Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-21
TAYLOR is HUSTLlNG
How the Kansas Man is Working for
Confirmation.
Who Are Helping Him-He 10 Trying
to Make Race Issue-ittempt.
ed Patronage Deal.

ed Patronage Deal.
Candidate Charles H. j. Taylor-of Kan
sas-is very busy during these days of his
highest hope. He is at the Capitol from
the earliest hours of the session of the Sem
ate and he enains there until the flag is
lowered. He is strenuously endeavoring to
meet every man who has vote in the
upper house, in order to show them what
manr er of man he is On Saturday he ac-
costed a Senator who is known to be op-
posed to his confirm alton because he be-
lieves the local office Of recorder of deeds
should be filled by a local democrat
you have the advantage of me-" said
the Senator as the generous form of the
stranger blocked his way into the chamber.
oh, but Senator, l know you very WELL
Taylor"
"Ah," murmured the statesman, not
wholly pleased. Il am-ah-very glad to
meet you. Mr.. Taylor
Il thought you might be- Senator" was
the response. II do not want to detain YOU
Dut a moment / merely wish you to see
what scrt of a man 1 am"
On chronological Grounds.
Mr.. Taylor is making this canvass wholly
upon what he calls chronological grounds -
and Is laboring under the delusion that he
Is being opposed because he is of the dark
race. The ruling principle of the opposition
Is that this nomination is a violau ton of the
home rule doctrine. and has no reference
Whatever to Mr.. Taylor's color. There is
absolutely no personality about the case
save that which Mr.. Taylor and his friends
have chosen to infuse into it.
The race question has been industriously
worked. not by the opponents of Taylor but
strange as IT may seem, by the candidat te
himself. aided by strange combination of
influences. The venerable Fred Douglas IS
mas emerged from his retirement to join
hands with the man from Kansas who
wants to fill the place he once filled. He
and his sons have worked long and hard to
persuade republicans of the Senate that the
de1eat or Taylor, who Is rewarded for Do
lltical services rendered to the democrats ts
would mean a republican snub to the col
ored vote notwithstanding the strenuous ef-
forts or Taylor. as president of the ma
tional colored democratic league, to con-
vince the country of the villainy of the
Harrison administration. Douglass was re-
inforced today by John NJ. Langston, who
saw several Senator's. to assure them that
the republican party would commit political
suicide should it permit Taylor to be de-
ieated Just what progress he made in this
peculiar propaganda does not appear These
laborsrs In the Taylor vineyard are being
given great aid by two distinguished ex-
Senators. Mr.. Perkins of Kansas and Mr..
pioh VI ->eW f1dinpSnlre, VINO nave the
freedom OF the floor and are arguing with
republicans for the 'down-trodden negro"
a Patronage Agreement.
Added to this line of work Is a shrewi
move lately made by Taylor who has as
sured several republican Senators that II
he should be confirmed he would retain In
ONCE the white deputy recorder of deeds
1t may be remembered that some time be-
fore the President sent the name of the
Kansas political agriculturist to the Senate
for this District office. Mr.. Taylor approach
ed Mr. Lawrence Gardner, who is a promi-
nent leader In the local democratic organiza-
ton, and promised him that II he would use
his influence with the President in his favor
Tor this office. he, Taylor, would turn over
to him all the patronage in the establish
ment The ofer was Indignantly rejected
by MIR. Gardner who Is a firm believer in
the home rule doctrine. but there is no GER
tain evidence that twas not successfully
renewed In some other quarter. Should Mr..
Taylor secure the office he so Graves he may
have some difficulty In keeping all his prom
ises. and II would seem to be wise for any
body who is working for his confirma ton on
the strength OF patronage promises to de-
mand security.
Working Both Parties.
AS another instance of Mr.. Taylor's diplo-
matte nature, which enables him to face
both directions at once. there now comes the
League of last October. to which the name
of Mr.. Taylor is signed as president To
republican Senators Taylor Is asserting that
the document was written by others while
he was out of town, while to democrats he
has been privately declaring that he was
really the author of the glowing praises of
the President and his policies.
The democrats of the Senate are divided
on the question Of confirmation, some of
them supporting the committee onsthe Dis
trict in its report and others advocating
confirmation solely on the ground that In
asmuch as Taylor is the choice of the Pres
dent he should be helped into office. There
is small party of democrats in the Senate
who believe in the principle of supporting
every emanation from the White House, and
in this instance they are disregarding the
conclusions of the District committee and
shutting their eyes to the home-rule plank
of the most recent democratic platform.
MIR. CleVeland's Interest.
There are rumors to the effect that an
ultimatum has been issued by the Presi-
dent to the most faithful of his followers
in the upper house showing the Importance
of the most active work in the interest of
the confirmation of Taylor. The republi-
can arguments of Taylor's friends do not
seem to have any deterrent effect upon
these Senators, who believe in coniirma-
ton for confirmations sake alone, without
regard to the merits of the case.