The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1901-06-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.


WASHINGTON, D. c., June 10th.
Mr.. EDIToR:-The idea of Matchmaking
this government by giving the President
third term, as step toward keeping him
in office permanently, by going through
the farce of holding an election every
four years, as the Mexicans do with Diaz,
has been thrown down hard enough to
have been killed every time it has reared
its head in this country, but it isn't dead.
1t is now being nursed by Senator Chaun-
cey Depew, who belongs to the class
which would welcome permanent ruler
Of the country, whether called President
or by any other title, provided he held the
right view. That class thinks Mr.. Nc
Kinley holds the right view, for them
That accounts for Mr.. Depew's announce
ment of third term Mckinley boom. Mr..
Depew may claim that his talk merely
represented his own opinion, which is
true as far as it goes, but it also repre-
sentcd an understanding with a number
of men who sometime ago determined to
test public opinion on the third term idea,
with the intention, if there was not too
much kicking, to start an organized move
ment to nominate Mr.. Mckinley again.
Those men arc now studying the press
comments upon Mr.. Depaw's third term
interview. Few of what are known as
the practical politicians in the republican
party are in this third term scheme. Its
success would mean the retention of too
many men already in office to please them;
but practical politicians never butt their
heads against stone walls, and If a strong
rank and file third term sentiment can be
worked up, they will follow the crowd.
Some Of Mr.. McKinley's friends say the
talk of third term is very disagreeable
to him, but that statement is not reason
able one, since he could quickly stop the
talk by announcing that he would not &C
cept another nomination. So long as he
fails to make that announcement, the pub
lie naturally take it for granted that he is
not opposed.
That Mr.. Charles G. Dawes, Comptrol-
Ter of the Treasury, who poses as a close
personal friend of MIR. Mckinley, should
be neglecting his official duties to push
along lis candidacy for the seat now held
by Senator Billy" Mason, of Illinois, is
regarded in Washington as indicating
that Mason made mistake when he de-
clared that Mr.. Mckinley would follow
hands-off policy in the Senatorial fight.
The friends of Dawes openly claim that
he has the full and cordial support of the
administration and that at the proper time
that fact will be made clear to the repub-
lican voters of the State. If they are
right the country can look for some lively
speeches from Mason on the floor of the
Senate, in which he will do some more
blushing for the administration. Mason
does not rank high as a statesman in the
Senate, but as rough and tumble fighter
he is an antagonist that knows how to
make things howl, as he has shown upon
several notable occasions
If Senator Prtchard of North Carolina,
did not land what he went to the White
House after, it wasn't because he didn't
jolly along one of Mr.. Mckinley's pet
ideas. The day before he called on Mr..
Mckinley, Senator Prtchard got himself
interviewed, and predicted that both
North and South Carolina would soon be
republican. Mr.. Mckinley may have
taken that prediction seriously since he is
known to have swallowed others equally
as wild about the South, but everybody
else regarded it as humorous.
Republican Representatives who have
spoken favorably of Representative Bah
cocks bill to repeal the tariff on all pro