The age-herald., 1898-01-18

ocrats to have the chairmanship of thie committee, inasmuch as they have not more than half dozen members of con- gress from the northeastern coast. There Is but one democrat from New England. and a few from New York and Pennsyl- vania, while the whole bulk of the party in the house comes from the south and the west. The fight that is being made for this office is a tempest in teapot at best. Faulkner made an excellent chairman, and while he does not care to serve again, would undoubtedly accept If offered him.
 Tennessee will have something to say before the finish, especially if McMillin is elected senator. McMillin is now the mem- Der from Tennessee, and in case of his elec- tion to the senate Richardson may succeed him the committee. The latter would like to be chairman, it would help him very materially against Bailey in his race for the speakership But if he enters the race then Bailey will take a hand, as he would not care to see his rival given this advantage. Bailey is stronger in the house than ever, and his conservative leadership has won over to him many of the older members who were formerly opposed to him. But with McMillin out of the way, the fight between Richardson and Bailey will be as bitter as that between Crisp and Mills for the speakership of the Fifty-sec- ond congress.
 The populists are watching this fight with considerable interest. They want to see at the head of the congressional com mittee man who puts the financial issue above everything. Representative How
 f1aaf fhn populists will fuse with the democrats or have anything to do with them at all in the next campaign. "In Alabama" he said, i've will nominate a straight populist ticket this fall. I do not know whom we will name for governor, but whoever it will be will be elected. The republicans, as well as number of democrats who are disgusted with their party, will vote our ticket''
 Dr. Grafton B. Grove thinks that Con- gressman Milford w. Howard will be the Moses to lead the republicans and popu- lists out of the democratic wilderness in Alabama this fall. .If we can induce MT. Howard to accept the nomination. he said today, The will be the next gover- nor of Alabama. He is especially strong in the white counties of the state, and there IS uO iIOTe pOpuidI iiidl III thC WAioiS o'"SS' He will be indorsed by the republicans and carry the black as well as the white coun- ties, as the negroes always vote the repub- 1ican ticket"
 Dr. Grove thought, he said, that he would be seated in his contest as the duly elected representative, hope that is shared by no one who is familiar with the case. I tried to secure the opinion of some ,f tla of thn init ftaa m a testimony introduced in support of the contest and while none of them would speak for publication, they all thought that no case had been made out at all.
 The Alabama appointments will be con- sidered by the senate committees this week, and everyone having charges to make against any appointee will have chance to be heard. The Youngblood fac tion say that their appointees will go through without any noticeable opposition, and the other side is equally as strong in their assertions that all of the nominations and especially that of Marshal Bryan, will be defeated. Col. Youngbood said to me to- day that he did not think that there anything in any of these charges. It was easy matter, he said, for a man to trump up some kind of charges against an- other, and it was noticeable that none of these charges that have been filed were made by men who had anything to lose if they were proven false. It was easy, he said, to get some negro or disreputable white man, for that matter, to make cer- tain charges, but if there was any ground for them they would be made by the people who were behind the movement.
 HAROLD EVERETT CLAY.