The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-01-29
SOME WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
I Houslon Posi- pureau.


Washington. January 26.-tStaff Special.'
The excitement over the election Of q
chairman OF the congressional committee
has about subsidized and the democrats are
able TO take their bearings. The election
of Senator White was distinctly a victory
for silver and for Joe Bailey for speaker
| The only objection that has been urged
against Senator White is that he is a mem
Der OF. or made application to become a
member Of, the gold bug Democratic club
OF New York. 1t is said by his friends that
now the mask of hypocrisy has been torn
| from that club and its real objects given
publicity, he will lose no time in getting
| away from 1t, Just as Joe Bailey and lot
OF other young democrats have done.
| AS proof positive that Senator White
was not knowingly in any gold bug COM
bination, so far as that club was concerned.
1t now develops that every gold bug senator
on the congressional committee voted
against him for chairman. Mitchell OF
Wisconsin and Faulkner of West Virginia,
two senators with gold tendencies, both
voted against him, and Senator James X.
Jones. chairman OF the National democratic
committee. not only voted against him. but
voted. as proxy for both Senator Murphy OF
New York and Senator Smith of New Jer-
sey, against White.
This has occasioned whole lot Of talk
very derogatory to Mr.. Chairman Jones.
and democrats here are becoming convinced
that he has entered the Croker Whitney
Brlce gold conspiracy and will do what he
can to turn the democratic organization
over TO the gold bugs and help turn down
Bryan In 1900. They say he has done so in
order to further his financial fortunes
through the medium of his round bale
trust"
II is rather peculiar state of aaffrs and
sad commentary upon the National DEM
ocratic organization that such man is
continued at its head. Somebody ought TO
declare Jones out Of order and eliminate
him from the National committee or dis
cipline him and compel him to show his
hand and "either fish or cut bait
do not desire to do Mr. Jones or any one
else an injustice, and If subsequent de-
Nelopments prove these rumors and charges
TO be untrue, | will be only too glad TO
say so. do not want to mislead the DEM
ocrats OF Texas or excite their luminosity
against any one without cause. | am fere
simply to tell things ms | find them and
hear them from ordinarily reliable sources
and let them draw their own conclusions.
am engaged neither in maigntng nor
booming anybody. am trying TO send re-
liable information to The Post for the bene-
fit of it's readers. the democracy of Texas,
and simply tell things as | see or believe
them to exist here. where history is being
made. II the organization of the demo-
cratic party Ia being endangered by trait
ors, the people of Texas ought to know 1t,
and If the party is gaining advantages and
strength through the work of some of its
big Drained leaders they will be glad TO
know it--and there you are.
l have investigated that other charge
against Senator White about there icing
only one daily paper In California support
ing him for re- election. and that one a re-
publican parer. and find that the whole OBJ
position to him grows out of the Hawaiian
treaty matter and has nothing whatever to
do with party matters or his loyalty to
silver
In the full flush of victory and plenitude
OF mower, that old republican war horse.
General Grosyenor of Ohio, has said things
Tor which he is now repenting in sackcloth |
and ashes and his sober second thought
has filled his soul with regret. Just after
Mark Hanna's election the utterances that
fell from his intellectual sanctuary were
filled with vitriol for the gentlemen who
engineered the bolt against Hanna He
predicted all sorts and kinds OF dire dis
asters to those aforesaid gentlemen, and
IL now industriously engaged in denying
everything, and is hedging faster than
dead game sport" who got the wrong tin
on IA country race horse. And thereby
hangs tale. There is most excellent
reason for the present hedging propensiiies
displayed so literally by the general. The
fellows whom he read out OF tho republic
can party are preparing to shove the gem
erai out of Office and he is laboring hard
10 prevent such disastrous situation, and
hence the hedging. A bin has been intro
dnccd In the Ohio legislature to redistrlct
the district now represented by General
Grosvenor by adding to IL three democratic
counties and taking from 1t some OF its
rock ribbed republican counties. This will
result In throwing the old war horse In q
district so Overwhelmingly democratic that
he can not hope to be returned. He Is
therefore flinging the flag OF truce TO the
breeze and swallowing his words faster
than an alligator swallows flies In q Louis
lana bayou.
There Is more In the charge of bribery
against Hanna than that senator probably
thinks there is. II he believes the matter
has been dropped. he displays an ignorance
OF the character of the men who have been
fighting him. None of them are 'qultters.
They fight as long as there is daylight, or
until Pmto's domain is congealed, and then
organize n skating party. 1t Is said here
That the senator is liable to be subpoenaed
amy day TO attend the Investigation in Ohio
set ON foot by the legislature lie can
not ignore q summons issued by the
speaker IN the name OF the people of Ohio
only the other evening after the ssnate
adjourned here one senator who had
resolution OF inquiry prepared, was only
persuaded after good deal OF pleading 10
hermit II TO 20 over for n day or two. There
mas been n studying OF the precedents aud
while no parallel case has been discovered.
there are several that have strong bear
ing upon the one ~ issue. The Payne |
bribery case was thrown out by the senate
because the alleged bribery did not affect
he result. In the present case, however.
he result was affected by the change of a
single vote, and II there was bribery it will
strike At the legality of the election in
such n way that the senate will he COM
PEELED TO take cognigance OF It. There is
no longer any doubt that the senate will
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