The age-herald., 1902-02-17
Senator German Looked Upon as
 Presidential Possibility.

ty' When all these great questions are secuted and settled as the Republican party proposes to settle them. the Denooc- racy, with the Bryanites and the Cold. bugs and those that voted for the Phil. ipplhe piil faithful to their party prin. clples' will stand in solid phalanx, back. ed by an indignant people and in next November elect to the house for ina Fifty eighth Congress majority of Den- ocrats, hopeful forerunner of the great national contest of 19O4' Applause on the Democratic side.
 Subsequently to this happy utterance. Judge Richardson. who is in the habit of saying and doing happy things, for the rights of one Albert Posey, an aged Ala bama negro. of Louderdale county The House as In committee of the whole had under consideration the so-called omni- bus bill covering the claims of citizens as adjudlcated by the court of claims One item was an appropriation of SIT for Albert Posey on account of property talk en by Union soldiers nearly forty years ago. Judge Richardson asked the neces- sary unanimous consent to amend the item by substituting "s90O' for "s177;" but the Republican chairman of the claims committee objected, though there was otherwise evidently unanim ous support of Judge Richardson's amendment The Ala bama congressman thus pleaded, in part:
 Now 1t is said frequently that we Of the South do not do the negro justice: but freely and gladly appear here as his representative. and ask gentlemen on this hoor If they think this is right and f. tf for the government to take horses froia this old negro, a friend of the Urniea, without just fair and honorable com per sation, MT. Chairm an, as he was an, he is and he is reliable. I can nor saA1 self, f,speak of personal knowledge "
 matter, but I understand that
 erai troops took two or three
 the old man, and yet they allo
 Tor all the articles I have CT
 think if he was treated fairly
 of giving him SIT he should
 the ainmeant of S3OO as suggeste.
 amendment. This is nothing but f IT' and equitable on the part of O. ceat government. The government l. more than an individual can afford to be must and not pay honest and just clal 4 -
 Why. sir, the record that I have before me declares that he was loyal and true to the gavernment. when loyalty meant something in the South at that time The circumstances are such that he is enti- tied to the amount that ask at the hands of both the Republicans and Democrats of this House. It seems to me. Mir Chair m an, that the amendment ought to be al- lowed and the amount reported ought to be increased. The court says that they took horses and flour, and took potatoes and then in its conclusion says: We made no allowance for poultry They even took all his chickens and hens. and ducks, and everything else-wiped him literally up-and then make no allow. nee for that, and l am asking you to make him fair and just allowance for these things for which he received nothing. and l know if the House had fair op- portunity and the gentleman from Penn sylvania will withdraw his objection and allow a vote, the amendment will pass.''
 Thus Pennsylvania Republican. by name Mahon, defeated this small act of justice to the Alabama negro Albert Posey. whose just cause was espoused by an Alabama Democrat and Confederate veteran, William Richardson
 LUCIEN JULIEN WALKffs