The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-29
FOR HI1cHcocK's POSITION
Bartholdt of Missouri Also
 Brought FJrward.
Standpatters Present the Manner n Which the Rsvisionists Have Bee. Urging Their visws Upon the Congress and
 People.

Washington. Nov. 2s.-(Special) )-- Cabinet carpenters among the political gossips have been busy of late showing suggestions to the President. The latest name put forward is that of the Presidents friend, Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore. His name Is handed most in connection the head or the Department Of the Interior, although it would seem more fitting if he were chief of the Department of Justice. as he has done special service for that branch of the government, ana ms reputation Is rather as lawyer than anything else. Colonel bonapar.e some years ago made Democratic pro- fessions, but recently he has acted with the Republicans. He regards himsen as an independent. Congressman Richard Bartholdt, of st. Louis. whose distinction as the sole Republican Tn the House from Missouri. was taken away on the eighth of November. when eight other Republicans were sent to join him, has also been urged by his friends as good material for the secre- taryship of the Interior Department standpatters Will Resist. There are ominous mutterings among the stand pat crowd of Republicans over all this tariff revision talk. They don't a bit like the way the revtsionists have been putting into prominence Of late with their advocacy of an extra session. They intimate that they do not intend to be stampeded by public sentiment When Congress meets they will insist that the country Is doing ex- cellently well with the present tarin and that 1t showed it's perfect content ment with the Republican tariff policy at the election just held.
 It would be no wonderful thing. If with a majority in the House of over 100 members of the councils of the Re- publicans on the tariff shouls. not be much divided. There are certainly numerous revision advocates among them, and they are likely to be rein- forced by many new members who never object to extra sessions, since they are naturally eager to get into the large arena of national politics Political change has but little effect | ed the Ways and Means Committee of the House. all the old members hav- | ing been reelected, except Victor II. Metcalf, of California, now Secretary of l Commerce, and Samuel Bronson Cooper, | of Texas, who failed of renomination. Blg Majority for Prosperity. According to former Attorney Gen. eral w H. H. Miller, of Indiana. the 1 national election showed that General | Apathy was forced to retreat by Gen. eral Prosperity.
 MT. Miller had to say:
 The prime factor, as I view 1t. in the great Republican sweep, was that l prosperity was running on that ticket. | Prosperity is a candidate who Is almost bound to win: the people are devoted l to him as they are to no other candt- l date; his popularity Is universal. 1t was prosperity that was at the bottom | of the 93,000 majority given by India- ma. Stirred by the magic of that name the voters in all the great States of the Middle West rendered the same verdict: the intermountain States gave like response, and from the Pacific coast the answer was the same. It is simply impossible to overcome so tremendous a sentiment, and thus 1t was that from the outset the Democrats were em- parked in a losing game; but that they would be swamped by so terrific a hur- ricane nobody would have imagined" pr. Crum's Case.
 There seems now no doubt that Dr. William Crum will be confirmed by the Senate as soon as Congress meets. although the opposition to the confir- nation Is not abated in Charleston, ac- cording to John C. HemphilI. editor os The News and Courier, who is in Wash ington.
 Dr. Crum is described as an excep- tionally intelligent and genteel colored citizen and is quite wealthy, owning real estate in several communities in- cluding about $S0.000 worth of proper ty in Washington.
 R. H. Watkins.