El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-05
No Sa1aried Officials.


element in his state charge him with
| being a republican in consequence.
| He seems as anxious to clear himself
of the charge as if it We're a compli-
ment. He will likely come back. as
| the opposition is not as strong as it is
noisy. Quay will begin his fight for
the existing vacancy in Pennsylva-
MAS representation next Monday
night when the republican caucus
meets at Harrisburg. The opposition
to him is bitter but then he is bitter
himself and as skilled politician
there is on one in this country the
superior of Matthew Stanley Quay
This is his third fight. The first was
in 1895; the second in 1897 over his
friend Penrose. and the third in 1899
He won the first and the second, but
in the third there was a stalemate:
the legislature adjourning without
election. The governor appointed
him to fill the vacancy, but the SEN
ate-by a majority of one-refused to
seat him. He will either be elected
this time or another deadlock result.
Clark is anxious to come back from
Montana to serve out the unexpired
time of the term. left by his resigna-
ton last year to avoid unseating. And
the probabilities seem to be that he
will do it. now Marcus DAILY is out of
the way and the latter'S copper inter
ests are not in friendly hands. Daily
used to hamper Clark in his political
gyrationS more than Clark thought
correct One clever trick was to in
troduce the eight hour day among his
workmen at Anaconda. 1t cost him
about 81 900 a week additional but
Clark. employing twelve times as
many men. had to follow suit and lose
So 900. Chandler of New Hampshire
is hanging on the ragged edge and is
perturbed. Chandler is brilliant but
with nippy tongue and a wasp
temper. which combined factors make
him respected but not loved in the
senate. Hale of Maine, is not so solid
as he has been and Maine men coming
to Washington meet with a tumultous
reception which makes their hair |
curl. The glad hand and the happy |
heat are not in it with the welcome |
they get. Before the Spanish war the |
senator was great friend of the |
Spanish minister-and his wife-and |
he acted according. Maine men have |
always liked Hale.-but they are |
patriotic crowd and his popularity fell |
pretty much below par The last |
state republican convention indorsed |
him personally but condemned his pol
cy- Since then ne has been as reti-
cent as a canned clam, but he is think
ng hard. The way Tom Reed drop
BED out of the political swim after con-
ieming the war has given him food
or thought. Wolcott of Colorado
Will not come back-he fell outside the
he is certainly book
ID for something equally as good"
It the hands of the administration.
Fatal Civilization.
Prof. w. J. MCGEE has been down in
dexico studying the Tokopaw Indians
it was '"Cocopaw'' he said
Who lived over on the Colorado river
lear the Gulf of California and are. he
avs. the only Indians known to be
without the aid of the
The fact is they are dy-
ne from civilization. or, perhaps it
would be more proper to say, from the
act that their civilization has not kept
ace with their ambition" They are
low down crowd of fish eating. clam
igging tribesmen. squeezed between
he Apaches and the Serbs They can
aise little corn and all their present !
nergies are put into selling enough s
hereof to buy clothing. leaving them
nth an insufficient supply of food. 5
.fter each harvest the head men of the
antilles pack 75 pound bags of corn ,
DO miles to Yuma and purchase cloth !
AXE off the clothing once donned and :
S they are accustomed to a naked :
kin, they are naturally sickly. The
kin is the biggest organ of the body 7
nd after it mas been trained to ac- ;
itself to the weather. COW
ring it up renders all it's functions :
regular and the owner thereof us
ally succumbs to any disease which
lay happen to be popular at the time.
The sudden transition from the In
ian all face condition to one of /.
othedness is consequently killing off I
lie ambitious Cocopaws as it did the I
awaiians at first. AS the professor =
iys: "A man has to educate his Il
to learn to wear trousers" b
Prof. MCGEE is the husband of DR..
nita Newcomb MCGEE. daughter of a
rof Newcomb the astronomer and =
the only woman commiss- I
ned as a United States army officer +
lie was major in the nurse corps IN Z
recently. He is one of the most in +
resting men in Washington and is +
broad guage scientific sharp in a L
lmber of lines. although ethnology g
his speciality. Personally he is !