The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-06-03
OUR WASHINGTON LETT Err
W.su1NaTON ID. c.. Nav 2Sth.

no such thing as silence in Washington,
"a long as His Strenuosity fingers. The
sensations of today swarm around the
| White House, or rather, around the pre-
mysterious little clubhouse attached, where
the President hides from the low public
and receives high privates. AS your cor
respondent has foreshadowed, lively
row has sprung up around the innocent
head of Cortelyou. He doesn't want to
he the storm center, but how can he help
it. when the President obstinately pushes
him into that position and holds him up
by main strength while he kicks and half
of the Republican Senators spend their
time flinging imprecations at his head?
"What does that boy know about man
aging a national campaign?" Senator Hale
is reported to have asked the other day,
and everybody looked grave and nobody
answered. CortelYou himself has shown
great good sense since the President
boosted him upon the elephant oy
saying frankly that it was mistake. for
he never rode an eleph: n before, and
there are no stirrups and he is sure to fall
off,
Conditions around the executive lean-to
are infammatory Not day passes that
Republican leaders do not give the Presi-
pent a piece of their mind, hot of the
griddle. "Cortelyou? Cortelyou?" said
one of his callers; "who is he? l have
heard the name, Mr.. President, but don't
even know him by sight" After such
speech has been repeated times enough
it makes his Excellency very hot around
the collar and he has been known to utter
reports that were almost profane-even
less printable than his short speech to the
Tennessee delegation about Carmack. This
greatly fatigues him and inclines him to
sigh audibly for the Genealogical fast
nesses of Oyster Bay.
On Wednesday three Republican Sena-
tors called simultaneously,-Kean of New
Jersey, Cullom of Illinois, and Proctor Of
Vermont, jovial and garrulous, while they
waited for the Secretary of War to leave,
and all solemn and silent when they in
turn retired. Senator Kean is said to
have been the spokesman. The Presi.
dent seldom has time to ask a visitor to
sit, and a whizzing photograph and clat-
tering biograph would probably have left
something like the following record:
The Senator-"M orning, Mr.. President,
hope you are we'll"
The President-"Yon have called to see
about"
The Senator-"Yes work laid out for
Mr.. Cortelyou.'
The President-"Well, well! There's
work enough-and he can do it!'
The Senator-"Some of your best
friends, Mr.. President, fear that the job
will be too difficult for him.
The President-"Yes, know, know
Several have called to help me by increas-
ing the difficulty. Thanks 1 am sure!
Governor Crane was mentioned for the
place, Good man. But some don't like
him. Platt and Odell couldn't get togeth
er. Then Murphy of New jersey. Strong
man. Able man. But you yourself, Sen
ator couldn't get together on him and
and they do say that the reason was
however let it pass. Did that leave me
any alternative to jumping in and getting
a good man for the place? There can't
be party quarrels over Cortelyou. think
the leaders of the party ought to help"
M;rh no
judicious, Mr.. President, for you to help
the leaders of the party, instead of call
ing on them to help your"
The President-"Well now; I'm sure
what the dev-what more can do than |
have done? There will be perfect harmo-
my if everybody falls i'm
Your correspondent does not attempt
in the above to reproduce the exact Ian
guage used, but reports and rumors OF
what took place indicate that the spirit
of the occasion is here preserved. The
language that was used was such as would
have made Mr.. Dooley lament anew that
his father didn't send him to Harvard.
Of course have left out all the hard
words and toned it down in the interest
of publicity.
Senator Cullom shed few tears with
the President over the terrible condition
of affairs in Illinois. The worst seemed
to be that the Ex-senator Billy Mason
holds the key to the deadlock, and the
President remembers bitterly the hard
whacks that Mason gave him during his
last year of service. Cullom told him
that there had been no change in the stu
ton since the state convention adjourn
ed, but he thought that when it reassem-
bled on the 31st good deal of the bitter
ness would have been absorbed and the
fight would not leave deep wounds. The
optimistic visitor assured the President
that whatever becomes of Yates, harmony
would be restored in time for the Novem-
her campaign.
Senator Spooner of Wisconsin is here,
the Fuzzy Wuzzy of the Senate, and he
keeps up his interminable clatter. The
President has intimated to him that he
had better 90 home and stay there till
some kind of terms have been made with
La Toilette, who seems quite able to hold
his own against the two Senators and all
their friends. 1t is rumored that the Pres
ident talks about Wisconsin in his sleep,