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WASHINGTON LETTER. Special Correspondence, The charge is made that Mr. Roosevelt “flirted** with the lily white organization and encouraged its members m believe that they could count on him for support un til he made up his mind that they could not “deliver the goods” and that then he abandoned them and turned to the old line colored or- organizations for support. The “whites’* now claim that they can see a possible chance for victory ahead provided they can count on co-operation from Washington; but that they cannot depend on Mr. Roosevelt and they could on Mr. Hanna. Postmaster General Payne says that the president will not countenance an effort on the part of republicans in any part of the coun try to deprive duly qualified voters from exercising their political rights. That sentiment the southern repub licans characterize as very beauti ful and Quixotic but' eutirely too fhiraerieal for practical politics. Whether the insurgents will be able to effeot anything in the nationul convention it is impossible to fore tell, but it is belieNed by many poli ticians that the senator from Ohio would welcome any disaffection whioh would warrant his assuming the republican leadership. The president, encouraged by the attitude of the people towards his Cuban policy, has sent General Bliss to Havana armed with all the pow ers of a minister plenipotentiary to •onolude a reciprocal treaty with Cuba. This treaty provides that here shall be no reduction of Cuban mties on imports from the United States but that there shall be an in crease of all duties by 60 per cent a goods coming into Cuba from ther countries. This, it is ealeu- < i,ted, will give the United States a i monopoly of the Cuban trade, and ia return General Bliss is authorized i grant a concession of 26 per cent, if' necessary, from the Dingley rates •a imports from Cuba. That the Cuban treaty, even if •< tcoesBfully negotiated, will be rati- <iad with as little difficulty as the ,u’osident seems to anticipate does •cot seem to be the opinion of some • •ftbe members of his party. It is, • •’ course, true that a" large number : ihe voters have expressed them- i- cjlves in favor of the policy, but the |»«ef sugar trust has not and Mr. Henry T. Oxnard has come to iVhwhingcob to see about it. Mr. Oxnard has taken a house in which ‘ i) will be able to entertain as lav- i hly as he did last winter. That ir. Oxnard intends to oppose the : licy of the president is a foregone • delusion. That he considers that • ie ohanees of success are good is • (-tally certain. With the matter ’ iuing only before the senators, mm are less direotly responsible to ' to people than are the representa- i «**«, he will find it easier to influ- <•'•()« votes. The policy of the oppo- • "ntd, in so far as it is outlined, will • ) t > make it a condition of a vote f 'V the Cuban treaty that a vote be pledged for some of the other reoip- »• 'dity treaties to which the various I mo tooted interests are bitterly op- I 'sed, and thus it is hoped to defeat u I reciprocal legislation. “The speakership contest has nar- r >ived itself down to a fight be- i Mon revisionists and anti-tariff re vise mists,” said Representative Pal- !**’ 1 the other day. Of course Mr. 1> > zsll represents the anti-revision- Dr. Dalzell proposes to fight f.o the bitter end, but aside from the Pennsylvania delegation there are J> / who regard his chances as at all >od. There are already 88 votes pledged to Mr. Gannon, out of a | Mceosary 104, and it is estimated i v b ime that there are 32 more \ 'ioh are favorable to the represen- > ii'o'from Illinois. '' A Million Voices Could hardly express the thanks of Homer Hall, of West Point, la. Listen why: A severe cold had set tled on his lungs, causing a most obstinate cough. Several physicians naid he had consumption, but could not help: him. When all thought he was doomed he began to use Dr. King’s New Disoovery for Con sumption, and writes: “It complete ly cured me and saved my life. I now weigh 227 pounds. It’s posi tively guaranteed for coughs, colds and lung troubles. Price 50c and $1.00. Trial bottles free at Holtz claw’s Drugstore. Subscribe for the Home Journal. Preaching and Practicing. Macon Telegraph. As a preacher of public morality, civic duty and private integrity, President Roosevelt is a distinct success. He says fine things and says them well, for he is our most literary president. The astute ob server can see him carefully working' his choicest periods into shape be- forehandi for manifestly they are too good for the mere extempore plat form. At the chamber of commerce dinner in New York, for example, Mr. Roosevelt said: “There are very different kinds of success. There is the success that brings with it the seared soul—the success which is achieved by wolfish greed and vulpine cunning—the suc cess whioh makes honest men uneasy or indignant in its presence. Then there is the other kind of success— the success whioh homes us the re ward of keen insight, of sagacity, of resolution, of address combined with unflinching rectitude of behavior, public and private. The first kind of success may* in a sense—and a poor sense at that—benefit the indi vidual, but it is always and necessa rily a curse to the community.” Presumably the success described in that excellent phrase, “wolfish greed and vulpine cunning,” iH the success of the all-devouring trustB against which the president made several very fine speeches early in September, and then helplessly (or with careless design) declared that before anything oould be done it would be