The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-23
AN INTERESTING LETTER.

One of the washington cOTTeSpoH-
dents whose letters interest and Will
pay for reading them is the excellent
gentleman, Mr.. James A. Holloman,
who writes for the Atlanta journal.
His letter of the 18th is specially inter-
tanning. We will note some of the
points. 1t appears that the guides In
the capitol are partisans and fanatics.
They point out the republican senators
but never refer to a democrat, n
never to a southern man. They laud
and greatly magnify northern men but
ignore the ablest men in the senate
Vest, Morgan, Daniel, Bacon, Tillman
and others. Mr.. Holloman makes this
~appreciative, tender reference to the
manly, true, splendid senator from
Missouri: There was Vest, of Missou-
ri. grand old man he is, crouched al
most in the shadow of his desk, his
figure bent, his head dropped, his earth
Iy habitation rapidly wasting to the
years, and yet within the crumbling
body one of the most powerful intel
lects on this American continent.
why didn't he show them Vest?"
Next to him sat the highly intellectual
Iy endowed man in the senate-John
Morgan, of Alabama. He refers to others
and then asks: Are the northern men
ADLER? Is there more craftsmanship
i'm the north tina in the south? Mott
is hat same old story: Money is too
often mistaken for brains, and notorie-
ty is too often misjudged for fame"
He pays a high but deserved tribute
to the ability n independence and
boldness Of Senator Tillman. He asks
do you know Senator Tillman? Say
VIA you will about his eccentricities,
he is one of the most powerful debaters
in the senate"
He tells how he scored with great
severely his colleague, Mr.. McLaurin.
He says it was The most caustic word
whipping ever heard in the senate. 1t
made the senators tremble in their
seats. Few in the galleries perhaps
caught the seriousness of the charge"
1t was provoked by McLaurin's course
in speaking in the 55th congress against
the ratification of the Treaty of Paris,
and then in the face of his brilliant,
most effective speech (stolen from a
sermon delivered in New York by Rev.
Henry vanDyke, one of the highest cul-
tured and most admirable writers in all
the north, whose books are full of liter
ary charm and exquisite finish,) he
voted for the treaty n with the Nc
Kinley party. Mr.. Holloman gives
what Tillman said and all the members
knew whom he vas flaying alive. We
copy:
IF you want my opinion as to whose
hands are red with the blood of Amer
lean soldiers, and of tens of thousands
of FilipinoS-men, women and chlldren
who have been slaughtered K cat
tie, look around and call to mind the
men who made those strong and elo-
Quent pleas, those earnest protests on
this floor in opposition to the treaty,
and even gave person al pledges to their
Fellows as to how they would vote.
Those are the men who, whether from
corruption or from weakness or both,
gave the president the legal excuse
which he needed to prosecute the war.
Twill McLaurin fight?
HE heard every word of it and didn't
open his mouth"
= He says the Mckinley gang are be-
coming scared and there is tremendous
1activity at their headquarters, ana the
force is doubled in sending out letters
documents, etc. He says they are
great workers, and we may add cum
Ming offence and resourcefu1 plotters
and planners. Their game always is to
deceive the people and use them. We
quote: s
saThey are working hard-trying to
n@f the evil effects Of Macrum's
stntenent here trying to whip some
.aad-expansionists in line there trying.
= karmonize. to cement the broken
rs-ks. to bring the deserters back to
the fold. ~.
1sesdsr away from the Philsdel-
Ss,o convention. They are trying to
g in Closer touch With the m nsn,s1;can
hod durtng the tncumhen-
~ ~ repubiIoan president; have been
[.etea " oGooals of the govern