The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-06-24
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

Republican kicker Of Wisconsin, is repre-
cmissary whose business it is to obtaii.
the assistance Of the President in the ght
against Governor LaFollctte. The Pres
| ident shes off and is not inclined to take
a hand 1t looks now as if the diminu
tive Fuzzy Wuzzy Of tie Senate might be
| disappoint ed in his ambition, though the
| Republican Committee has decided to
seat his crowd. When he gets to Ch:ca-
not find plain sailing. Asher Kinds, the
man who has all of the parllaml ntary
manuals by heart, and who stands at the
| Speakers right, during the sessions OF
the House always ready with word or
wink, will be at Mr.. Caunon's right when
the convention is called to order. The
precedents he has studied will justify the
| Speaker chairman in throwing the Wis
consin boilers out altogether or giving
each contestant half vote. O, yes! A
lively time at Chicago is on the tapis.
| LaFollette will be there. ....
There has been considerable evidence
that the people of the District of Colum
| bia are tolerably well satisfied with their
| form of Government under which all their
affairs are taken care of by three Com
missioners; but local self government
will be the slogan of the delegation to the
Republican national convention from this
city, next week Dr. Robert Reyburn,
and John F. Cook, will put forth every
effort to induce the Republicans to incor-
porate plank in their platform looking
to really republican form of government
| for the city.
There is active fermentation in military
circles here over the sudden appointment
of Major General Henry G. Corbin to the
command of the Philippine archipelago,
relieving General Wade.
General Corbin's character as a man
and soldier may perhaps be inferred by
an interview which your correspondent
had with him year ago. He was then
Adjustant- General Of the United States
army, large, sturdy, bluff man. | told
him I had called to see what was being
| done about the case of Lieutenant Sin
clair, of the army in the Philippines, who
had killed young Richter, a soldier Of his
company, deliberately, after two hours
and a half of torture, in which he was at
last strangled to death.
Eyes, I remember it" said the General,
'there has been a great deal Of talk about
it,
apparently not too mnch, General"
l ventured to say, eff the report of the
case is correct. 1t was what we usually
call murder"
"Oh, this case that you are so excited
about
General" interrupted, Il call your
attention to the fact that you are not in
the least excited, have no occasion to
be-"
90, don't mean you especially" ex-
planned General Corbin, ''but these anti
imperialists, and people all around. The
fact seems to be that this unfortunate man
forgot himself for the time being and lost
his head-and don't wonder at it in that
d Philippine climate Before he made
that mistake he was considered one of
the finest young men in the army"
ssDo you define this offence as mis-
take, General?" l asked. Do you forget
the testimony as to what Lieutenant Sin
clair did? He committed murder"
''You call it MURDER" said the General
'but he was tried for the alleged offence,
and acquitted"
"Certainly, General He was tried and
acquitted by his comrades who found that
he had done the things with which he
was charged, and was innocent
"The General leaned back, asked his
interlocutor to be seated, and continued:
"When think about it, and my long SER
vice in the army, I believe, sir, TINT l
have done worse things myself, than Lieu
tenant Sinclair is satd to have done"
You have done worse things, Gcncr-
ale"
Eyes, have When | was out in the
w
got fighting drunk and came whooping
up the company street and yelling that
he wanted to kill the Captain, that was
me- was not afraid. He jumped into
my tent add drew knife on me- I stoop-
ed and picked up a root that lay beside
my chair and knocked him down with it,
1t might have killed him; if it had;
should have been just as guilty as Sin
clair"
Your correspondent WAS astonished.
He reminded the General that one case
was simple self defense and the other
deliberated murder of an imprisoned
soldier, and reminded him further that
young Richter was bound upon the ground
that he was gagged with cloth stuffed
into his mouth with the end of a club;
that he was tortured with ice water for
two hours, and was finally suffocated
and died under the torture.
Where do you get these facts?" asked
General Corbin.
There is but one place in the United
States, General" l answered, "where
hey aan be found l found them in the
rccor DIS Of your own office, General Cor
bin had friends in the United States, and
perhaps some enemies, but that he had
~ friend ar on, NV who youIJ not