GOVERNOR ROOSEVELT HAS EYES ON NATIONAL POLITICS ^Scents His Popularity With West i etlih Enjoys His Work as V \v York Executive, Hut Helains Interest in Pres idential Campaign. I osesHonorMedalAward (Copyright. 1926.> (The controvpffty over whether Rooih» y- nhould have the rti»*dal of honor whs s in progress after he betaine govet i of New York in January. 18 99 His enemies in the War department had hi-" Keil It during: his rampaign and were to - ore Inclined to withdraw their op p iii>n afterward. As governor he never vis.l to keep in close touch with iih t tial politic*, and it was not long before h - boom for the vice presidency was be * t n under. Senator l’latt's pilotage. As ” i* told In the first instalment of the Kiionevelt-Lodg** letter the ooruorat Iona > i' ted to get Rooseyelt out of New York iiml *>* they urged Ross Hiatt to have liiiu shelved in the Vice pteaidcncy.) state: ok new York, e:xe:cktivk kiiamijkh. Albany, Jan. 19, 1899. Hen. TT C. T,odge, Senate Chamber, Washington, J). C. Pear Cabot: As for that infernal medal of V honor, T really wish and ask that you do nothing more about It at all, Alger has succeeded In putting the matter In such a position that now If It is granted It will ■ look as though 1 had to get politi cal Influence to have It granted. Of course, as a matter of fact, I have done noth ing at all except Ihrough your kindness In find Ing out what the department re fused lo inform me personally, viz: that there was not suffi cient evidence; and then to furnish the evidence re quired. But the War department, in cluding the members of the board v ho were to award the medal, have been stating that r have sought to bring pressure to bear through poli ticians to force the giving of the medal, the same members of the board being particularly careful not to mention Alger’s outrageous con duct in publicly stating again that T should not receive the medal, which was In itself the strongest kind of pressure upon the board to refuse it, these statements being made when lia knew absolutely not one thing about the matter. T felt very angry about It at first, but I do not feel angry now. in view of all that is go n***g on. I mean finite seriously what 1 say when 1 tell you that I think myself fortunate in having escaped from reflection by the War depart ment upon my conduct. This they are slopped from making by their pub lished reports: especially as it Is ru mored they recommended me for a similar brevet to that recommended for Jai k Astor! Is there any way at all I can help ion about the treaty? I suppose there is not the slightest. It is very liind to have patience in this matter. Here in my own parochial affairs I am so far getting along very well and am developing considerable tart in a way. But T must see you sometime in the not far distant future to fell you ail about it in person. T11 KOI >< >RK ROOSKVKT.T. Jan. 11, 1899. Personal My dear Theodore: 1 have been extremely careful in all I have done about the medal, in fact I have spoken to no one except the president, Frank Breene and Wood* In regard to It. I think you are entirely mistaken about the hoard, although I think you are right about the secretary. The hoard from the heglnnlng has, T know, been anx ious to give you the medal. I also know they have been extremely sen sitive and resented any attempts on the part of the secretary to guide their decision. The reports in the newspapers to the contrary are un founded, I am certain: but the thing la all right now and there is no use in your giving it any further thought. I think we shall come out all right on the treaty by the sheer force of events, but they have enough men, all democrats but two, who say they are against the treaty, to defeat it if they could make them vote as they talk, which they cannot. H. C. LODGE. •Ocn. Francis V. Orccne and Urn. I then ' 'cloneI t i.eniiarrl Wood. STATE OK NEW YORK, E X ECt JT IV E CH A M H E R, Albany, Jan. 26, 1899. Dear Cabot: Your speech was splendid, i con fess I am utterly disheartened and cast down at the thought that the treaty is In such serious danger. It is difficult for me lo speak with mod eration of such men as Hoar.* That our barbarian friends on the other side of the political fence should be against us Is not to be wondered nt or wholly to he regretted; although of course It must l>^ really a matter of regret that any American should go wrong at a lime like tills. I would give anything if I could he of any help to you. Thank the Lord I have at least done what little 1 could to keep things right! This huge ma terialistic community is, at bottom, either wrong or half-hearted on the Philippine question, ami 1 can any that my influence has been one among the causes that have kept the republican party straight here. I fear I shall have to wait until a little later, probably until the spring, before getting on to Washington. Edith cannot come now and my own work Is exhausting beyond anything I have had since the first months In the police department. Of course, I have any amount of trouble ahead of