The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-09-18

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THE END OF THE TURK.
With or without Il European war
the rotten cdif:cp of Turkish misrule is
about to fall 1t has become plain to
the dullest intelligence and the most
indurated conscience that the civilized
powers cannot continue to shore up
this insutferable monument of savagerv
any longer At last the statesmen of
Europe are beginning to talk like hui
man beings. instead Of like the fish
blooded manikins ofdiplomacy. When
some of the Turkish officials in Con-
stantinople had the impudence to re-
quest the foreign residents to sign
memorial thanking the Sultan for pro-
tecting them from injury. and certain
Englishmcn asked Sir Phillip Currie
how they should answer such an appli-
cation. the Ambassador told them to
tear up the document and throw the
pieces in the faces of the men who pre-
scented it. The leaders of British poll
tics habitually refer to the Sultan as
'.thc Assassin" and his deposition is
the mildest course recommended by
the representative organs Ofeither par
ty. More encouraging still, there are
evidences that the conscience of Cont
mental Europe has at last been stirred.
and that the people of the great mill
tary powers are becoming FESTIVE I'M
der the shame of their completely in
wholesale butchery and outrage. The
Nord Deutsche Zeitung, with its as
tonishing defence of massacre rs nee
essary instrument of government,
strikes discordant note. but it does
not delay the rapid progress of the
bloody drama to its predestined catas-
trophe.
The British Cabinet Council which
was held Saturday may he the begin
ming of the end. The Bancroft is about
to start for Constantinople, but it is
not impossible that by the time she
gets there she may find no Sultan, and
perhaps no Turkish Empire, to deal
with-N y. Journal
THE MAINE ELECTION.
Chairman Manley sent the following
telegram to VI. A. Hanna, chairman
of the republican ma tional committee,
at Chicago: "The republican party has
archieved this day the most sweeping
and magnificent victory ever accorded
to any party in the history Of Main.
"We have carried every county in
the State, elected every State Sena-
tor. at least 40 out of 81 members of
the State House Of representatives.
secured every county officer. given
each member of our magnificent dele
CATION in the Hous" of Representatives
the largest majority they ever reached,
elected our candidate for Governor bv
the greatest majority ever given
candidate for that high Office. Endorsed
the st. Louis platform and declared
for Mckinley and Hobert by $4,000
majority.
The republican vote will exceed
by several thousand the largest repub-
lican vote here totore given, and the
vote given the democratic candidate
for Governor is the smallest democrat
ic vote cast, with one single exception
the vote of 1884, which was three
thousand less. What more could
Main have done for the cause of good
government, honest money and protec-
tom"
Bids for the three new battleships
authorized by Congress have been
opened. and if the contracts are award
ed to the lowest bidders the Cramps
will get two of them. their bids being
for two at S2.65O,OOO EACH while the
Newport News Company will be award
ed the other ut S2.595 900. The bids
of the other three bidding firms all
exceed these figures.
1t may he that other considerations
than the lowest lump sums bid will be
given weight by the Navy Department,
and in view of this possibility it would
be unwise to assume that contracts are
rs good as let already. The law re-
qures that they shall be awarded by
October s. and bidders will not be kept
in suspense much longer. Philadel-
phia can hardly fail to get one OF the
ships ut least.
The bids will leave a million dollar
margin to provide armor for each vessel
which is likely to be sufficient. That
the new battle-Ships will he the best
of their kind may be taken for grant
ed. In the matter of new war vessels
the United States Government is
keeping up with the procession. 1t
doesn't boast as big as navy as some
of the European nations, but the
vessels recently built are not Outclass-
eel anywhere.
Since the visit of Lii Hung Chang
the society women have a craze for
everything Chinese. Several New
Y DIRK women have ordered certain
rooms to he decorated in Chinese style,
and by the time winter arrives no home
in Cincinnati will he complete without
its Chinese room or suite. At a
luncheon given last week by the
ComtesSc de Montebello she had the !
walls of her drawing-room hung with |