The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-11-26
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP,
ny g. A. EDWARDS,


the paper goes In running amuck.
however. with this apologizer for the Aigcr
relief commission today Of the adminlstra-
ton and dcfamer Of Joe Bailey nit at
every head in sight and find landed on
one that did not deserve my shiilalah. 1t
was that OF Mr.. Bergman, the cartoonist
for tho Post said OF MIR. bergman that
he had first been reduced and then dis
charged for neglectlng his duties in the
United States patent office. where he is
employed. to draw pictures for the Post
and had been relnstated through the in
torposition or a millionaire congressman
from New York, In the first instance. and |
secondly by the president himself.
Mr.. Bergman complained that / had
done him an Injustice. After an inyesti ga
ton OF the records OF the patent office en-
Iloyes IN the Interior department and
an Interview with several paople whose !
business 1t is to know these things, / am
now convinced THAT / did do Mr. Berry
man an injustice In saying what did I
and am glad to frankly say 50 and set
MIN right with the readers OF The Hous- /
ton Post.
The information upon which based MY
statement Of Mr.. Bergman came from a
source that | believed authentic and en-
tirely credible. and was thus led Into the
error honestly.
There are always lot of knockers
and hammer throwers In every department
here. who have great delivht In speaking III |
OF their fellow employees, and / find l |
struck one OF the original members OF the
anvil chorus who had his little hammer
out for Mr.. Bergman and struck him at
time when was Ia n mood to join the
aforesaid chorus. so far as the Washington
Post was concerned. l believe now that
Mr.. Bergman was neither reduced nor dis
charged He has occupied place In the
patent office since 1856 and is engaged in
specific line of work that his facility In
free hand drawing gives him ample time
10 make cartoons for the Washington Post
after he has earned his salary from Uncle
Sam. will not do anybody an injustice
Intentionally, and i will never hesitate 10
correct a mistake or admit my error when
1t Is pointed out to me. not only because
1t is right to do so. but because want
the people of Texas to believe what say.
In the case of Mr.. Bergman was mislei.
misinfoimed and mistaken. | am sorry for
1t, inasmuch as he has nothing whatever
TO do with the policy of the Washington
Post
Possibly not very many people know that
there Will be vacancy in the interstate
commerce commission on the 1st of next
January. Judge ]. d. Yoeman of Iowa will
90 out or be reappointed, though l don't
know that he is an applicant for reappoint- !
ment. He is the first and only membar Of
that commission to come from west of
the Mississippi river that great surplus
producing area and vast commercial en-
pire.
There is one man from away UP In Ver-
mont ON that commission, another from
New York, ono from Georgia and another
from Illinois. The West and the great
Southwest have only the man from Iowa
as representative. Why shouldn't the great
Southwest have representative on that
commission and why shouldn't Texas, the
greatest State in the Southwest, furnish
that man? Let the people of our State (
IL
egrea upon some good man down there
for the State is flil OF them-to represent
the great commercial and roilroad in
terests of that section. II Texas will get
together on some man and go after McKin-
ley in the right way he can be landed on
that commission without any sort of doubt
There is going TO be much important
work for that commission in the near
future, for the formation OF the commission
in the first place, was step towards gov
ernment ownership OF railroads and every
thing tends now in that direction. Let
the people of Texas think ttis thing ovSr
and get together on good man.
~
Well, the expected Is beginning to hap
pen and TEDDY" Roosevelt is beginning TO
show his teeth to Thomas Cat Plat in
way very different to his grin during the
late campaign. Teddy is hcginning 10 as
sert his real self and Plat seas a whole
barn full OF trouble in sight for him. Plat
has been the supreme boss of the republ-
can party of the State of New York for
a long time He has run things to suit
himself.
Two years ago he made Black governor.
Black is a arrowgauged country lawyer
with about as much sense as string OF
dead catfish. He has about as much busi-
ness to be executive OF New York as l
have to be translator OF Egyptian
heroglyphlcs at Heidelberg university
But Elatt wanted him for platt pur-
pose and Plat put him at Albany. Now
he has used him and he got rid OF him as
easily as he does soiled shirt. He
squeezed the nrnon dry and flung 1t away.
He picked up Teddy because he had to.
The war fever compelled him to take
man whom he didn't Hike and didn't want,
A man OF whom he had said many harsh
things In the past because he tTcddy) was
honest. He swallowed everything. how
ever. and took Teddy and now We viii see
come fun.
Tom "Cat' Platt Is A good name for the