The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-06-14
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, d. c. JUNES, 1907.

an was in Washin gton this week and
gave an interview tending to correct
some inaccuracies that he said had crept
into the talk that he gave out in New
York. He says that he did Lot say as
attributed to him that there was more
important issues than the tariff before
the people, the trusts, the railroads and
the tariff and that they were Of equal
Importance. There were other issues, he
said but these three were paramount.
give supreme Importance to any one of
the three issues named. The Democratic
party, he said was determined on all of
them-thorough revision of the tariff, eX-
termination of the trusts and strict regu-
lation of the railroads. He did not say,
it will be noted, government ownership
of the railroads. Col. Bryan has come
to the conclusion that he is too nearly
alone in his government ownership the
DRY to attempt to make it a part of the
creed of the Democr attic party, but he
knows that strict supervision and con-
troll OF the railroads is a thing on which
all members of the party are agreed
AS to the possibility of President
Roosevelt nominating his successor in
office, Mr.. Bryan said that it was hardly
necessary or laudable proceeding. He
said candidate with clear record need
ed no sponsor.
Speaking of candidates, there is good
deal of quiet amusement among the poll
ticians in Washington and there are a
good many of them still here, over the
solemnly modest way in which Senator
Knox received the endorsement of the
Pennsylvania convention on the launch
ing of his presidential boom. Senator
Knox Is good man in a great many
ways and is personally liked in Washing
ton. But it is thoroughly understood
among practical politicians that his boom
is being worked up by corporate inter-
ests as . stalking horse in the fight that
the managers of the Republican party
are afraid to make openly against any
man of President Roosevet's choice.
Senator Knox was the successor of Mat
Quay, probably the most brazenly ma
chine made politician of machine-ridden
Pennsylvania. Boies Penrose had the
practical appointment of man to sue
coed Quay and was hesitating between
several possible candidates when Fl. G.
Frick and President Cassat Of the Penn
sylvania Railroad walked into his Office
an said that they wanted Knox appoint
ed. There was not moments hesita-
| ton. Knox was given the place and ru-
NOR has it that the place cost somebody
| $3.50, 900 that went where it would do the
most good. Now if Knox should ever be
elected President and have a trust fight
on his hands, it is hardly likely that the
trust would get the worst Of it.
The little furry over the holding up of
two or three diplomats in automobiles
near Washington on the Con duit road
for exceeding the speed laws has grown
till it is becoming quite a respectable siz-
ed issue. The holdups referred to were
the work of the Mayor and the sh eriff of
Glen Echo, little hamlet on the out
skirts of Washington. The town is just
outside the District Line and is so small
that one would hardly know it was there
il it was net for the sheriff with his bicy
Gle and speedometer with which he runs
down and convicts offending motorists
ha nf ho nir1n
are much in the habit of using the road,
and as it is fine road, kept in repair by
the War Department, there is every
temptation to let out the machines and
do little speeding. There was q great
deal of talk in the papers over stopping
the diplomats because diplomat is under
treaty protection and exempt from arrest
no matter what he does. One would
think that under the circumstances they
would be particularly careful about not
violoting police ordinances. But they
are not and they have complained bitterly
to the State Department about being
stopped on the Conduit Road Now the
mayor and sheriff of the little town have
become incensed at the persistent viola
ton of the local laws and they say that
though they cannot arrest diplomat,
that there is no law against stopping him
and warning him about the law. This is
just what the diplomats object to. They
say it is humiliating. But sheriff Collins
says there is nothing to distinguish an
ambassador or a minister from anybody
else under bear skin coat and pair of
goggles, so he proposes to stop every for
eign envoy and make him establish his
identity or else carry flag or some other
istinguishing mark on his machine
The whole corps diplomatique declares it
is an outrage. The State Department
says it cannot do anything about it and
up to date it looks as though the mayor
and the sheriff had scored.
There has been a good deal of talk
about graft and rake off in the purchase
of supplies for the Panama Canal, and it
appears now that the whole Of buying is
to be taken over by the army which will
handle practically all the purchases for
the work and the men. The purchases
of machinery and material for the work
are to be made by the chief of engineers,
those of medicines by the surgeon gener-