The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-10-26
OR WASHINGTON LETTER.

White House this week and it is presumed,
although not Vet certain, that Mrs. Clcvc-
land and the children will accompany him,
The White House has been cleaned from
cellar to garnet. a force of men having been
working from the day the President and
his family left until Saturday night to
brighten up things for the winter season.
Secretary Carlisle has almost consented
to deliver several speeches in Indiana and
New York and the pressure Is 50 great that
there is little doubt that he will in the end
succumb 1t was not because he had any
objection to making speeches or doing any
thing else that is proper to aid the demo
cratic party that he at first declined to
make these speeches. but because he Is
very busy and expects to continue so I'M
til after the meeting of Congress, and be-
cause he was so modest as to he unable to
see the Importance that democrats all over
the country will attach to his speeches.
The last is the hardest to overcome. BY
working overtime he can make up for time
lost but it is difficult to convince a man
as free from anything approaching the big
head as Secretary Carlisle is that anything
he may say or do will be Il powerful fac
tor towards the success of his party.
Secretary Gresham who returned from
Chicago few days ago, says he found the
democrats of Illinois in better shape than
he expected from newspaper accounts OF
! l.. l.. H., |,
will hold its own in the Congressional
districts and will control the legislature,
which will elect Senator Cullon's successor.
Now for a surprise. | have just learned
from trustworthy source that there is Il
strong probability that Secretary Gresham
will speak. both in Illinois and Indiana.
before the close of the campaign.
Mr. T. O. Towles, a prominent official
of the House, has just returned from his
home in Missouri He has carefully in
vcstigatcd the political situation in the
State and his judgment is regarded good
by all who know of the accuracy of the
predictions he has made in previous con-
tests He says that the democrats are now
workin" harmonously all over the State
and are certain to hold their own in Con-
gressional districts, and have a good fight
inc chance to send solid delegation to
the next House Missouri is one of the
states in which the republican campaign
committee has been figuring, or at least
claimin" to figure, on big gains.
Every prominent democrat who has
been in Washington for the last two or
three days endorses the action of Senator
Hill, in allowing the democratic State
ticket to be printed on the Union or anti
Tammany municipal ticket. as well as on
the Tamany ticket, as not only good poll
tics. but under the circumstances absolute
ly necessary politics. They feel that
Senator Hill was perfectly right in deelin-
ing to make the success of the State ticket
dependent upon the election of the Tam
many ticket, as it would have been had
the State ticket been printed only upon
the Tammanv ticket While reports from
New York are far from satisfactory most
democrats are still confident that Hill will
Win
In view of the action of Judge Larcombc
of New York, in denying the application
for writ of habeas corpus in the case of
Morton's English coachman, who has been
ordered dcported for having come to
America in violation of the alien contract
labor law, and deciding that the Secretary
of the Treasury alone had the authority to
decide whether the claim made, that the
man was Mr.. Mortons domestic servant
and therefore exempt from the law i'll
question, was valid, Secretary Carlisle has
directed that the immigration board of re
view at Ellis Island make a thorough in
veStigation, and report to him, in order
that he may finally decide the case. There
is no politics in it so far as Secretary Carl
isle is concerned. He regrets the decision
of Judge Larcomhc believing that ii puts
more authority in the hands of the Sccre-
tary of the Treasury than the trainers of
the law intended he should have, but will,
of course. make the decision