The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1898-10-07
OUR WASHINGTON LETTE FER

w ASHINGTON, ID. T., octphef .ifu
Mr.. EDITOR:-Some idea of the panic
existing in administration circles, on ac-
count of the prospect Of republican defeat
in the Congressional campaign, may be
had from Boss Hanna's estimate, after
going over all the information i'll the pcs
session of the republican Congressional
Committee, that it would require cam
paign fund of 81, 100000 to elect rcpub
lican majority of the next House. Hanna
is Chairman of the National Committee
and under ordinary conditions, would
have nothing to do with the congressional
campaign. But existing conditions are
not ordinary. On the contrary, they are
extraordinary, from Mr.. Mckinley's point
of view. Chairman Babcock, of the Con-
that he considered the fight already lost
Then Hanna was telegraphed for and
asked if he could not save the House for
his party. He decided that it would take
50 ,000, 900 to do it, and made out a list of
men that must put up that amount. They
are the same men who furnished him the
money he used so lavishly two years ago,
and already they are being personally
waited upon and made to come down
again, some of them by Hanna himself and
others by his agents.
Col. W. J. Bryan, who has been con
fined to his bed by an attack of malaria, is
now much better, and expects to return to
his regiment after short stay in the Viz
ginia mountains. None of the many at
tentions paid Col. Bryan during his stay
in Washington gave him more pleasure
than magnificent basket of roses from
the Executive Committee of the Maryland
Democratic Association, accompanied by
a communication, from which the follow
ing is quoted: "The Executive Committee
of the MARYLAND Democratic Association
deem it a privilege and pleasure to pre-
sent this basket of flowers to Col. William
J. Bryan, as a token of their respect, love,
and esteem for him who, more than any
man living, stands as the personitication
of the most vital issue affecting the welfare
of all the people of our nation ana of the
world. The intelligent, aggressive and
disinterested advocacy of the cause of the
plain people that marked your entrance
into public life at once awakened a re-
Spouse in the hearts of your countrymen,
and singled you out as an object of their
affection. Your steadfast devotion to
principle, your untiring zeal in the cause
of the people, and the recognition by them
of your rare talents, combined to make
you their chosen leader in their contest
for dcliverance from the evils that are
threatening the overthrow of republican
institutions and the establishment of a
plutocracy to rule and plumber under forms
of law
Gen. Fitz Lee, who was ordered to
Washington last week, has gone to West
Point to visit his son, who is a cadet there,
but will return to Washington in a few
days. Republican influence is being
brought to bear upon the administration
to cause it to give General Lee only a sub
ordinate command in the Cuban Army of
Occupation, instead of command of the
entire army. 1t was to sound him, in or
der to find out how far he would allow
himself to be pushed into the back ground
without rendering his resignation, that he
was sent for Gen. Lees admirers hope
that if he is rendered anything less than
command of that division of the army of
occupation that will have Havana for its
headquarters, he will tender his resigna-
ton and leave the army at once. If he
gets less than that, very positive promise
will be violated, but that happens fire.
quently in Washington.
Not being admitted to Boss Platt's con-
tidence l cannot vouch for its correctness,
but there has been a lot of talk around
Washington to the effect that Teddy
Roosevelt was nominated for Governor
with the deliberate intention of ending his
political career by getting him badly de-
feated, and that he is to be traded for leg
islative votes wherever to do so will in
crease the chance of electing a republican
member of the legislature. According to
this talk, Mr.. Mckinley and Boss Plat
are acting together in this scheme to get
rid of Teddy" and at the same time elect
a legislature that will send republican
successor to Senator Murphy. Democratic
advices indicate very strongly that the
democrats will control the Legislature as
al eto to tiol- of They
say they can beat Roosevelt without any
assistance from Plat and his knifers.
Although Gen. Joe Wheeler has been
offered command of at the cavalry that
will 60 to Cuba with the army of occupa-
ton, there are reasons for believing that
he will not go to Cuba, unless there is
hitch in negotiating the treaty of peace at
Paris A close friend of Gen. Wheeler
says he will resign his commission and re-
sumo his Congressional duties, as soon as
the treaty of Peace is signed; he has no
laundering after the command of a mounted
police force, in Cuba or elsewhere, and
that is about all our cavalry will be after
the treaty of peace becomes an accom-
plished fact.
That investigation commission promises
to do some investigating this week; 1t has
done nothing yet but get ready, except to
abandon the idea of star chamber sessions,
and agree to have the Press Associations
at all sessions where testi-
mony is taken.