The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-11-18
OUR WASHINGT ON LETT Err
WASHINGTON, D. c., Nov, 18th.


night astounded and COMPOUNDED. That
Parker might be defeated-that of course,
was among our counts and discounts.
But other announcements excited more
than transient incredulity. was in the
parlors of the National Congressional
Committee of the Democratic party in the
Riggs House when the wires first began
to buzz Congressman Cowherd, chair
man of the Committee, held the floor IN
his usual buoyant temper, and walked up
and down reading aloud the dispatches
handed to him. He had just returned
from the West where he had found his
own Kansas City district call right and
secure" and had discovered that Missou-
ri sought to give 10000 for Parker"
Even before the returns began to come
in he was feeling very sore because the
party had not backed up his Committee
and when dispatch said that Pennsyl-
vania would send to Congress one Dem
ocrat and thirty one Republicans he came
as near profanity as he ever does, and
told the hundreds of friends assembled
round him that his committee had not re-
ceived a single dollar from the national
committee during the campaign and that
the members had taken $500 out OF their
own pockets to pay for the only printing
they had been able to get! The declara-
ton caused grave faces, sharp comment,
and many expressions of sympathy, es-
pecially when it was announced that
Cowherd had been overthrown in his own
district because he had been compelled to
be present in Washington. He is very
popular in the house, one of the shrewd-
est, readiest, most active and enterprising
members, chosen out of the entire body
because of his political sagacity.
The causes of the landslide to Roose-
velt?-for there are many, you can
Judge as well as your correspondent can.
| There seem to be in the United States
about eighty million opinions on this SUBJ
ject. I asked a prominent Republican
yesterday for his diagnosis. "Well," he
said, "by his sagacious action, Roosevelt
made himself solid with the Catholics,
the Hebrews the negroes, and the union
labor vote. He rushed the Panama bust
ness through, and. whether right or wrong
the people like a man who does things.
The normal Republican vote on Tuesday
| was reinforced by a million men who
want the President always to carry a
chip on his shoulder and who will back
him up to any extent.
"And all the people cried Come, broth:
err! Your one term deserves another!'
| Senator Jones seen at his residence here
says it was the alleged prosperity that
carried the day,-the people that have
money and the people who hope to get
money. To this was added the belliger-
ent feeling which has prevailed in the
United States for the last six years, fill
ing the streets with boys in uniform and
sending to the polls an army of prevent
ed Democrats willing to follow to any
conquest Theodore the king of the north
ern Goths A Republican friend of mine
insists that every lynching anywhere in
the United States costs the Democrats
at the polls on Tuesday ten thousand
votes. But I think he il dreaming.
! The Presidents formal declaration that
under no circumstances would he be a
candidate for reelection is received here
at par as sincere avowal. It seems a
lit lie hasty and premature, but it is just
like the impulsive Roosevelt. The fact,
however remains that a President of the
United States is no longer the arbiter OF
his own destiny, and he is liable to be
seized by eulogists and funkeys and drag
ged into the White House again even
against his own protest. What he will
do during these next four years nobody
can tell. He can so conduct himself as
to promote universal harmony, amity and
peace; or he cali adopt policy which
will make his name synonym of aggres
sion and conquest, and bring the repub
lie to the verge of ruin. He should be
kept straight by the consciousness that
the eyes of the world are upon him.
The numerous bronze gentleman on
horseback that preside over the squares
and circles in this city are to receive an
illustrious reinforcement in the person
of solitary pedestrian in military uni
form of foreign and Anticipated aspect,
whose metallic counterpart will be un-
yelled in the grounds of the new War
College next Saturday. These are bet
ter known as the Arsenal Grounds, but
during the last two or three years long
row of limestone villas has been erected
here for the use Of officers, and fronting
them on the other side of the park are
being built very comprehensive and SUBJ
stanti al barracks, adequate to all emer-
gencics. The parsonage to mount the
pedestal is Frederick the Great, one hand
rests on his sword hilt, and the other car
ries cane-perhaps the very cane that
his father belabored him with when the
youth was caught in his boyish pranks;
perhaps the very sword that he flung
away at the battle of Mollwitz when he
found refuge in a barn ten miles from
the battlefield; perhaps the very cooked
hat which he wore when he sold his Hes
SLAMS to George III to conquer the Amer
lean colonies withal. Our forefathers
tore down the statue Of George III in
New York City and moulded it into bull
lets on that occasion; but this statue OF