The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-12-09
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER

The metal Goddess on the Dome
Where morn's first sunbeam glistens,
Disturbed in her exalted home
Bends down her head and listens.
She watches each converging track;
She hears the engines humming,
And shouts II see them hurrying back
Hurrah! The kids are coming!
John Sharp who blows the big trumbone
Is climbing up the gravel,
And Champ Clark with his cacophone
And Joseph with his gavel.
Bill Cowherd, looking rather glum,
Advances toward the middle,
Claude Kitchen with his kettledrum
And Cushman with his fiddle
This must be Dalzell drawing near;
hear the drone of Dresser;
And there's the Nutmeg fnancier,
And There's the Buckeye guesses.
I see that Byrd is on the wing;
hear a thousand voices
And my Bourke Cochran trumpeting
Above the horrid noises.
And there are froliesome Depew
And Lodge, who owns the Senate;
Wisconsin's Fuzzy-Wuzzy too
hear him foot this minute.
There's Su!zer, Hemenway, Mccall,
Gillett, the Lands brothers,
And Hit and Hale and Hill and Hull
And Plat and Payne and others.
If I'd hypodermic tube
For Uncle Sans protection,
I'd load it up with common sense
And give 'em an injection!'
The goddess yawned and stretched and
II have vague impression
That possibly His Gracious Nibs
Will call an extra session."
She drew her rep]um DER her breast,
Her shawl across her shoulder,
Just scratched her ankle with her toe,
And sighed, otis getting COLDER
Great preparations are being made for
the Inauguration next March. The pres
ident has excited some hostility here by
taking the whole affair into his own
hands, as he did his election, turning
down our most prominent local Republi-
cans and appointing in their place his
"dear friend" Col. John NJ Wilson, with
whom he was thrown in intimate asso
citation during his membership of the
Civil Service Commission ten years ago.
The appointment is regarded as an en-
phatic announcement that the inaugural
ceremonies are to be mainly military. 1t
will probably be the most snowy and
numerously attended Inauguration of a
president ever held. Already scores of
state officials are here to make arrange
ments for regiments, companies, and civ
ic associations which will take part. The
President will cooperate with his usual
self-assertion to make it "a great show"
He has ordered the battalion, four COM
panies of Philippine scouts (mostly Mac
cabebes) who have been at the St. Louis
Exposition, to remain in this country
aid participate in the honors to "their
President" New public buildings and
ire mendous local improvements are 60
ing rapidly on and the city on March 4th
will be in its most attractive holiday
garb.
The Presidents bulletin excluding a
Bnston paper from news sources is felt
to have been inexpedient because about
as Intellectual as the Pope's bull against
the comet. The paper will get the news
just the same, perhaps more abundantly
than ever, and the advertisement is worth
untold sums. But its offense was gross
one; for Mr.. Chester A. Snow, president
of the Humane Society here, says that
the President if champion of kindness
to animals and always gives them abun-
dant care. The yarn that he encouraged
his children to torment turkey was
very disleputable invention concerning
one who in recent message to Congress
appealed for the better protection of ami
mails. The Turkey that it was said the
Roosevelt children treated with cruelty
was never seen by the children until it
was served Oh the table,
Washington is not proud to have been
the birthplace of the woman, Nancy Pat
terson. The action of her admirers in
writing to her sympathetic letters, send
ing her bouquets, fourleaf clover food
and wine, and making passionate appeals
to be allowed to serve her, is enough to
cause doubts of the value of our judicial
system. Why are such things permitted?
A prominent jurist in this city proposes
that prisoners shall invariably be tried by
juries of their own sex, holding that the
masculine element is what prevents the
conviction of young woven charged with
capital offences. An alleged murderess
would be more likely to have justice done
her if her goo goo eyes found theyselves
confronted by twelve women insensible
to her physical charms. If male assassins
were tried by juries of Aomen, would
they not have far better chance to es-
cape than at present?