The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-05-18
COMPROMISE DOESN'T Go,
Green-Grant War of the Offices
Getting flotter Than Ever.
DESERTERS lfR0M STATE CHAIRMAN.
When He Announced Indorsement OF
One Candidate All the othrrs Mt
Once, Quit Him cold.

Dali, Us, Texs $. May 1.-THE announce
ment hat CHI airman f. II. Il. Green had
indorso,, w s Marshall Of Fort Worth for
the posi- ion OF collector of internal revenue
In the North Texas district, which was
made exc iusiv ely in The Post few days
ago. has ,tirr ed up a hornets nest inside
the Green faction. There were about
dozen men,. all claiming TO be thick and
thin supper rei.s of Green. who wanted the
job, They III want the job yet. and one or
two OF them have already given II out that
thcY will fit hit Green from this time on.
Jake Spahi, of this city who WIS one OF
the Applicant for Green's Endorsement, saw
the statement in The Post and then haunt
cd Green til the latter confirmed thu
truth OF The 'ost's report. This happened
Friday morning, Since then Spahr has
been unable to any virtue whatever in
the Green faction. He called al the Dallas
headquarters Of the State chairman and
oppressed his opim ion of Green in very I'M
complimentary lie rms. 1t is said that he
even stated that from now on he would
fight under the banner of Grant. Spain
and the others W no failed to get anything
but ice cream SIN. les from Green are max
They say the sim larity between his name
and that of the chairman OF Green's ad-
visory board, Eu gene Marshall is most
striking and suspi cious, and have begun 10
whisper that nop otism is being put INTO
practice in the mptter of indorsrments
1'hey charge that ", S, Marshall is not
atld never has been n republican. This
So 'ils, from all accounts, to be ttur
the $" who know him classify him as
Cleveland Carlisle democrat. This mates
Spahr and his co'mpanions in misery and
a'nas hotter than they otherwise would be-
and they are goii X to unite their efforts 10
prev mt his app, Gntmont.
Marshall is "a business man OF Fort
Worth If he sue weeds In downing his late
brethren in the Green camp he VIII then
be confronted by Dr. Grants candidate j
II. Netro OF MeXi u. It's u merry war all
around q
The fight on pr II. A. Pope of Cameron
who rnn for congr ess in the Seventh dts
trict lasd fail and IS now postmaster Of his
own town which was begun few days
ago 10y thc Green ST ipportors In his district
Is growing hotter The reason of this is
the alleged political treachery of pr Pupe.
who wns believed u be Green Warrior
IN after he won hi own hattie Then he
changed the white rose OF Green for The
red rose OF Grant adj swore allegiance IN
another Warwick.
He proposes To hel y Or. Grant select all
tho officeholders in the Waco district by
virtue of having beer, run for congress bv
his people, But those whom he doesn't IN
dorse resent his int, preference with their
plans and say they Will have aim turned
ont of his own office by civil service
board If he doesn't let politics alone
\ good Joke Is told on Secretary W. NJ
o'Leary of Green's ady'is Dry board I'm con
nection with the war Dr Pope 1t is
related that Major on. aary in his mu-
steal iihornian accent 81 id: IL detest re-
iisious intolerance, hut If there ever war
II lieId for the \. = 4. it is the Seventh
congressional district" ilo referred IN
cemeron's Pope. who, no thinks. made an
aNful hull when he eul isted with Grant.
The Post correspondent has been shown
letter from G. NJ fcr;uson, the negro
lea der of Paris, coufirmlm; the accuracy Of
the dispatch sent The Post stnting that
Ferguson was claiming Fort Bend county
as his residence for the purpose of getting
tho revenue collectorship IN the Austin dis
triot. He SAYS he Is training with DIR
Grant in everything and that he hopes to
win tho piece nj pie he IS after.
Ferguson has boon m Paris for about
ten wears and tx tho momler NJ the repun
iicnR state executive cowmittc-e from that
district. The Green pcoptN are greatly re-
1oicod M tndlne ont that Fortuson's resi-
denee is IN Fort Rend county. and within
forty eight hours after no n,nkos hi
change OF homes orfic-ipalv known Gron,,
VIII declare The scat Of r'le Paris commit
fee'nan vacant md tin It with ono az his
own adhorents This wHl add fuel In tho
already blazing Green Grant fire There
may huVo been "A Comnrotmise betayrcn thc,,,
hrrecd upon at Washington. hut n has nor
become effective in rcNps The row seo,n
inttTminable and growing