The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1897-11-19
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in Sage
Manner of Things in General
About Washington.
(Communicated.l
M AcuINnTnN Nov In lSHI


WASHINGTON, Nov. Is, 1897
"Teddy" Roosevelt may soon be out
of a job, if he doesn't learn to bride
his tongue when talking in public
upon subjects on which the admins
tration's position is officially unan-
nounced. He was given hint of this
when he returned from New York,
where he made an after-dinner speech
on the necessity of our having fight
ing navy, if We wished TO escape the
rldicule of the world, and having our
declarations concerning the Monroe
Doctrine treated as merely so much
bluster. Teddy used Hawaii for d
dummy in order to give the admins
tratiou's alleged Cuban policy two or
three heavy body blows, but the appli-
cation was too plain to be overlooked.
He has been warned not do SO again.
The administration is play ing horse
with the Canadian Premier, who with
party of officials is in Washington,
osIensibly to attend the Sealing Con-
ference, but in reality to sound this
government on the probability of ne
gotlating a reciprocity treaty. The
President has "swapped taffy" with
the Premier and given him dinner;
Secretary Sherman has done the same,
and he has been turned over to Mr..
Kasson, Chief Cook of the Reciprocity
Kitchen, to confer on the subject
He'll get all the conferences he wants,
but when England real Y authorizes
her ambassador, or some one else, to try
to negotiate Il treaty of commercial
reciprocity which shall embrace Can
adlan products, 1t will be found that 50
far as Canada's principal products are
concerned, it Will BE- an impossibility.
The Canadian Premier does not seem
to k oW that in number of States,
one of the maiH arguments used in the
last national campaign for Republican
success, was that it would shut out
Canadian competition.
The Spanish Minister has begun his
entertainment OF public men Oh scale
which indicates that no matter how
bard up Spain may he, il has no inteu-
ton of reducing the amount of money
spent III Washington in the attempt to
make friends for Spain. The first
bio out of the Spanish Minister was
an elegant dinner, at the swell Metro
poliIan Club, in honor of "a Spanish ed
ltor. The administration aud the
United States Supreme Court were
well represented at this dinner, but
either the willy Spaniard must have
thought it needless to waste his eXpen-
sive dinner on Congress, or the Con-
gressnlen asked must have sent regrets.
Be that as 1t may, Senator Elkius Was
the only member of the legislative
branch of the government that at
tended the dinner.
The silk stocking element of the Re-
publicans, headed ny Senator Yelling
ton, are strainiug every nerve in their
efforts to make sure that the Maryland
Legislature does not elect Represen-
taIlve Mudd to succeed Senator Cor
man. These men probably know what
they are doing, but their activity
against Mudd, who is considered in
Washington AS the weakest of all the
asplrdnts to Senator Gorman's seat,
reminds one of going after Reed birds
with Gattling guns.
The PostOffice Department has Off
cially decided that the Interior De-
partment was right when it disbarred
John Wedderburn q Co. from prac-
tice before The Patent Office, for gross
frauds upon gulllble clients, and has
issued fraud order against John We'd
derburn, John Wedderhurn & Co., ana
the National Recorder, a newspaper
owned 10y them. This order shuts them
out of the mails, and will cause all
matter addressed To them to be return
ed to the writers, after being officially
STAMPED fraudulent" Newspapers
which continue to print Wedderburn
d Co.'s. advertisement after knowledge
of this fraud order may also be shut
out of the mails.
The general opinion among the most
prominent Democrats who have BEEN
in Washington since that Republican
hight upon the election of Boss Hanna,
has appeared to grow to such large
proportions, is that the Democrats of
Ohio should have nothing whatever
to do with it. There is, of course, a
bare possibility that enough Republic
can members of the Ohio Legislature
would. if the Democrats would help
them, he willing to elect some other
Republican to the Senate than Hanna,
but the most powerful microscope made
"Ouiu bOb SuOW lut DArllCle
of advantage To the Ohio Democrats in
defeating Hanna and electing another
Republican to The Senate. As long AS
Ohio has got to have another Republic
can Senator, Hanna is The hest man,
Tor the Democrats, both IN Ohio and
elsewhere, that could he chosen. But
even if 1t would be advantageous for
the Democrats TO knock Hanna out
ana help to elect some other Republi-
can, it would not be advisable for the
Democrats of the Ohio Legislature to
become parties to a deal with the al
legged anti-Hanna Republican mem.
bers of that body. for the simple rea-
son that Hanna. with the aid of Mr..
Mckinley, will almost certainly he
able, by the use of patronage aud other
methods, to get sufficient number of
republican votes to be- elected. 1t isa
light between Hannaisn and Foraker
lsnI, and no Democrat should interfere.