The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1904-07-22
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER
WASHINGTON, D. c., July 16,h

the fuSlllaQe Will Thereafter get nVely
Both parties will undoubtedly establish
headquarters in New York City around
Madison Square with branches in this
city whence the tons Of partisan "litera
ture" will be addressed and franked.
The President will return to Washing
ton about the end of this month to gather
up some loose ends of unfinished business
At Sycamore Hill he is obtaining some
| rest in the midst of busy days for the en-
tire family, himself and Mrs. Roosevelt,
the four boys and Miss Ethel, rise with
the sun and 60 to bed with the chickens
The President hunts, and walks and ride s
and sleeps out-of doors occasionally, and
boxes with the boys and plays golf aud
tennis. Fishing is too slow for him.
The ladies of the Cabinet are somewhat
scattered. The Hitchcocks are in New
Hampshire. Mrs Shaw and Mrs. Payne
are enduring the rigors of a Washington
July, and will probably tarIy into Au
gust. They manage to make life endura-
BILE by taking a week end trip to Old
Point Comfort or Virginia Beach. Sec
rotary Shaw, accompanied by his daugh-
tiers, Misses Enid and Erma. left Wash
ington for the thousand Islands and the
New England resorts, Mrs. Shaw and
Mr. Earl Shaw will remain in their Mas
sachusetts Avenue home. Mrs. Metcalf
still fingers in California, where she has
delightful home in Oakland. She will
come here in December and resume life
at the Arlington, knowing we'll the trials
and tribulations of getting and keeping
good servants for housekeeping. Mrs.
Paul Morton and her daughter Pauline
are spending July at "Arbor Lodge" the
handsome Morton property near Nebras-
ka City. Mrs. Morton will take house
at the West end, possessing that lar &c
private income which is rather necessary
to social success in Washington.
The real status of Paul Morton, the new
member of the Cabinet, is yet to be de-
termined. His refusal to succeed Mr..
Cortelyou and the announcement which
he made when he was appointed Secre-
tary of the Navy, that he would occupy
the place only nine months, caused a
Struggling of shoulders and raising Of
brows in political circles. He still re-
tains his position as President of the
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fee Railroad,
and is merely on nine months leave OF
absence in Washington. The Presidents
purpose in calling him to the position is
inscrutable for he knows absolutely moth
ing of its duties. and is not trying to learn
anything. Indeed, he could not learn
the rudiments in year unless his famHi-
arity with prairie schconers might be con-
sidered preparation. Of course the Ia
bors of Cabinet officer can be, as they
are in the case of Hitchcock, merely per
functory, and performed by hired subor-
dinates. But the President ought not to
be party to such a definition, and it
looks now as if Mr.. Morton took the po-
sition remembering that the administers
ton might change in nine months, and
that the important portfolio was careless
~ tossed to him as kind of political
souvenir without the expectation that he
would do any work.
The case of Charles Emory Smith was
entirely similar. He was made Postmas-
ter-General for his social and newspaper
prestige when the President knew that
he took not the slightest interest in his
work and allowed it all to be done by his
bureau chiefs. 1t was too much of a risk
to run on the part of both. What sorry
figure, indeed, has Charles Emory Smith
cut since the revelation of the Post Office
fraud!
Republican newspapers are greatly
afflicted in their minds in recalling GER
tain uncomplimentary language which
Col. Bryan is alleged to have uttered con-
corning Judge Parker previous to the
st. Louis convention. They no doubt
fear that the disagreement points to
permanent alienation between these two
gentlemen. They worry unnecessarily.
Lea them possess their souls in patience.
Large minds do not cherish grievances
forever. If they did, what sort of rela-
ton would exist between Plat and Odell
Or between Spooner and La Toilette?
Or between Roosevelt and Grosvenor?
Since the nomination of Judge Parker
Col. Bryan has appeared only in the role
Of a magnanimous and patriotic states.
man.
Is Mr.. Secretary Loeb large enough for
his place? Even if he conducted him
self politely and prudently in peremp-
torily refusing the interview with the
President requested by the Miners CON-
mittee,-which does not seem certain
did he reverse the engine and take back
track automatically? The next day the
Miners telegraphed asking once more
for an interview. Mr.. Loeb jumped at
the chance and exclaimed in reply "Many
thanks for your telegram ~ Why "many
thanks Why need the President
emotionally express his gratitude to men
requesting an interview? 1t is not
virtually saying Eyes; l was wrong yes
terday and Won don't know how tickled
am to set myself right. Many thanks
for the way ou!' Is this the same Mr.
Loeb, by the way, who made the mess
about the Upton dinner and who in the
presidents name accepted many pres
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