The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-06-11
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

recent rawlings OF Brcr WattersoO OF inc
Courier Journal in denunciation OF the
democratic convention held this week at
Frankfort. His capors are so like those
| Of blind dog in meeting house as to ex-
| cite the risibles Of all who recognize his
peculiar aud painful political predcament.
Having warped the Atlantic cable with
his pre- convention Reputation of the Chi
cago platform and candidates. his name
has been scratched from the rolls OF the
regular democracy as an Esau without a
| Haunacratic freak show, and gone bank
| rupt in its petering out, he is like another
Japhet in search OF his father Having
been one OF the foremost canonizers of
| Cleveland. he has sickened at the stomach
| over the recollection OF his mugwump sy-
| cophancy and has belched up that Jonah.
| Having asserted his upalteranle loyalty TO
the ''star-eyed goddess" of revenue reform,
| he is persona non grata with the Mckin-
ley Hanna crowd OF monopolists and
| money dervishers. He is outl He is an
exoduster from every party camp on the
| field, He is the pre- eminent political
| tramp of the times. 1t is supposed that
| OF course he has wit enough TO know that
| In public AFFAIRS he is back number that
! with the democrats he Is has BEEN"
/ and that there are few IN the country, be-
| sides himself. who care q snap where and
| when he exploits his only remaining Jour
nalistic function-that OF indiscrimnate
| public scold.
There are others who think that Mr..
Watterson does not care personally how
! politics shape themselves in the future. In
his own interests. at least he has succeed
ed better than the populist in finding
| something better" He has written q life
of Abraham Lincoln which is in course of
publication. and for which he is to re-
ceiNe a very handsome compensation by
way of royalties upon the subscription
sales. II is quite natural, since the book
Will not have its most favorable reception
in the South. but in the North, that he
| desires To have himself popularized in that
section Of the country, and this may ac-
count somewhat for the manner in which
he characteri2es its histories both PAST
| and present To the hero worshippers of
the East and North who have formed the
Abraham Lincoln cult and who feel ii
their religious duty 10 buy everything in
literature that bears his name, Mr.. Wat
tefson can not commend himself better
than to keep up The denunciations OF the
leaders and opinions of the Southern peo-
PIE. 1t viii be coin in his pocket to shift
any popularity he has left from Southern
TO Northern fields. He also lectures upon
Abraham Lincoln and the bureau that has
nm IN charge IL pushing his engagements
in the East and North more than In the
South. In fact, they find it difficult to
get any offers froit south of Louisville.
Since therefore. his financial interests
have turned his gaze upon the plutocratic
pastures of Yankee land no one in the
South should feel surprised at any OF the
wild lubrications with which he lards his
through Of tba
Journal.
1t is very we'll understood now that Cen
eral Longstreet Of Georgia will shortly be
appointed commissioner of railroads to
succeed General Wade Hampton from
South Carolina. The place is a very pleas
ant stnecure for the aged general who
wants to figure in official and social cir
cles mere at the capital. Since MIR. Cleve-
land appointed General Joe Johnston TO
the position 1t has been rather taken for
granted that it shall be filled by some
acceptable eX-Confederate General Long
street is certainly deserving well Of the
republican party. aad even better things
than this might have been offered him in
Justice to the fidelity with which he has
clunB TO the party in the South for the
last quarter OF a century. There are few
men at the head of affairs in this a1minis-
IL cost to feelings and fortunes which Cen
eral Longstreet has paid as a recoInpense
lor mis- republicanlsm. In these latter days
II Is no more than becoming that a repub-
lican president should give him position
| Oh hohof, light labor and adequate com.
pehsatlon. that in the end he may ieel
thaJ he was not wholly neglected by' those
Tor whom he sacrificed so much through
the iroupluous times of reconstruction and
during the era when there was nothing on
earth more odious in the South than 20 be
republican.
Fred s. Irland. one Of the expert stenog-
raphers of the house. talked interestingly
yesterday regarding the speed with which
congressman talk.
1T has been said in the newspaners >. ra-
marked Mr.. irland. That Representative
Lewis OF Washington talks at the rate of
8oo words minute He does not. No man
could speak in the house at that speed and
| be reported. / doubt whether he could he
'p''' Is.oou' ! mean. of course. such words
as occur in debates. or course In taking
routine testimony, where frequently recurs
ring phrases. such as what is your name >,
ana where do you liye? are expressed bv
ptlet arbitrary signs, stenographer can
VIZ as lasu as a man can think. 1t is
| very different matter when a congressman
,a'hs, lie uses words with many svlla-
| hes." gym"
What is the fastest record In the
Representative Johnson of Indiana once
talked for an hour and a half. when dis
GUESSING contested election case, at an
average rate of go words minute. That
| Is rapid work. II a man TALKS 25n words
| minute he Is very swift have noticed one
Ihlng,. added Mr.; irland. THE fest talk
v vf $40" up after being in the house little
/ H..
nave to hll with their voices gradually
makes it's impression upon them and tbey
ilhd, 100 that they get mors attention when
| they do not talk so fast"
rhe Hammer Paper of Texas"
| Atlanta Democrat.
/ Ihere is 10 question rs to the PIRATES,
daily in the State. Everybody thot lkro,,s
anyohhS knows The Houston Post Is tho
oailnN newspaper of Texas and for Te,as
ma an !, when YOU read It's columns. Won bnya
no mlssiyings ms to its veracity Of a,.t NE
nupiishAd BESIDES, It Is the chetncst - ,,a