's Bolt is Not Feared
There
NOR HIS NEW PARTY EITHER
Barnes Is Suggested as the Man
to Head the National
Republican Com
mittee.
NOR HIS NEW PARTY EITHER

Washington, June 24.-The Roosevelt
bolt, if bolt indeed it be, which time
alone will prove, did not make as much
sound in Washington as a pin firecrack-
er. The colonel has clustered and back
| pedaled and recalled too much to make
the politicians here take him serious
| ly in this bolt talk, positive though it
seems and supported by such men as
Frank A. Munsey. Probably the colonel
means all he says to-day, but the weeks
to come will alone tel whether the bolt
win mean anything more than a pop.
1t is regarded that it can of course
reach some respectable proportions and
so do mischief to the Republican cause,
but it is believed in the long run this
mischief will be only temporary, where
as his continuation in the party, a
stormy factor in it, will only serve to
crack the party with cleavage more than
it now has. Besides it will be ever so
much easier to fight colonel rampant
in opposition outside than a sulky
Achilles, glowering in a tent within the
camp.
Apparently there is nobody in a hurry
in Washington to join the ranks of the
progressive party" Your congressman
and senators, even most progressives
are practical people and before anyone
inclined that way will follow the colonel,
he will want to know what substance
there is in the Roosevelt party and how
strong numerically, and nobody can tell
until the votes are counted. Possibly
the new radical party. much foreeasted,
may find its germ in this movement.
Roosevelt and Bryan could form such
party and give it permanenee. Natural
ly a conservative party would follow
Then American politics would be ra-
tional Washington from now on will
watch with interest the developments OF
the days. just at present il inclines to
the belief that the colonel will be more
bolted than boiling.
The success of William Barnes, jr.,
of New York suggests his name as the
best choice to head the national Re.
publican campaign committee. If 7. II.
really means business a man with fire
hiiA Iibit " IA ub HtIdth w opBhSG ktlAlis
Though somewhat unsayory In political
reputation, the choice of Barnes would
command confidence. For some time the
understanding has been that should Mr.
Taft be nominated, Mr. Hilles, the secrc-
tary TO the president, would be made
the national chairman. He is a man of |
mettle. however, and in the |
crisis the Republican party finds itself |
in it is believed inadvisable to put the
of the campaign into any |
but proved hands Priyates should not /
be made chief of Staff at once.
After years OF fighting in Congress
and before the accounting officers of the /
government, another decision against the
state OF Massachusetts, in its claim upon
the United States for reimbursement for
civil war expenditures has been rendered
BY the controller of the treasury This
decision, reaffirming the decision of
March 3, 1904, and the action of the
auditor for the war department of june
y, 1908, will probably stand as final
record in the case, though it may again
20 before Congress Massachusetts, orig
nally made claim of something over
y, 0000 600 for civil war expenditures.
later this claim was increased to over
100000.