Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-01
Mr.. JARVIS APPOINTMENT
His Position in Regard to the Reelection
Senator Ransom.
Demo En orfh Carolina Luke
war. A Coz. pick Condition Of
'Enir - in the State.


l. Inc appointment OF lnOfnaS j. jarvis as
Senator, to succeed Vance. while expected
by some persons. not expected by far
more. for it was thought man from the
western part of the state, whence. Vance
came, would be selected. Senator Jarvis
acted promptly in the matter of his inten-
tons by announcing that he would repre-
sent the Vance constituency only until the
legislature met and would then contest for
Ransoms seat. There is no shrewder poll
tician ia all the state than Jarvis, and he
ought certainly to be gratihed at the hold
he has upon the people-black and white.
A compliment was paid him never before
paid in the south. A delegation of leading
negroes, OF both parties, called on Gov.
Carr and urged him to appoint jarvis.
He thanked them for what they said in
formed them that Jarvis was t." man
chosen, and then they hurried to lat
ter's hotel and congratulated him.
Senator Jarvis has written second let
ter. in which he says that the statements
that Gov. Carr gave him the appointment
as a personal reward are entirely untrue
and unjust. He denies that he has thrown
down the gauntlet 10 Ransom, yet in the
next sente says that the latter has held
office twenty-five years and that any man
has right to succeed him. Jarvis says he
is willing to leave either to the democratic
primaries or the convention the matter Of
whether he shall or shall not be a candi-
date for the Senate.
Now, all this is unusual and extremely
interesting. 1t shows how formidable RAN
SONS cofnpetitor Is, The alliance papers
claim that the governors appointment Of
Jarvis meant the downfall of Ransom. Ii
is alleged that the mass of the country
people are for Jarvis. Yet Ransom has
wonderful strength and power of recupera-
ton. His friends really regard him as in
vincible. Many Office holders are under OBJ
lgations TO him for his efforts in their be-
half.
VIII Bring Out the Democratic Vote.
1t rs the belief of many well-informed per-
sons that this very contest between these
leaders will do more than almost anything
else to bring out the democratic vote. The
one great bugbear of the democrats this
year is not the detection of their people;
not their desertion to the populists; hut
absolute inertia: abstention from voting;
carelessness as to what happens. And this
is the real danger to them. One can now
hear persons say daily that they do not
care how matters go politically; that affairs
could not be worse than they are. Cleye-
land is abused, Hill is denounced, Congress
Is cursed One man OF large means and
great directness OF expression declares that
Congress, CoXey ana the devil are running
the country"
1t is freely said by democrats Ia ~
g1ess viii pass the Wilson hill ar .ne in-
come tax measure ali will De well: bat II
this Is not done they really do not see what
their party can do this year . defend
itself. During the last campaign many
democratic speakers promised TO do SO and
so. They were asked by pop3lsts why they
had not already done these things. 4 said
because they had never had control OF the
Presidency and of both hfsncaes Ct Con-
sress. They then asked the people 10 give
them one more trial Some speakers car
ried themselves so lar in their earuestness
as TO say they would vote with the popu-
lists next time If the democrats failed to
carry out their pledges made in lS,2.
If the democrats are harassea one may
be sure the Two other parties are having
trouble too. The populists are not making
gains. IL IS alesed that they reached their
high-water mark in 1892. The republicans
are also not making gains. Here is where
the danger, inSldiOus as IL is. of demo-
cratic apathy comes in. Both pcpulists ana
republicans will certainly poll their fun
vote.
The breach between the northern and
southern democrats is wide and widening
The former are oistrusted now. This is the
frank expression of a fact The change in
sentiment has been brought about by Con-
Sress, and may be. perhaps. never Grad
icated. Hill has come TO be regarded as the
personihcatton OF northern democracy. His
being read ont of the party would please
great numbers Of earnest democrats in this
section.
a white republican, who read what the
negroes said on the subject of their vote
beng this year an unknown quantity said
that he regarded the negro vote as pur-
chasabie in 1924. This means that sonae
white republicans have acquired a con-
tempt for the very vote which put them In
power year after year for nearly a decade
Civn service a burden.
Civil service is great burden to the DEM
ocrats. They feel the pressure the grip, of
it. postmaster now does not know how
far his authority goes Those persons who
hold positions under civil service rules are
half fearful 10 Fasopt
what they viii do if any democrat attempts
to displace them. Some negroes say they
win watch democrats and see If they dis
place negro olfice holders, and intimate that
if this is not done they will not act in an
uRkin6ly way toward the democratic party
This means that the negro, who never gets
many Offices, wants to hold on to those
given his race. 1t goes TO show how easily
the color line can be broken by the demo-
Gratis 4 they care to break ii. And this il
IS which moved the same republican who
declIrcd the negro vote 10 be purchasable
TO say further that he expected to see
negroes on democratic tickets in a few
years-for legislative positions, not those of
profit. OF course no democrat has been
heard 30 say such tn'ng. But this is a
decade full of surprises, and the unexpected
often happens.
To-Day is the birthday OF &. L. Nx. ;
was the most influential -esidenp the -
whose death here, in June, 1Sl2. vas the
greatest blow the populists ever suffered
The populist papers are now printing MANY
OF the things Polk used to say 1t would
hardly have been believed in 1890 that the
democrats would come in 1894 to favor so
many things which the alliance was then
only beginning to urge, or rather to hint at
An ultra-democratic paper signs as Il la
ments over the fact that little is left the
democratic party these days but it's name.
The alliances all over this state and in
other states held meetings today in memory
or FOLK and raised money with which they
propose to rear a monument over his now
unmarked grave in a cemetery in this CITY
There Is no sign of any truce between the
two factions of the republican party 1t is
SAID by some that the prospects of getting
money from the north for campaign bur
poses are rather better than usual There
! are come who say that in years past much
of the money given or allowed for this Our-
pose never was applied properly and that
is the true reason why there is so little dis
position now to send any national commit
tee funds here.
The Fight on SimrnS
The slowness Of the confirmation of F
M. Simmons as revenue collector Of this
district has been cause of much feeling.
| Senator Vance antagoni1ed Simmons. Who.
as you have been Informed is the chair
man T the democratic state comrittee.
Some Of simmons friends say they doubly