me, and serious trouble at that; but the first month (which Is perhaps the most import ant) is over, and in almost every big question I have taken the first snd decided steps, I shall have great, trouble and shall receive much criticism, and at times my relations with my own party leaders will he strained, hut I think I have got tilings moving in the right direction and that there is a growing body of public opinion which is behind me, because it Is convinced 1 sm honestly striving to do well by the common wealth, while Senator Platt and the organisation people are, on the whole, satisfied, because they know I am a good republican; that I am not try ing to build up a machine for myself: and that I am sincerely desirous of doing what they wish, whenever I conscientiously can. With best love to Nannie. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Senator tteorxe K. Hoar, republican, of M aaaarhunet la. STATE OF NEW YORK, EX ECtJT! VB CHAMRER. Albany, Feb. 7, 1*99. Hon. If. O. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, D. C. Dear Cabot; I am more grateful than I can say, partly 1o the senate, partly to Provi dence and partly to the Philippines. They just pulled the treaty through for us. This of course means that you will leave Washington sometime in March. Could you have me and if possible Edith on for Saturday ar.d Sunday the 25 and 26? The affairs of this parish continue to flourish fairly well; but what do I care for the parish when such things are going on in the nation? However, I am having a very good time. Always yours. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. STATE OK NEW YORK, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. Albany, March 2, 1899. Hon. II. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber, Washington, 1). C. Dear Cabot; I stn greatly concerned to see by the papers that the ridiculous price of $.100 for armor* has been put on by the Senate. How can our dear friend C.'handler**take auch an action? I love him; I respect hla patriotism; but I mourn to see him take a position which may at some future time cause grave disaster to this country. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. •Armor for the new vessels. ••William K Chandler, senator from New itsmpshlrs. STATE OK NEW YORK, EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. Albany, March 9, 1899. Hon. H. C. Lodge, Senate Chamber. Washington, D. C. Dear Cabot: Chandler* end the others who voted for the absurd $300 pries for armor will have a heevy load on their souls If In the course of the next four or live years we are forced into a war with a foreign power. To vote against war, to vote against peace, to vote against Increasing the army, or to vole to cripple the navy—upon my word, It Is hard to have patience with the man who la guilty of any of them! We may have serious work In Cul* nnd the Philippines, and I only hope that in doing It we shall not display the qualities displayed by the demo cratle opposition; by Hoar. Hale** and the peace at any price men; by the sntl armor plate men: and by Al ger*** and the others who decline to break up the staff departments. Lee****, the British military at lache, told me a lovely story the other day. He met the Russian military at tache In Irfindon and gave him a din ner, at which the Russian waxed elo quent over hla sufferings al Santiago, and a a capping the climax described how when he went to present his re specta and say good-bye to General Shatter, the latter looked at him with hla usual easy polish and grace, and remarked: "'Well good by. Who are you, anvwsy. the Russian nr the German?” I shouted. Think of the feeling" of Yemlloff, the nice little military ami diplomatic pedant, on the one hand, and on Hie other, of good, vulgar Hhafler's magnificent Indlffer erne to ethic and diplomatic niceties! I am getting on here perfectly well, though Ilia legislature l» having rat her a Kilkenny cat lime. Give my besl love to Nannie. Always yours, Til EG1K Bt E IKM >hK V El-T. • Smut nr I'liandlPi, New llprrqtphlr* ••gpnplnrp lisle. Maine. end Hast [ v| ..,«*• Impel t e. I • • • Rilppel A Alter penrelp r> nf war. j *•••£,»» Hurd baa oI Faiahaoi. EXECUTIVE CHAMBER. STATE OK NEW YORK, Albany, March 18, 1899. lion. H. C. Lodge, Holland House, New York, N. T. Dear Cabot: On the whole t jtm thoroughly on 'joying this work, blit I do get ills, heartened now and then. Of course It is not a temporary and slight dis couragement, hut. It seems so difficult to accomplish even a very little and I have encountered so much unreas oning stupidity and sinister opposi tion from men on whose support 1 should be able to count. Well, my worse trials will be over In a month sa far as this year Is concerned and then the next year can take care of Itself. Meanwhile you will be having as righteously earned a. holiday as anv man in the United States could have. On the whole, there Is no man of your age, or younger, in the United States who has quite as much right lo he proud of what lie has accom plished, quite as much right to feel that In his span of years he has done work which so redounds to the honor and advantage of his country. Now 1 do hope all of you will have a thor oughly happy six months. If you see Bryce, Trevelyan, I.ord Spencer or Buxton, give each and all my re gards. 