The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-30
Eleven Months Ago His Action
Was Predicted.
THE POLITICAL WHIRLIGlG
A Year Ago He Was to BE the
Silver Candidate
OR WAS TO "sEcoME SOUND"
The Ex-Congressman May "Yet Sc
cure a FIRST Rate judicial APP
pointment From the
President"

Last Sundays Charlotte Observer
contained, among other interesting MAJ
ter, a Sound Money article from Hon:
John S. Henderson, eN-Congressman
from the Salisbury district. lit seemed
to us that we had some faint recollec-
ton Of Mr.. Henderson when he was in
favor of silver.
Turning to our files for 1895, undel
date Of May, goth, we find an article
under the heading of THE Political
Whirlagig,' which we win give. Our
only apology for publishing the article
entire is that at the expiration Of
eleven month it is as true and sugges-
tive as it was when first written;
THE POLITICAL WHIRLAGIG."
Zone Of the most interesting things
to a man who is inclined to watch the
Tnaneuvers of the politicians as daily
seen through the correspondents and
editors tool of the scores of papers
that come to this table, and part of
whose business it is to read, day after
day, and follow it up, say for twenty
years, and understands what he reads,
and remembers the applications, will
be ast0unded at every retrospection.
We instance: Mr.. John S. Henderson,
defeated in Congress in the
Salisbury district last year, was under
stood, at this distance, to have been a
quasi administration Democrat; he al
ways voted for silver, we believe, but
was rated as standing in well with the
administration and was accorded an
audience at the departments, second
only to Senator Ransom himself. This,
we believe, was the estimate In which
Mr.. Henderson's standing at headquar-
tiers was held a month ago, when the
death of Mr.. Garter made a vacancy
in the Collectors office of the Western
district. Mr.. Henderson was thought
to be the foremost candidate for the
place, and to be backed by the admin
istration. When the appointment was
made, these same CORES ondents sta
ted that Mr.. Henderson would be a can
dida4e for Governor on a silver plat
form, and would sweep the State. This
died out pretty soon, and the next
thing that was heard in regard to Mr..
Henderson was the following signifi-
can't paragraph, which appeared in the
Washington correspondence of last Fri.
days Charlotte Observer:
sssA prominent official told me thatff Hon
John S. Henderson had been sound on the
money question the ri esIuemt would nave
given him something good. AIR. nderson
may yet get Il first rate judicial appoint
ment from the President
Question: VIII he bite at the tempt
ing bait?"
In this connection we deem it moi
amiss TO suggest to those papers thai
are in sympathy with the Democratic
Executive committee IN its latest deliY
erance, and that propose to stand bs
that action in good faith till another
expression of opinion is promulgated
to exercise unusual supervision over
their Washington correspondence
should they not wish to appear as the
special champions of the administra,
ton. The sop that seems available *
Mr.. Henderson will bear reproduction
in localities and individuals. The plain
Z English of the paragraph, as it occurs
To us, is that while Mr. Henderson has
already missed something good (the
eollectorship is worth, we believe, ST.,
5O0), he may yet secure "a first rate ju.
dicial appointment from the President
should he become sound on the money
question. BumberTton Robesonian.