The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1899-10-27
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. D. c., October 23rd.

WASHINGTON, d. c.. October 23rd
MR.. EDIroR:-The man who has no
weakness is yet unborn. Mr.. McKinley's
supporters have taken advantage of Ad
miral Dewey>s only known weakness
fear for his health-to shut off the flow of
Dewey enthusiasm, and thus. as they
think, lessen his availability as an anti
Mckinley candidate for the republican
Presidential nomination. They do not
wish Dewey to attend any more big re-
ceptions, because they keep him too prom
inently before the public, and, although
Dewey looks much better than he did
when lie first came to Washington, and
has been going to the club or the theatre
in the evening and attending to his private
business in the daytime-he helped the
Committee select the house which will
this week be bought for HMM as active
a manner as any other man of his years
could do, he has been persuaded that his
health is in great danger, and that he must
absolutely avoid excitement of all kinds
for some months. This was so firmly i'm
pressed upon him that he Cancelled his en-
gagements to go to Atlanta and to Phila-
delphia, and announced that he would &C
cept no more invitations until next Spring.
And the McKinleyites think they have
killed the Dewey boom.
What Archbishop Chappelle, apostolic
delegate to the Philippines, who has an
nounced his intention to go to the Philip
pines to bring about peace, which Gen.
Otis has so signally failed to do, and Mr..
Mckinley said to each other during the
long conference they held at the White
House, while big politicians were kicking
their heels in the secretary's Office, is what
all the newspaper men have been unsuc
cessfully trying to find out. That they
talked of conditions in the Philippines is
all that is positively known, although
much more has been sent out by the i'm
aginative news makers. The Archbishop
seemed very well pleased when he left the
White House, and said that he would
probably see Mr.. Mckinley again, before
he left Washington for Manila, which he
will do in few days. The Archbishop is
well-known and popular in Washin gton,
where he once had charge of a church.
The Washington Post, which has practi-
caliy been Mckinley paper since this adj
ministration came into power, sounded a
significant warning when it said at tue
close of an editorial full of praise of Mr..
Mckinley personally: The President
| must usher in a new and heat ier regime.
If he cares for political futule. he must
replace imbecility with brains and vigor.
| The people are worn out with failure, be-
| wilderment and disaster. Humanity &C.
| mands a cessation of the murderous bung-
ling in Luzon. Good faith and national
honor require the pacification of Cuba and
the political rehabilitation of the Cubans.
This tragedy must end, and end soon.
Existing conditions projected into the
coming year will put conclusive end to
Mr.. McKinley's public life"
Col. N. NJ. Bell, who was prominently
connected with the Post Office Depart
ment during the first Cleveland admins
tration, and who has been in private bust
| ness in ST. Louis for some years, is visit
ing Washington. He says that people in
the East have no idea of the intensity of
the feeling against trusts in the West, and
predicts that the trust issue will figure
largely in next years campaign. He also
| thinks that there is increasing hostility
| towards miltarism, one of the aliases of
| imperialism, and towards that sort of ex-
pansion involving the surrender of the
Monroe Doctrine.
Ex-Governor Thompson, OF South Caro-
lima, who has just returned from Europe,
said he was approached by a native in a
village of Switzerland, who said to him:
Excuse me, sir, but will you crafty my
curiosity by telling me what it was that
| the Governor of North Carolina said to
| the Governor of South Cardinal" Asked
what reply he made, Gov. Thompson said:
why, simply repeated the historic re-
mark, and gave practical demonstration
of what followed it, but it beats me how
that fellow ever heard the story of the
two governors"