El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-24

| OF pOllC1CS. HOnOrS were even between
them. 1t was d very serious thing to
mildly insinuate in the presence OF
Captain Bayse' that "Ancy jackson
had humbugged the country long
enough" There we're people a-plenty
in those days, and in the Green county
section, Is well, who held such views,
but they never proclaimed them when
old man Bayse was around; they were
kept for the edification of more con-
genial company.
Colonel Whitaker was a man of few
words. 1t was favorite expression of
his that the country could be saved
pure principles of the whig party"
He held to this truth as panacea for
all public ills. Those were troubled
| times: muddy undercurrent of dis
tress ran riot through the land. The
unrest in the financial troubles of 1881
80 bore heavily upon fair Alabama.
Just at this juncture another great
| question came TO ada fuel to the flames
of charge and counter charge in the
| quarrels between parties-Texas.
| 'Lone star OF the vest! In thy splendor ca
reering,
Where freedom. pure spirit, hath taught
thee to shine;
Her radiance her light. thou art brilliantly
| wearing,
| AS when she had placed thee aloft DER
| her SHRINE"
Jackson, it was known, was in secret
sympathy with the revolutiOnists. With
the Mexican minister resident in Wash
ington he could not openly speak his
| views or permit, unoer the truce OF
| nations, interference. allotment or aid
being extended. But that aid and
sympathy did come. Wherever it was
| binder it was due to cutlery of the
| wings, who sin some southern states
| were numerous and influential. How
| Andy jackson stood was quite enough
to set the views of old man Bayse and
vice versa could be found his lifelong
opponent the elder Whitaker.
LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.
All this is recited to show as was
| father, SO was son. But the younger
men carried the quarrel step further
and entered those sacred precincts with
the elements of political opposition
ranking in their hearts. They bore
their true natures with them. To Jim's
banterines and jests young WHITAKER
offered logged persistence rounded
out by landing many a square blow
with telling effect. Matters went from
bad to worse, sort of pull Dick, pull
devil sort of life. What had been
Pickwick war of words soon
took on ar.sa vs sombsr iii phase a;,a
surrounded by terraces and valleys to
the north of Greensboro, known as the
'Cronan mansion It holds its own,
a remnant of the pomp and majesty of
those days, an oracle of vanished years
overlooking the judgment of posterity.
1t was here one day, at q grand celebra-
tion common in those days with the
lords of southern aristocracy, that the
quarrel took such turn that friends,
to use q metaphor of chivalry, were
forced to spur their steeds between the
contestants.
Twice had Miss Underwood openly to
use her authority to silence too ready
tongue. Mutual recantations.had taken
place, apologies offered, they had
been forgiven with loving admonitions
to sin no more. Fate seemed against
stings burned in their veins, soon broke
all bounds and the storm seemed COM
ing with fiercer aspect than ever.
Both paid court devotedly at the feet of
Miss Underwood. Perhaps she could
have ended the struggle. One would
have been blessed, the other could
have sped his way. She did not choose
so to do. But of late she had given
proof that the life was distasteful to
each of the young men had grown up
in her heart, and she was resolved to
try q ruse, succeed if it would; If it did
not, though she iRht be the sufferer
relief for time could be enjoyed.
THE CRISIS REACHED.
A solution was at hand. A dining in
old southern fashion upon celebrating
her Goth birthday was given. A brill
liant assent bly, of her own and her faith
er's were there collected. OF all the
company none seemed happier than
Whitaker and Bayse. In real truth
both men had enviable qualities of
head and heart. In their respective