The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-09-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WAsHINGToN. d. c., September 10Th.
MR. ED1ToR:-Aftcr making public his
letter of acceptance, Mr.. Mckinley started
for Canton again, Via Somerset, Pa, where
his niece will this week be married, for
an indefinite stay. This either indicates
that he understands what the powers are
going to do in China, or that he is eN-
trenely negligent Of American interests,
as there is now no one in Washington to
receive news from China higher than an
assistant secretary.
MI Mckinleys letter of acceptance is
most carefully prepared document, espec-
tally that portion of it which seeks to lull
the public fears of imperialism. 1t misses
none of the usual arguments in favor of
expansion, and either omits entirely or
CLOSES over the acts of imperialism of
which the administration has been guilty.
That portion of it dealing with the coun
trys prosperity is not SO carefully put to
gether and Will be sure to arouse smiles
of incrcdulity among the wellinformed,
who know that it is Providence, and not
the Republican administration, which has
given the country bountiful crops, and that
wars, and not the republican admnistra-
ton, have largely increased the volume of
money in circulation and thus helped
al la
pense of future tax payers
Charges of the most serious nature
against the Quartermaster Generals office
made by J. 0. Cole, who voluntarily left a
position therein and whose standing and
responsibility are vouched for by Senator
Mason, have been pigeon holed for months
by the War Department, and not even Il
pretense Of an investigation made, al
though the charges were specific as to
time, nature and by whose orders the
wrong doing was perpetratcd. Following
is quotation from statement just made
by the man who preferred the charges
The water transportation business, as
conducted in the Qnart.rmaster Generals
office, contains the record If the most
shameful waste and misuse of public funds
during the Spanish war. 1t shows how
the government has been robbed in differ
cnt ways OF sums of money, as compared
| with which the amount involved in the
Cuban postal frauds are mere bagatelle,
| and brands with deploIablc incompetency
~, tal !,
them An investigation will also show
| rascality somewhere When asked why
| these charges had been so completely ig-
nored, an official of the War Department
said that 10 attention had been paid to
! them because they We're regarded as mere
| " the spite work of disgruntled eN.em-
ploye, seeking to get even with somebody
for some personal grievance. However,
! that will hardly be the view that Congress
will take of the charges which Mr.. Cole
SAYS viii be brought up early in the COM
ing session.
| Those who are well-informcd, political
ton to the gold democrats. That is why
the accommodating evidence that the bulk
Of the gold democratic vote is going to be
cast for Bryan and Stevenson this year is
so disturbing to the Mckinley managers.
They know that the gold democrats have
| it in their power to elect the democratic
ticket Until within the past week the
republicans have dtHici that Col. Bryan
would get the support Of the gold demo
Gratis of prominence but since the publ
| cation of letters over their own signature
of two members Of the Cleveland Cabinet
-Olney and Misunderstanding in favor
of the ell. elton Of Bryan and Stevenson as
ii necessity to head off the imperialistic
plans of the NckinleyitcS, they are dndg-
| ing discussion on the suhjt The close
relations known to exist between Mcssrs.
OIncy and Wilson and Mr.. Cleveland
makes it regarded as probable that Mr..
| Cleveland Will also declare for Bryan and
Stevenson before the campaign gets much
older
Mr. Joscphus Daniels, National Com
mttceman from North Carolina, says the
! talk INDUCED in by some republicans of
that State casting its electoral! votes for
| Mckinley is an iridesccnt dream. North
Carolna'S electoral votes, he added, Twill
be cast for Bryan and Stevenson. The
majority will not be as large as in the re
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