The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-07-22


The weather
Is hotter
Or what are
The reasons / cannot say.
It is warm here and getting warmer.
The central committees of the two parties
are sending of tons of ranked documents
through the mail, and it will not be their
fault if the voters are uniformed con-
corning political issues. In couple OF
weeks the President will return here for
a couple of days and look over the ground,
after which permanent headquarters will
be established in New York.
Congressman Cowherd at Democratic
headquarters at the Riggs House yester-
day said (: "Yes, Judge Parker will I'M
doubtedly resign his Office and in con-
sentative way take part in the campaign.
His startling silence before election had
greatly stimulated the public desire to see
and hear him, but he will probably be
seen and heard only in few of the larg-
est cities. If Senator German consents
to take control of the party organization
as national chairman, it will be largely
due to the influence of his cousin Henry
G. Davis, the Vice Presidential candidate.
Senator German is considered peculiarly
we'll qualified to keep Mr.. Bryan in the
traces. Judge Parker earnestly requests
the service of the Senator in the position
with whose duties he is so familiar.
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The Treasury Department has an inn
mense job on hand which is enlisting all
its energies. The building of the Tonic
reservoir in Arizona is the greatest water
storing project that has ever been
attempted, and it will be the most extern
sive artificial body of water in the world.
The Assouan dam in Egypt will enclose
more square miles, but the reservoir will
be only few feet deep, while the Tonic
will be in places more than 200 feet deep.
1t will be 400 feet high, and 225 feet wide
at the base, and some of the rocks enter
ing into the foundations will weigh
twelve, tons. The reservoir will be "a
miles long. The civil engineers at the
Treasury Department do not conceal their
pride in the prosecution of SO gigantic an
enterprise. 1t will cost some 5000, 900
of the SIS 5000, 900 which Congress appro'
priated for irrigation work.
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The Navy Department is quite stirred
mn over the contract which Mr.. R. H. F.
Sewall of New Orleans has made with the
Cuban government to raise the wreck OF
the battleship Maine which has lain in
the residential mud of Havana Harbor
since the night of February IS, 1898. The
question has been raised whether the U.
S. government had any financial interest
in the wreck or is likely to, interfere in
any way with the project. Can the Sec
rotary of the Navy of his own motion
finally abandon any property of the Unit
ed States without express provision OF
law3 The Cuban government disclaims
any interest in the wreck except to get it
out of the way and thereby improve the
condition of the harbor. What tumult
would arise If it should be proven that
the famous battleship was blown up from
within
On the evening OF July Iath Wright's
Old Corps that Saved the city" in July
Just forty years ago was in the limelight
on the center of the stage. The survivors
of the I22ud New York were given a
banquet by the Sixth Corps Association
here, at which speeches were made re-
calling In picturesque detail the only
battle fought in the District during the
Civil War and the only one at which
President Lincoln was present. They
poked some fun at General Jubal Early,
or rather at his memory, for his dilator.
mess on that occasion; but they would
have laughed out of the other side OF
their mouths If he had kept his wits
about him and advanced rapidly down
Seventh street on that I2th OF July. No
President ever had narrower escape; no
capital ever had closer call; no military
chieftain ever lost greater opportunity.
kuQecQ, altuouSu Inc DateiS VI w oSnih6
toni, had but score or two of casualties,
vet, considering the gigantic issue al
stake, it may properly be classified as one
of the most important battles of the world.
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Is the President going to obtain some
kudos in the Mediterranean Rear.
Admiral Barker is at Trieste on the Ad.
ratio with his squadron. and will stay on
the Austrian coast for couple of weeks.
What the battleships will do after that is
perhaps known to President Roosevelt,
aud probably to John Hay. for John says
It l. not yet decided whether the fleet
shall make sudden call on the Sultan
aud back mp our various requests to that
potentate. Vice Consul Magelsson hasn't
been shot lately, but there are various
little indignities that might be resented il
the President feels like it and thinks the
time Is ripe. 1t would not be difficult to
stir up the pancreas of the Sultan, and
might have wholesome effect.
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