The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-02-26
WASHINGTON LETTER.

The absence of eleven Senators and
thirty Representatives to attend Senator
Hanna's funeral does not seem to dimin-
ish Congressional activity. Still the
official artifcers go merrily on fashioning
the weapons for the Fall campaign and
putting in definite shape the arnor they
are to wear All the week the discussion
has centered upon the Panama canal
treaty and the proposition to fortify the
Philippine Islands. Hardly vulnerable
point on either side has escaped attention.
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Both branches of Congress still insist
that the way to "honor" dead colleague
is to visit his home in great numbers in
what is virtually pleasure excursion at
the expense of the government. Two
chartered trains of Pullman cars were
employed at Government expense to
carry the family and friends of the dead
Senator with eleven Senators and thirty
Representatives and their clerks, servants,
and reporters. These trains are sumpt-
uously furnished and are provisioned very
completely from gastronoulic point of
view. Food and drink of every kind are
furnished free and in unlimited quantities
to these sixty participants in govern
ment picnic. The choicest brands of
liquors are provided, and cigars that cost
fifty cents apiece are distributed, each
enclosed with its aroma in dainty vial
lassoed with blue ribbon. If the people
who pay the taxes approve OF this sort OF
thing, then, as Lincoln remarked, this is
the sort of thing they approve of. Some
think the dead statesman would be hon
ored just as much if committee of two,
one from each house, accompanied his
remains homeward, provided for them
selves only the comforts of an ordinary
Pullman. The expense of this junket
will probably be in the neighborhood OF
$I2, 900.
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| Your correspondent called upon Miss
Susan B. Anthony at the Shoreham. She
is just eighty-four and looks as young as
twenty years ago. She said, 1--WE are
more hopeful than ever. Our ultimate
success in every republic is certain"
Your correspondent referred to the manly
conduct of Representative Shafroth in
preemptorily resigning his seat in Con-
gress because the electorate of Colorado
was tainted, and to the fact that the
ballot-box stuffing had been deliberately
performed by the women voters. and she
said, Eyes, his conduct was fine, but
there are some things about it l do not
understand. 1 have telephoued asking
him to come up and see ME. The paper
says that women repeated marked
fraudulent ballots, padded the polling
list, stuffed ballot boxes, and permitted
various other election frauds. The report
says they we're from the Tenderloin dis
trict. Women are every initiative, es-
pecially of those they have been taught
to regard as their superiors. I shall
know more about this. though, after l
have seen Mr.. Shafroth." Being asked
where she hoped to extend the suffrage
next, she said, Iowa. tits great, rich,
enlightened state, and when we get the
ballot there we get it everywhere" Miss
Anthony did not seem much fatigued,
although she had been through the vo-
ciferous racket aud turmoil of the weeks
convention here. Mr.. Shafroth says the
repeaters and ballot-box suffers were
mostly men.
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The extraordinary conduct of Mr.. Sha.
froth, Dem. in quitting Congress and
giving his seat to his Republican rival
because he felt there had been fraud at
the election from which he inadvertently
pro6ted. created buzz of enthusiastic
compliment and admiration in the Cap
itol. Perhaps Colorado will find some