Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1891-05-24
MANY NEW SENATORS
Old-Timers Afraid Traditions May b
Tempered With


venes it will contain more new faces than
we're ever before seen in its history.
There will be no less than seventeen
brand new men, and there may be more.
Such an injection of fresh blood suggests
possibilities of change in senatorial meth
DDS and tradition that is already causing
concern among the older heads. The SEN
ate has always been close corporation
too close, in fact to please the progressive
genius of the cOuntry-and the sudden In
fuX of new and untrled elements repre-
scented by the PETERS, the Kyles and the
Irbys has already thrown the old time
leaders in the unfolding of senatorial
dignity and senatorial courtesy into some
thing of panic. No wonder that Ed
munds went out in moment OF pique
and that Reagan read also the handwrit-
ing on the wall.
The resignation of venerable Reagan,
of Texas, was a genuine surprise. That
of Edmunds had been foreshadowed, but
when the amiable old gentleman from .
Texas and his wife both relinquisheIn(
their hold upon the treasury, it caused
general elevation of eyebrows. OF cours
the old pub. func. of fifty years STANDINGS
did not relinquish good thing until he !
saw better one in his grasp; but the
idea that a better thing than United
States senatOrship and So a day TO his
wife could ever come toa man of Reagans
ment OF a sensation. The old gentleman
| has been called home to serve his people
| in a state capacity at $4,000 year, and
| presumably with an increased compensa-
| tion for his wife. Nothing else would
have ever caused governmental stipend
airy of half a century'S experience to relax
| his tentacles upon good thing.
| rare old bird in Senator Reagan.
Next to Ingalls, the old Texan was the
observed of the galleries. Everybody
wanted to see man who had actually
been in jeff Davis cabinet. Then there
were plenty more who had a curiosity to
see an American legislator who, within
the boundaries of his own country, had
| held public office under five different
| forms of government and sworn ale
glance to three constitutions and three
flags. 1t has been the boast of Reagan
and his friends that he has done all of
this. He was a public official under thy
Mexican government when that powqR
had control of Texas. He was next u
public officer under the republic of Texas;
then an official under the United States
when Texas came into the Union, and
| represented the new state in congress in
1851 In 1861 he became an officer in the
provincial government of the confederacy,
and in 1862, under what was known as the
permanent confederate government, be-
came postmaster general and acting
| secretary of Mr.. Davis SWept-out treas
such record-and lived TO tell it and still
| accept new hOnOrS.
Next to the interest-not to speak Of the
satsfacton-felt at Mr.. Reagan's volun-
tary retirement is that aroused by the ap-
pOintment Of his successor Horace Chill
ton. The idea of a man but thirty
years old coming to the senate from Texas
is one which less than half century ago
| would have inspired a revolution in that
revolutionary bailiwick. The venerable
and oily and polished pate of Richard
Coke, il is said, took on a pinkish hue
when he learned the news.
Horace Chiffon is a born TeXan-that is,
! a Texan born under the stars and stripes.
He is lawyer living in Tyler in they
eastern part Of the state, in a section
belted by railroads. He is represented by
prominent Texans here as being one of the
ableSt lawyers in the state and fluent
speaker. His father, Thomas Chiffon,
was member of the Twenty first
congress sixty years ago, from Har-
din county, Kentucky, but served
only. one term, afterward moving
to Alabama and thence TO Texas
The new senator was a delegate TO the
last national Democratic convention and
was warm supporter of Governor GRAY
OF Indiana, for the nomination of vice.
president. This classes him among the
opponents Of Mr.. Cleveland. His personal
claims upon the governor, which have
carried him by appointment into the sem
atorial chair, are said to be largely based
on the fact that he made the speech which
carried the nomination for governor at
the last state convention.
! The ChiltOns are Virginia family: one
of them, General r. II. Chiffon, a gradu-
ate of West Point, was an officer in the
Mexican war and chief Of staff at one
time to General K. +. Lee during the civil
war. Another was chief justice OF the
z supreme court OF Alabama and nearly re-
a cd IN llf1
senator from Kentucky, the distinguished
orator and Jurist who married Miss
Gist, a daughter Of Governor Glst, On
! Kentucky, who was sister 81
Mrs. Francis p. Blair. II is good
? blood Everybody will await with in
terest the advent of young Mr.. Chiffon in
the senate. Meanwhile, Rodger Q. Mills
will pursue his Speakership industry with
renewed effort, and with a side snarl at
Governor HOgg which i'm the near future
may cause that statesman TO squeal under
a gate.
Poor Mr.. Blair, whose western tour was
so rudely Interrupted, is still In Washing
ton. While there is a great laugh at Mr.
Blair as a diplomatic" there is vet a
feeling of regret at the old gentleman's
discontinue. He has no salary yet,
] though clothed with the authority
to draw it when he relieves his pre-
decessor. Like great many New Hamp-
shire men, he is poor. The 81, 600 salary
in China came to him like a bushel of
mama after his failure of reelection 10
the senate. When the appointment was
offered him it was coupled with but one
regretful thought The old man did not
have ready money enough 10 pay his fare
and the other expenses of transporting
himself and his family to the orient The
government never does this. Mr.. Blair
took ex-senator SpOoner into his conf
dence ana the result was that Senator
Sawyer Endorsed Blair's note for s., 600 for
four months in one Of the Washington
banks With that money he made his
preparations to go abroad, but even then
the old man did not have funds enough =
take his family. His sudden recall DIS
turbs everything and now he will have to
go somewhere in order TO be able TO re-
coup Senator Sawyer, who is well known
10 have keen eye for any paper obliga-
tions that may help to line his safe.
A Noble Work.
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