The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-01-24
SOME VIEWS AT WASHINGTON,
my @ A EDWARDS !


MARX Hanna go, mad the other day be-
cause tho newspaper men did not take him
as seriously as he desired them TO- and
made TIE remark that as he was sena-
tor OF the United States he ought TO be
treated with more respect and considera-
tion by the press OF tho country II be Is
really DESTROYS OF receiving that kind Of
treatment then he ought not to indulge in
jokes. He has announced that the re-
publican National committee is In need OF
funds, simply because he is after that
100000 promised 10 the committee by the
people of the city OF Philadelphia, in order
to get that convention Everybody here
knows that Mr. Hanna is merely indulg-
ing In joke when he says that the com
mittee needs money. They have all the
money they want and can get an unlimited
supply so long as the republican party
continues to give the Eastern people and
the banks and the trusts what they want
in the way OF legislation. The fact how
ever, that Mr.. Hanna is pressing the peo-
pie OF the city of Philadelphia for that
little sum promised for the convention, is
causing the people over there to do some
thinking on the subject and they have
come TO the conclusion that II the con-
Vention is to be nothing more than mere
ratification meeting that they will not be
able TO get their money back and they are
not walking up to the captains desk and
paying as promptly as they promised they
would do II they got the convention.
This fact is responsible for all the late
rumors concerning the candidate for vice
president on the republican ticket The
republican managers saw that they would
have hard time collecting this money
unless they gave It out that there was to
be some sort of scrap in the convention
over one OF the places and they have given
1t out that some good Western man may
be chosen as McKinleys running mate.
This has been the occasion for all sorts
OF booms for all sorts OF republicans all
over the West, Nearly every State has
come to the front with favorite son.
which shows how farcical the suggestion
is and also how transparent is the game.
You can put 1t in your pipe that when the
time comes Mr.. Mckinley will name the
man who Is to go on the ticket with him
and he will be a New York man and his
name will be Bliss. | got that tip from Il
man who is as close to Hanna and Me-
kinley as any man can possibly get and
he told me to play Bliss for a sure win
ner, and am going to do It,.
The republican party needs New York
money and banks 10 Its business and it
rs not overlooking any bets. no matter
how small they may appear. Plat has
managed TO sidetrack Teddy Roosevelt and
Root and is now making bluh at sup
porting the Hon. Timothy Woodruff, simply
because he has some work that he wants
Tim to perform As soon as he has clnched
that work he viii throw Tim so hard he
will pop like now saddle. and then he
viii come out for the man who has been
agreed on Play Bliss to win
~
When little. gentle. lighting Joe Wheeler
returns from the Philippine Islands to
take his seat in congress he may run M
against big snRg- VI he-can show that
he resigned from the army before the as
somhling of congress- on December I there
win probably bc no opposition to his tall-
ing his seat but IL he can not demonstrate
that fact 10 the satisfaction of every mem
Der Of the house then the speaker viii re-
fuse 10 swear him in and the governor Of
Alabama win he compelled 10 declare the
seat vacant and order a new election To
FIJI the vacancy IL Is admitted that Gem
era Wheeler viii have no trouble IN being
re elected II he wants to como back. bat
that he viii have to do II he wants to sit
tn this house, provided, Of course, that no
did not resign before congress met There
is no sort of disposition here on the part
of the democrats TO give the little general
any unnecessary trouble. They all love
him. but they cum nor afford to establish
the KIND Of precedent that would, II fol
lowed. give the president the power NJ any
time to MI tho house full of volunteer
hrisades and carry through any measure no
desires, II Is believed here that General
Wheeler has at last seen through the game
the administration has been playing with
him aud has concluded to take out his
stack OF chips and quit The general has
simply heen pulling administration chest
nuts out of the fire. something that every
body but the general saw months ago and
~ was really pathetic to see the way this
brave and gentle soul was being used for
the partisan advancement OF an admins
tration that Is rapidly becoming stencil
in the nostrils OF all decent people The
friends OF General Wheeler have just cause
for rejoicing that he has at last opened his (
eyes to the truth.
II, as stated. former Governor Hogg is
to be the travelling companion of Colonel
Bryan on his Eastern tour, then he may
have another chance to smash Van
Wyck boom. There is every indication
that one is again growing in New York.
Although Mr. Croker has given out his .
allegiance to Bryan in newspaper inter- /
views. yet he is absent now from New (
York and there seems TO be disposition I
on the part OF many OF the Tammany peo-
pie to break loose from the expressed I
wishes Of the boss and start another boom /
for Van Wyck. They don't like Bryan ON .
account OF his silver views and have
said so a great many times.
They want another man il they can get /
HIM and they want other issues 10 DON'T 4
nate the silver issue in the next cam
paign. The FIRST evidence of this lies in I
the fact that they have relegated the silver \
man in the New York eiegatlon in con-
gress to the rear and placed a gold man
ON the congressional campaign commit
tee, Amos Cummings was beaten and
young Jacob Rupert, a man who voted
with the gold men on the financial bill |
in the house. was elected to the position