The Press. (Stafford Springs, Conn.) 1883-1935, 1903-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
washington, october 10. 19O'

equestrian statue of William Tecumseh
Sherman was unveiled here last Thurs
day. The statue stands at the head
of Pennsy ylvania avenue, directly south
of and facing the treasury. 1t was
on this spot that General Sherman
watched, in 1865, the grand review of
the troops who marched from Atlanta
to the sea. The unveiling was preced-
ed by a parade and a review of all the
regular troops stationed in or near
Washington and of the District of
Columbia national guard. The presi
dent, accompanied by Mrs. Roosevelt,
several members of the cabinet, and
all of the members of the diplomatic
corps who were in Washington, at
tended the ceremony. AS the two
large flags which covered the statue
were drawn aside by William Tecum-
sch Sherman Thorndyke, the nine
year old grandson of the general, the
Fourth Artillery fired a salute OF
seventeen guns, the Marine band play
ed the Star Spangled Banner, and the
veterans who surrounded the statue
cheered. Addresses were made by the
president, by General David B. Hen
derson for the army of the Cumber-
land, Genreal Daniel E. Sickles for
the army of the Potomac, General
Charles H. Grosvenor for the army of
the Tennessee and General Thomas J.
Henderson for the army of the Ohio.
The president made an appeal for the
upbuilding of the army and navy, con-
demned dishonesty in public service
and expresses hope that there would
soon be an appropriate statue of Lin
coin at the national capital. Speak
ing of dishonesty in public service he
said, "We can as little afford to tole-
rate dishonest man in the public SER
vice as a coward in the army. The
murderer takes a single life; the cor
ruptionist in public life, whether he
be bribe giver or bribe taker, strikes
at the heart of the commonwealth. In
every public service, as in every army,
there will be wrong doers, there will
be misdeeds. This cannot be avoided !;
but vigilant watch must be kept, and
as soon as discovered the wrong doing
must be stopped and the wrong doers
punished.
Maryland politics have virtually
monopolized the attention of the poll
ticians during the last week. This is
due in part to the efforts of President
Roosevelt to bring about harmony be-
tween the republican factions of the
state, and to Senator Gorman's s resent
ment of this alleged interference of
the chief executive in state politics.
The followers of Senator McComas and
Representative Mudd have carried on
long and bitter struggle, and these
factional differences seemed to benefit
the democrats, who are carrying on an
aggressive campaign, with the race
question as the issue, and conscious OF
the fact that the outcome of the elec-
tion will have a marked influence up
on the political fortunes of Senator
German, the states candidate for the
democratic presidential nomination.
In raising the negro problem to an
issue the Maryland democrats have
virtually made a direct attack ON
President Roosevelt, and his attitude
ON this question is continually men-
toned and condemned. This gives
more than usual Importance to the fact
Al,
appeals to the two republican factions
to unite and elect republican COVER
nor and legislature. He declares that
he occupies an absolutely neutral posi-
tion between the factions, and that he
is interested solely in the success OF
the party, without any reference to
the persons involved. Friends of the
president believe that if Maryland
should go republican it would serve as
an Endorsement, by state with south
ern sympathies, of his attitude on the
negro question, and would lessen ad-
verse criticism on this subject by the
people in the north and west. Sena-
tor German was very severe in his
criticism of the president, saying,
1.-THE president has assumed to himesl1
the title of chairman of the state com
mittee, so active is he looking after
the details of the campaign. Every
federal office holder and every occu-
pant of a state or municipal place
whom the president believes he car
control has been ordered by him tc
get out and "hustle'' for the repub.
lican ticket. When he was civil
service commissioner under the Har-
rison and Cleveland administrations
it was Roosevelt's habit to demand
that federal Office holder, who was
a member of a state, city or other poll
tical committee, should resign one OF
the other place. Now that he is presi
dent, however, he permits fedora
Office holders, appointed either by hin
or by his subordinates, to engage al
actively in a campaign as those wht
follow private vocations. Every oc
cupant of federal place in Marylan6
is openly at work for the republican
ticket, presumably under specific order
from the president.
Prominent members of the house
have assured the president that tn,
Cuban reciprocity resolution woult
be passed at the extra session of con
gress. Representative Jones of Wash
ington, who was one of the stronges
opponents of the Cuban reciprocit.
treaty in the last congress, told TIN
president that. although he still op
tposed the measure personally, he woul,
vote for 1T when it came up in tn
house. The beet sugar interests hav
withdrawn oposition to the treaty
The discussion will give the democrat
an opportunity to talk against tn