The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-18

to get places and are left. The anomaly
of it, however, is that the old fellows
were also pretty full of schemes, and
several Democrats arrived with blood in
their eyes and announced determination
to make relentless war on President
Cleveland.
Ndanipulations.
The situation reminds me amusing1y
of our early Republican state conven-
tons in Indiana, when Hon. George W.
Julian and his gang came with pocket
full Of resolutions radical enough to
make Garrison and Phillips shudder,
and Hon. Schuyler Colfax and his came
with another set not so radical, and up
from Evansville, New Albany and
Madison came three other sets of fell
lows with mild resolutions which
would not drive away Kentucky
trade. - There was a redhot wrangle, of
course, and a compromise committee Of
three appointed, and the last thing the
northern Indiana member thereof heard
when he went into the room was,
"Don't you let those Ohio river fellows
manipulate you" All we can say today
is that so far the radical element is
manipulated, and if the old fellows
tell the truth it has already been settled
that the south and the negro are to be
left severely alone and that the horn of
the tariff is to be exalted, with finance
on the side.
was present the other day at the
first full nesting Of a large western
state delegation, and rather boyish set
they were Two things were plain at
the start-they were afraid of a news
paper man and were more or less vexed
because they had expected to proceed on
arrival to a prompt discussion Of prinoi-
pies and party policy and found instead
that they were in the midst of a redhot
fight for the Offices. asked my first
question Of the youngest man in the
delegation-and a most innocent ques-
ton it was " hereupon he looked
around timidly, hesitated nearly min
ute, then seemed to suddenly pluck up
courage and asked me what part of the
| city lived in and what rent had to
| pay. The whole delegation then fell to
talking about their experience in hunt
ing houses, and with such animation
that no other subject could be squeezed
! in. l ventured to ask another member,
lad of perhaps 80 years, if he consid-
cred that the delegation had any par
ticular leader, and it evidently scared
him seriously. I have seen a big school
boy caught slipping a note to one of
the girls, who carried it off with more
dignity. He finally intimated to me
| that he and his colleague did not care
to talk just now, as they feared being
misrepresented- Now, if he had been
fly in politics and understood his
| business, he would have talked with eff
fusive warmth and yet not said any
thing that could be misrepresented.
Young Blood.
The worst disappointed men, at least
| SO far as hear the talk, are silver Re
publicans from the far west. One and
all they evidently expected that when
they got here there would be a free ano
general talk and that the "unansWera
BILE arguments" they would present
must have some effect, but they found
| their eastern copartisans away beyond
that. Everywhere east of the Mississip
pi the Republicans have taken the tone
Of treating the silver movement as {
dead and gone affair, and when the en-
thusiastic westerner insists on talking
about it he simply gets the laugh and
is told that it is no more live ISSUE
than the war or slavery. 1t looks, how
ever, as if the young fellows had go
first blood on the Offices. At the star
the old members were almost unani
nous for General Henderson for clerk
whose 20 years service in the hous
| had gained him many strong friends
He was long an influential member o
! the committee on rivers and harbors