Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-05-18
Correspondents Of the Beacon.I
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washington, d. c., May Is, 1905.

w ASb1NGTON LETTER.
Washington, ID. c., May Is. 1905.
The announcement from Missis-
sippi that the Hon. John Sharp Will
liams, the able and erndite floor
leader OF the Democracy in the ma
tional House Of Representatives,
would be candidate for the United
States Senate 70 succeed Senator
fernando ID. Money, has been the
fruitful source Of considerable Cos
sip in and around Democratic cir
cles here in Washington, where both
men are so well known and SO well
liked by all who know them. The
fact that Mr.. Williams has allowed
IL TO be aethoritatively announced
that he will be q candidate for the
Senate is proof positive that Sena-
tor Money will not be candidate to
succeed himself. / know positively
from Mr.. Williams himself that he
would MOI have been a candidate
against Senator Money had the lat
ter desired to succeed himself. Sem
ator Moneys new term in the Sen
ate has only just begun, on the 4th
Of March last, and will not end un
I'll March 3, 1911, but the people of
Mississippi have way of electing q
Senator several years before the
term Of the sitting Senator has ex-
pired, and it is likely that the fight
for Senator Moneys seat will come
of in the State primaries during
the general election of 1908.
This will give Mr.. Williams two
more terms in the House, the Fifty
ninth Congress to which he already
has been elected and which will end
on March 3. 1907, aud the Sixtieth
Congress which will be elected In
1906 and expire on March 3, 1909.
The chances are that this will cause
new alignment of leadership fea-
TIRES ia the House among the Dem
ocrats. There is no man OF common
sense who believes that Mr.. viii.
liams can be defeated for the leader
ship of the next House, the Fifty
ninth Congress which meets next
December; or possibly next October,
II the President carries out his in
tention OF calling an extra session.
That will make him the leader unsil
March 3, 1905, but In the meantime
the battle for the House in 1906 will
have been fought and it's complexion
determined. II that House should
be Democratic, and the chances are
good that IL will be, notwithstand-
ing the overwhelming majority the
Republicans have in the next House.
and which will be q source of weak
ness to the Republicans, will Mr..
Williams think he is entitled to the
Speakership and go after il, regard
less OF the fact that he is q candi-
date for the Senate and that contest
for that seat will be determined be-
fore the Congress in which he runs
for Speaker is six months old? That
Is q question many are asking today
in view Of the situation. IfMr. viii
liams has the ambition to go TO the
Senate, will he also have the ambi-
ton to be Speaker Whileitis true
that his term as Speaker win end in
1909, two years before his term as
Senator would begin, would it not
initiate against him in the race for
the Speakership?
II the Democrats should win the
next House the achievement would
be so great that the man who In
chairman OF the Democratic Con-
gressional Committee In that con-
test would DO q most formidable
candidate for the Speakership, for he
would undoubtedly be a very popu.
lar man with all the new incoming
Democratic members. So far there
has been only one man suggested
for the Craftsmanship of the next
Democratic Congressional Commit
tee, so far as know, and that is
the Hon. James NJ. Griggs, of Geor.
gia, who was the chairman of the
Committee in 1902. when he won
eighteen seats from the redoubtable
Babcock, chairman Of the Republi-
can Committee, and did il without
money, which the Republicans had
in profusion. II Griggs should be
the next chairman and the people of
the country should conclude that
they can expect nothing from the
Republicans in the way Of railway
rate Legislation and lot Of other re- !
forms they are now asking and hop
ing for, and he should turn the
trick, he would be aformidable can
didate for the Speakership.
Mr.. Williams's leadership in the
next two years may so strengthen
him, however. that IL would be USE
less for any man To run against him,
or the opposite may occur. for things
happen quickly in she life of a poll. |
tician here in Washington. A man
may do something in one day that |
either viii make or mar him as the |
leader of his party on the floor of the |
House or in the councils OF his party
outside of 10.