1 know Nannie will enjoy her self thoroughly. Hive my love to her a ml remembrances to the boys. Faithfully yours, T11 KODORK RODS E VE UT. STATE OF NEW YORK, EX EC I m V E CHAMBER. Albany, April 27, 1899. Hon. H. C. Bodge, „ Care .T. S. Morgan A Co., Bankers, London, England. Dear Cabot: I made a speech In which T said that we had equally to dread the cor rupt machine politician and the fool reformer. A large number of gen tlemen, seemingly recognizing the fact that they came tinder the latter head, have written me In Indignant denunciation, and hie Evening Post Is especially hitter about It. Well, the legislature has just ended. and the heavy work, so far as l am concerned. Is over for the year 1899. I think I may say that I have come out of it all right. I am on excellent terms with Senaor Platt, lie has treated me admirably til every way and Is, I believe, equally satisfied with the way I have treat ed him, except that I have not been able to back up aome of his views about corporations. Frank Black, like Kllhu Hoot.* has occasion ally appeared before me on behalf of im-poralion measures. It has hap pened that I have decided against both of them in every rase. I men tloned this to the senator, saving that I was really sorry for It. but, of course, I felt that they should appear before me exactly as they would ap pear before the supreme court, when any corporation measure for which they had a retainer was concerned. He told me he absolutely agreed with me. I have had great success with my appointments. I do not believe there Is a single one that I have made that was open to any serious criticism, and on the whole. I believe they average better than those made by any gov ernor during as long a time as I can remember. I got an excellent civil service law passed a first (lass rapid transit bill, and first class measure for taxing franchises -or rather for laying the foundation In the matter of taxing franchises; together with a sweat shop bill, the factory Inspec tor's bills, a good tmnklng law, etc., etc. Altogether I am pretty well sails fled with what l have accomplished, f do not misunderstand In the least what it means—or rather, how little It may mean. New York politics are kaleidoscopic and 18 months hence I msy he an much out of kelter with thf machine that there will be no pose! blllty of my renomlnatlon, and If re nominated, my own conduct, or mere ly the general drift of events, msy make It Impossible to reelect me: hut at least I have a substantial sum of achievement to my credit In the governorship already, and X have kept every pledge, expressed or im plied, that I made on the stump orr anywhere else. So much for my own parochial poli ties. As regards tlia nation at large, I do wish that President McKinley would get rid of Alger! Bryan is, X believe, a good deal stronger t^an he was three years ago. and It looks now us though It was going to he a aerl oils struggle 111 1900. Of course, Mc Kinley uniat he re nominated: so the success of the republican party de pends upon him. I believe that we shall carry him through, even with Alger, but when one lins to make n bard fight there Is no use of handi capping one's self. While Alger Is In the cabinet T si ways have a feeling of uneasiness about Cuba and the Philippines. We need to exercise much care In the former and to show unyielding reso lution In the latter. There nre sytnp loins apparently of a breakup smnng I he Philippine Insurgents, but If It does not come soon, I wish that Mc Kinley would mobilize about 35.1)00 volunteers and send a large fores to the Islands. Ever yours, THBODerfeot|y pre|M»ateroUP Incident of cnnlemporary popular delualon la 'hill Admiral Schley* oil hie wax through the wcat Ip being llonlr.ed with a mad enlhtiaiaam. Since I wrote you I called an extra xenalou of the leglnUtUre, and aftei a very doubtful and aiulous struggle won a complete triumph. Platt, as was to be expected, bitterly and fran tically opposed the Ford bill taxing franchises. As with every other poll 'leal leader of his type where the boss svstem obtains, his power rests In great part upon the money con tributed by the corporations, J-fe was influenced to defend them partly by this consideration and partly by his honorable desire to acknowledge the benefits he had received from them; and partly because, like most old men, he Is very conservative in such matters, and fails to see that to meet a just popular demand is often the best possible way of preventing a perfectly unjust popular demand, and that to do justice in the one case strengthens one in resisting Injustice in the other. He and Depew and the rest were crazy to have me veto the bill. To this I would not consent. But the bill was crude in form and there were two or three extremely desirable amendments, . notably one which would