The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-10
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.
Not the Commlttce'. choicc.-sena.

Not the Committees Choicc.-Sena-
tor James X. Jones, Chairman of the DEM
ccratic National Committee, became very
wroth yesterday when asked BIZ Times
representative if it were true that former
Governor Psttison of Pennsylvania is being
bocmed by the National Committee for sec
ond place on the ticket with Mr.. Bryan
Who has started such story as that?
wrathfully enquired Senator Jones. lie
was told that the National Committee s
press agent at Chicago had started the
story-or at least had started the Fattison
boom. The press agent is a mere en-
ploye of the National Committee. sail
Chairman Jones. cooling off little. He
has no authority to speak for the commit
tee. except as he is directed. The COM
mittee has no authority to name candi-
dates for the party or TO NEEDLE in any way
with the affairs of candidates. Governor
Pattison may or may not be candidate
for the Vice Presidential nomination. |
know absolutely nothing about that. But
1 do know that the National Committee has
not asked him or anybody else to become
a candidate for Vice President or for
President l also know that the National
Committee. SO far as | may be abe TO in
huence its conduct, does not intend to go
outside of its proper and Legitimate fed
vi dCtiNits NNeu IL WIS SItttu lHdt
Press Agent Abbott had declared that the
nomination. of Governor Pattison fer Vice
President would hsrmOnize the party in
the East. Chairman Jones said: ''Well,
maybe it would; but the Kansas City Con-
vention viii be the judge OF that" At the
same time there was something in tae
manner of Senator Jones during the inter
View y hich seemed to indicate that he was
not rs averse 20 the Pattison movement as
his emphatic words were apparently in-
tented to imply. Aside from the iacj that
tiey resent the activity OF employees of the
National Committee in the boom business,
leading Democrats in 10th branches CT Con-
sress seem impressed with the suggestion
OF the Pennsylvania for second pia en-
the ticket. At any rate nobody has cone
forward with positive declaration of op-
position TO Pattison for Vice Pres.d Mt.
An Office GOing BeGGlng.-Incredible
as it may sound, it seems that a good fat
office is waddling about over the country
seeking man. How long this realization
OF the ideal relation between the Office and
the man will last nobody pretends TO be
able to predict. Nevertheless. It is true
that the secretaryshp CT the new Philip
pire Commission has been offered to at
least three gentlemen whose competence
IS uEqueStloned and has been declined by
each. When 1t is known that the gentle
men to whom the office has been rendered
and declined are newspaper men of high
standing in their profession the wonder
grows little less to everybody except the
hungry politicians. Messrs. Walter b.
Stevens and Charles N. Pepper are TWO of
the gentlemen who have refused the place.
The third is too modest to permit his
name even to be published in connection
with the story. The Office pays a salary
of $4,000 a year. with an allowance of s.. Geo
for expenses. II is said that the Com
missioners will not select the secretary
until they are ready to start to Manila
The country, of course is overlooking
with PATRIOTS eager to sacrifice themselves
by accepting the place. and just why the
Commissioners should hold the vacancy
open till the last moment is something
of a mystery. 1t is suggested that they
want to encourage transcontinental rail-
road travel by waiting at San Francisco
a week or two before sailing for the Orient
while they are selecting a secretary. 1t is
that not until they are ready
to sail Will they select the man. and that
not until they reach San Francisco Will
they look into the merits and fitness of the
applicants. Thus it is shown that the
whole proceeding is strange all around;
but what else is to be expected when an
office stalks forth seeking whom il nay
devour?