necessary to define a trust, intimating fhat nobody oould tell which were the bsd ones and which wore the good ones, or even what a trust is, thus leaving his own fine speeches suspended, aB it were, in the air. Other inspiring utterances and exhortations, referring to patriotic duty in publio life, that are worth framing and hanging up in every politician's office, are the following: “There must be no compromise with official corruption.” “We caunot trust those things who treat politics only tt- .. game out of which to wring a sn; livelihood.” “The real and dangerous Lu r. the corrupt politician.” “No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruptness in others, can possibly do his duty by the oomraunity.” “No amount of intelligence and no amount of energy will save a na tion Which is not honest, and no government can ever be a perma nent suooess if administered in ac cordance with base ideas.” “We need fearless criticism of our publio men and our publio parties; we need unsparing oriticism of all persons and all principles that count for evil in our publio life.” “The ounce of performance out weighs the ton of promise.” How admirable! And yet, taking these noble sentiments in connection with the Auddicks affair, President Roosevelt appears to be convicted out of his own eloquent mouth. Ac cording to all accounts, Addioks of Delaware is that very breeder of “offioial corruption,” that very “dan gerous foe” against whioh the presi dent hurls his polished periods. And certainly the respectable repub licans of- his own state denounce him in unmeasured terms and ap peal to the president against him and his growth of power through odious means. Nevertheless a Roose- velt-AddickB combine has come to pass, as a result, it is whispered, of the fact that Addicks is in a posi tion to lead the biggest delegation to the republican convention in 1904. And everybody is reminded of the president’s own pointed say ing: “The ounce of performance out weighs the ton of promise!” This should now read: “An ounce of practice is worth a ton of preach ing,” We do not write this in partisan glee, but in ,genuine regret that President Roosevelt’s fine utterances should be robbed of so much of their power for good among the people at large by his'own failure to apply them when put to a crucial test. Stops the Gough and Works Off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cures a cold in one day. No cure, No pay. Price, 25 cents Items of Interest. During the last year 80,000 Jews emigrated from Roumania. A New York woman is making j $7,600 a year teaching whist. It is not as cold in Newfoundland ; as in New Brunswick or Quebec. Genuine frankincense is produced only in Arabia and a part of East Africa. It is said that in Memphis one in six of the male adults carries a re volver. During their migration thousands of birds die in the neighborhood of every lighthouse. It takes about three seconds for a message to go from one end of the Atlantic cable to the other. More than seventeen million pu pils attended the public schools in the United States last year. The Potomac river is only 600 miles long, and in its lower course is rather an estuary than a stream. Kites are now being used instead of balloons on board Russian war vessels for observation purposes. An elephant’s sense of smell is so delicate that the animal can scent a human being at a distance of 1,000 yards. A German manufacturer has in vented slippei’B made of paper,which are finding ready sale among hotel keepers. The earliest library was that of Nebuchadnezzar. Every book was a brick engraved with cuneiform characters. Including policemen, pressmen, bakers, postal employes and market people, at least 120,000 people are working all night in London. The cheapest postal service in the world is that of Japan, where for seven-tenths of a penny letters are conveyed all over the empire. Fifteen years ago a German do mestic servant, now aged 22, swal lowed a hairpin. It was recently ex tracted from her leg at Marienburg. The biggest mail order business in i v "i world last year did $123,000,000 1 i) isinees. It was Uncle Sam’s post • li -j business that accomplished it. Berkley, near San Francisco, a town of 20,000 inhabitants, which is the peat of the University of Califor nia, contains no public houses and has no policemen. At Hammerfest, Norway, the sun does not set for 28 times 24 hours. During that time the natives have only about four hours of sleep out of 24, aud do not seem to want more. According to Dr. Pinard, of Paris, many careless persons catch conta gious diseases by taking off their dusty shoes and then sitting down to a meal without washing their hands. The people of the United States have in their possession one-fourth of all the gold there is in the world, and about one fourth of all the good things in the world also, remarks an exchange. A Leipsio physician expresses the opinion that on aoconnt of the deli cate sense of touch, blind persons are specially qualified for practicing massage. In J apan this is done very largely. In 1889 every child in the public schools cost Prussia six dollars a year. To-day the cost is $12. The total sum expended last year on publio schools was nearly sixty-seven million dollars. If a thin coat of white paint is put on the outside of a screen door or window it will effectively obscure the view from outdoors. The paint is scarcely perceptible even on the outside, and from within cannot be seen at all. Easy Way to Purchase a Firstcin** Piano at Lowesj Prices and 8 on Very Easy Terms. 1st. 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