The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-02-28
HAS CHANDLER EATEN H1Mq
Grave Fears as to the Fate of Senator
Blackburn.
From the Ne,o York Herald.

FROM titS NSto I ora
The great Chandler Blackburn ''to-do"
begins to assume a very serious aspect.
Since the Senate committee room ON Indian
tradershlps was the scene of no one yet
knows precisely what awful occurrence last
Friday,afternoon, Mr. Blackburn has not
been seen. Mr.. Chandler was freely seen
that evening, next day, and is still on view.
According to the most accurate reports
Of Mr.. Cha dler's condition attainable, he
seemed on Friday evening and on Saturday
more rotund than his best friends have
known him.
you might say he had protuberance,"
said one who visited INN late Friday even
ing.
WAS his ear all right" 1 asked his
visitor
My dear boy, both h S ears were all
right. You may never have noticed it, but
Chaudler has two ears | don'5 mean that
his ears were protuberant, not at all. 1t
was his-well, you know where man seems
to swell out NEST when he has had big
6innor.o
And you think-w
''My dear fellow, | fear the very worst. l
fear Chandler ate up Blackburn there and
then in the committee room. Just look at
the facts:-There was row-so ,erybody
who was not present says. After the row
Blackburn is no more seen. The whole press
of Washington has failed to lay eyes on him.
Chandler, ON the contrary, is everywhere
seen; but he is seen not slender, thin, Evarts-
like, but broadened out, pro-
tuberant, almost dumpy, like
his friend Robson. What is the natural,
the unavoidable inference We all know
Chandler-he is man of prodigious appe-
tlte; he hates the south; he is INSCRIPTIONS
to tue last degree. | myself have no doubt
he would at half the southern senators
| 1s1l-N -,
pepper and salt and a lemon-if it were not
for public opinion. Alas poor Joe Black
burn was always impudent; he gave Cham
der a chance, rashly approached him, you
know-all the accounts agree in thls-aId L
have no doubt Chandler opened his mouth
and swallowed him-took him in, so to
speak, like Jonah did the whale"
You mean like the whale did Jonah"
"Well, have it as you pleaSe-you know
what | mean. Now, look here; how else
can you account for the facts! In that fat ii
committee room were five senators-Black
| burn, Chandler Cullom, Platt and Faux
ner. Out of it, l am assured by an auten-
tive doorkeeper, came only four. Where
was our gallant Kentucky friend? Again,
the others-the surviving senators, if l may
use that wOrd-refuse to speak. Is not that
| clearly because they cannot bring them
selves to tell the awful truth! Why else
should they be silent? Chandler himself has
nothing to say. Naturally he is too full for
utterance; tor you know big, stout man
like Joe must have made rather a big
mouthful for even Chandle l am too ag-
itated TO speak to you further. Would d
| stomach pump be any use, 90 you think9
| But that wretch Chandler would refuse to
have il used. Oh, deRr!"
Startling as this tale may be, it is the
only one of the many which are floating
| around Washington to-day that meets all
the known or generally accepted facts of
the case. The surviving southern senators
are naturally agitated. 1t is no joke to be
eaten up. What they fear is not Mr.. Chan
der. If the story above related is true
every one concludes that Mr.. Chandler will
lie by in innocuous desuetude, like replete
anaconda, for week at least. No one be-
lieves that the most vigorous New Hamp-
shire appetite can banker after more than
one southern senator per week.
But there is Senator Hoar. 1t has been
| noticed that of late he has had an extremely
hungry look. He has cast baleful eyes
across the Senate. and especially, it has
been noticed, in the direction of Senator
Coke. Is the Texas senator to be the next
victim of northern deglutition, as it weres