give the state the power of making the assessment, and I offered to call the legislature to gether for the purpose of making these amendments. At first they could not decide whether the corporations would be willing to have the amend ments made: for not a few of them preferred to be blackmailed by Tain many rather than pay their just due* to au honest board of state assessors. Finally, however, the best made up their minds to try for honesty, and I’lutt then told me lie wished the ex tra session called. Thereupon we be gan to prepare a new' hill, and here the attorneys for the corporations (including Frank Platt) tried to sell toe a gold brick, by putting in seem ingly innocent provisos which would have made the taxation a nullity. I told them that unless they passed the bill exactly as I wished It, I should sign the Ford bill; for having the Ford bill In my hands gave me the complete mastery of the situation. They then all went in In good faith to pass my amendments. The demagogues and Tammany now became my opponents; hut we held every republican vote In the sen ate. which was the close and doubt ful body, and gained three democrats, and the net result is that we have on the statute books the most important law passed In recent times by any American state legislature; and we have to our credit a perfectly clean record in appointments and legisla tion for the session and a great deal of positive work of a good character accomplished. Moreover the break that was threatened between myself and the machine over the Ford hill has been healed by the passage of the amendments. I do not mean to soy that they will entirely forgive me, or that they won't cut my throat when the time comes, hut they will act with me, so far as I can see, dur ing my term, so that I shall have the chance of making a success rather than a failure. I am very tired, for I have had four years of exceedingly hard work without a break, save for changing from one kind of work to another. Ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEVELT. Hon. IT. C. Hodge, tare J. S. Morgan * Co., Bankers. Hondon, Enftland. •The Crt -it rnverey ns to whether gchtey er Sampson deserved rre.tlt for the psval victory s' Santiago waa At Its height. M'ufrs! Sampson had been In 'ammsmt. but was teniDorsrtly Absent when the Spanish squadron etnergs.l frnnt Santiago harbor on July 3. 1H98, so that the t'ntlrd States ahtpA 'wars under th* Immediate direction of Commodore Schley. STATE OF NEW YORK. K X KCt *TI V K CHAM BE H Oyster Bay, N. T. July 1, 1899. Hon. H. C. Dodge, Care J. P. Morgan A Do., bankers. J„ondon, Kng. Dear Cabot: I have just come back from a week in the west where I went to attend my regimental reunion at Eas Vegas, it would really bo difficult to express mv surprise sr the way 1 was greet ed. At every station at which tlie* train stopped in Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas. Colorado and New Mexico. 1 was re ceived hv dense throngs exactly as if I had been a presidential candidate. My reception caused some talk, so I thought it better to conie out in an interview stating that of course I was for President McKinley s nomi nation, and that every one should be for it, and giving the reasons. Equal ly, of course. T am for llohnrt's* re nomination, if he will take It. Now as to what you say about the vice presidency. Uuriosly enough Edith is against your view and I am Inclined to be for It. I am for It on the perfectly simple ground that 1 re gard my position as utterly unstable and that I appreciate ns well ss any one can how entirely ephemeral is the hold 1 have for a moment on the voters. I arn not taken in by the crowds in the west or by anything else In the way of vociferous enthus hum for the moment. It would If tive veins before It would inateilsl i/.e and I have never yet known a hurrah to endure five years, so I should b* Inclined to accept any hon orable position; that the vice pi eel deucy Is. As a matter of fa»t. I have not the slightest idea that 1 could get it, If I did doc Me to take It. and I should feel like taking any honor able position that offered itself. On tlie other hand, I confess T should like a position with more work In It. If I were a serious pcs sihllity for 19<>4. I should feel there was very much In what you any, but 1 do not think we need concern our • elves over the chances of the light nlng striking roe at that time l.ither than any other one of a thousand men. Meanwhile I could do more work In two years of the governor ship, although f might get myself to a tangle. What T should really most like would be to bo re elected govei nor with a first class lieutenant gov ernor. and then be offered the sec refaryehlp of war for four years. Of couras it would be even better If 1 could become United States senator, but of that 1 do not see any « liruice Of all the work that I would like to undertake, that of secretary of wai appeals to me most. There I think I really could do something, but of course I have no Idea that Mckinhv will put me in the position East night I dined