Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-12-08
GNRES LETTER
Fascinations ofthe Guber-
material Chair.
SOUGHT BY CoEaREsSMEE.
Viewed as a Means to the Sena-
torial Toga.
A PLAN THAT RARELY SUCCEEDS
SOUGHT BY COEaRESSMEE.
A PLAN THAT RARELY sUCCEEDs.

Return Of Joseph G. sibley 20 Legis-
1atIve Halis-How He became a BIZ
xAesaTlist-An Example of caustic
H--r--Leaders Past and Present.
Bailey Of Texas.
Especial Warrington Letter.l
Alexander Pope uttered q great truth
when he said:
Hope springs eternal In the human breast.
Man never a, but always TO be, blessed.
This has been clearly and newly H.
Illustrated in the recent happenings
among members Of the Fifty-ffth con-
gress.
The ~governorship appears to possess
a great fascination for the congressional
mind. At least five congressman of
prominence Voluntarily relinquished
seats in the house which they could
have held indefinitely to become chief
magistrates Of Substitution MoMilnn
Of Tennessee Joseph D. Sayres Of Tex
as, William A. Stone Of Pennsylvania,
James O. Mcguire of California and
Alexander Monroe Dockery of Missouri.
McMillin, Sayres and Stone secured the
prize, Mcguire failed, and Dockery's
race doesnot properly begin until 1000
but il is generally assumed that his
hard and long stamping tour this year
was made with an eye single to getting
possession Of the gubernatorial chair OF
Missouri.
McMiilin Is serving bis tenth term,
Sayres his seventh, Stone his fourth,
Mcguire his third and Dockery his
eighth.
McMillin is in the ffty-fourth year
Of his age, Sayers in his ifty-eighth,
Stone in his ffty-third, Mcguire in his
forty-sixth and Dockery in his fifty
fourth.
Yet another Pennsylvania representa-
tive, Charles ". Stone, aspired to the
governorship, but he was not only not
nominated for that high Office, but was
defeated for reelection to congress by
the brilliant and ~redoubtable Joseph O.
Sibley, who doesn't even live in the dis
trict. I suppose that Brer O. W. 8. is
now willing to make his "Alter Davy"
TO the fact that luck, good and bad,
runs in streaks.
Let us hope that no more disasters
are in store for Brother O. W. Stone in
the immediate future. He is a man Of
parts-a pleasant gentleman-whom
even his Democratic associates wish
well, except when pitted against a Dem
oorat in a political tussle.
The Reason OF.
Now, the question will naturally
arise why such prominent men rs No
Millin. Sayers, W. A. Stone-"Big
Stone, . as he Ia popularity called-Ma-
guirs and Dookery, with apparently life
tenure on their congressional seats, will
voluntarily quit that splendid theater
of action for the governorship. Surface
indications would seem to prove that
they were as anxious to be governor as
was Sanch0 Panza; but, so far as we
are informed, Sanoho had no Interior
designs, no higher ambition. That can
mot be said Of all these retiring con-
gresmen. McMillin came within two
votes Of being elected senator last win.
ter and will never rest until his ample
form adorns q curule chair. Judge Ma
guire would make a tiptop senator, and
had the California legislature been
Democratic the chances are that he
would have succeeded Senator White,
as he had given 1t out fat that he did
not want any more senatorial honorA.
Perhaps W. A. Stone may be satisfied
with the goyernorzhip of Pennsylvania
and Sayars with that Of Texas, but I
have grave doubts on that subject
A good many people entertain q sus
picioD that Dockery is trying to go to
the senate Of the United States by the
gubernatorial route--a hazardous enter
prise always a. many q man has found
to bis sorrow heretofore-and In which
only one man succeeded-Trusten Polk,
who would not run for governor until
all the party leaders pledged themselves
TO make him senator In order to induce
him 10 be the gnbernatorial candidate
TO pail the party through. They kept
the faith-Polk was elected governor,
servsd 81 days and was sIscted to the
senate for Eix years. Whsthsr Brother
Docksry. II elected governor, will sue
coed in breaking the rule Is an unsolyed
problem. He ham't bsen elected gov
ernor yet and has pitted agsinst him
for that high place ex-LAeutsnAnt Gov
ernor David A. Ball Of Pike. enc Of the
boss eampaignsrs IN the land; sx-spsAk-
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