The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-03-28

while MS financial views have KCpr MN
rather silent in this cong rcss no IS evident
y man OF great reserve power Mr.. Cobb
Of st. Louis adds another 10 the list. and
these, with a stray goldbug picked up here
and there in other cities Of the south and
remote west. are ell vho save ~ votes on
the currency bills from being absolutely
sectional, from Abbott Of Texas 70 Wright
of Massachusetts. Not only have the votes
been sectional from the start, but they
have grown more so, for many who voted
to repeal the Sherman law are at heart
radical silverites and now metaphorically
kicking. themselves for said vote.
Arkansas IS the state that rode high
above the November food, bearing back
hither in the ark Of safety every one OF her
six Democrats, and all good men-the
amiablo Hugh Dinsmore, society leader;
the very sly Judge Terry, who gets what
ever he wants at the departments before
anybody knows that he wants it; the very
quiet Mr.. McCulloch, the only cuckoo"
in the delegation; Mr.. McRae, political
leader Of the delegation, and two others too
new TO have shown what was in them.
Texas used to. boast that she could lose
100, 900 votes and still be the banner Dem
ocratic state, but one Republican slipped
in last fall with her ~ Democrats. Mr.
Crane Of the Eleventh district claims 70
be the only Democrat in the United States
who increased at once his vote and his
majority, to which his colleagues retort
that a man like him ought to run we'll in
Mexico, - local slang name for his dis
trict.
McGann's Patronage.
Judge Sayres, chairman Of the present
appropriation committee, will lead his
delegation in the next house, not only be
Cause he is well qualified, but by reason
oF Mr pailay will 10 ire
shining member in the judiciary, for Judge
CuIberson is evidently growing more fee
BILE every month. The state will be very
ably represented in the next congress.
South Carolina is out OF luck and does
not hesitate to acknowledge it, 1t won t
do to say that her present members lack
talent, but they have succeeded in getting
on the losing side Of more divisions than
any other members, and sir. TIlbert mas
won from his fellow Democrats the nick
name Of The WilL Man of Borueo. "
Several other extremely able men will
return from the south, such n Nlr. Cooper
Of Florida, NessrS. Swanson aud Tucker
of Virginia, the five members ftom Mis-
souri, and some others; bUt, eli, what
difference in the north!
The sight will bo both pathetic and
amusing when Larry McGann. is the boys
call him, takes his scat a. tho sole repre-
VI a lll444-pil 4tttlIf-Iis-tS III Lilt
region tributary to Lake Michigan. He Is
already a very prominent man by antici-
patton, and his popularity with labor lead
ers is great and increasing. Indeed il was
chiefly this which bore him above the
flood, and if this were not a civil service
reform administration what u soft thing
Larry would have, As it j., his patronage
will be immense, for lie must needs be
consulted as to all minor Offices III Chicago
and all around there wEcucver political
considerations are allowed any force. Two
thousand miles as the crow nics-that is,
If the crow were not too talented u bird to
hy on the great American dcsert-to tho
west of Chicago must one 60 to find Lar
rvs fellow survivor in the person of Hon.
James g. Mcguire of San Francisco. He,
too, is a labor man, so to speak, and the
Significance of the fact that these two were
the sole survivors of the great west is by no
means lost upon the Democratic leaders.
They wabbled nightly in their views Of
it for awhile, but they are now very clear
as to what hurt them. The big majority
of Mr.. McGann in 1892 was rather an ac-
cident Mcguire in San Francisco, Nc
Gam in Chicago and Fitzgerald, the new
man from Boston, representing all the
Democrats in New England! Surely it
gives point to Maggie Cline's favorite
song, There Is Nothing Too Good For
the Irish
And what a melancholy scene that will
be when the states are called at the first
Democratic congressional caucus, like the
company roll call after terrible battle.
1t will run thus: Indiana none, Iowa
none, Kansas none, and so on through all
the far northwest and all the New Eng
land states but one. Twenty-four states
can only vote by proxy on the congress
sional committee. j. Il. PARKE.