The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-05-29
POLITICALLY NOTES AND GOSSIP.
M.nder-oalfJE second r1nce.-rt was

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booms of this season of booms is now on
for the Honr Charles F. Henderson OF
Nebraska as Mr.. MoKinley's running mate
The statement fJfmade on authority that
the Henderson boom was started in the
Senate and is being managed by the ski led
politicians of Ill 'parties in that tribunal
In other words, General Henderson is
what may be called the Senatorial candi-
date for the Republican Vice Presidential
nomination. When he quit the Senate
several years ago General Marderson
avowed that he did so because he desired
to have done with pubic Office, 50 he
could devote himself to money making.
| and that he never expected to hold an
| other public position. II reports are not
| exaggerated, he has succeeded in aocumu-
laiing large fortune during the past few
years, and row he is about ready 10 ietur n
to the more congenial atmosphere OF
| craftsmanship. AT the game time. when he
| was in Washington about three weeks ago,
he declared to friends that he had no
| ambition to hold office again, preferiins
| to devote the remainder CT his days to the
practice of law. However, it is believed
that if the second place on the ticket wi
Mr.. Mckinley should be rendered to him
as the result of the activities of his old
| Senatorial colleagues he would accept am
| do all he could TO bling victory to the party
| in November. His supporters peint out
| that If Mr.. Hanna and the other Repub-
lican managers are really looking for a
| western man to put on the ticket with
Mr. Mckinley, General Henderson fills
the bill exactly. He is one of the NEST
| popular men in Mr.. Bryan's State. is
thoroughly Western In all of his sympathies
and habits OF thought, has clean record
as Senator. and stands high in G. A. r.
circles. More than that, it is said that he
would have the support of every Senator
regardless OF politics in the sense that
these who are opposed to him politi ly
would have no fault to find with his selec-
ton by the Republicans. The Republic ans
have never gone west of the Mississippi
River for national candidate. whereas
the Democrats have had one Presidential
candidate and two Vice Presidential can
didates from that region. II is believed
that this consideration will have some
weight at Philadelphia in favor of General
Henderson, unless the machine managers
already have selected the material fer the
tail of the ticket. as they are generally
suspected of having done.
A Short-lived Coosnn Movement
tower of Strengthens offered to ooa-
tribute 100000 to the Democratic campaign
fund. based upon the condition that Mr..
Bryan is renominated. Coogau is president
OF the Borough of the Bronx. and following
close upon his astonishing lberality there
has come a movement in New York 10
make him Mr.. Bryan's running mate.
CpNpan tn ba of
statesman. which Of course, means that
he is pointed out to the stranger in New
York as one of the rarest products of
metropolitan life Dent ask me about
the Vice Presidency" said Coogan 10
droves of excited journalists who be-
sieged his residence when his 100000
offer became known. Forthwith these ex-
cited Journalists dashed madly back to
their desks and proceeded to write tones
about Coogan sitting upon the crest Of
the wave of popularity that is to sweep
him into the Vice Presidency. None of the
Democratic managers in Washington ap-
pears to have had the homer of meet ng
Coogan yet. though they are willing to
believe that he is the mighty man the
Manhattan journalists are at present rep
resenting him to be. At the same time it
is pointed out that Coogan's b5cm SENS
to have spent it's force before it could get
beyond tie Borough OF the Bronx as nothing
has been said about 1t by various states men
who returned to Washington yesterday
from their usual Saturday and Sunday
holiday in the metropolis. 1t is believed, |
however, that Coogans hundred thousand /,
offer will be accepted by the Denoci attic
managers as soon as the Kansas City Con-
vention has done its work
The congregational Fight.-Recent
signs of activity in the Republican Ma
tional Congressional Campaign Committee
are taken by the Democrats to indicate
that the Republican managers have become |
frightened at the prospect of losing the |
next House. Tons of literature have been |
scattered through the Middle West during !
the past few weeks, mainly in the States Of |
Indiana. Illinois. Wisconsin, and Minnesota. |
1t appears that the party managers appre-
bend that in these States lies the gravest |
danger OF ruinous' Republican detection.
The party lash was welded most vigor-
ously over the backs of House members |
from that section in order to hold them
to the contract made by the party mana
gers with the trust magnates on the Porto
Rican Tariff bill More than twenty mem
bers from the States named received vio-
lent protests from their constituents |
against voting for the Qxnard bill, and all
Of these members are now in trouble With
the view OF helping them out as far as
possible Chairman Babcock has resolved to
move the headquarters of the Congress
sional Campaign Committee from this city
10 Chicago. in order to be in close touch
with the disturbed districts. Then. too.
with the headquarters in Chicago Mr.. Bah
directly to Mr.. Hanna and those who will
be associated with Mr. Hanna in the man.
igement of Mr.. McKinleys campaign For
more than two months Republicans of all
;orts have admitted in private conversa-
ion that their party was in very serious
LANCER of losing the next House. II is one |
" the most curious anomalies of politics |
hat while very few Republicans are at all
doubtful about the Presidential election so
many of them frankly admit that the
outlook is hopeless In con-
,onance with this view is the consensus of
opinion among the Democrats. who are alb
olutely confident of winning the House
n November whatever befalls the national
icket Some of the most experienced
Democrats in the House have made esti-
mates, based upon n close and careful
tudy of the situation. showing that the
House of the Fiftyseventh Congress will !
e Democratic by a majority ranging from
welve to twenty-six. 1t is believed that
Hartman Richardson may consider it ad- !.
sable to remove the headquarters of the
Congressional Campaign Com
nittee from this city to Chicago in order
0 checkmate Mr.. Babcock's scheme.
Getting Around the Spenkcr- :
peaker Hendersons opposition to the st.
.ouis Worlds Fair bill is no longer a mat =,