The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-10-20
OUR WASHINGTON LI;TTEF.
WASHINGTON, d. c., October 10th.


McKinleyites is fast reaching an acute
stage. 1t is no longer secret that Sera-
tor Proctor is grooming Dewey for the
Presidential nomination next year, and Il
statement made to Vermont friends that
mo man has ever yet refused to accept
the Presidency" is significant of his be-
lief that he can count upon Dewey's ac-
ceptance, if he can show him he can be
nominated. Said a prominent republican
official: "Proctor's attitude must be highly
in 1896 As reward for betraying Reed
at time when McKin!ey's nomination
was in doubt, Proctor has been given the
disposition of more atIonage under this
administration than any one man, except
ing Hanna, of course, has had: and now
he is showing his gratitude Proctor's
political shrewdness is unquestioned, and
if the democrats can only carry Ohio, he
will get all the assistance he wishes in
booming Dewey for the republican nomi-
nation next year. Nothing short of over
whelming republican success in Ohio can
give Mr.. Mckinley reasonable degree of
certainty that he will be renominated, and
that seems doubtful indeed at this time.
A Vermonter, who claims to know Sena-
tor Proctor's plans, says he has no inten-
tion of bringing Dewey out as a candidate
unless he is certain that he can be nomi-
mated, that he is only preparing things so
that he can use him to supplant Mr.. Nc
Kinley, if he thinks it advisable to do SO
Col Isaac Hill, who. has been an official
of the House for many years. says of the
Ohio campaign, in which he has been par
ticipating: The democrats have the best
chance they have had in years To carry
this falls election in the Buckeye State.
They will poll the full strength of the
party and capture many votes besides,
| while the disaifcc,ion Az! ~, the icpubi-
cans will keep several thousand of them
| from the polls. The Mclean forces are
thoroughly united, and are making the
greatest canvass ever conducted by the
| democrats in Ohio. l am going back in a
| few days to again take hand in the cam
paign."
Admiral Schley's response to commit
zee from the Woman's National Industrial
League, which called on him to present a
copy of a resolution adopted by tic
League, asking contributions from Indus
trial workers to purchase home for him,
was worthy of the man and his record
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the desire of your committee, which the
resolution brings to my attention, and
sincerely appreciate the purpose and
wishes you so kindly suggest to me, l feel
that ought to ask you to defer this, mat
| ter until the wants and needs of cold
winter now coming on have passed, and
| it's demands in the households of some of
the great army of industrial workers have
| first been met before any provision IS
made for me. With expressions of deep
gratitude to you, the matter is left to your
consideration
Representative elect Roberts, of Utah,
now in the East, says the fight against
him is largely political and that he intends
to stand up for his rights all the way
through. He says he was elected as a
democrat, not as Mormon; that promi-
nent Mormons were on the stump against
him, and that he carried number Of non
Mormon voting districts. He denies that
he came East to avoid warrant issued
for him in Utah; also that he has ever
violated the anti polygamy law. He ex-
presses confidence that he will serve his
full term in the House. The fight against
Mr.. Roberts promises to be one of the bit
terest ever made against any mans reten-
ton of his seat in either branch of Con-
gress.
There is no limit to the claims that re-
publicans are willing to make for the ad-
ministration, but there is a limit to the
imposition that can be practiced upon in
telligent men. 1t is simply ridiculous for
the administration to claim credit, as it is
now doing, for the acceptance by Canada
of the temporary boundary line between
Alaska and Canada, which was sometime
ago agreed upon by representatives of the
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we'll known that the Canadian government
was compelled to accept by the English
government. 1t is equally well known
why. England has a troublesome war on
hand with the Transvaal republic, in
which it wishes the moral support of the
United States government, and as sort
of bride, it ordered Canada to accept the
temporary boundary line, which the Cana
dian Premier had declared he would fight
rather than accept. Certainly there is
nothing in that to entitle the administers
ton to any credit While the acceptance
of the temporary boundary line is advan
tageous to Americans, it is after all merely
IL postponement of the dispute to some
future time, when Englard has no war on
its hands.
The administration has announced i
strict neutrality in the war in South Africa
and it would better live up to that an
nouncemcnt, as there is powerful seutr-
nent in this country, especially anon.
those of Irish and German descent gainst
the attitude of England in that war, and
those who entertain that sentiment will
quickly resent any departure from neu
trality by this government.