The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-26
NEBRASKAN HURTS SELF
Reaffirmation Proposition Will
 Cause His >helvlng.
Has Shown Himself to Be Absurdly - Imprac,icabie and PitiIuLy Im-
 posslble-Southern states
 Are Done With Him.
Advertiser Bureau,
 Cololado Bulluing,


 Washing ton, Jan. 70.
 It Is enough to cause cdtcning or the smile to note the smlnng faces oI Deiho- crats about Congress Just now since through the press Lney nave learned each others views on the latest Bryan break.
 Congressmen are now assured that the Nebraskan will metaphoricaiiy spedhihs be inferred with the bones ot ms oecedseo issue. The fear that Bryan, by some show of tolerance and conservausm' would persuade a sor. of compromise WlIh his sociaiistic vagaries and airshlp pohtics has now gwen way 10 feenng that ne is so absurdiy improbable and so pitituiiy impossible that he is no longer in posi- ton to menace the purpose of Democrats all over the country to have conserva- tive conyen tion with a brief old time plat form and a candidate who will provoke antagonisms between no classes Of peo- ples of interest.
 In other words, the outlook for the National Democratic Convention was never brighter for a similar event in the party's history. Bryan Is now no longer in quantity the equation Of desirable conduct of Democracy In the minds Of representatives of the party here. The news they get from their constituents is equally assuring. It looks as though not a dozen delegates will go from Southern State who will be wiling to follow Will Ham J. Bryan in his re-affirmation idea.
 Representative Thompson Is feeling par ticularly1 gratihed over his success with a long standing claim of a constituent in Clay County. It is the war claim of Sarah J. Bonner administratix of Thomas Bonner, for property taken by federal troops during the Civil War, and has fuanfU-fiVa has fore the Committee on Claims. The amount involved is $1 1920, which was to be paid in the omnibus bill introduced by Representative Gibson of Tennessee.
 Mir. Thompson also today got through by favorable action in the Quarternaster Generals office in the War Department, the claim of C. C.. Howard, of Macon County, of sl50 for a horse and side arms taken by federal troops from the claimant while Confederate soldier in violation of the terms of his surrender.
 Since the payment of claims authorized to be paid under the act of which Senator Bate is the author, reimbursing Confed- crate soldiers for property taken from them contrary to the terms of the sur render many such claims have been com ing to the Alabama Congressman. It is we'll that claimants should be informed that upon proper proof all meritorious WOulu De dleIlueu put VIII be necessary for an additional appropria- tion to be made, as the present allowance is almost exhausted. Claimants must prove parole as we'll as furnish other essential evidence, especially that the property taken from them was in their possession when they surrendered.
 Another Negro Appointee.
 Even while Senator Tillman was today talking against the obtrusion of a negro oficeholder upon white people of South Carolina speaking as he was. of the re- cess appointment of Dr. Crum as Collec- tor of the Port of Charleston, in a batch of nominations that were sent to the Sem ate was the name of Elizabeth l.. Bamp- field for postmaster at Beaufort, s. c.
 The woman is the daughter of former Congressman Robert Small, a large, black. oliogeneous negro, who shares the control of Republican influence in the Palmetto State.
 With John c. Capers, white, lately turned Republican. erstwhile Assistant Attorney in the Department of Justice in Cleveland's last administration. the Re- publicans are protesting that the small colored people are given too large a share of Federal patronage in their vicinity.
 There was no meeting of the Senate Ju- dietary Committee, and consequently the Armbrecht District Attorneyship case is in statu quo.
 Representative Thompson said today he had letter from his brother, J, O. Thompson, which said that Colonel liar vey E. Jones denied that he had informed Senator Pettus or any one who could have conveyed the idea to the Senator that Armbrecht had embezzled church funds. Be that as 1t may. charges to that effect have been frequently talked here, There is no doubt of serious opposition to Armbrecht and it is not unlikely that President Roosevelt will be informed of the objection to the appointment with a view to its withdrawal