The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-25
TALK OF CHATFlELD-TAYLOR.
HIGH SOCIETY WOULD LIKE TO SEE
ELM IN CONGRESS-.

But He Is Up Against N Hard PropO-
sitiOn in Running Against FOss.
Not Likely That He VIII BE Elect
ed-WashingtOn Regrets to See the
End of Congress Republicans
DOdging Responsibility for Neely's
appointment.
Washington. May q. High society at
the national capital has been thrown into
a distinct culver of excitement over the
report which comes from Chicago that Mr..
Hobart Chatfeld-Taylor, thel diletanti
and litterateur is to be nominated for
Congress in the Seventh district of Him
ois
Mr.. Chatfeld-Taylor is well known in
artistic and literary as well as society,
circles here in Washington. and his ad-
vent into Congress would, in a sense. fill
the aching void created by the enforced
absence of j. Murray Mitchell and j.
Ham Lewis. Fer twenty-four hours there
has been little else talked among he golf
ers out on the Chevy-Chase links save the
possibility of II. G. CT. coming to Con-
gress.
The devotees of socisty take great in
but as a rule pay little attention to poll
Tics; and in this particular case they have
lost sight of the fact that it is a Demo
crat nominate n which the Chicago liter
airy luminary is to have ard that TO come
10 Cong less lie must defeat the handsome
George Edmund Foss. 1t happens that
Mr. Foss had a majority of more than
y coo in 1858, and that this repres euts
about the normal standing of the two par
ties in that district About all the an
nouncement from Chicago means, there
fore, is that MIR. Chatheld- Taylor is to be
| allowed to contribute to the campaign
fund presided over by the Honorable
Hinky Dink and the Honorable Bath
house John"
WashinGtOn's Usual Wall.
Washington is putting up its quadrien-
NAL vail against Chicago and New Y ork
aiming that the national capital is the
only proper place for the National Com
mittees to do business. 1t gets very dull
in Washington in midsummer and the ho-
tel keepers suffer. The result is that
every campaign brings out cry from
the Washington press that this city must
be named the headquarters of one or the
, other of the National Committees, or both
All this, however, never amounts to any
thing except to raise the hopes of Wash
ingtonians.
The Appointment of Nicely.
/ There is a general disposition on the part
of administration politicians to try to shift
| the responsibility for the appointment Of
| C. F. W. Nicely upon the shoulders of
| somebody else, each of Neely's close
| friends pointing to some other fellow after
| the manner of Nast's famous Tweed Ring
| cartoon, and saying HE done it," AS a
matter of fact, Nicely was particularly
| close to Senator Fairbanks and First AS
sstant Postmaster General Perry Heath
and at the time of the appointment each
man, so 1t is understood, claimed the cred
| 1t for it, Now, however, there is mutual
| Reputation.
Punctures Fairbanks Boom.
These Cuban disclosures have served to
puncture the Fairbanks or-Vice-President
| talked in inner administration circles a
| few days ago The Republicans of lndi-
ana have bean iuolne1 to do all they
| could to push forward this Fairbanks
boom, claiming that it would be of value
| to The national ticket in the Middle West
TO have this senator as President McKin-
leys running mate. They have contended
that the President is no longer charge
able to that section of the country, but
| that in his denomination he will be the
candidate of the entire country rather
than of Ohio. On this account they have
been talking of Senator Fairbanks; but
since the wholesale implication of Indi-
ana men in the Cuban troubles there has
been a general tendency to drop the tai
| Senator's name.