The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1895-07-12
Washington Letter.


rom Our nSSuIdr
WASHINGTON, July S.-Much is heard in
Washington about the Quay and anti Quay
fight in Pennsylvania. Nobody would care
much under ordinary circumstances whether
Quay continued to boss the Republicans of the
Keystone state or gave way TO Hastings
Wunamaler or some other boss, but the PrcSi-
Dental politics i'll the fight is what has excited
general interest. IL is really the first OF long
string OF fights for the control of State dciega-
tuns to next years Republican National Con
yentiOn. Senator Cameron was egOtiSticul
enough at one time TO think that he could get
the de cg :tion for himself. but he doesn't link
So now he will he very lucky indeed if he can
succeed in holding on to his seat IN the Senate.
Quay was supposed to be for Mckinley, but he
has recently come out for Reed. Wanumaker
is, Of course, for Harrison. IL is believed that
the result OF the iighE will show which of the
Republican candidates can count uroa the
solid Pennsylvania delegation to the National
Convention. and that the wi"ner will have
taken II long step tjwa Dis getting the nOmi-
patton.
Many people appear to he under the impress
sion that the entire South is in IL while heat on
account of Political discussions. hut that isn't
the way men directly from that section who
occnpy positions which enable them Ia speak
nuthoritatively on DoItical subjects, talk. For
instance, Representative BIte. OF Georgia. who
is i'll Washington on business says: "fOiitic;tl
matters in Georgia are very quiet Just now.
The Legislature that will elect SENATOR Cor
dams successor will not bc chosen until next
year, and there is little talk now about candi-
dates. Our people are busy getting in their
crops. which, | am glad to SLY, promise to be
good. don't know how the State would go on
the free coinage question. Ii Will he time
enough to settle tnat when we have to vote
upon il, if we ever do" Mr.. Bates statement
doesn't go with the sensational stories, sent
from Washington, concerning the desperate
conflict between ex-Speaker Crisp and Secre-
tary Hoke Smith over that seat in the Senate
truth and sensationalism seldom do
The laugh would seem to be on Professor
Harrington, eX-cnief of the Weather Bureau
and those Washington correspondents he sue
ceeded in stuffing with the story that he was
tician Professor Willis l.. Moore, who is the
new chief of the Weather Bureau, is neither Il
Democrat nor Il politician In fact. he isa Re-
publican, or at least he was Il Republican be-
fore he became connected with the Weather
Bureau; since then he has had no active com
nection with politics. He has been in charge of
the Chicago Office OF the Weather Bureau and
his selection To he chief was made solely on his
merit and record. He proposes to make fore
casts, ut which he has been unusually success
ful. the most prominent wOrh OF the bureau,
and SAYS ON the subject: We cannot predict
Just when rain will occur always, but there is
no excuse for failing to foreeaStseve echdnges
in the weather and remarkable atmospheric
disturbances. Forecasting severe weather
changes | conceive to be the object OF the Of
flee, and in this direction the work viii be
broadened and steadily improved. Forecasts
should be made of severe storms, cold waves,
or remarkable atmospheric changes at least
twelve hours in advance, and the money saved
by one such forecast often times more than
pays the entire cost of this Office for Il year.
Ex-senator Camden, of West virginia, VINO
IS q close observer tnllS sums up Ine pollJlcdl
situation: Two or three months ago |
wouldn't have given II copper for the chances
of the Democratic party. since then there has
been marked change in public sentiment, due
largely 10 the Improvement that has taken
place throughout the country. Cattle have
gone up, so has wheat, so has cotton, so has
iron, so nave wages. All these things rebound
to the credit of the party, and my belief is that
it viii! triumph in 90.
Ex-Governor Campbell passed through
Washington on his way home from New York,
where he made great speech at the big Tam