The age-herald., 1899-12-18

think with them along the entire political line
 William Astor Chanler is now going to give a dinner and show the boys that New York smart club man is just as good a democrat as the poorest member from the west. It is pity that there had not been more sibleys, Newlands and Chan,ers in the party in the past to give dinners and bring the followers together. Had such a spirit prevailed in the Fifty-third, Fifty-fourth and Fifty-1fth congresses there would not have been so many democrats pushed out in the cold and left starving on alien door steps as there were. The dove of peace is really lowering over the democracy here at least, and if the spirit of reconciliation con- tinues to spread throughout the country the dove may light and dwell in the midst of democracy once more to the consternation of the enemy
 Don't Want to Leave Party
 MT. Sibley does not want to leave the party just because he refuses to endorse the anti-expansion sentiment of the demo- cratic leaders and declines to accept 16 to l as the sh.bboleth of the party. As an il-
  toward such men, I heard free silver democrat-one who knew no such word a3 compromise a year ago-say: "Sibley wants to stay with us, and want him. We all want democrats to remain with the par ty, whether they accept every plank of the platform or not. We must get together, and then stay together" This man would not be willing to have his name linked to such a statement, for he is still afraid. There are many who have changed their ideas on many subjects, but who are stlli afraid. The crusade against the men who did not accept certain policies adopted by the majority has made a lot of moral cow ards, who do not even now dare to give expression to the leniency they feel for fear that their own loyalty might be doubted and stigma put upon their de- moeracy. One by one the sentiment is changing, however, and nothing helps 1t along much as pleasant social inter- course.
 The more the senate hears of the Quay case the less likely it is to seat him. Ar gument and discussion are hurting him daily, and there are not near as many sen ators now as there were when the session opened in favor of Quay taking his seat. There are a large number of senators, both republican and democratic, who would like to see Quay back in the senate, but to ad- init him would be to turn down every prec-
 
 an acknowledgment that the senate was wrong in refusing to seat Lee Mantle and A. T. Wood of Kentucky. The gentlemen were appointed just in the same way as was MT. Quay, but they did not have life
 long friends in the senate, and were not powerful enough to ride rough-shod over old customs. It has been stated that in case MT Quay is seated MT Wood will come here and demand the seat now occu- pied by Senator DeBoe.
 Would Avail Him NJ thing While MT. Wood would cave cause for complaint against the senate still his pro- | test would avail him nothing, as one sena- | tor Is not responsible for the acts of an | other. It is a continuous body, but the | senate of one congress has nothing to do
 with correcting mistakes of the senate of another congress, just each senate has to | pass it's own bills. Every bill dies with each succeeding congress and bill might | have passed the senate of congress and not | passed the house In order to make it a | law it would have to be reintroduced not
 only in the house but the senate as well. | Contestants for seats in either house are | like bils-they all die at the same time the | congress before which they come to con- | test, dies.
 Had a vote on the Quay matter been
 taken immediately upon the assembling of
 congress there would have been a good
 chance of MT. Quay being seated. IL is al- | most certain he would have been. There is possibility that he may still be
 seated though that possibility is very | siadowy. No accurate estimate of his | strength has been given, though the opn- | ion seems to be in the air that he will be turned down Lee Mantle and Wood. | Senator Clark will doubtless be allowed l to retain his seat in spite of the bribery | charges against him. The senate, as rule l does not take up seriously the charges of | bribery. There are too many members of l the upper body who have glass windows | opening in that direction. The case against
 MT Clark is not as apparent as that against | MT. Hanna Nflen he was arraigned on the | charge of con-upting legislators. Senator 1 Clark, moreover, has certain views which ! do not make him abhorrent to the republi-
 cans. He is an expansionist (pronounced) | does not believe in agtitaing the silver is | sue any further Cat the present time) and | is said to be in favor of the subsidy ship
 ping bill. Then, too, M-. Clark is the rich l est man in the senate and on the whole | a good sort of fellow. senators go. He 1 makes no vulgar display of his wealth and l there is no one who can say that any of | his money was i'll gained or that he op- l pressed labor or cornered markets in order I to squeeze money from the poor.
 | He just owned some mines and sat still l while the ore poured into his lap. He gets | all his wealth out of the ground and no one | is worse off for it. In fact, every one in
 his vicinity is better off than if he did not 1 work them A. w. B.