with Wood and Oreene and w»» went over at length the problems in tuba and I lie Philip pine*. | have been growing snloiislv concerned about both, and this morn ing I decided to send to John Hay a If Iter of which I enclose a ♦ «*p\ Hav ing Ju«t come out In an interview fot I Ui» » v I'titoinlualjon, thought lie might tolerate a little ad \lce. I do not suppose it will do the least good, hut 1 wrote on the off chance. My week's railroading In the west put the finishing touch and I am now feeling completely tired out. i hope to have six weeks of practically solid uest before me, for I have worked pretty hard during the last four years. Give my best to Nannie and the hoys. Occasionally we see cables in the papers about you. Kver yours, T H B<) DO R K ROOSK V KI ,T. •Garret A Hobart, vi-e president of ilia United Slate*. (Following 1" the princ ipal part of the Ion* letter which Governor Roosevelt *ent to John Hay. to which he referred in the foregoing letter to Senator Lodge.) July 1, 1$09. Hon. John Hay, Secretary of State, Washington, D. C. Mv Dear Mr. Secretary: Next to the man who is importun ing for office ranks in the scale of nuisances and bores the man who gives advice. I am about to put my self in the latter catgory. If you think it worth while after reading this letter, pray show it to the president. As a preliminary, let me say what I take for granted you know, viz: that 1 am heartily In favor of Pies ident Mc Kinley’s renomlnatlon, as I have said publicly. Moreover, I am heartily in favor of Mr. Hobart's re nomination for the vice presidency, and I have no earthly interest in what I am going to say except my interest as an American In the first place, and as a republican in the second. I am uneasy at the way things seem to be going both in the Philip pines and in Cuba. In Cuba we may lay up for ourselves infinite trouble if we do not handle the people with a proper mixture of firmness, cour tesy and tact. In the Philippines we are certain to invite disaster unless we send ample forces, and what is even more important, unless we put these forces under some first class man. Both in Cuba and in the Phil ippines, what we obviously need, and need at once, is to have some man put In supreme command in whom we can absolutely trust and to whom we give the widest liberty of action. Wood in Cuba. All this is of course sufficiently obvious as to seem almost trite. The great point is in choosing the men. I most earnestly urge the wisdom of the president putting Major General Wood in command of all Cuba, with a complete liberty to do what he deems wisest in shaping our policy for the island, and with complete control over every other military and civil officer, and I also very earnest ly urge that Maj. Gen. Francis A*. Greene be recalled to tbe service add put in complete command of the Philippines, being allowed the freest possibly hand, with instruc tions not simply to defend Manila, nut to assume aggressive operations and to harass and smash the insur genst in every wav until they are literally beaten into peace; enter Thls does not represent any sudden impulse on my part, hut it is my very best judgment. arrived at after months of thought—months during which I have gotten hundreds of sidelights from soldiers, sailors, civil ians and, in short, eye witnesses of every kind in the Philippine* and Cuban matters. We need tact and judgment just a* much as we need firmness In Cuba now. Wood is a born diplomat, just as he is a born soldier. I question if any nation In the world has now, or has had with in recent time, anyone so nearly ap proaching the ideal of a military ad ministrator of the kind now requir ed In Cuba. Perhaps one or two of the Knglishmen who have appeared a peculiar faculty for getting on with the Spaniards and Ctilmns. They like him, trust him, amt down In their hearts are afraid of him. lie alwavs pays deference not only to their prin* < iples but to their prejudices. He is scrupulously courteous unit polite. He understands their needs, material and moral, and he also undet stand* their sensitiveness and their spit it of punc tilio. Finally, he is able, while show ing them entire courtesy and thoughtful consideration, to Impress upon them the fact that there can he no opposition when one* he has made up Ms mind. Wood, as you know, has just re fused an offer of $30,000 a year from as big a combination of capitalists ns there is in tlie country. Greene has risen to be one of the leading busi ness men in New York. Kach has shown to pei fed Ion those rare quail ties which fit a man 10 emceed in business because they fit him to Ini tiate, direct and supervise 1 he most complicated and difficult lilts of Ad ministration. Kadi has remarkable executive capacity. The objection will at once be raised that Wood is a young man who has already had very rapid promotion, and that he should not be put over the head* of his seniors; and that Greene should not be recalled to military life when he is now in civil life, and put over the heads of his seniors. Un-i doubtedly to take such action