The National tribune., 1900-01-25
CHAT OF THE CORRIDORS.


is over the iiard work the Administration
| is doing to- make the Republicans believe
| that they are really going to have some
choice about the next ticket, and the Con-
| vention at Philadelphia be something more
| than mere ratification meeting. This
accounts for the sudden budding and
| blossoming of "favorite sons in every
| State. as candidates for the Vice-PreSi-
| dental nomination. The word went out
| from Washington To office-holders through
out the length and breadth of the land totrot
out any possibly available man, and give
him airing in the local press. OF course,
everybody was agreeable to this. There
| are always plenty of men everywhere
willing to receive any amount of advertis-
| ing as "favOrite sons" and they have
| friends willing TO do for them any little
thing like that. One man, Lieut.. Gov:
| that he really was a favorite son. and de-
served the nomination. But at that time
Senator Hanna had his eye on Secretary
Elihu Root, and he sat down hard on Wood
| ruff S aspirations. Woodruff did not take
kindly to this, and threatened fight. What
he will actually do depends on Senator
Platt S views of the situation.
OF course. Mr. Evans could not resist the
opportunity of coming out as the favorite
son of Tennessee. and his ever-faithful Post
master of Nashville promptly trotted him
out.
Each of the Southern States has favor
ite son, but none of them is regarded as
having any show. The Administration
does not want any candidate from that
section.
For Obvious purposes the talk is now
mainly directed toward a far-Western
candidate, and some really good men are
mentioned" such as Senator Davis, of
Minnesota, and Gen. Harrison Gray Otis.
of California.
The thrifty Philadelphians are much
interested iii this, and in having the Con-
vention deprived of its cut-and-dried look.
They have put up 100000. or will put 1T
up-and they must have big crowd come
if they are to get any returns on this invest
ment They won't get it if only the office
holders show up and go through the me-
chanical routine Of holding a convention to
formally put in nomination previously
elected candidates Philadelphians want
struggle for their money, but they will
hardly get it. The Vice-Presidential
nomination will be settled upon long before
the Convention meets.
"Amos Cummings says: Vim. P. Hep
burn, j. p. Dolliver, r. G. Cousins, and
J. A. T. Hull are legislative quartet from
Iowa fully as able and powerful as the
quartet from Maine at the beginning OF
the 55th Congress. Hepburn certainly
has no superior in debate. To hear him is
the plentitude Of intellectual enjoyment.
Dollivcr and Cousins ale not outranked
in oratorical power, and Hull can put
through a difficult appropriation with less
excitement and irritation than any other
member on the floor"
Ex-Gov. Frederick Robic was in the city
4 I
radc Rohic. who Is now Commander OF the
Department of Maine, GAR, is ore of
the solid men of the old Pine Tree State,
and has been fornmany years President OF
the First National Bank of Portland. He
is a splendid corSlrade, and the veterans
of Maine are desefvedly proud of him.
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The row over The reorganization Of the
Senate and the displacement of Sergeant
alarms Bright goes on meuily. Bright
recently distributed some Ga appointments
among Republican Senators where they
would do the most good, and now feels
strongly intrencFnd. Senator Hoar, who
leads III the fight for Bright, announces
that TIE Senate force is sreOrganized, and
will hear Of nothing else. Among Bright's
other friends are Senators Platt,
of Connecticut: Fairbanks, of Indiana;
Gear and Allison. of Iowa, and Hale, OF
Maine. Fairbanks stands SOlldly by
ibriSHI- though tflc tHdlFHltll ol tIIt III
diana Republican Committee has told
every one that the retention of Bright Will
go far toward causing the loss of Indiana,
because the veterans of that State will not
condone the retention in the position of a
man OF Bright's well-known Copperhead
history during the rebellion.
The vote by which Senator Pettigrew's s
resolution asking for copies of the CORE
SDondence between the President and the
AmeriC1n Peace Commissioners at Paris
was tabled is regarded as quite significant.
The tabling was carried by d vote of Al
yeas TO u nays.
The vote was almost entirely along party
lines Senator McIIaurin, of South Caro-
lima, and Senator Pettus, of Alabama,
voted with the Republicans, and Senators
Hoar of Massachusetts and Wellington. OF
Maryland, with the Democrats. The indie
pendent vote was divided. Stewart and
| Kyle voting with the Republicans against
publicity, and Senator Teller acting with
! the Democrats Both before and after the
| vote there was debate of considerable
| interest, in which some very plain state
mentS were made upon both sides. Senator
| Teller, for instance, warned the Rcpub-
| licans Of the danger OF continuance of the
| policy of concealment. He recognized, he
said, the right of the President to with
hold information whenever publication
| would not be compatible with public in
| tercsts, but. he added, the President could
| send such information under cover OF
| secrecy to the Senate i'll executive session.
| %A#
| Representative Mondell, of Wyoming,
says that his State is not only the most
wonderful fossil graveyard, but quite "as
| wonderful are the enormous oil fields that
extend diagonally across Wyoming for
about 400 miles, with width OF between 80
and 100 miles"
"Why isn't the great oil reservoir tap
ped?"
Because there isn't railroad within
100 miles of the oil fields, and because il
| is fully so miles from the railroad to locali-
ties where great supplies of lubricatng oil
are found. Some wells have been bored,
but for lack of transportation facilities, they
have been plugged:
Lieut. Kelley, Of the Washington police,
who has been put upon his well-earned
retirement, was on the force during the
stormy days of the war. In his remini-
SCIENCES he says:
| The soldiers were source of no end OF
trouble. When the troops first camped
| here many of The men enlisted from the
| farms and the mines. One policeman
could manage regiment when it became
! disorderly. After some of the men went tC
| the battlefield and smelled powder they re.
turned different Then it was just the
reverse. 1t would take a regiment of police.
men 70 arrest single soldier"
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.