The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1897-08-20
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER..
WASHINGTON, d. c., August 10th.

WAsnINGToN, d. c., August 10Th.
MIR. EDIToR:-Boss Hanna's man, Dick,
may be relieved of the management of the
Hanna campaign in Ohio. He has got
himself the i'll will of the republican mag
mates for having bungled his work in
bribing certain Ohio populists. Instead
of using cash, he was thoughtless enough
to have used checks and these disagree
able proofs of bribery have gotten into the
wrong hands. The magnates aforesaid
expected Dick to arrange for the nomina-
ton of straight popu!ist state ticket in
Ohio, and for other populist assistants to
the republican state and gislative tickets,
especially the latter, but they didn't ex-
pect him to do it SO clumsily as to be
caught at it. AS no explanation has been
or can be put forward by Dick that will
satisfy an intelligent and unprecedented
mind that he has not been engaged in
wholesale bribery, it is believed in Wash
ington that Boss Hanna will seek to es-
cape responsibility for the bribery by pre-
tending to rebuke Dick by taking the
management of the campaign out of his
hands. Dicks bribery has greatly
strengthened democratic hopes of defeat
ing Hanna.
Teddy" Roosevelt has shown that the
limit of his versatility has not yet been
reached by assuming the role of official
whitewas.cr. His letter generating Con-
structor Bowlcs, who has charge of the
Brooklyn Navy Yard and who was
charged with political and other favoritism
in running that yard, gives Mr.. Bowles an
unusually thick coat of whitewash. But
there is one black streak that s'Teddy"
may have put in as a sort of tip to MIR.
Bowles 1t is the following language in
"Teddys' official letter: The attention
of Constructor Bowles will be especially
called to that part of Commander DAVIS
report Davis was the officer detailed to
make the investigation warning him as to
being sometimes over harsh and following
too implicitly the recommendations of lead
ingmen and quartermen.' Notwithstand
ing ''Tcddy's" whitewash, the New York
TD.ne said editorially since the publica-
ton of "Teddys" alleged opinion poll
tics in the Navy Yard cannot be too
strongly condemned. The deplorable con
dition of the Brooklyn dry docks and the
consequent sending of the Indiana to Hall
fax, form an impressive object lesson
A prominent Naval Officer remarked after
reading the above: Roosevelt and White
law Reid ought to hold an executive scs-
sion and try to get together on Brooklyn
Navy Yard matters.
1t is fact of more than passing impor-
lance that the biterest public attack ever
made on the present civil service system
is contained in a fifty column speech in
one of the bclated numbers of the Con-
gressional record which was occasionally
published up to last week for the purpose
of giving members of Congress chance
to talk to their constituents through the
medium of ''leave-to print" speeches which
purport to have been spoken on the floor.
This attack ON the civil service system was
prepared by Representative Grosvenor, of
Ohio, the bosom friend of Mr.. Mckinley
and one of the licutenants of Boss Hanna.
In it he claims to have .he records of 271
men who were criminals, but who secured
offices under the civil service rule, and ac
cuses the civil service commission of vio-
lating the law daily.
EySocret.rv CARLISLE and nv SSi,tant
Secretary Hamlin made arguments before
the Attorney General against the applica
ton of the 10per cent discriminating duty
imposed by the Dingley tariff upon i'm
portations from Canada to importations
from other countries which come into the
United States over Canadian railroad.
Messrs. Carlisle and Hamlin represent New
England Railroad and business interests.
Secretary Gage asked the Attorney Gen
eral for an opinion and will withhold his
ruling until he gets it.
Mr.. Carlisle still has an idea that the
gold democrats should keep away from
the regular democrats and he has advised
the putting up of gold democratic ticket
in every state in which an election is to
be held this year, and announced his in
tention to drop his law practice long
enough to go to Kentucky and speak for
the gold democrats. The regular demo-
Gratis smile at Mr.. Carlisles talk and say
that there can be no future for gold
democratic organization