The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-08-17
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN, ID. c., August 18TH

MIR. EDITOR:-3uSSia dickcring with
China independently; England landing
troops at Shanghai, where there had been
no serious trouble: Germany naming the
COMMANDMENT Chief of the foreign troops
in China, and the government of China
trying to trick the foreign ministers at
Pekin, including the American Minister
into going out of Pekin to be killed by
Chinese soldiers. These are 4 few of the
important items of news which have come
to Washington during the last few days,
and have had to be handled by the subor-
dnates in charge during the continued
absence of Mr.. Mckinley and Secretary
Hay. One message was sent to Minister
Conger that was made public, and one that
was not. The first left him free to act in
his discretion, which leaves the admins
tration free to make an official scrapegoat
Of him if he should be so unfortunate as
to make mistake. That is also the sort
of order that General Chaffee who is in
command of the handful of Americans
who are with the so called allied army,
of the distance between Tien Tsin and
Pekin, is acting under. They are so con-
venient, you know. If everything goes
right, they can be claimed as implying the
perfect confidence felt by this government,
etc; while if anything goes wrong it can
be charged to lack of jud yment or brains
on the part Of the agent.
Every disinterested man who goes into
any portion of the Middle West reports
the existence of conditions which are cal
culated to increase the confidence of Dem
ocrats in the election Of Bryan and Stcv-
enson. Mr.. J. H. Ralst,n. IA well known
Washington lawyer, has just returned
from a visit to Quincy, Ill.,, his old home.
Speaking of his trip he said: II did not
60 West to observe political conditions,
but in the course of my journey | had nu
merous opportunities to learn how things
were going. AT Quincy | had many init,
NIT friends, and talked politics with a
large number of them without indicating
which side was disposed to favor. The
character of my information was very ia
vorable to the Democrats. | can give you
two instances which know to be reliable.
They are of men who used to practice law
with me in Quincy. One of them is Capt.
Michael Piggott, an 1rishman of much
more than local fame, who was postmaster
of Quincy for eight years, and four years
ago an enthusiastic supporter of Mr.. Nc
kinley and the republican tckel. This
year he is squarely for Mr.. Bryan. He is
Il man of influence in those parts and high
ly respected The other man | have in
mind is w. A. Richardson, the son of a
former United States Senator, and an cX-
member of the Legislature. In 1896 he
was gold democrat and wrote many art
Giles supporting Mr.. Mckinley. Now he
is advocating Mr.. Bryan's election. Their
are many Germans in that vicinity, and
the German vote this year will be with the
democrats. The German farmers are
ley and will not support him again. l
took some pains to secure accurate infor
nation on that point
Naval Constructor Hobson, of Merrimac
and kissing fame, is not in favor with the
powers that be. He is now in the Naval
Hospital at Yokohama, under treatment
for his eyes He asked to be given COM
mand in the marines in order that he
might take part in the Chinese invasion,
but Rear Admiral Remey reported against
such detail for him, and added that if
Hobson was we'll enough to resume active
duty he could find it at Hong Kong or
Manila, where the services Of Naval Con-
structors are in demand to supervise re-
pair work Hobson's friends say that if
he isn't given the Chinese detail he should
be ordered home for the rest to which he
is entitled, and as he won't get the Chinese
detail he will probably come home soon.
Mr. J. T. Bailey, who is a drummer with
headquarters at Little Rock, Ark, is visit
ing Washington friends. He said of the
political attitude of the drummers: THE
drummers realize that their only hope is
in the election of the democratic ticket.
The democrats are pledged to enact legis-
lation to control trusts, and unless some
thing is soon done to correct the evils of
trusts it will be but a very little while be-
fore the drummer will find his occupation
gone. The drummers see the drift of the
republican party, which is controlled by
the trusts, and therefore 1t is to our inter
ests to do all we can to insure the election
of Bryan and Stevenson. | have failed to
meet any man who believes in changing
the republic into an empire, as the repub
lcans seem bent on doing. | have re-
Gently met number of gold democrats
who supported Mckinley ill 1896. and they
told me they were for Bryan and would
work day and night to secure his election,
because he rcpres cnts the people in this
fight against imperialism. 1t is my opin-
ion, based on what know of the situation,
that Mr. Bryan will sweep the country IS
Mr.. Cleveland did in 1892"
There is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put
together, and until the last few years was
supposed to be ilcurable. For Il great
many years doctors pronounced it Il local
disease, and prescribed LEGAL remedies,
and bv constantly failing to cure with
local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to he Il consti-
tutional disease, and, therefore, requires
constitutional treatment. Halls Catarrh
Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney e. Co.,
Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional
cure on the market 1t is taken internally
in doses from 10 drops to Il teaspoonful
It acts directly on the blood and mucou
surfaces of the system. They offer one
hundred dollars for any case it fails to
cure. Send for circular and testimonials.
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Sold hy Druggists, &c.
The Baltimore Sun editorillly inlorses
the speech of acceptancp made bv Mr.