Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-07-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.

Washington d. c. June q, 1904.
In the warm sunshine this after
noon the President left for his sum-
mer home on Long Island: Yester-
day was held the last Cabinet meet
ing for month, and the changes at
the Cabinet table were so great as
to amount, to a revolution. Secre-
tary Moody assumed the Attorney
Generals portfolio, Paul Morton be-
came Secretary Of the Navy, and
Congressman Victor III. Metcalf of
California became Secretary of Com
merce.
Before l write you again Theodore
Roosevelt will know who and what
he is up against. The Democratic
party will also have ascertained
who is Ii and the contest for four
years supremacy will have begun.
The rooms at the Riggs House are
still open. but in fact, the Demo
cratic headquarters have been
transferred to St. Louis. Repre-
sentative Cowherd, the active chair
man OF the Congressional Committee,
is in the West, preparing for the
Democratic exposition. / saw him
the other day. He has his decided
preferences but he says that any
candidate is good enough for his
support and the support of the party.
called on Senator Jones at his
law Offices in the Colorad building.
He approaches the campaingn in
rather a hopeless frame OF mind,
having no confidence that the con-
vention will do what it ought to do.
He cannot conceive the possibility
of Grover Cleveland being nomina-
ted, but feels sure that Bryan would
not bolt Parker. | am sorry to add
that the Senator seemed somewhat
embittered and cynical. as IL his
public services had been inadequa-
tely appreciated. James Kimbrough
Jones is only sixty-six and he has
been in Office only thirty three years
exactly half of his life. The peo-
pie OF Arkansas ought to wake up
and look after him.
Senator German has not been seen
for days in the streets of Washing
ton. Perhaps he can be found TAX
ing observations on the Pukiana
Pike. 1t is confidently alleged here
that German is laying wires for
Cleveland S nomination in a manner
that must be purely altruistic.
They are not on good terms. Just
before the end of Cleveland's presi.
dental term he denounced the De-
mOcrats who had toned down the
Wilson bill as being guilty of per
idy. German retorted that in |
managing his campaign he had |
gone through the mire" for him.
So there is no love lost, but German
controls the vote of Maryland, West
Virginia, and one or two other dele |
cations and he thinks that Cleveland
might be elected. He is willing to |
sacrifice his own feelings to the
good of his party.
President Roosevelt has believed
for some months that his opponent
in the coming fight would be Judge
Parker, and has squared his sails to |
that probability; but several of his |
most influential friends have this |
week expressed to him their belief
that ex-President Cleveland is his
coming antagonist, and have exc:t-
ed some apprehension on his part
that this may be the case. Tt is
very apparent TO them that Cleve-
lands name would not unite the
party as thoroughly as some other
names, but it is admitted that his
strong personality, his broad public
and his well known con-
would attract q heavy
vote. perhaps from Republicans.
The partisan machine-gun has
been put IN operation at Democratic
headquarters here. l looked in
yesterday. The ammunition thus
far in the hands of the gunners con.
sists of ten bombs charged with
powder, lyddite shells,
tariff chain-shot and cayenne pep
per, and the first discharge by
franked mail will tear large gaps in
the flying columns of the enemy
from Newyorkivitch 10 Californiski.
These ten shells will contain q and
p three or four speeches of John
Sharp Williams asking How long
are we asked to stand pat on the
tariff" CD Senator Bacon on Tar
iii shelter for trusts; "a Congress
man Lind of Minnesota on Canadian