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

and In the Fifty first congress was chair
man, which made him strong with men
whose districts needed appropriations.
The young fellows, however, leaned to-
ward Major Mcdowell, representative
at large from Pennsylvania in the Fifty
third congress, and in no long time a
great combination of states was formed,
and the officers were practically elected
before the caucus met. Major Mellow
ell is 80 years old, printer by trade
and banker by profession.
Some folks are mean enough to say
that the Democrats who are denouncing
Cleveland so fnriously are those only
whose last chance at the pie counter is
exhausted, but of two of them, and
they are the hottest, it must be said
that they have been consistent from the
start, and with them is joined Popu-
list who is notorious if not famous.
Last February Representative Bailey Of
Texas declared that his first work in the
Fifty fourth congress would be to draw
up articles of impeachment against the
president, and more than one good law
yer says that on one of the points he
brings forward he can prove clear vio-
lation of law. He still declares that he
will make fight on the diversion of the
gold received from bond issues to the
payment of current expenses, and on
other acts which he thinks stretched the
law to the breaking point. I observe
that the conserv atives have already be-
gun to talk of Judge Bailey, as we call
him, as CRANK a "freak,'' and
''young man who has been pulled up by
l. Il
bear at his age"
Look Out For Breakers.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
intimated the first day his title was
clear that he expected to devote himself
during the first year of his service to
the massacre of the president. The in
| ference is that he will assail Mr.. Cleve-
land on all possible occasions and on ev
| cry possible pretext; that he will show
his whole foreign policy to be pusillani
nous, his bond issues illegal, his diver
| sion of the borrowed money to current
expenses a high crime and a misde
meanor, and his proposition to retire
| the greenbacks to be a compound of the
worst heresies of John Sherman and the
bankers. If he does one-quarter what he
| has promised, there will be fun. The
| third man who has announced his inten-
| tion to pulverize Cleveland is Hon. NJ.
! ". Howard, the new Populista. from
! Alabama. Impeachment is what he
| proposes, and if he and Judge Bailey
| work together on this line, it will sure
| II be the most astonishing case of poll
tics bringing extremes together that
this country has seen for many a year.
If Mr.. Howard is not beied, he has de-
clared that he will get his ridiculous
book printed in The Congressional Rec
ord as part of one of his speeches and
that he will purposely give occasion for
that Tennessee member who has threat
ened him to do his shooting right in the
house. The world had its laugh when
Punch advertised Important Advice to
People Contemplating Marriage" and
when the advice was applied for. return
ed the monosyllabic reply, "Don'ti'' If
it were worth while, I should certainly
urge the same advice upon Mr.. How
ard, for it is as yet no two to one bet
that he will not be impeached and ez-
PEELED himself
Pension Money.
| Another set Of members who have
been considerably discouraged consists
u L4OSo VIII were SIaSOA ~ 1AfSSbISobc
everything the Democratic administra-
ton had SO far done and chiefly the
pension Office 1t is really surprising
how many fellows came here redhot for
an investigation of that Office, and it is
still more surprising that their warmth
has cooled down SO rapidly. There is
ga heap of human nature in man, y
and SO it was only natural that when
| II 9os0 1ex r.
willing to be investig ated-rather anx
ious, IN fact-their zeal should moder
ate. Nevertheless the sentiment is ver1