The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1900-07-20
DIk \GTcN LETT Elk.
WASnINGToN, ID. c., July 18th.

sand votes cast for Mrk nlcy in 1896 To
DIR. l. W. llnhcrcnm, who was head of
the German Literary Bureau of the Re
publican National Committee during the
last campaign and who is now supporting
the democratic ticket, has nihr public Il
statement of his reasons for abandoning
| the republican party, from which this is
quoted: "ENranSinn OF the Union on the
Amer Jean continent is proper Expansion
not of the Union, hat hv the acquisition
| Of possessions which are To he governed
| as dependencies, subject only to the will
and caprice Of our Executive and Con
gresS. unrestricted by the Constitution.
| and without the consent and against the
wishes Of the people, who thereby hccnmc
subjects. is, in my opinion, improper, un
| lust and unrcpuhlican; The government of
| the United States is thereby transformed
| into an imperial government for our pos
| sessions. \ government with imperial
| power over possessions cannot long re-
| main republican nj home. As the govern
mcnt could not have lived half slave and
| half free. so il cannot live half imprrialist
| and half republican. The foreign policy
| adopted hy the republican party emhrols
| us in all the Vnarrrls OF the world and On
tanglrS us in foreign alliances 1t has al
! ready cntan|'cd us in onc-an unWritten
| alliance with Great Britain. Since British
| -, 1;
| administration and cur Peace tn:nms-
| si"licr> /" tnrrr Spain t. crdc Us the
! quickly Withdrawing shadow of its already
| expelled Sovereignty over HE Philippines
we have been compciird To go hand in
hand with England. 'Th" republican party
| now stands for the impcrialiStic cNpan
sion, aAd is already busy cultivalin. the
| -;,iIt Of miltarism. The Democratic rir'v
has earnestly, clearly and fnrchIy pro
| n"unccd against imperialism and It's re-
| sultant evils, for the preservation of the
| republic and the constitution. The issue
| is made VI, and ! consider ii my plain
| duty to help maintain the republic hy such
| efforts rs | can make. humble though they
| are
General Leonard Wood, Military Coy
crnnr of Cuba, is coming Ia Washington
| this week to consult with the adminiSira
| ton or So much of it rs can he found on
| duty about the Constitutional Convention
| the CuhaEs are shortly to hold Secretary
| Root saws of This conference: In arraug
| inc for a Constitutional Convention Gen.
Wood and will talk about the districts
| to he made in Cuba for the election. We
will discuss the time TO holding the clrc
| ton, WI hat number of delegates should con
stitutc the convention and the apportl"n
| mcnt of these delegates among the dis
trictS or divisions Others say, however,
| that all these things could easily have been
arranged without Gen. Woods coming ["
Washington, and that the real reason for
his trip is to arrange something which it
was feared could not hc safely trusted
| either Ia the mails or To- the WircS--W hCihrr
| the administration desires official pressure
| tn he used To get a majority elected to the
Cuban Constitutional Convention that can
| be depended upon Ia support declaration
| hy tl. Convention in favor of anne Nation.
The administration i figuring on lcgis
| lation nj the coming session of Congress,
when the election will be over, for a large
| increase in the regular army. This Is not
| a guess 1t is based upon plans now being
made by the War Department to keep
ono soldiers in the Philippines, t" do
police duty, after July lst, 1901, when the
two year terms of The volunteers now over
there will expire. Present laws provide
! for Il regular army of less than 40, 00O men
and, of course, the entire army cannot hc
4! kept in the Philippines. Therefore, it is
absolutely certain that the present plans
of the War Department are based upon
| the expectation tl.at Congress in the lcgis
lation for the fiscal year le-innin" July
1St, 1901. will provi,l" for a large regular
each other in their anxiety to enlist in the
regular army Ia do police hnty in the Phil
ippincS or anywhere else. 50 the next
step after increasing the regular army, in
to he law providing for compulsory ser
vice therein by our ynun" men. OF
course, that would not worry those with
pull enough to keep their sons out, hn'
how about ;hc ordinary man who has no
pull:
When Perry Heath WAS chosen To sue
crcd Representative Dick, rs Secretary of
the Republican National Committee, it
WAS simply changing one Hanna made
man for another. Heath will resign the
position of First Assistant Postmaster
General hui il will not he rs punishment
for having had 4 hand in giving Nee cy a
chance to steal Cuban Postal Funds. In
fact Heath knows too much about Hanna :
camnnign met hnia III 1896 la make il safe
to attempt Ia punish him, even il IL were
considered desirable II i, anrrE tn
probabilities. if Hanna can win again,
that Heath viii la u member of Mr.. Me
kiniry~ irrNl cabinet