The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1903-05-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May 18th.

WASHINGTON, ~. u, May loIn.
MR.. EDIToR:-That the Ohio republi-
can convention will be the scene of a BIT
ter contest between the Hanna and the
Foraker factions in Ohio politics is con-
tirmed by State Senator Samuel Patterson
who is in Washington and who says that
the republicans of his State are so much
in earnest in their opposition to any reso-
luton endorsing Mr.. Roosevelt for an
other term that the Presidents friends
would do we'll to think twice before in
PRODUCING such a resolution in the conven-
ton. Senator Patterson, it should be
said, was the Hanna leader in the last
Ohio legislature and is regarded as COM
petent to voice the sentiments OF the
Hanna faction. Senator Foraker. on the
other hand, has said uneQuivocally that
such a resolution would be introduced and
pressed for adoption. 1t is acknowledged
by Mr.. Roosevelt's friends that it would
be a severe blow to his prospects If a reso-
luton of endorsement were rejected by
the Ohio convention, but SO bitter is the
feud between Messrs. Foraker and Hanna
that it is hardly likely that the former can
be dissuaded from forcing his enemy to
show his hand. Should the resolution be
adopted over the protest of the Hannaites,
moreover, it would not only strengthen
Mr.. Roosevelt's position but would ma
terially weaken that of Senator Hanna.
Representative Sulzer, of New York,
has been in Washington for several days
and talked freely on the subject of presi-
Dental possibilities. Mr.. Sulzer is a Bry-
an admirer, but says that if Cleveland and
Roosevelt were nominated the former
would sweep the country. Mr.. Sulzer
would not say, however, that he favored
Mr.. Clcveland's nomination, nor did he
believe Mr.. Roosevelt would be the re-
publican nominee. "There can be no
doubt but that the financial interests of
the country still control its affairs" said
Mr.. Sulzer, "and it cannot be denied that
the financial interests distrust Mr.. Roose-
welt. If the republicans should nominate
Roosevelt [ believe the financial interests
quiz IL " SSSulS II
of Cleveland and then back him to any
amount necessary. This, in my judgment,
would serve as a rebuke to the republican
party and would have the desired effect
in 1908, when the organization would
nominate some such mai as NJ. A. Hanna,
John c.. Spooner or Chas. w. Fairbanks.'
The investigations of the Postofice De-
partment continue to unearth numerous
instances of violated law and loose admin
istrative methods, although the Postmaster
General is doing everything in his power
to belittle the discoveries made and keep
them from the public, priding himself on
the extent to which he has been able to
keep the facts from the press and the peo-
pie. 1t is known, for instance, that circu-
lars were sent to all carriers on rural
routes requesting them to forward to the
free delivery division the names and ad-
dresses of persons residing on their routes
and it is believed that the lists of such
names were sold to "get-rich-quick' con-
Germs, mail order houses and others for a
generous sum. The Department itself
had no use for the names. A recent dis
covery is to the effect that a large number
of physicians have been carried on the
rolls as clerks in the various postoffices,
the nominal duties of these doctors being
to ascertain if men who claimed disability
to work on account of sickness were actu.
ally ill or were shamming. There is no
appropriation in the law for doctors for
the postofice department and the practice
will be discontinued In one instance, in
St. Paul, Mimi, the postotfice doctor was
required to treat all employees free Of
charge. The most sensational statement
yet published is that of Mr.. Tulloch,
formerly cashier in the Washington City
postofice. Mr.. Tulloch's charges impli-
cate ex-Postmaster General Smith, exs
First Assistant Postmaster General Perry
Heath and a number of other officials.
Secretary Shaw has dismissed from the
service the women immigrant inspectors
who were employed some time ago at the
instance of certain religious and philan-
thropic associations with a view to pre-
venting the importation of young women
FOR improper purposes. The immigration
office found that the women inspectors
were incapacitated for the work for sew
eral reasons, but chiefly because of the
fact that the young women whom they
found it necessary to single out for in
spection and catechetical examination re-
sented what they regarded as a suspicion
cast upon their character or appearance
and on most instances positively refused
to answer any questions put to them.
Commissioner Williams reports that in no
instance have the women inspectors de.
tected a case of the class, for the detection
of which they were employed, and in his
opinion men are much better suited for
the work in every way.