Watch The Game

WATCH THE GAME
     There is apparently going to be a whole lot of fun in Washington on or about the 11th and 12th of the present month, when the republican national committee meets for the purpose of selecting the time and place for the holding of the next republican national convention. There is pretty certain to be an attempt made at that meeting to fire the Hon. Perry S. Heath, secretary of the republican national committee. The late report of Hon. Joseph Bristow, fourth assistant postmaster general, has thrown the harpoon into Mr. Heath with all the energy of a man who wanted to get even for some things, and that report has stirred up the president to the sticking stage, and he says that Mr. Heath must go. Senator Hanna, the chairman of the committee, is the friend of Heath, and he is as insistent that Mr. Heath must not be disturbed. This presents an issue at once between the president and the senator from Ohio, who is the real leader of the republican party. The president apparently forgets that he did not make up the present national committee of the republican party, which wields the influence and controls things until its successor is elected at the next national republican convention, but that it was made up by McKinley and Hanna, and therefore is under the control of Hanna. This being the case, the committee is likely to accept the dictum of Hanna and refuse to "fire" Heath. That will discredit Roosevelt and at the same time place the republican part in the attitude of working in the interest of a man who practically has been indicted for boodling in the postoffice department. There is going to be a warm time and much republican dirty linen will be washed for the delectation of the general public.  It will be a straight fight between Hanna and Roosevelt, with chances somewhat uncertain. Watch the game.