El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-16
WASHINGTON LETTER
poIltics and Other Affairs of Interest
At the Capital Discussed In An
Instructive and Entertaining
Manner
,ecial correspondence of the HERALD.

'1nErO0 ceIeDTdltu
the returns began to come IN
Rich man. poor man. beggar man
thief-everybody except the voters was
at the end of a wire with his wife and
children alongside him.
The telephone company discontinued
most of it's other business to furnish
subscribers the bulletins as they came
AT the theaters. the dispatches were
read ont as fast as they came regard
less of the business" on the stage.
AT the "Sprightly Romance OF Mar
sac the hero was just in the middle
of "A killing when bulletin concern
ing New York drifted in. he sus-
pended sword thrust to listen TO
.272l districts out of 1924 in New YORK
state. outside the city give Mckinley
473.O2l Bryan. 321. 724;" Joined in the
whoop and hurrah that followed and
then he and his victim resumed bus
mess at the old stand, successfully
completing the slaughter before more
news oozed in.
At most of the theaters the republic
cans were in great majority. but at the
variety show the Bryan shouters mad
the call-and used il. Pennsylvania
avenue was well provided with stereop-
tican bulletin boards: the hotels all
had Geographic service. and so did the
clubs and society headquarters: and
everywhere drifted a pushing. crowd
ing jam of good humored people. brok-
en- at intervals by long line OF high
school cadets. moving in lock step and
shouting with perfect impartiality for
whose name appeared
AS is always the case. the result
pleased the majority-which is the rea-
son of course the results are what they
are. Although southern city. wash
ington would have gwen an over
whelming vote for the republican tick
ct had 1t had the chance. A few Bry-
antics came out to shout and remained
to swear. but they were very few.
Personally l am glad that Bryan is
Whatever he may have
been in go. in this campaign he was
not n sincere man. For year now he
has been trimming his sails to catch
every breeze that blew. advocating sill
yer. contraction and every other policy
that seemed vote catching. That he
was mistaken in his judgment of the
issues we all know now, and II seems
a fortunate mistake.
Changes in Congress.
Plenty of well known figures drop
down and out with the end OF the pres
emit congress. Dressy. eloquent, erratic
v
one that will be missed. He spoke
rarely but when he did he usually said
worth hearing and his ex-
coriations of his opponents were a joy
to everyone except the party OF the
second part. Senator Carter of Mon
tana. once a republican chairman.
(1S92). is another. but he will doubt
less get something equally as good
from the administration Carter has
4 gift for getting Office. One of his
favorite opponents. Pettigrew, of South
Dakota. is another who will be an alb
sentee but he will not be missed so
much. Pettigrew is Vermont Yankee
gone wrong. Tall. lank and STOPPING.
with a furtive eye and a displeasing
address. he is not loveable at first sight
and the longer he is known the more
Unpopular he becomes. Yet his I'M
popularity has its uses. Over in Ven
ce in comic opera times they used to
nave an institution called the Lions
II was hole in a wall and
Z you didn't happen to like n friend of
yours you simply dropped an anony-
nous accusation against him in the
;lot. whereupon the powers that were
him with neatness and dis
,atch. Pettigrew has been the Lions
Mouth of the senate. He liked nobody
md nobody liked him and If you had
my complaint to make about anything
,r anybody. all that was necessary to
10 was to hand il to Pettigrew. after |
which the offender was attended to
It once. The comparison to the Lions |
Mouth is trictly limited to that one |
letai1 however. AS a matter of fact. |
'ettigrew has a whining voice quite as |
unpleasant as his other characteristics. |
The Unpleasantness of Lentz.
Lentz. of the house. is better entitled |
o the comparison physically since he |
s one OF the gentlemen who never |
pen their mouth without putting their |
DOT in il" and he is built accordingly. |
1t the last count, he was only eight |
otes short of the number necessary |
o reflect. which is a narrow margin.
But il will do. No committee O melee
ions would ever vote to seat him as
ong as there was reasonable doubt /
gainst him.
Like Pettigrew he is profoundly con-
inced that ordinary people are de-
raved and he yearns to yank his fell
DIV men up to a plane where they can
rear a pink halo and play a harp
'ithout looking self-conscious.
He is the only man an congress who
yer assailed the presidents personal
haracter- Late In the session he held
p all. business with objections in the
fort to get the Occur d'Alene strike
estimony printed, thereby earning as
minent a pedestal of dislike in the
ouse as the senator from South Da-
ota had in the senate.
Self Government in the Philippines.
The election being over and the free
liver and free-Aguinaldo issues dis
osed of. Philippine troubles are ex-
ected to quiet down at once. The
resident has a difficult task on his
ands. owing to a mistaken liberality