El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-05
WASHINGTON

Coy And 6iddy-h,r. Davis
Stands Up For the Great Amer
lean 6irl-Turkey Talk And a
Bit About DeWey-A Real Circus
On the Streets And a Mimic Cir
Gus In the House-The Beer Tax
Must Go
| special Correspondence of the HERALD.
WASHINGTON, April 29.-This is a
good time TO visit Washington. The
| unpreced nted influx of candidates for
| the vice presidential nomina alton has
led the railways to fight for their
| traffic and rates are cut to the lowest
possible figure. Vice-presidentia can
didates in large parties-twenty or
moroccan get any discount that they
| ask for, almost. There seem to be
| more aspirauts for the repu blican
nomin alton than for the democratic
but this is merely a guess, not the re-
suit of census. 1t is quite bard as
matter OF fact to get accurate figures,
since some people, with modesty
| which does them credit, are letting
conce alment prey upon their dam
ascened faces like a clothes moth.
Some approximation may of course be
arrived at by process of exclusion
cutting out all the people known not to
want It, There is Teddy Roosevelt
for One-he has taken to the woods
and Mckinley and Bryan and DR..
Mary Walker and-and-. On count
ing 1 don't believe 1 know any others.
o o
| The senate is coy, uncertain and
blessed bard to please this session.
Scott OF Virginia, whose seat was con-
tested, got In without the slightest
trouble in spits of the impsssioned ar
guments OF Senator Pettus against
him. Only two senators voted with
Pettus in the negative. On the other
hand, salt won't save Clark, the mill
lion a-minute senator from Montana
not that Clark ever sailed anything,
for he Is reputable mining man.
lost his senstorship by close vote,
wherefore he feels aggrieved and har-
bors harsh thoughts against the admin
istration. He Is not saying anything
HE rarely does-but he is thinking.
One thing that causes a seal brown
taste in his mouth is that Patti of New
York got his seat in the senate Sen
atorial chairs differ In glo-y, and it is
the custom when q man with desir.
able place gets into deep water, that
all the others should file secret applica-
tlons for it. The first filer arrives, if
the senator meets disaster. Platt must
have asked for the place year ago to
get it now since likely all the senators
have made try. So Quay suspected
that Platt must have had pretty
straight tip when the clouds fret be-
gan to darken.
Ex-Secretary Davis Is still delivering
his course of lectures upon Africa. al
| though it is not attracting as much at
tention as it deserves. Before a large
audience at st. AIMS Orphan asylum,
| tother night, he told of the undaunted
bravery of the Beers, hewing their
painful way through the painless for
est. and so on, in a style that brought
tears to my eyes, although as a matter
enough for a tooth pick in ell South
Africa. Then Mr., Davis worked him
self north to the Soudan by easy
stages. Talking about the lake coun-
try he said something had never
thought of-in just that way anyhow
that:
Every right minded man-and who
OF Us Is not r1ghtminded man. except
may be the lsdies-must view with ILL
concealed alarm the threatened rapid
ly approaching total extermin alton of
the purple striped hippopotami of the
Victoria NyanZs In connection with
the detrimental Influence it must ne
cessarily have upon the ethical sensibi-
Titles of the American school girl, who,
being forced to play, not as before up
on pianos provided with keys made of
the ivory of the purple striped hip
potami of the Victoria Nyauza, but
upon pianos provided with plain potato
ivory keys, will inevitably have her
ethical sensi abilities more or less dam
aged, wherefore it seems the plain duty
OF every right minded man to consider
ell steps which may be taken to avert
the threatened rapidly approaching
ped hippopotamt of Victoria Nyanza 10
the interests of the ethical disabilities
of the American school girl, that she
may not be compelled to play, not as
before upon pianos provided with keys
made of the ivory of the purple striped
hippopotami of the Victoria Nyanzs,
but upon plain potato worried keys,
which Of course would and will inevi-
tably damage her ethical sensibili.ies
more or less, so that the question OF
the threate ned rapidly approaching
determination of the purple striped