Omaha daily bee., 1890-09-14

POL1TIC CHOW. W.CHOw.

A local poet wants to "smite the conse-
Grated lyrc,n but he will dou btless be obliged
to wait until the campaign is farther under
way
APontiac, ILL.,, paper skins Mr.. Nickel CHAN.
In fact all the papers are sl1inning Mr.. Nc
Keighan these days.
Major John c. Watson refuscs to decline
for float representative, but the fellows are
carrying news that he Will be the coming
man. a few more days and Mr.. Watson will
dispel all the views.
Now that General Van Wyck has with
drawn from t therace in the First congres ssional
district, Mr.. Bryan continues to think that he
is the coming man. But Mr. Bryan must
first define, in a manly way, his prohibition
proclivites and aristocratc tendencies.
The republicans propose to open up the
campaign about September 20. There will
not be many tOrchiights, but there will be
great deal of solid, common sense talked
from the speakers stand.
Mr.. McKeighan is yet running for Office.
H has not yet found a friend good enough to
pull him off.
The rumor set afloat by Ole Oleson to the
effect that Paul vandcrvoort was to be ap-
pointed postmaster, has been given serious
conside ration in some quarters.
The painful news comes from Schuyler that
Colonel Russell was done up by the republi-
cans of that city, and the sportve gentleman
will not be nomn ated for the legislature. It
would appear that after all, .prophets are not
appreciated in their own country.
Because some of the democratic papers
Were printing Cushngs name w. r., in
stead of W. H., there was great CONSERVATION
in the democratic central commi mittce's room.
They thought if he was to be elected his
name must be spelled properly. The only
trouble is, the initials of the next state treas
urcr are j. H., and the last name is Hill.
Fffty-four members of congress. and both
branches of a Nebraska Doodle legislature; :;
United States senator from Dakota, the
delegate from Arzona Ben Hur, the state
auditor of Vermont; the late Senator Malone
and Flanagan of Texas, endorsed Paul
Van Der Wort after much importuning and
bulldozing for the general superin-
tendency of the railway mail service
Several Grand Army commanders, gov
errors and other functionaries wrote special
letters recommending Van Der WORT as one OF
owes a living. But Wanamaker pigeonho.e ed
the precious documents. He knew all about
Van DcrVoort's record. He knew that he had
never seen battle and had never smelled
gunpowder. The nearest that he ever
got to a fight was when he went out foraging
and threw up his hands to a squad of Johnny
rebs, who marched him off without scratch
to Richmond, and finally in due time sent
the hllrlv nr,.jor To l,or i,,
robust health Wannamaker had seen
Van Der Voort's name mentioned in the
Pacific railroad reports as person
employed by the Union Pacific in the legisla-
tive oil rooms 1t was an open secret at the
department. too, that the doughty veteran
who did all his fighting with his alligator
jaw had been dismissed by Postmaster
General Gresham for neglect of
duty and general worthlessness. So
in spite of the forty-six congressman, the
three senators, Ben Hur and the Dodlin
Granite auditor from Vermont, Honest
John Wannamaker positively declined TO
locate Van Der WORT on n cushioned chair in
the general pOstofice. He appointed Bell,
whose principal accommodation was that he
didn't dabbe in politics and did not own
forty-six congressman to his name. Then
| the whangdOodlc moumed for his firstborn
A fearful appeal was made by the
supreme court to let Van Der Voort down
easy by giving him a mail superinteudcncy
| at Fort Worth, Tex, but that little scheme
| also failed to connect Finally sinecure
was created in the Omaha postoifice for the
| bombastic Hoodoo, He was made supervisor
| of mail sacks and boss of jim Stcphensou's
| spread eagle artillery chests which are do
| ing service as Uncle Sans mail wagons
| Such descent from big things to small
| ones has seldom been seen in these parts
And now the musty autographs Of the dim
and distant past have been served up with a
dish of council combine dead duck on the
Tammay Twenty-cight platter as Van Der
VoOrt's credentials for the Omaha postoffice,
But Wmnamaker has very peculiar notions
about men and things. He doesn't care a
straw about tho forty-six con gressmen and
| the Dodln granite man from Vermont or the
delegate from Arizona, but insists that the
next postmaster shall have the backing of
the responsible patrons of tho Office. Tho
| petition of Chaffee and Davis will be couite-
| ously acknowledged in due time, by the p. IN,
| g., and placed on file with other impertinent
| matter,