would invite a great deal of criticism of the wooden headed sort. To this criti cism absolutely not one particle of heed should be paid, and the objection counts for literally nothing. If we are going to try to administer Cuba and conquer the Philippines on the seniority plan, w'e had better aban don the two jobs at once, and it is not possible to carry either through successfully on such terms. We have got to push up our best men, wholly without regard to seniority, just as they were pushed up in the civil war. in Cuba and the Philippines we now have and have had some excellent men and some entirely unfit men who are failures now ami have been fail ures of the most striking kind in the past. Hut tire best of them, however good, lack some of the qualities, if only the qualities of youth and bodily vigor w'hlch it is indispensable should be possessed by the man who is put in command of the entire business. Success at Santiago. Wood has administered Santiago with absolute success. Greene was one of the chief factors in the cap lure of Manila and knows exactly what ought to be done. Give to the first the complete control of Cuba and to the second the complete control of Luzon. In Wood’s case there will not be so much as a jar, save from politicians. If any general does not like to serve under him, take that general home. If the friends of any general complain that they think that general Ill-treated by being passed by or relieved, simply answer that we are not concerned with private feelings but with results for the nation as a whole, and that nothing whatever but results will be heeded. With Wood in command I venture the assertion that you would speedily have part of the regulai force now in Cuba foot loose for the Philippine campaign, that yotl would have ne* essar^ ad ministrative reform inaugurated; and that the island would speedily he on the path to content and prosperity. In the appointment of Greene there would be rather more serious disloca tion. and I lake it for granted that he would not be sent out to the Philip pines until he had had a < hance to do something toward organizing the! forces to be sent there in the fall; but if were sent out and-were given complete control over the division commanders whom he thought best, and were allowed as free a hand as possible. I most emphatically believe that he would smash the whole Aguinaldo business in the campaign l>eginning when the rainy season closed, and meanwhile would organ ize a civil government which would work well. In short, he would put the Islands upon an entirely satisfac tory footing, for you have got to have a man able to stait a civil govern ment, no less than able to crush the Insurgents, and he would leave of the host lies’ only enough at the outside to justify suc h a subaltern's war, as for instance, the English carried on in Burma h for a couple of yeais after they took Mandalay. t rges Other Change*. There a#e one or two other points I should like to lay before the presi dent. For instance. I earnestly hope that in appointing the officers of the rew volunteer regiments, these regi ments will he given to young regular officers who shall he their colonels, and that under them shall stand of fleers who did well in battle or in camp last summer. For instance, it a regiment should he given to Cap tain Robert E. llowze who was with the cavalry at Santiago on (leneral Sumner’s staff, and is now’ at West Point, I would guarantee that he would do the government credit, es pecially if you would let him take among his volunteer officers men such as 1 can recommend; that is. rnen from my old regiment like Dame, Fortescue and others, or men from the New York regiment like Andrews, and any nutnhei more whom 1 could enumerate. But this is not the point about whic h I am writing you. W hat I am writing you is to urge as strongly as I know how that the president give Wood complete control in Cuba and Hreene complete control in the Phil ippines, making them understand that if they fail, why their chance is gone and they shall he superseded by others but that they shall he given every possible backing: and if ’ids is done I am sure that they will suc ceed I’nless von think it unwise, I wish you would show this letter to the president, and if he cares to talk to me about it. I should like to come on. Senator Platt, I know, would hearti ly bark up CIreene and Wood, and so would Lodge, and these are the two senators from their state. Very faithfully yours. THEODORE ROOSEVE LT. ppos t.nn to Roosevelt's rereivlng the med.il of honor for valor In the war. At the time of Algers resignation. Roosevelt was urj; ln»r President McKinlev to appoint Leon aid Wood governor generai of Cuba ) STATE OF NEW YORK. KXE« I’TI VE CHAMBER. ALBANY. At Oyster Bay. N. Y. July 21, 1SW. Hon. H. C. Lodge. Fare J. S. Morgan & Co., Bankers. London, England. Rea r Cabot: After sending my letter to John Ilay I received from the president a cordial invitation to go to Washing ton and spend a night at the White House. I accordingly went on and he received me with