Show doings IN washington dem democrats barats will hold con can V bention in baltimore K X in juno june it Yas washington dashington hington D Q jun jan 22 m corre correspondence s Pon dence press 01 v A war scam has resulted in tho the sending of soldiers to tho the hawaiian hsands to prevent the possibility 0 of japan grabbing alio t he some congress Con grosa will recognize the hew nev republic of f china following flight of the danchus 1 4 I from wm bran revisited visited ro washington the past paa week to secure the adjustment of es of the senate and house I 1 t providing election ele clion of senators A report la is current courrent that mr bry an suggested the cia peculiar availability of senator kern hern as the ille democratic ard aid the J convention wilt will be held bold ae at altidoro alti moro june 25 following the republican li can convention at chicago J just ono one W week 0 ek one sentiment which seems to be general is that it if the republicans should nominate col roosevelt the Demo Dem crotea berates are apt to stampede to mr bryan as in s the story bout about a some of my policies having been abstracted from bryans bryanb clothes lingers with tunny many democrats ocra isi many of the reprinted utterances ances if of Gover governor vor wilson are of such euch character ar as might bo W embarrassing to bo b 4 a candidate for president i i as s T b federation Fade rAtion of retail merchants and the traveling mens mena or 9 much prefer to see il J some ether than governor wilson the governor favors parcels post threatened insoda tion of dry territory with the goods gooda of retail mail order houses is said eaid to lave have something to do with the attil attitude tude of prominent democrats who believe it would bo be an invasion of the principle of local self government for the federal gove government thus to abrogate the will of the people who have voted counties and states dry the recent alleged intrusion of federal courts upon the abe rights of the states has added to this feeling big business dust ness was depre represented anted in in I 1 the appearance of 0 andrew carnegie be tore fore representative stanleys Stan leys steel in i vesti gation committee several days during the past week J pierpont morgan questioning by being abroad the interstate commerce dom commission mission has asked the express companies to appear before it th through rough their representatives in new york yerk january 29 and answer inquiries while journals supported largely by the retail mail m ail order houses have been clamoring to have the government enter into the busi business asoo lations have hare wen active to secure fuels facts of value for the regulation and reduction of express rates merchants any aay they have been pay ing most of these and realize that ex es presa iress conditions are are giving rise to agitation for parcels post I 1 representatives of the abo mercantile associations also abo say bay that while the government is do demanding manding that big business Bu ainess give its small emal competitors a 1 square deal it should force conditions which would opell disaster to retail merchants and the towns wherein they the do business and add to accumulations ot of the groat great order houses by cor through revolution of of trade destri buton they say it would bo be easy for th these ese retail mail order cod concerns corns to form a trust compared with the united states steel corporation would woula bo 60 small and to dictate pi ices icea they pay for or material and labor they I 1 arther con contend tend that as the mf amchan T cb a n d si such concerns hondle in mostly of nonunion non union make labor abor ii would he be hard lilt hit it ib said that ono one of nf jbf tb largest mail order or ier houses has bas arranged to double its ils and business if I 1 ap pp reel post pos t is 1 inaugurated n 6 u gu ra ted |