The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-05-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


Mr. Mckinley paid Il big
price for the support of the \. L. A. Moth
ing less than a written pledge to live up to
the principles of that organization should
he be nominated and elected President
This pledge was obtained by Il committee
of three sent by the Supreme Council of
the A. p. A. to see Mckinley personally
and report back to the Council. The visit
was supposed to be kept secret and Satur-
DAYS papers contained atelegram stating
that Mckinley denied having been waited
upon by an A. p. \. committee, but when
that denial was published. the written
pledge, signed by Mckinley. which to all
| intents and purposes makes him member
| of the A. p. A., was in W ashin gton and
| being discussing by the members of the
| Supreme Council who had been awaiting
| the return of their committee with eonsidi
| cradle Impotence. With that pledge, and
| it is said IA considerable expenditure of
| money, it did not take the Supreme Coun-
| ell long to undo the anti Mckinley work
! of the Advisory committee, and to Vlrtu-
| ally hitch the organization to tine tail of
the Mckinley kite. .. ... .,,..... ,.... d.
| Gar Reed has assumed his crown and
has abandoned the conriliatorv, you' re IL
| good-fellow style which he. assumed rs n
candidate for his party's presidential nom
nation and again become the all;ocrat of
| the House that he used to be. He has also
resumed the habit of making enemies by
firing sarcastic cpigrams at members who
| give him an opening either on the floor
| of the House or in private conversations.
The meaning of all this is perfectly plain
| Mr.. Reed secs Mckinley shadow on the
wall and no longer regards himself as in
| the Presidential running He can have
the second place, but it is said that he will
! not take it unless he finds il necessary to
| keep it from going to some man like Scna-
| tor Proctor or to Senator Quay, both of
whom he thinks betrayed him. Ii he takes
| the second place it is said that he will he
| open to the charge of treaehcrv to tliccom-
bine, each member of which pledged hin-
self to make no deal with Mckinley.
The Democratic Senators were unani-
nous in their belief that Col. Dupont. of
Delaware, was not entitled to Il seat in the
| Senate, and as the populists voted with
them Dupont was turned down by Il MT
| jority of |. 1t was thought that some of
| the republicans would vote against Du-
pont, but such strong party pressure Was
brought to bear that those who would not
swallow their convictions outright by
| voting for him allowed themselves to he
paired, which amounted to the same thing.
1t can be positively stated that the demo
| Gratis did not offer the pOpuliStS Il single
| inducemcnt to vote against Dupont Asi..c
from their convictions, there were several
| strong reasons for doing SO anyway not
the least of which would have been their
! loss of the balance of power in the Senate
if Dupont had been seated. ..#
At least one important office has sought
| man, and found him before he knew it
was after him. Mr.Dominick l. Murphy, of
Pennsylvania, who has been nominated to
succeed Commissioner Lochren, who has
| been nominal ed to United States Judge of
the Minnesota district, got the first news
| of his promotion from Il newspaper bullc
tin board Gen. Dana has been nominated
to succeed Mr.. Murphy as first De, M y
! Commissioner of Pensions. He has ben
| chief of Il division in the office for IL long
| time Doe
| W hen man gets 4 reputation for dodg-
| ing, such as Senator Allison, of Iowa. has
had for many years, he cannot come out
tiatfooted upon any important question
| without creating a sensation and stirring
| up Il nest of Interrogation points. That is
| just what Senator Allison'S square state
| ment in favor of the gold standard and
| against the free coinage of silver has done.
MIR. Allison has been Il sort of Presiden-
| tial candidate for twenty years and has
|
everybody in his party. His entirely un-
expected declaration is taken to mean that
| he. like Jonn sherman, has come to the
conclusion that he will never get tile PrcSi
Dental nomination of his party and that
it is useless t" longer keep up the trouble
some habit of dodyin" '...
The Senate has adopted another Cuban
resolution. This time it asks the PrcSi-
dent to furnish it with the details of what
has been done and what it is proposed To-
do towards seeing what Americans arrest
ed by the Spanish in Cuba are not deprived
of any of their treaty rights. This rfSnlu-
ton was probably adopted more for its eff
feet upon the Spanish than for infurma
ton, rs every Senator must have known
the prompt and vigorous steps taken 10y
the administration which ledto the setting
aside of the sentence of death imposed
upon several Americans by Il Spanish
Court Martial and the ordering of the civ
il trial for the prisoners Gen FitZ Lee
has received his final instructions and will
this week 90 to Cuba. \ great deal of rot
has been written about these Instructions
| As matter of fact they are probably
known only to President Cleveland. Sec
rotary Olnev and General Lee and il is
certain that neither of them would talk
about them for publications. What has
been published on the subject is GUESS
| work. ......