The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1895-07-05
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Jul,

| W H. ~, July l.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Thc democratic part,
| looks more like winner to-day than i
| has at any time since the disastrous Con
gressional election, last November. The
| country is daily becoming more prosper
| Gus, and, just as the floating voters hello
| the democratic party responsible for the
| hard times which were natural cOnse
quence of the thirty years of republican
class legislation, the same class of voters
will next year give the democratic party
| credit for their increased prosperity, and
| in that they will be right. The Treasury
too, is beginning to feel the increase in the
| country's prosperity. The revenues for the
month of June were 100000 in excess
| OF the expenditures, something that has
not occurred for quite while before
But the principal reason why the demo
| cratic party is again looking like a winner
| is that It's members are liz all directions
announcing their intention to get together
The split which many foresaw and others
feared as the result of the silver fight with
in the party lines will not materialiZe, I'M
less some of the shrewdest men in the
party are mistaken in their calculations
The fight isn't over by any means, but it
Is asserted by prominent silver and anti
silver democrats that it will be over when
the National Convention shall have acted
upon it, and that the platform adopted by
that convention and the national ticket
nominated will be Loyalty supported by
both silver and anti silver democrats In
other words, both sides will fight to carry
the convention, and will accept the dccis-
ion of the convention.
Another reason why the democratic par
ty looks like winner may be found in ex-
isting republican dissenSions. The repub-
lican party in the great states of Pennsyl-
vania, Ohio and New York is divided in
to two bitterly hostile camps, warning, not
for principle, but for the supremacy of
personal bosses. While democrats are
hardly sanguinc enough to expect the
fight between the Quay and anti Quay fac
lions in Pennsylvania to result in the cIec-
toral vote of that state being cast for the
democratic candidate, they certainly have
good reason to hope that the wran Cling
between the followers of Foraker and
those of sherman and Mckinley, in Ohio.
and Of the Platt and anti-platt republicans
in New York will result in landing both
of those states in the democratic column
next year.
Secretaries Smith, Morton and Herbert
are just at present the big three. they be
ing the only members of the cabinet now
in Washington. Attorney General Har-
mon is expected this week
With the fiscal year, beginning to-day,
many changes provided for by Congress
went into effect in the departments In
addition to the material reduction of force
in the pension office, scvcnty-siX clerks in
that office had their salaries reduced in or
der to bring the salary total inside Of the
appropriation.
My soul, what splutter those lame
ducks are making i'll the pond ofthe Coast
and GeOdetic Survey, although General
DutticldS gun was not very heavily charg-
ed. Every one who is at all familiar with
the different phases of official life in Wash
ington has noted the air of proprietorship
which is assumed by many of the men who
are employed in the alleged scientific
branches of the government. These men
draw salaries running from 81 900 to So
600 wear, have been in Office from. ten to
forty wears, and are mostly wcll-to- do and
some of them actually rich The majority
of them come and 90 when they please
and spend more time working for private
parties than they do working for the GOV
eminent. They have succeeded fairly well
in the past in muzzlin@ criticism by calling
the critics ignorant and accusing them Of
being unable to appreciate or understand