The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-12-13

bill. then pending in congress. He wrote IL
out on an envelope on both sides, inside
and out. That was thrown n "A waste bask-
ct in telegraph office at Columbus 1t
was promptly fished out by an operator.
who probably has IL to this day. for he
was a hero worshper of the malignant
type, As president. Mckinley will hardly
be that obiging. but then it Is hardly prob
able that the White House viii he boy
cotted for the same reason that it is now
stunned.
Perhaps sherman will be induced to be-
come secretary of the treasury. He isn't
a hard man to reach. but he will not say
more than he intended to the moment after
he learns the visitors business. Sherman
is called cold. Perhaps he is, and possibly
that's the reason he never was nominated
Tor president lie is not politician enough.
lie wasn't politician enough in 1855 to see
chat the New York delegations support
would nominate him. and TO get that he
needed 10 promise Plat the patronage. as
Harrison did when he had the opportunity.
ii sherman had made the promise he
wouldn't have rcpudiated tho bargain by
saying his agent had no authority TO make
it, That's what Harrison said about SEN
ator ElAlns. then in his cabinet. Shermans
perfect con. pcsure is very apt to upset the
interviewer who thinks he has story that
viii confuse him and cause him to STAN
mer and Stutter.
Tho senator's physical health is not as
good by far this winter as il was last That
is apparent even At a glance, His face Is
ghostiy white and his speech more often Is
Ike a very old mans than IL was year
ago. Sun 10 is not very great age, con-
sldering Morrils So. The Vermont patri-
arch is a pleasant man 10 meet, nut so
3 hlf fha
senate and withal so cautious that II ii
said OF him that he wants post mortem
| examination before he will render an opn-
! ion that anything is dead. But he VIII not
! be in McKinley's cabinet. He woulan
I give up his seat in the senate for the presi-
dency He Ia after record as much as
any youngBter who ever bestrode saddle,
put on sprntinE shoes or leveled rifle at
J a target He wants the record OF long
service in the senate. He has already
served thirty years and has been ro- elected
/ for his sixth term sherman began in
/ 1851. but was out for four years Even
thon he has served more years than Nor
/ riu Rut II he goes into the cabinet Nor
/ riu boring the course OF nature, will eX-
| coed Sh0rman's term OF service. For that
reason sherman is said to be loath to con-
/ slider cabinet offer.
Ex-Governor Nelson plnrley Che is seldom
ctlltl anything VlSc NY INV ''"i''o i"'N'
as secretary of the TREASURY ought to be
persona gratissima to the newspaper men,
for he owns and edits. when he can, the
Lewiston Journal. He can't be called gar
rulous. His thin, Yankee form. nervous
disposition and habltual Industry auaran-
tee that he would be very busy man. AS
chairman of the ways and means commit
tee he Is easy enough to approach.
Now there's II, Clay Evans, possibly
postmaster general. His friends also call
him governor, because the wicked demo-
Gratis, they say, couated him cut OF that
offlcc. He wuld be the Frank L. Dellen-
baugh OF the administration. He isn't
quite as ELUSIVE as Frank. judge. mean
but his cordality is OF the same order
May he he won't he postmaster general :
may be neither sherman nor Dingley will
he In MoKinley's household. but the possl-
h1ity OF their appointment gives the new
school much JOY. A, Il. Heiss.