Weekly journal-miner., 1915-12-01

ldtlNe lnSlStS mat II was not because
 kurzman was a German that the
 syndicate refused to fill the order, but
 for other reasons, and he has written
 Mrs. Galt offering to furnisht her
 gowns without cost. Hardly less in.
 dignant than the syndicate of French
 men over what it claims is Kurg-
 mans mispreSentations are the Uni
 ted States dressmakers who resent the implication that they could not
 have furnished finery of sufficient magnificence and beauty for the Presi- dents bride, and that sine was, there fore, compelled to send to France for it, even in war times.
 AN UNFIT SENATOR:-"Farmer Jim" Maritime, U. s. Senator from
 New Jersey, has come bluntly into the open and proved his own unfit ness to be senator. Senator Maritime, apparently forgetting that the power which made him senator could un- make him, has expressed to newspap' CT interviewers, his great surprise that
 President Wilson should have con ferred with Governor Fielder and State Chairman Grosscup for the pur- pose of picking a senator to sue cced him, MT. Maritime, because, as ne naively explains, the New Jersey primary law provides that the voters shall select the candidate. "This law was passed in MT. Wilson's admins tration as Governor" says the injured NIT. Maritime, and was looked upon as abolishing the old boss system of selecting candidates" Of course, it was SO looked upon-by the people and that such was the intention of Governor Wilson, for whom the law made many votes. But that was not the intention of MT. Wilson, then or now, and the fact that MT Maritime has been closely associated with NIT. Wilson, during his term as governor and later as president, without realiz- ing that it is only the Republicans who nave bosses, while the Democrat ic bosses arc statesmen" and the further fact that MT Wilson has AS much contempt for popular rule now as he had when he was governor of New Jersey, conclusively mark Mr. Maritime as a man of too dull percep- ton to serve his party usefully in the United States Senate. Mir. Maritime so completely fails to understand the Wilson system of dictatoriaI leader ship" that it is not wonder that NIT. Wilson summoned the New Jersey Headers" to select another man for Mir. Martinc's shoes.
 DANIELS, DISCIPLINE AND DEMAGOGY:-"Aside from giving us ships and men we must get action l from congress that will let the navy conduct its own affairs. The reason that we are so inadequatcly prepared is that the navy has been the ham bone of the politicians" These were the expressions of Commander Yates Stirling, U. s. N, before certain pa l triotic societies in Philadelphia Secre- tary Daniels mad not yet seen an authenticated report of Commander l Strings remarks; today so 1t is 1 still impossible to announce when the commanders trial by court-mar- tiai may take place. Commander Stir ling may not have been thinking of Secretary Daniels, but nc could not have shot straighter if he had been. The very day these remarks were delivered Mir. Daniels had set aside the finding of court-martial. the members of which court he had him self had cnosen, because their finding was not in accordance with his pre- conceived ideas. Of the effect on tke discipline of the navy, of Secre- tary Daniels course any intelligent citizen can judge Of the infinite number of instances where Mr. Dan icls has thrown discipline to the winds and guided his course solely by the principle Of political cXpcdiency, and the furtherancc of his own political ambitions, or Of the extent of his to the inefficiency of the ships and men and his responsibility for extravaganza of administration. he voters will never know. These things are known to naval officers and 70 the president, but the former dare lot tell and the president does not care 70 because he regards Mir. Daniels IS useful in retaining the loyalty of Inc Bryan wing of the democracy.
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