The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-01-29

to hurried consultations.
For Democratic candidate. the names
oftenest heard are German, Parker, Hearst
and Olney, in their order; but there is a
strong undertow for Lieuteuant-Ge
Miles Is be Bryan's dark horse? He
is entirely acceptable to all wings of the
party aud warm friend of both Cleve-
land and Bryan. His adoption by the
Iroquois Club of Chicago gave new
impetus to the movement to day and
Miles's name is likely to be spoken in
any conversation on the coming selection.
While not a ward heller or a spell binder
in any sense, his friends hold that no
candidate possesses more attractive .uall-
ties or more qualities calculated to win.
Is not Roots fulsome eulogy of General
Young, recently retired, in sharp con-
trast to curt and insolent order retiring
General Miles few months ago?
The bill in Congress to admit New
Mexico and Arizona as one state causes
considerable adverse comment in Con-
gress Attention is called to the fact that
it would take railr DAD train as long to 60
to 20 from St. Louis to Boston! There
are only about a quarter as many people
in Arizona as there are in the city of
Washington.
If not scandal, the condition OF the
Red Cross Society comes perilously near
it. For more than generation Miss
Clara Barton and her official associates
have been disbursing its funds without
making any proper account to the pub
lie that furnished the money. Your
CORES pondent warned Miss Barton ten
| years ago that trouble would grow ont of
this negligence, but she and the Doctor,
her Secretary, preferred to wait for it.
Now Congress is overhauling the whole
outfit.
"Pious" originally meant affectionate.
Aeneas was called pious because he burr.
ed his father, and Antigone was called
pious because she buried her brother
Congressman seem to have a similar am
btion. They buried one of their number
last week with the usual extravaganza; {.
committee of twelve or fifteen, charter
ed Pullman to Illinois, and back, a load
of grief stricken junketers, and all they
can eat and all they can drink at the ex
pense of the government These funerals
cost from $4,000 to $4,000 each and
sometimes degenerate into mild form
of SPREE Often. indeed, the official
mourners drink altogether too much and
there have been instances when they
were disabled from performing their
duty. Both parties are equally guilty of
this abominable offense and it is high
time it was reformed in the interest of
ordinary decency.
Who says the President is arbitrary
and despotic in his methods? He said
yesterday Senator Hanna has perfect
right to become candidate for President
This shows plainly that he is not an auto
crat and that imperialism is myth.
His humility is touching. He has not
issued any decree that the American
people shall not take part in the elections,
"r that the nominating convention shall
| not have at least some degree of freedom
in selecting a candidate. Behold how
diff erent he is from the Sultan of Turkey!
The body of James Smithson, philan.
throp ist, arrives here to, day from Genoa,
Italy, where it was buried three-quarter
of a century ago. He was an intidel and
scientist, vice-president of the British
Royal Academy, and he gave half million
dollars to the United States to build the
Smithsonian Institution. He was a scion
of the great house of Northumberlan but
was on the side of the colonies during the
Revolution, and ridiculed his cousin, Lord
Hugh Percy, who ran away during battle
of Bunker Hill. He was ambitious to be
known as benefactor of his kind latter
the Northumberland are forgotten" and
chose the su1est road to Immortality. He
will be temporarily reburied in West
Washington, but will be transferred to
the Smithsonian grounds when his statue
is ready. Let US hope that it will not IT.
inforce the bronze cavalry Il I'll. city.