The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-11-12
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. c., November Sth

Mr.. EDITOR-Senator Jones, of Arkan-
Sas, Chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, arrived in Washing ton in q
decidedly jubilant state of mind over Tie
results of last weeks elections. He said
on the subject: "Well, you bet I'm tickled.
1t makes me feel 25 years younger and
makes me understand that the American
people have not been bought or blinded
this time. The results are an omen OF
coming and greater good. 1t just takes
opposition and sorrow to develop the full
strength of the democratic party. This
result convinces me that the silver sentl-
ment grows, grows and grows, and that
by the next Presidential election, it will
have grown to an irresistible strength.
Just mark my words. Error dies from
pin scratch, but truth survives the cyclone.
The democratic party is Truth. When it
comes to long race and hard race, the
democratic party gets there. l am very
sorry because of the turn matters have
taken in old Maryland. but hope for her
not dead in my bosom yet. OF course
it would have been more desirable had
Mark Hanna been inhumed under an ava
lanche of democratic votes, but when q
great man saves his scalp only by the skin
of his teeth, it is virtually defeat"
One of the most interesting stories grow
ing out of the Ohio election is now being
told on the quiet in Washington, and it
finds believers, too. According to this
story, Secretary Sherman has been ap-
preached by Foraker republicans and of.
ferred an opportunity to get even with
Boss Hanna and Mr.. Mckinley for the
shabby treatment they have given him,
not only by preventing Hanna's election
to the Senate, but by securing his own re-
turn to that body. Mr.. Sherman is too
old bird to gobble up everything tempt
ing that is placed before him, but he is
said to have this proposition under con-
sideration and to be making quiet inves-
tigation, through trusted agents, as to the
probability of success should he consent
to enter the anti-Hanna combine. The
scheme in brief is for the Foraker men,
bers of the Ohio legislature to stay out Of
the republican caucus, which will, OF
course, nominate Hanna for the Senate,
and to nominate Gov. Bushnell or some
otLer thick and thin Foraker man as the
anti-caucus candidate. The FOrakerites
claim to have members enough to bring
about and keep up for an indefinite period,
a deadlock in the legislature, and they ar.
que that after Hanna sees his own cleo
ton to be an impossibility, he will be will
ing to join Bushnell in Withdrawing and
in agreeing upon compromise candidate
who can get the entire republican vote
and be elected. That IS where the Forak-
critics tell Mr.. Sherman that he can come
in. They say that they will suggest him
as compromise candidate for the Senate,
and that much as they would like to neither
Boss Hanna nor Mr.. Mckinley will dare
object. There are too many "ifs" in this
scheme, but it indicates how harmonious
the Ohio republicans are.
Consul General Lee has received his final
instructions and will this week return to
Cuba. He is as careful as ever about dis
cussing Cuban matters, but there are good
reasons for saying that he is confident
that there will be peace in Cuba in fey
months. 1t was because of this belief on
his part that he agreed, when urgently re-
qucsted to do SO by Mr.. Mckinley, to re-
main in Cuba until the trouble was over.
The army of pensioners still steadily
grows in numbers. Notwithstanding the
assertion ofseveral Commissioners of Pen
sions that it had reached high water mark
and was about to start on the down grade.
The annual report of Commissioner Evans
shows that there were 1886 more names
on the rolls on June 3Oth, 1897, than there
were one year before, notwithstan ding the
dropping, during the fiscal year, for death
and other causes of al, 122 names. There
were 976,O14 names on the roll at the close
of the last fiscal year, and, unless death
claims an unusually large number, it is
probable that the million mark will be
passed before the close of the present ifs
cal year.
From all directions come complaints
about the tremendous rise in the price. OF
almost everything, excepting the only ar
ticle that more than half Of our people
have to sell-their labor. An expert says
of the effect of the Dingley tariff upon the
price of mems clothes: "A suit Of clothes
that could be bought last year for $500
cannot be duplicated now under $4,000
and that fact is an annoyance to dealers
and customers alike. With men Of ample
means, who have their clothes made by
fashionable tailors $500 or $1,000 advance
on suit is hardly noticed. and if noticed
evokes no complaint. 1t is very different,
however, with those who have to be care
full in their expenditures, for to this class
$500 represents a considerable sum. The
number of men who buy $500 and $20.O
suits is largely in excess of those who pay
tailors $4,000 and $4,000 for suit, and it
is from the poor and the middle class that
the kick against the Dingley tariff is sure
to come"
GOtMAN FOR GOVERNOR.