The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-08
WASHINGTON LETTER.

On Saturday the President left for 1.-The
summer capital" on Long Island, where
he will receive the committee sent to in
form him of his nomination and where
be will remain till towards the end of
August. During the last few days he has
held interviews with good many prom
inent members Of his party.
The Democratic leaders are making
strenuous effort to flock together, but it
seems certain that they will flock sep
arately more or less up to the very close
of the ST. Louis convention, and perhaps
thereafter. Several of the most prom
insnt of them who are not at all IN the
habit of holding harmonious confabula-
tons have held pow-wows here this week
aud last in which several hatchets have
been buried with appropriate ceremonies.
Among other occurrences is the avowal
of Senator German that Cleveland isn't so
bad man after all and he is willing to
trail through the mire" again if we can't
do better.
Ex-senator Jones, who, suppose. will
call the convention TO order, thinks
Cleveland would mean wreck and ruina-
lion. Jones is as bitter as gall at present
towards almost everybody. He want
ed nice soft berth on the Panama Com
mission, and said some very pleasant
things about President Roosevelt. But
after being looked over was overlooked.
It is understood that leading Democrats
refused to indorse his application.
Dominic l. Murphy Jared better. A
straight Democrat, and Pension Commits
sioner under Cleveland eight years ago,
he has secured the lucrative post of sec
rotary to the Panama Commission, for
having done valuable service for Roose-
velt's administration. As publisher of a
leading Roman Catholic organ, he de-
Tended our Philippine policy in dealing
with the friars, and verify, he hath his
reward. He will not dodge his duties Oh
account of the insalubrity of the canal
zone, but will cheerfully HE him thitber
just as often as he is absolutely COM
PEELED to.
Partisan headquarters here are by no
means asleep. The Republican managers,
having got the personnel aud the plat
form off their mind, have made copious
extracts from the Congressional Record.
from the speeches of Aldrich. Allison.
Dolliver, and Lodge in the Senate. and
Payne, Grosvenor. Dalzell, Little6eld.
Lands and Hepburn in The House and
within the next two months these will
fly to the uttermost corners of the Union
ON the wings of the ranked mail.
The Democrats have made extracts
from twenty-five speeches for same pur-
pose, the orators including such men as
Senators Carmack. Bacon, Patterson,
German, and Culberson, and Represen-
tatives John Sharp Williams, Claude
Kitchin, John Lind, and Bourke Cochran.
AT score of tables at headquarters are
ranged a lot OF young men aud girls
eagerly addressing ranked envelopes to
the long lists of voters with which they
have been furnished
1t is estimated that Senator Morgan's
speeches during the session would fill
volume of 1000 pages, but they are so
comprehensive and exhaustive as to defy
condensation for the uses of the Central
Committee. Senator Spooner's miscel-
laneous talks would make just about as
large book. But they are equally un-
available, because they are so fragmen
taTy and desnltory. and the Republicans
committee has given them up in despair.
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