The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-09-16
SIEM5ER

of see, 450, 515. Under Harrison began
the hard times, which continued during
Cleveland's second term, but so frugal
an d thrifty was Cleveland's administra
that it turned over to Mckinley the great
surplus of $157,213 G32. Doesn't that
record sound very much as if the Demo
cratic party was the party of prosperity
OF course your correspondent scorned to
answer such question as that and here
leaves it to your readers.
General William Birney remarked to
your correspondent the other day 1.-The
most distinguished Republicans of the
! past generation have repudiated the prln-
ciples and party of Mckinley and Roose
welt Besides John Sherman, Who OPP
posed the war on the Filipnos and was
therefore prosecuted on his dying bed,
and Tom Reed, who resigned the second
office in the gift of the American people
because of his disgust with his party COM
rades, there remain Boutwell,, Carl
Schurz, and Teller, wheelhorses OF the
Republican party through two genera
tions and all of them in its Cabinets, and
ex-senator Edmunds Of Vermont, whom
Mr. Roosevelt nomin ated for the Presl-
dency in 1884 who has just joined the
Parker Club in New York City, and will
vote the Democratic ticket, on the ISIS ues
of trusts and imperialism. Isn't it strange
that these illustrious men should abandon
their lifelong associations unless they
had the best of reasons? Then there's
Ben Harrison: as an expresident he
sternly opposed the Philippine policy OF
the United States and told Mckinley to
his face. we hold no commission from
God to police the worldn 1t is now re-
ported that General W. H. H. Miller of
Harrison's Cabinet and Hon. S. n. Cham
bers, Harrison's district attorney, will
vote the Democratic ticket"
Congressman Sulzer, the redheaoed
rustler from New York City, who has his
foot in the road good deal of the time.
was here on Thursday, full of Informal
ton. He said I'VE in New York mean
to have ten or twelve hard working Dem
ocrats assigned to eac h of the 5000
About $500 will be expended on an aver
age ~ each, for printing, meetings, car
riages, etc. They will take two careful!
canvasses costing probably million dol
lars. By the first week in November they
will have their lessons by heart. We
never had so thorough an organization
as we have this year, and the first canvass
of the state above the Bronze is about
| finished
A fraud order has been issued by the
Attorney General barring W. M. Farr of
this city from the use of the mails in con-
nection with his alleged colleges and uni
versities and their "diplomas" General
Goodwin says its pretences and promises
are "a tissue of falsehood." Why does
| not the Postmaster General tackle that
institution in Niles, Mich, which offers
diplomas and degrees to men who have
never studied medicine or surgery, guar
antees that they are competent to prac-
tice those professions and recommends
such quacks to call whom it may con-
GERM"
Yet it may be possible to carry this SUI
pervisory business too ar. Wiley's
chemical laboratory for testing imported
food products may possibly do some good
by exposing people who transport i'm
pure food, and cannot do much harm
But if the government is to issue fraud
| oil hn no q
advertise medicine which has no curativ e
power" what will the end be? Will it
test every alleged medicine and guarantee
to the purchaser the excellence of those
which it thinks is good "The Depart
ment intends to issue fraud orders against
all remedies that are shown by analysis
made by government chemists to contain
harmful ingredients or ingredients that
have no medicinal value in the complaints
for which they are designed and sold.'
Such inspection would require force
larger than the entire army and navy of
the United States.
Congressman J. Adam Bode of Duluth
is now galloping through the United
States expressing himself on every eligi-
BILE stump. Fifteen years ago he was a
reporter in this city, and very lively
boy he was. He followed his business to
the West and came to Congress from the
Zenith City of the Unsalted Seas as a
Democrat. Then he INDUCED in sober
second thought and came as Republican
A sentence of his speech the other day at
Chautauqua was, "The first thing Demo
Gratis need to do is to get right with God"
No auditor ought to mention or even re-
member the fact that it did not occur to
Adam Bode to get right with God till
after the Democratic party had refused
to reflect him.
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