the utmost hearti ness. being evidently very much pleased at my having come out for him. As soon as I saw him I told him I wanted first of all to say that nothing real could l*e done while Al ger remained secretary* and that whether Alger were right or wrong, the enormous majority of the Ameri can people regarded him as a corse, and that his retention was a source of the greatest danger to the admln miat ration. I felt It to he of the utmost Impor tance that he should regard me as wholly disinterested, and sf? I told him that I wished It distinctly un derstood that 1 was not a candidate for the position of secretary of war and could not leave the governor ship of New York now, and that I spoke as 1 did simply as an Ameri can and as a republican who felt that the welfare of our party, and. what was more important, of the country, was concerned in the presi dent's re-election, and that-Alger was the greatest bar to it and the great est bar to our bringing the affaiis of the Islands Into proper shape. He not only list ended to me with utmost attention, but, although he answered guardedly, gave me poetically the as surance that Alger's days were num bered. As r.n Wood, 1 fear the president thought I was Influenced mainly by by personal feelings. 1 assured him that this was not the ease; that 1 advised as I lid because I honestly thought Wood Imd developed quali ties which filled him for the peculiar work in t'nlia. making him stand a head above everyone else and waist high above General Ilrooke. lie has given Wood another province which is of course so much to the good, but he cannot make up his mind to lake a decided sland in the matter. Wood believes that we should not promise or give the i’uhans Inde pendence: that we should govern them justly and equitably, giving them all possible opportunities for civic and military advancement, amt that In two or three years they will Insist upon being part of us. My parochial affairs seem to be get ting along all right. I have devoted inyself to them this year, and to good purpose But of course It is really the larger interests of our country that give me concern and that inter est me. Give my warm love to Xannie and the boys: Kdith sends her to ail of you. 1 am delighted that you had a chance to meet Balfour* and the rest and wish 1 could have been over with you, but I have had very little let up In my work. However, at pres, ent 1 have all my afternoons free ami am rowing almost every day, with Edith, aumetimes for aeveral hours, taking our lunch with ua, and am in fine trim. Ever yours, THEODORE ROOSEVEI.T. •A. J. Balfour, now' lx>rd Balfour. (To He < ©ntlmied Tomorrow > Making a Pal of Onions How Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets Have Tamed Them, Fried or Raw, For People With Timid Stomachs. CL ew one or two of the large fltjart'* L>yaj>*p*la Tablet* after you mu and yuu'll have no troubl* wltb li V r Itetk and Omtmmmt •■re! gag B«fl •Iklap the Oriar. onion*. pork and benna, mine# pla with cheeae, aatiaage and buck w h »*;i t a, rich cream In your coffee an l »<> on. 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Saturate a clean cloth with C arbona, using it freely, and gently rub the Ctease Spot back and forth with a sweeping motion as illustrated —never rub in circles. Raise your hand at the end of each stroke after passing the edge of the spot. ( This blends the edges of the spot cleaned with the rest of the fabric and prevents a ' *ring V Rub gently as it is the Car bona that clean*, not the rubbing tall* GARPQNA Cleaning FI Removes Grease Spots Viihout infurv to ftibnr or Color B> XV0.4S s,M I^tw. « a rw* I 11 It hns long been recognized that thr 1^0108 most effective way to treat colds is to __ apply the medication directly to the Q1 11 A1 affe. ted part*. This of course . an onouia /zlW&V8 only be done by means of vapors that , ■ ... . . . mil he inhaled I ypofp/i Vicks provides the ideal method of * a securing medicated \gpora. When _ _ i ubhed over throat and . best the In VADOV*^ gredlenta—Menthol, camphor, Ku O mlyptu*. Thyme. Turpentine* are '« ~ policed bv the IhhIv heat an^I inhaled direct 1 v lute* the air passages and ■ ■■ lungs. y. . * At the same time. Vicks is abaorbed, ( ,c * * through and stimulates the skin Ilk# A *P°r H poultice or planter, affording a dull Lamp in 1.1«* a. ti.-n which I Jugs truly remark Salva Form," nhl* results No Doting, You Just Rub It Over Throat and Chest. j - Over 17 Million Japs Used Yearly For Constipation. Headache. Biliousness I f-'*) Goldberg’s Cartoons ' For Bee Readers i We take pleasure in announcing that the • famous cartoons of R. L. Goldberg will ap pear daily in The ! Omaha Bee begin ning April 6. ! Mr. Goldberg has ! been one of the highest paid of all j newspaper artists i for ten years, and | we believe that our readers will be highly entertained by his cleverness a n d originality. H i s w ork is unique. H e h a s never borrowed an idea from any other cartoonist and his style is altogether his own. 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