The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1904-11-18
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON LETTER.
Election is over. The racket is ended.
"Silence, like a poultice comes to heal
the blows of sound" Probably no city
in the country is less inclined to revolt
against the verdict Of the people on No
veulber s; for, if not entirely and COM
pletely happy, we are at least moved to a
SNUG and complacent acceptance of the
situation. There will be no wholesale
discharge of public officials and it will
not be necessary for the twenty thousand
clerks in Washington to change their pol
itics within twenty four hours, as they
always do when sthe opposition" of
whatever breed, gets control of the gov
ernment. Our merchants, theatre man.
ayers, bankers and brokers have been
almost unanimously Republican ever
since Tuesday night, for they are assured
of four years more of uninterrupted toll
taking.
''What caused the deplorable calafn-
ity 2" This is the question which the
foremost Democrats of the capital are
asking and trying to answer. One of the
most sagacious of them puts it thus:
Roosevelt left no stone unturned. He
was young and ambitious and appealed
first to one body of voters then another.
He protested to the Russian government
against the Kishineff massacre and got
the Hebrew vote. He compelled the set
Element of the coal strike and lin spite of
the Miller case) got the organized labor
vote. He invited Cardinal and arch
bishops to dinner and kept the friar lands
for the priests and got the Catholic vote.
He invited Booker Washington to lunch
con and paid the salary of the Indianola
postmistress and got the negro vote. He
pushed to success the suit against the
Northern Securities Company, and got
the anti trust vote. He refused to run
amuck against corporations, and got the
trust vote. He pushed great irrigation
projects in the Rocky Mountain region,
and got the Western vote. He made a
hurry-up annex of the Panama republic,
and got the first voters vote. How's
that for full explanation !" 1t seems
nearly complete. but one might add land
he has perfect and unwavering belief in
the Roosevelt STAR"
r. hav be 10
the Democratic party would not elect
another President during the first quarter
OF the Twentieth Century.
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Who will be the candidates in 1908 ?
Will the Democratic ticket be headed by
Col. Bryan, who seems to have been true
to his party during its many vicissitudes;
or by Judge Parker who has blazed the
way to its latest defeat; or by Folk who
has achieved victory against Republic
can avalanche that has covered Missouri
with Political desolation and even against
the machine of his own party; or by
William L. Douglas, the socialist shoe
maker, who has carried Massachusetts in
bewildering contest when all other
Northern States went solidly Republican?
Or may it possibly be Wright, who by
that time should have acquired much in
formation as Captain General of the
Philippines? And whom will the Repub-
licans set up? Will it be Root "the greatest
Secretary of War this country ever had;;"
or LaFollette, who gallops in with Spooner
and Quarles chained to his chariot wheel;
or Taft, who has exhibited surprising
physical stamina and mental alertaess as
a spell-binder during this campaign? If
the latter, he will be the first presidential
candidate the country ever had who
weighed 400 pounds.
Nv
The next notable event in this city will
be the unwilling of the bronze statue OF
Frederick the Great next Saturday. 1t
will be presented BY the German Ambas-