The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-11
HE WAS TAKEN FOR MARTIN
CLARKE'S SECRETARY LOOKS LIKE
VIRGINIA SEN AToR.

| Martin Talked of for National Chair
mnn-CuIbcrson of Texas and clay
of Georgia Also Mcnti0mcd-Stonc
Is organs First Choice-Ncw story
Told of BcvcridEc-His Secretary
Sent Home Tuisoms Sketch OF
Him.
I Washington, Jan. 10.-The attorneys
representing the DAILY side of the Mon
tana senatorial fight have been consid-
| erably stirred up over what they have
construed to be the unnecessarily active
support which Senator Martin of Virginia
has been giving TO the Clark cause. Every
day during the progress of the trial they
! have noticed a short smooth-faced, gray
haired man in close consultation with
Senator Clark's attorneys. and he has been
pointed out to them as the junior senator
| from Virginia, who is the political boss
in the Democratic party in that state
Senator Martin has the reputation of be-
ing one of the shrewdest manipulators
in Southern politics, and to see him SO
largely interested in the opposite side has
not brought cheer to the anti-Clark men.
As a matter of fact they have been
fooled in their man, and they found this
out to-day much TO their relief! 1t isn't
Senator Martin at all. The man they
have seen Is often taken for the Virginia
Senator because of the great similarity in
appearance; he is George Gilllland who
was Senator Brice's political secretary,
and who holds the same position with
Senator Clark.
For National Chairman.
Senator Martin, by the way. Is one of
the men talked of as possible SUCCESSORS
TO Senator Jones should he not again
care to serve as chairman of the national
committee. There is a good deal of op-
! position to Senator Jones among the
| younger Democrats and Martin of Vir-
| ginia, Culberson of Texas and Clay of
! Georgia are the men generally talked of
/ in this connection. Each has had a good
| deal of experience in managing party af-
/ fairs in their own states but the North
! ern and Western Democrats object to
| Southerners in this position on general
| principles. They say that conditions in
| the South are so different from the politi-
cal conditions in the North and West that
J any Southerner would be badly handi-
1 capped in the managing OF q national
| campaign. This they point out is Sen
| ator Jones chief weakness. 1t Is believed
| that Mr.. Bryans first choice will be for
mer Gov. Stone of Missouri who acted as
chairman while Senator Jones was In Eu-
rope last year.
| 1t is doubtful. however, whether Gov
| Stone will care to accept this thankless
| task. He has his eyes upon the seat in
! the Senate now occupied, when he is ply
| sically able. by Senator Vest. To run a
losing campaign might, his friends say,
| injure his present prestige. Stone, VINO
| is sometimes seen in Washington is a
! tall thin, why individual, who has the
appearance of being a Methodist preach
er. When he speaks the similarity is
more marked, for all of his gestures are
| those of the backwoods exhorter. He is
said to have a cinch on that seat i'm the
| Senate as matters now stand for Vest
will not be a candidate for reelection
story of Beveridge.
| A story going the rounds about SEN
| ator Beverage is creating much amuse-
ment among the older members of the
| Senate Senator Beverage is new to this
business, but he has entered upon it with
a degree of enthusiasm that is commend
! able TO say the least of it.
The particular interest in the young
Senator from Indiana grows out Of a most
fulsome sketch of his career, which APP
peared in the home paper and was copied
be used by the newspapers of Washing
lton. The sketch was so fulsome that it
set all Washington to laughing, and the
laugh became louder when the correspond
ent who represented the paper in which
the article first appeared, repudiated it.
81 repudiated it. I'll stand for almost
anything" said the correspondent, but
can't stand for that" 1t developed later
that the article was written by Senator
Beveridges secretary; and when that be-
came known the laugh was still louder
There are other stories about the young
Senator relating particularly to his am
bition to monopolze all the good things
in the way of committee appointments
Some of these are true doubtless. But
as a matter of fact are due simply to
youth and inexperience and not through
any desire or any tendency to be fresh
Beveridge is a young man of great abil-
| ity and is going to make his mark I'm
the Senate as he has made it everywhere
| else.