The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October 10th.

WASHINGTON, ID. c.. October 10th.
Mr.. EDIToR:-Lawyers for the defense
seldom bring out any testimony against
the accused The members of the Mckin
ley war investigation Commission-"The
Alger Relief Commission, is what local
to the witnesses WHO have so far testified
may not consider themselves Secretary
Ayers lawyers, but, if they were, theil
questions could not in the opinion OF
many unprecedented persons, have been
more carefully prepared to prevent the
giving of undesired evidence. One wit
ness, Col Lee. who started to tell about
some of the War Departments misman'
agement, in the matter of transportation
without being questioned upon the sub
ject, was at once called down and in
formed that the Commission was not ready
to enter that branch of the investigation
He took the hint and thereafter only an
swered such questions as were asked. Gen
H. Y. Boynton reiterated his theory that
flies were responsible for so much sickness
at Camp Thomas, and another witness,-a
brigade surgeon-indorsed it. Instead of
trying to find out, the Commission appears
to be trying not to find out anything de-
rogatory to Secretary Ayers mismanage-
ment of the War Department. 1t appears
to desire only evidence that will be COM
plmentarv to the Department.
There is much sympathy expressed for
Mrs Mckinley, who lett Washington for
Canton, Ohio, Saturday night, to attend
the funeral of her brother, who was killed,
supposedly by a jealous woman, Friday
evening. She was to have started to the
Omaha Exposition to day, with Mr.. Nc
Kinley and party of officials and their
wives. The party went and will be Joined
at Canton by Mr.. Mckinley, but Mrs. Nc
Kinley will probably not go.
The arrest of Senator Quay, for con-
spiracy in connection with the failure OF
Philadelphia bank, has been much talked
about in Washington. Opinion is not
unanimous as to whether Senator Quay is
innocent or guilty of this particular charge,
but, aside from few men who are under
personal obligations to him, the letters
from Quay to the Cashier of the Bank,
who committed suicide after the bank
closed its doors, have added to the opin-
ion long held by most persons who know
his business habits that Quay is utterly I'M
fitted to hold a seat in the United States
Senate. Quay is, and has been for years,
regular stock gambler, and has never
tanned in his official capacity to gamble in
stocks for his own profit. He was one OF
the most prominent of the Senatorial sugar
spectators, whose operations shocked the
country, and brought about an alleged in
vestigation, while the tariff was under
consideration by the Senate Finance Com
mittee. At the investigation Quay adopted
bluffing methods; told the Committee that
he speculated in sugar or anything else
whenever he wished to, and in effect asked
what the Committee was going to do about
it. No real patriot will deny that the
country would be better off if all such
men as Quay were driven out of the Sen
ate and kept out.
Nothing could show more encourage
ment for democrats in the Congressional
campaign than the fact that republicans
acknowledge their fear of losing four out
of the eleven Iowa districts, now all repre-
sented by republicans. A gain of thirty
seats is all that is needed by the democrats
to put the republicans in a minority in the
next House, and the prospects of getting
them and many more, is very bright al
this time.
Ex-senator Blackburn, of Kentucky
now in Washington, said: THE politica
outlook in Kentucky is as satisfactory as
democrats could wish Of the eleven
Congressional Districts they will carry
nine certainly, and of the remaining two
there is more than an even chance of car
rying one-the Louisville district. II
seems to me that there is every reason tc
regard the condition of the democracy
throughout the Nation, with complacencv
and believe that the gains made by the
party in November, will be large in {
majority of the states.
Col. Phil Thompson, once member Of
the House from Kentucky, who spends
much of his time in New York, has beer
telling his Washington friends about tn.
campaign He said: Il believe that Judge
Van Wyck will beat Col. Roosevelt, fol
Governor, by heavy majority. There is
an element in the republican party thai
doesn't like Roosevelt and will secretly
rejoice in his downfall. He is cordially
hated by the saloonkeepers and theil
| friends, for his course while Police Com.
missioner, and they will work like beavers
to roll up the ballots for his opponent
Then, too, Judge Van Wyck is an amiable
and upright man, with no blemish in his
record, and conservative people think he
| will make far better executive than the
| brilliant, but rather impracticable rough
| rider. The strongest card, however, fol-
the democrats, is the bad record of the re.
| publican state administration The tax
payers are up in arms over the canal i'm
provement fraud, and when they come to
vote they are going to take sure way of
manifesting their displeasure with Gov.
Blacks regime
Dispatches from Jackson. Miss, indi-
cate that yellow fever is widening its area
and fhnff has