The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-13
They nemand Whiskern.

Inc elections are over, IaInmany mas
been downed and the Lexow committee is
taking a vacation. Stn New York is not
yet TO enjoy a season Of rest. What may
prove. a far-rcaching and soul-stirring agi-
tatiOn was begun a night or two ago when
the Whlskers Committee Of the Liberty
Dawn Association Of Amalgamated Coach
Drivers Of New York City made its report
to the parent body. TOO long" says the
report have the amalgamated coach
drivers submitted to the tyranny OF the
bosses and sacrificed their boards for the
sake Of "A senseIess fashion" If the report
is followed to its logical outcome, there
will be a strike involving the four hum
dred and the livery stables. or the coach
men will have something for the winter
winds to blow through by Christmas.
It is a dictate of fashion that coach
men shall be smooth-faced. 1t is mace
part Of the contract between the employers
and the employees that not a wisp or a sug-
gestion of hirsuit adornment shall appear
on the face Of the coachman during the
term of his employment. The men say
they don't mind it in summer but when
winter comes they want boards as protec-
tors against pneumonia. The whiskers
committee, indeed has got the profess
sional opinion of an eminent physician to
the effect that lack Of whiskers may un-
der certain circumstances be the cause Of
dreadful ailments. The committee, there
fore. is half inclined to the opinion that in
winter a whiskerless face and certain
b al -r.v,,Crts ba
doctor who gave the opinion. by the way,
won't permit his coachman to grow a
beard.
The spokesman Of the committee said
with regard to the report that the time had
come to take a decided stand, and to carry
whiskers into politics if necessary. The
committee didn't think of il In time or it
would have tried to get the late cOnstitu-
tional convention to put a pro-whiskers
amendment into the now constitution. 1t
may, however endeavor to have one of the
political parties insert plank in its plat
form demanding the right TO whiskers for
every coachman.
The coachmen are quite a good looking
lot Of fellows, said the spokesman of the
whisloers committee, and that may ac-
count for the fact that the men who hire
coaches or coachmen demand the beard
lessness of the drivers; they don't want
the men on the boxes to be better looking
than the men in the vehicles. The wo-
men, according to the spokesman, would
be willing to permit the coachrnen to lay
aside their razors; but the men are hard
headed about it. Clearly shaved faces.
Furthermore, make the drivers look too
much like actors to suit their fancy; they
like to preserve their individuality as be-
longing to tho stage that goes on wheels,
and not the stage that is being eternally
elevated ana yet never gets any higher.
On the whole there appears 10 be a very
interesting time ahead for New Workers..
1t may be that the whiskers committee
will knock down door by which Tam
many may re-enter the municipal halls.
Ex-Candidate Tom Watson proposes
that he and Congressmau-elect Black of
the Tenth district, take the matter of the
alleged frauds in the district into their own
hands and settle it. Mr.. Watsons idea Is
TO have a commission, appointed by him
self and Mai. Black, to canvass the cleo
ton returns and purge the ballot boxes
of all Illegal votes wherever found" IF it
appears that I am the choice of majority
of the legal voters, then Mr.. Black is to
surrender the seat to me-" and vice versa
that is the Watsonian idea. Maj. Black
has not yet decided what he win do about
it. ii it shall transpire that candidates for
congress can settle disputed elections be-
tween themselves, no matter what the
faces of the returns show or who gets the
certificate OF election. and that a member
elect can surrender his seat TO whom
soever he may please without asking the
House or his constituents anything about
it, an unsupported possibility of politics
Will have been brought to light.
1t is pretty well understood that Marion
| Butler, the populist who engineered the
/ populist- republican fusion in North Car
/ DINA, will be one of the new United States
/ senators from that state He will sue
/ coed Senator Ransom. Who the repubii-
can senator will be has not yet been de-
/ termined Ex-Congressman Ewart and
: eA-COnSui 10 tNlo. ue JaNeliO DOckery are
/ probably the most prominent aspirants for
the place. There is good deal of specu-
j Iation as'to how Butler win vote, whether
with the democrats or the republicans, in
the organization of the Senate. PETER, as
is very well known, usually votes with the
/ republicans whenever he can. If Butler of
North Carolina, Tllnan of South Carolina
4 and Stewart of Nevada should vote with
the republicans on the organization, the
/ republicans would experience little If any
difficulty in making the organization to
suit themselves in every particular.
A newspaper organ of the American Pro
tectiye Association published at Washing
/ ton says that association is responsible
for the success of the Republican party at
the polls last week. A list of the states In
which the'nssociatiou claims to have ma.
terally hurt the democrats contains the
names of nearly every state i'm which cleo.
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