Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-05-26
VOL. 80.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(From our Regular Correspondent.)
Washington, May 81, 1904

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The President is busy receiving
the calls of politicians and arrang-
ing the details Of the coming cam
paign. 1t is admitted on all sides
that in selecting Mr.. Cortelyou for
Chairman of the National Republi-
can Committee he has dexterously
solved d perplexing problem. 1t
is now assured that the campaign
will be conducted on q high and
straightforward basis. The presi-
dent declares very emphatically
that he is not taking sides in the
Illinois or Wisconsin factional con-
test. He is keeping his hands o fl.
He expresses himself as quite hope
full of the result in Maryland, not
withstanding Mr.. Gorman's plans
to capture that state. On the 30th
inst. the President will visit
Gettysburg, Pa, making a speech
on Memorial Day. He will ride
over the field in the morning
and in the evening return to
Washington. AS the speech is the
only one Of his until after election,
the public is looking forward to it
with uncommon interest. The
British Ambassador, Sir Henry
Durand, left to-day for Gettysburg,
the guest of acting Secretary Of
War, Oliver, He will inspect and
stldy the famous battle field. He
is deeply interested in the military
features of the great Civil War.
A welcome guest ut the White
House this week is Captain w. S.
Cowler, the Presidents brother-in-
law, of the unfortunate battleship
Missouri. The vessel is now being
repaired at Newport News.
Among recent other visitors at the
White House have been Elihu
Root, Senator Lodge, Ex. Gov.
Black of New York who is getting
points for his speech at Chicago
nominating the President, and Mr..
Dover, Secretary of the Republi-
can Committee, who is arranging
the list of speakers for the cam
paign.
The Interstate Commerce Com
mission in this city, has issued a
formal order for an investigation
regarding the differential freight
rates between the West and the
Atlantic sea board on produce iu-
tended for export. There is bitter
complaint in New York City that
that commercial center is not
treated on the same footing with
other cities, especially Baltimore.
1t is claimed by the railroads that
the differential system was inaugu-
rated to put stop 10 rate wars
in other words competition. 1t is
asserted that twenty years ago the
railway companies lost 500, 100000
by rate wars which otherwise they
might have made out Of the ship
pers.
Every once in a while, the great
inventor Mr.. Thomas Edison, who
has procured more patents than
any other Inventor and whose
great fortune has been made from
patents, protests through the press
that the Patent Office is unfair and
corrupt and that he will not take
out any more patents. Neverthe-
less he continues to file appli-
cations for patents and probably has
as many as fifty applications fol
patent now pending. The present
complaint is that the Examaniel
refuses to grant him something he
does not think him entitled to.
The Patent Office is as fair and
clean as any office under any gov
ernment. The Examiners are AL
men of education and specialists
in their respective classes. There
are more than one hundred of them
and many of them because of their
learning are eligible to professor.
ships in Universities.
Paint Your Buggy for 75c.
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