The age-herald., 1899-12-18
CONGRESSMAN ON
 GIVING DINNERS Reaching Party Heart Through
 Its Stomach. NEWLANDS IS VERY SOCIAL Sibley ard William Astor Chandler Also Do the Proper Thing, and Gather Members Around the Fes-
 tai Banquet Board
NEWLANDS IS VERY SOCIAL

Washington, December 16.-(Special.)-- Those democrats who do not agree with the bulk of the party are trying to reach the heart of democracy through it's stom- ach. Representative Newlands who has been getting farther away from his con freres at each congress and who made an independent race for the speakership at this session, receiving the large number of two votes, set the fashion of entertaining those with whom he could not altogether agree.
 Having decided upon the course he set about choosing the leading members from all the delegations and gathered them about one table. Very few democrats are veal thy enough to keep in touch with their colleagues and old party associates by this method but MT. Newlands is one of those who are democratic-populistic and at the same time an octopus and a money devil.
 If MT. Newlands came from the east he would be classed with the gold ring and the capitalists who are sucking the blood of the nation, but hailng from the state of Nevada, which he hopes some day to rep resent in the senate he feels it encumbent upon him to stand by the people.
 He is an interesting figure in the house. Dudes and dandies may come and flourish for a time, but Newlands never fails to charm the eye and remain a florid high light in the somber picture of the house. He is exquisite in dress and manner His clothes are more pronounced even than those which made J. Hamilton Lewis fa- nous, but then he is a millionaire, and his eccentricities did not startle the new-com- CTS nor waylay the old ones
 He has been as picturesque in his politics in his costumes. When tariff reform was the main issue he voted with the republi- cans, but still remained a democrat. Now when 16 to is the sine qua non Newlands does not stick at ratios. He has left his party so much, that it became an easy thing for him to accept the nomination from one man for the speakership, and get the votes of one more when the roll call was ordered. But with one dinner he got back into line. He called the clans together and asked for a friendly talk over hot bird and a cold bottle. The results met his hopes for all left the beautiful banquetng hall at the Raleigh vowing that Newlands was a good fellow and in spite of his po- litical vagaries a good democrat.
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 Following in line with Newlands, Repre- sentative Sibley, who is now opposed to nearly every thing democratic, gave a dn- ner, and by 1t has made himself once more the hope of the leaders. Neither Sibley nor Newlands want to leave the old ship, and their odd way of sticking to it has had very satisfactory results, not so much to themselves as to others. It has brought democrats into harmony, one with the other, and has shown that while members of the party might differ in detail there was no reason why they could not all be classi- fled as democrats. The new members from the east discovered at these dinners that silver advocates did not have horns but did possess evening suits, and we'll fitting ones at that.
 The members from the far west and south found out that a man could have a million and hail from the east and at the same time believe in the rights of the states and oppose government by injunction, and likewise the tendancy of the republican party toward standardization of federal pow CT. Both these dinners have had a happy effect upon the democrats in the house. When member from the east votes now against his party the other members will not stop speaking to him as if he were a traitor and scallawag. The men from the south and west have really become soft ened to the eastern democrat or the west ern one, as the case may be, who does not -------------------------------- -