The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-12-11

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First tour $3ln; second tour, 500; third
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OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsuINGToN. ID. c.. December tn.
MIR. EDIToH:-1ha reign of VI ,rk Han
Ma has opened in Washing on. He Is at
tracing more attention from republican
Senators and Representatives. than the
opening of Congress and the Presidents
message combined, and he seems to be
greatly enjoying it. Congress has no ia
vurS to distribute at this session. while
Hanna has them by the barrel. The re-
publIcanS who have been reelected to
Congress want to work Hanna for their
friends, and those who will c .aSc to draw
Congressional salaries on the :ird of March
are an ious to make connection with 9th
er public salaries at the earliest Fo Isblt
moment thereafter, and they recognize
the necessity of getting on good terms
with Hanna in order to do SO. Hanna has
no particular respect or reverence orany-
thing except money. He welt thr"u I'll
the pretcnSe of listening to protests by the
local republicans against the selection OF
a gold democrat for Chairman of the In
auguration Committee. but he never had
any idea of going back on the promise he
had made to the clique of millionaire lie Al
estate spectators to select the man they
ha named for the place both rs Il reward
for ntril limit ne
of putting Il man under their control in Il
way To ger into the good graceS of McKin
ley and into loc,l otlic. where he can in
fiIence the expenditure of the District of
Columbia funds in way to lcnctit their
investments. If wanted anything from
Hanna, | should hunt up the millionaire
who had contributed to his committee, for
Il hacker, instead of bothcring with politi
Cal influence. Mark regards politics as
simply Il question of money, and not of
principles, and | make the prediction
right now that the millonaireS of the
country will be far more influential with
the Mckinley administration, than the POI
iticians.
How to do nothi while pretending to
be trying to do something. will be the
motto of the republican leaders durin" the
present session of Congress. 1t has been
fully decided at Canton that an extra SEES
sion of Congress shall be called t" pass IA
tariff bill, and that nothing must be done
at this session to give the republican OPP
poncntS of an extra ,e 81 III -! i,l there
are many, an excuse for saying ther Is no
necessity for lie. L der there ,ircu nstaces
this will not be IL difficult task. The reg
ular appropriation bills can easily be ma
nipulateu as to take H., all the time Of
the short session.
President Clcveiand's cvciteen thou
sand word message To Congress is from Il
literary point of view IA well written doc
ument. Its recommendations. some If
them repetitions, have the united endorse
ment of the Cabinet. and doubtless of
many of Mr. C!eveland'S admirers in pri
vate life. But it has had about the same
effect Upon Con -rcS> as a whole as the
distribution OF Il batch of temperance or
religious tracts would have had. 1t has
been received with indifference. 1t is
neither praised nor denounced 10 any
marked extent, although some features of
ii may, little later on, be made the text
for some interesting speeches.
Tom Reed is today the most independ
cnt man in the republican party. Mckin
ley needs his support far more than he
needs anything that Mckinley will have
to give, and nobody knows it any better
than the biz nan from Maine, who will he
elected Speaker of the next House with
out raising finger, although the McNi l.
leyiteS would give much for some scheme
that would enable them to down him. bat
they dare not make an open move in that
direction.
Those enemies of the democratic party
who had somehow, most probably because
they wished it, gotten the idea that Sena-
tor Hill intended to attempt To knock the
bottom out of things by making Il speech
in the Senate in which he would pay all
his political and some of his personal
debts by telling things that ought not To
be told and sayin. things which We're best
left unsaid, have been barking up the
wrong tree. Senator Hill may think he
has political wrongs to avenge, but it can
be stated uron the very highest authority
that of himself-that he hasn't the
slightest idea of assuming the role of
public avenger on the floor of the Senate,
and that instead of trying to widen the
breach between democrats he will en-
deavor to the extent of his influence to
bring about Il better state of party feeling.
Representative Berry, of Kentucky, who
was re elected has this to say of the cleo
ton in that state ''On fair and square
vote Kentucky would have gone for Bry
an bv at least % 900 majority. But money
was used without stint, and it is one of
the most potent factors in modern politics.
There is always purchasable element,
and when money is AS plentiful as it was
in Kentucky this year, there is no trouble
in getting mercenary recruits. But the
democrats elected seven out of the eleven
Congressman in spite of the corrupt meth
DDS of the opposition, and two years hence
the democratic party will sweep the state
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