The age-herald., 1897-12-30
Saying They Will Dangle at His Belt
 Before the Trail is Abandoned.
BIG CHIEFS SHERMAN AND ALGER
To Be Rung Into the Fight, and the Chances Are Others May Be Wounded and Slain Before the Braves Smoke
 the Pipe of Peace.
Special to The Age-Herald.

bpeclal to The ABe-IteTdlu.
 Washington, D. C., Dec. 29-The fight over the confirmation of the Alabama ap- pointments continues to grow faster and more furious as the day for the recon vening of congress draws nearer. The "outs," headed by Walker, claim that they have practically secured the defeat of Bry- an and Buckley, the latter appointed post master at Montgomery.
 The old animosity between Sherman and Alger will all be aired before the senate when the confirmation of Bryan as mar shal for the middle district comes up. It will be. remembered by those who have been unfortunate enough to have read Sec retary Shermans book that Mr. Sherman, pointing to the way in which Alger bought his delegates over to him, points specifcal- ly to the case of the Alabama delegation naming Bryan especially in the charges. Youngblood went to the convention hand ling the Sherman money, yet Bryan, and it is said with the consent of Youngblood, voted for Alger. Alger subsequently, pub lshed a denial that Bryan had been paid to vote for him. and said that he secured his vote through friendship and the fact that they were both federal soldiers. For this reason Ager endorsed Bryan's papers for marshall
 Walker has letters which alege a de- tail of plot in which Secretary Alger is said to have favored Bryan's appointment so that Bryan in the next convention might
 look to Alger's interests. It was stated in some of the papers that Youngblood had written these letters. Youngblood denies having had any connection with them at all, and said to me this morning that he and Secretary Alger were on the most pleasant terms MT. Youngblood says that | he does not believe that Bryan's confirma- ton will be defeated, though to a man up a tree it looks almost certain that it will. Fight n Buci1ly.
 The fight on Buckley for postmaster at Montgomery is being made by republicans and democrats alike from that district. In spite of the fact that Buckley was only a chaplain in the army, he has pretty well Tired up the G. A. R. organization to fight for him. One of the charges against him Is that he has drawn over $145OOO of govern ment money since the war, and besides paying taxes on a watch and a few per- sonal trinkets, not one cent more goes into the treasury of the city or county from him.
 
 their hatred for the "ins, and they do not hesitate to make the most sensational charges, and claim that they can prove | them all before the senate committee. Youngblood is the politician of the "ins," and is handling their case like the veteran that he is. The opposing factions here do not speak, but that Is as far as the feud goes. They will continue to wash each 1irtxr 1frat hut iC no ph0 nPn for any personal encounter. I4ch side is claiming to belong to the "oldest and best l families of the state.
 Col. Youngblood says that while Aldrich has not been deposed from his position as referee of the Fourth district, 1t has been. deemed advisable in the future to 'revise" his recommendations. This is not due, he says, to any personal grievance of the .'powers that be- in Alabama against MT. Aldrich himself, but that complaint being made that as Aldrich was too kind to his old populist friends. something had to be done. Crowe-Underwood Contest. | "Mr Grove knows as we'll as I do that | there is not the least chance of the house seating him as representative from the Ninth Alabama district" said Representa- i've Underwood.i "He is not making half | fght-oertainly not the effort that man who thinks he is entitled to the seat would make. If I conceded him all the votes cast, l or even all the registered votes in the pre- cncts where he alleges fraud to have been committed, if all the votes cast in these precincts for myself or anybody else were counted for Grove, would still be elected by majority of over 2,0OO.
 When the contest was started MT. Grove may have considered himself as standing some show, but he knows better now He has not taken any testimony to amount to anything, and is, in my opinion,
 only keeping up the contest so as to be allowed the $2,0O0 to which he is entitled if hio ,,e., arr;yos at tho ct q oe of a hearine