The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-10-29

blow. IIc has been greatly missed from
the senate, more 80 than perhaps any Other
man who has left that body for years. His
( wit ana fund OF stories have made a va
( fNed by any other. and for rough-and-
tumble debate on the floor, no man Is bet.
ter equipped than Joe Blackburn.
! Il would give years senatorial salary
said Joe blackburn to me recently "fol
the privilege OF having the floor OF the
senate for few hours after congress meets
In December. / think I could submit a few
remarks concerning the handling Of ths
! war with Spain that would be pertinent
and likely to attract some attention. How
ever tho whole truth is bound to come
sooner or later" AMI it Will.
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AS stated by the press dispatches not
long ago. Senator J. II. Kyle OF South Da-
kota has permanently spostatized and an-
| nOunced his Intention OF hereafter homolo-
eating with tho republicans. This will
give the republicans q straight out ma
joriiy in the senate with the aid OF the
vote OF tho vice president. Kyle voting
with the republicans ties the vote Of the
democrats. silver republicans and popul!sts,
| and in case Of tie vote, the vice presl-
! dent. under the constitution, has the right
| to break II. The conversion of Kyle to
| straight republicanism has been the work
of Mark HANNA and Henry G. Payne, the
republican National committeeman from
Wisconsin, whom the president, 1t is said,
has picked out as Ayers successor Han
| ma and Payne engineered the scheme which
led up 10 the delivery OF the republican
vote in the South Dakota legislature to
Kyle and resulted In his election.
In his autobiography in the congress
| sional directory Mr.. Kyle describes himself
| as an independent" Since his reelection,
however, Kyle has been carefully and ten
derby nursed by the administration. His
| recommendations concerning the distribu-
ton Of patronage in his State have nearly
all been promptly honored, and that Is why
he has recently discovered 1t to be "his
| duty in the interest of the public veal to
hereafter vote with the republican party"
There never was a palmer case OF a man
boldly selling himself for the loaves and
fishes OF politics than the one furnished in
yidual from South Dakota. The only pity
Is that his term does not expire until 1903.
| ~
| The reports that come from Duluth,
| Mimi, the zenith city Of the unsalted
seas" where Hon. Charles A. Towne is
making the fight Of his life to regain his
lost seat in congress, indicate that the
chances are all in his favor. 1t is the same
cid fight OF two years ago over again, so
far as the contestants are concerned Judge
Page Morris. who defeated Towne two
years ago by slender majority, Is again
the republican candidate, Judge Morris,
by the way, was once Texan. He was a
teacher In the Agricultural and Mechanical
college. and is q great friend to that ex-
cellen5 citizen OF Houston. Captain f. A.
Reichardt.
Towne is considered very dangerous
mar by Mark Hanna and his co-conspra-
tors and fellow syndicators and political
buccaneers, and they will spend barrels OF
Doodle in that district this year to beat
Towne, even as they did in 1896. They
have good reason to fear Towne. He is
one OF the truest and ablest silver advo-
Gates in the country, and would begin, as
soon as he got here, to make the admin
istration look like string of sausage after
a hungry dog hail toyed with it.
Notwithstanding all this effort ON the
part of this gold-plated administration ana
tho expenditure OF slush fund OF over
s2oo,ooo, which the same is very compil-
mentary to Mr.. Towne he is very apt to
| wear Page Morris to fragile. Let us
hope for such consummatlon.