The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-02-08
CASTING ABOUT
FOR new LEADER
DEMOCRATS or U. S. SENATE APP
PEAR TO BE AT A Loss-GooD
FIGHTERS SOON RETIRE.
Among the stauneh Ones Left culber.
son is Most Frequently Pointed To.
Bailey Not to be considered-Mor-
gan's Praise Of carmaek.

until the 4th OF March, when the SEN
= ate will be called into extra session,
according to present indications, for
the purpose Of considering the Santo
J. Domingo treaty and similar pressing
: affairs belonging to the Senate alone,
/ there will be more or less discussion
: among the Democrats of the body re-
{ specting its party status and the ques-
+ ton Of who will be the leader.
The leadership issue has been thrust
to the front by report from Texas
that Senator Bailey, when he return
ed to Washington, would seek, in vim
dication of his standing as a member
of the Senate, to take the place of
Senator Blackburn, retiring, who sue
ceeded the late Senator German as the !
minority leader of the Senate.
i OF these Twenty-Five Democrats, |
only one has shown by his bearing and |
conduct the slightest aspiration for the
difficult task of leading his fellow Dem
ocrats, and that man is the ambitious
Senator from Texas, Mr.. Bailey, who
has had the battle of his life to main
tain his leadership in his own State
The loyal friends of Mr.. Bailey in the
Texas House delegation have been
feeling about among Senators to see
what prospect he would have for the
minority leadership in the Senate
They have not met with that encour-
agement which would warrant them
in advising their Senator to enter the ]
ty-nine Democratic Senators, the most {
vigilant observer of Senate politics {
is at loss to pick a man upon whom t
the others would unite with the same {
harmony and unity as they accorded I
either to Mr.. German of Mr.. Black S
burn. t
But Texas may not be without hon q
or after ALL No democrat stands high /
er among his associates as an alert I
party man quick to see and seize ad-
vantage than Bailey's colleague, Chas.
A. Culberson. The. Senators themsel- n
yes are extremely shy of committing
themselves, but when it comes to i'm
pressions made on the outside, Gull
berson is decidedly the favorite.
Virginians are talking of Senator p
Daniel for the honor. Brilliant ora \,
tor and accomplished gentleman that tt
he is, Mr. Daniel would make a re- is
spected leader, but it is felt among =, ~
Democrats that he lacks the aggres-
sive quality needful to inspire virile C;
opposition party. The Senator's lat IN
er years have mellowed and assuaged -,
MS spirit so far that staunch parti- di
sans imagine he looks too much to ST
ind exclamation For tho arar,y a. tic
stead of justification for his own side fol
fellow Senator said of one of his off
ecent speeches in the Senate when ca
Democrats had abundant cause for iiS
of the majority's policy,
Daniel goes forth with his sword
1reathed about with flowers, and pre- pa
he fragrance.
One of Culberson's qualification
ess is his thoroughness in what he
ndertakes. He always knows his les
On when he gets up to recite. He is
lgenuous and has decided construc- :,
We ability, and withal, his self poise
of the highest quality, his temper
ment serene and digniied under all :.
rovocations. This could never be
lid of Bailey, even in his greatest dis
avs of ability, such as compelled the
lmiration of Senators of both par
es.
ash
There has never been anything like
between Bailey and Cub :.
son. No one seems to know on !, ,
1ich side the fault, If fault there be,
IS lain, but 1t is quite well known 80 .
at the Senatorial pair from Texas
We rarely locked shields In any
use.
it seems hard to say Just
lat the Democrats Of the Senate will
when the leadership issue is con- was
'nted. Democrats not of the body date
70 have been discussing the question chan
press regrets that Blackburn and dice
rmack are to go out Blackburn's aid
e experience and brave. sterling apo
commanded the entire apo
lfidence Of his associates Car place
ck's brilliant ability and his daut- -
) courage, removed from the Sen Dr
1t is realized by Democrats gener-
:, leave a void he alone can fill,
ch his colleagues here hope he Void
return to do while he is still in
prime. of intellectual vigor. BELL
he venerable John T. Morgan, who
March 4. will have completed thirty
RS in the Senate and who will then va