The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1907-04-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.

When Secretary, Taft steps ashore from
the Mayfower he will doubtless scan the
back numbers of the papers and find
matters of interest relating to his presi
dental campaign, concerning which he
is apparently more Indifferent than the
President and some of his supporters. IT
is said that the President is very much
pleased with the way things look in Ohio.
Foraker's speech at Canton while well
received, was not more enthusiastically
applauded than were references to the
President. 1t was select audience, pre-
sumably of gentlemen who knew the
prophecies of the occasion and there were
many friends of Mr.. Foraker there col
lected from different parts of the state,
but it is doubtful if Foraker and Dick, in
their long residence in Washington and
bereft ofethe patronage in which the old
| time Senator was accustomed to wallow,
can retain great hold on the voters of
| the state. Senator Foraker made what
was intended to be feeling allusion TO
the notable senators of past generation,
Sherman, Wade and Blaine, but, his ref
erence to those old spoilsmen and school
men of the doctrine that to the victors
belong the loot, only served to emphasize
the gulf that divided the Foraker Repub
licanism of generation ago from, the
Roosevelt craftsmanship of today.
There is no doubt that Senator Foraker
will put up determined fight. He is a
fighter by birth aud education. He has
been twice Governor of his state and
twice elected to the Senate. He has not
however, been always successful. "He
has known defeat and Knocked it as he
ran." He is the most conspicuous and
consistent of the reactionaries. He was
alone among Republican Senators voting
against the railroad rate bill. His SOU
briquet is Fire alarm Foraker The
campaign waged in Ohio and which he
of his political fortunes and if he should
Unexpectedly thwart the nomination Of
Taft twill probably settle the question as
to his candidacy.
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The perplexing question as to the names
to be given to the various blends, mix.
lures, authorizations and limitations of
whiskey has been finally settled by the
President himself. Straight whiskey
is the only brand of fire water that will
henceforth be permitted to use the
unmodi6ed name of whiskey. The action
of the President is taken under the pure
food law, which affects about ninety per
cent of all the WHISTLES in the United
States. Under his ruling WHISTLES shall
be labeled for just what they are, straight
whiskey to be labeled as such; mixture
of two or more straight Whistles 10 be
labeled blended whiskey; mixture of
straight whiskey and ethyl alcohol, pro-
vided there is enough straight whiskey to
make it genuinely mixture, will be
labeled as compound of pure grain dis
tillate; apd imitation whiskey will be
labeled as such. Secretary Bonaparte in
rendering decision as to the purpose of
the pure food law INDUCED in a little
humor with regard to the controversy
over the names of the different WHISTLES.
According to his facetious judgment
"Semper idem" might be used to desig-
nate straight whiskey, "E Pluribus
Unum," for the second ranks with
Modern Improved" and Something
better than whiskey'' for other grades
and limitations.
Distillers and rectifers throughout the
country have awaited this decision with
intense interest, and for months the
Equestion has been stubbornly debated
between the whiskey interests and the
Representatives of the Government.
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President Roosevelt continues his
strenuous life. There is no limit to the
nuts he has to crack and the questions
asked him, and it would doubtless be
more agreeable to him to crack the heads
of some of his questioners with his "big
stick" For example, the men who are
held in Jail in Idaho charged with COM