The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1894-11-02
CIR WASHINGTON LETTER..

too late for him To say Il good Wrrl for
the plucky fight that SENT I Hill i max
inc. hut nothing that he cln now say will,
in the opinion of experienced campaign
cr> do as much good to the party in that
state as a few words spoken clrlcr iii tn =
campaign would have done. Under orli
nary circumstances il would not be con
Sidcrcl ncrrS Sarv for the President to say
that he wishes to see the ticket nominated
by his party in any state elected. but IN
New York. even aside from the known
personal relations existing between the
President and Senator Hill, there are
peculiar circumstances which made Suc'i
al expire sion of opinion desirable, II ct
only for its effect upon the vote cnst for
the State ticket but to aid til" democratic
ctndidatcS in the Congrc> Sional districts.
Althou r. no stock is taken here in the
claim of the government of Germ my that
it decree prohibiting the importation of
American cattle and dressed beef was is
sued because there was Texas fever in two
cargoeS of American cattle, lately carried
t. tint country, the Department of Agri-
culture has taken steps to investigate the
claim. If it be true. "a believed, tint
GsrmanvS real reason is to retaliate, be-
cause of the tliferential duty on her sugar
imposed bv the new tariff, somebody has
blunderel, and the blunder may defeat
the intention, already eXpres-e |, t. repeal
that duty at tie coming session of Con
gre'S.
Repre- sentative Davey, of Louisiana,
was in Washington on business several
days ago, says the talk about elec.ing SCI
eral republican Congressman from tut
State, which the republicans are indulging
in strikes him as being absurd. He thinks
the only district in which the revolving
sugar planters are numerous and int1uel-
| tal enough to have even a fighting chance
of defeating the democratic candidate for
Congress is the Second, and that the dem
ocratS will carry that by a very small mar
| Gin. The other five Congressional dis
tricts he says. will be certain to 90 demo
| cratic, as usual.
1t is difficult to see where the republic
| cans are To Hldht lHt gains HtttSSal. W
deprive the democrats of the present Large
majority in the House, when the returns
of the careful canvass made by democrats
in every section of the country. now being
rcStudcd. From Indiana. where the re
publicanS have been claiming everything,
comes the news that the democrats will
certainly carry ten of the eleven Congress
| ional districts carried by them in 1892, and
| has Il good chance to carry the eleventh;
| from Wisconsin. where ridiculous claims
have also been made by republic ms, comes
| the declaration that the democrats will be
certain to carry five of the six districts
they carried in W with fighting chance
in two other districts and from North
Carolina, where the republicans and pop
uliStS have formed Il fusion which at one
time did look dangerous. comes the as ur-
| ancc that the lc rislaturc, which will elect
two L. :. Senators, will certainly be dem
ocratic and that the Congressional dele
CATION will be solidlv democratic, a gain
| of one member.
Senator Faulkner. who, in addition to
| the knowledge he has required as chair
man of the Congressional campaign com
mittcc knows the district as we'll as the
voters personally and thoroughly, says he
regards chairman Wilson's reelection to
Congress as being weil-nigh certain, and
he would regard it as absolutely certain
were it not for the fear that large sums of
money, which report says has been con
tributed by the protected manufacturers
who are so anxious to defeat Mr.. Wilson,
will be spent in the outright purchase of
votes. There is no law providing for "a
registration of voters in West Virginia.
consequently there is some opportunity
| for the manipulation of a large crooked
| floating vote. However. Senator Faulk
ner says this danger will be minimized by
| the vigilance of the democrats. OF course
no amount of vigilance can prevent legal
voter selling his vote, if he be so disposed,
but thev can be detected and both they and
their brbers punished and they will be-
| wherever possible
| If | were asked said a democrat of
national reputation, ito criticise the VIZ
| done by the democratic Congressional cam
paign committee, this year, | know of but
one thing with which | should find fault.
| | don't think the committee has made the
fusion of the republicans with the popu-
| lists in six states as wild .lv known in some
| sections of the country as it Sh ould. |
| think democratic votes would have been
| made in the Middle and Eastern States if
| in no other section. by widely advertising
| the fact that the republicans We're sup
porting populiSt candidates for Congress
| in Virginia, North Carolina. Georgia. Ala
hama. Arkansas and Texas. while mem
berS of the same party We're asking the
,otes of the business men of other States
on the ground th,t it was the only party
which believe in an honest AM sprnl
financial system. The Am"i'ic N p"p BE 10
not believe in hioo,'i$v. il polite; or in
anything else, ana it wp1'i have pal | the
democrats to have II ,wl II t'li> rrrlhl-
an du2licitv"
One drrth from smallpox and one nev
case AMI one suspected case has been re
porte to the health o1ite William
Owens, a messenger of the Interior De
Oartmcnt, who has been in the hpSpital
for several days died TUESDAY Van Buren,
Norwood, a clerk in the carSuS bureau.
which is connected with the Interior De
rartmcnt, was stricken at his hone in
Hyattsrillc, and investigation by a sur
gcon Of the marine hos pitnl burclu vtri
lied the suspicion that he hal sntll-pov.
The suSpcrtc crSc is that of another IN
'crior Department clerk who resides at
Jarrett Park. Il suburban village but the
nature of the disc use has not been deter
nine |. Every cl~c 50 far developed is !
directly traccablc to Judge CASTOR. The |
father of the child who died of what was
reported at the hospital rs chicLcn-poN.