The morning times., 1897-01-11

tSpecidlis HhFu IneTe IS q negro IN tHe
council!-a coon in the statehouse wood
pile.
In an evil hour the Republican managers
last fall looked upon a certain Poston dis
trict that had the making OF a councillor as
one that was hopelessly Democratic. No
one of their best men liked to be put up
for defeat, and a brilliant but short
sighted idea struck them. They said:
Here is chaAce to reward the coIored
voters These men are doing finely for
honest money and protection We will
let one'of them run for the high office in
Jerry sullivan's country. II. won't hurt
US. because the black fellow has not got
ghost OF n shnw TO win, and it will serve
to prove that we are recognizing the col
ored troops. u
They were happy in this characteristic
thought. They trotted out dark steed
named Allen and set him to running on
this track with d great sounding OF brass
and cymbals so that the Massachusetts
sons of Ham might know it. The race was
ran, and the sequel runs yeti
Del ct pisculum Allen was elected; and,
to add To the horror Of the result, this man
at All earlier period of his existence on this
earth, and in Boston especially, had been
charged with a penal cffense, This was a
sound money victory with a vengeance.
and it is still one Of sound and impotent
fury in the State official circles of Massa-
chusetts today.
Dinners must be cancelled by the council
now; balls must be missed, and public
ceremonies VIII he painfully brief and
perfunct from this hour ON to the end OF
that long year ahead which alnne can
terminate the shadowy existence Of the
first black member OF the council OF the
governor OF Massachusetts.
This, however, is not the only grief of
that tight little commonwealth 1t has
another; but this other particular shadow
is not outwardlx dark in the flesh, al
though in spirit 1t is. g..
This is the projection OF Walker, from
Worcester. into the National Congress.
Like Hoar, lie is an old man; but. my
lie is rcnfant terrible of the State dele
CATION at this hour III the House of Repre-
sentatives
What is the matter with Walker
Only this, but it. fills up the cup OF
trepdation to overfiowmg, j. H Walker
insists upon the truth being recognized
at once by his Republican colleagues, and
that they face the music.
That truth Walker declares to be the
fact that the tariff today is nothing more
nor less than fly on the wheel The
wheel then, what is that? oh says
Walker to them, You don't see the wheel
you can't! Well, it is the banking and cur.
rency, and we iiiust turn it quick, or
looking 50 sharp at that tariff Fly will
not save u.s.
+ Now, most everybody at the Capitol
knows the body OF Walker-'.0ld Walker -
as they affeCtlonately call him. His grim.
white head and whiter face, conquering
nose and keen little gray eyes, as lie
hustles about, are now well recognized
stage fittings i'll the Congressional drama.
He comes to the House because he has
a mission; not because he is politician.
This is terribly patent to his distressed
colleagues. Rich and independent, pos
sessed of boundless energy that is fired
up by good health and perfect self
esteem, Brother Walker has determined
now that the hour of his great opportunity
has struck
He has organized his terrified and ter
rible Committee on Banking and Currency
for the battle of his life, the reform Of
AI-s,~
gleam shall ever again line the golden
clouds, no matter how heavy and dark
they may ever hang over this part of our
Garth. He has summoned the bankers
and brokers from all our great financial
centers to appear and give him aid in
framing a bill that will close forever the
money question.
These financial polemics which will
load the air in Chairman Walkers COM
mittee next week are the shadows. the
portentous shadows, cast before coming
events, that distress the men from Bunker
EiIl The dread that blending Of the
bankers argument into the one made by
the manufacturer, because they fear the
result will be the blackest of black
shadows. .ti- -
Vainly have they set snares to trap
and divert the mission of Walker They
have invoked Reed, and he has openly de-
clared his dread of attempting to measure
his strength against the inspired zeal of
the retired leather dealer of Worcester,
who will not retire from this business.
They have pleaded with Dingley to call
him off, just for little while. if better result
can be obtained; but the Ways and Means
chairman has told them tnat on account
Of ill-health he has declined to undertake
far less trying job, the secretaryship
Of the Treausry. pa
No; the evil hour cannot be postponedl
Why should it be? Was not the Presidential
campaign fought out wholly on walkers
hobby? is he not right in sa ying that dur
ing the fight, up to the moment ofits finish,
the tariff was not in it?
This Is what Walker is triu1nphantIy
trumpeting, and none or his Bunker Hill
colleague can say him nay.