The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1908-05-27
REGULAR STRIFE BREEDER.
SENATE INNER RING WOUNDS
HIS PRIDE.
brownsville Causes More Trouble
Bulkeley, of Connecticut, Sore Over
FOraker's Sudden Change.

washington, MAJ 207.Morgan
Gardner Bulkeley. United States sem
ator from Connecticut, is today
saddeS and wiser man. Also a
madder one. Brownsville did it.
Brownsville and that intangible but
powerful thing known as the senate
Inner ring" For when. the 'inner
ring" got together and determined to
shelve' the Brownsville affair until
after the election Morgan Gardner
Bulkeley was left holding the bag
and the bag was empty.
1t was not at all nice way in
which the inner ring" treated the
honorable senator from Connecticut.
1t is true that Bulkeley is a new SEN
ator and that new senators do not
come In for great deal of considera-
ton at the hands Of the old-timers;
but even If he is comparatively new
as senator he is a man of dignified
years and distinguished career, hav-
ing been governor Of his State and
other things, and it would seem he
should have been entitled to little
more consideration.
1t happened something after this
manner: Next to Senator Foraker.
Senator Bulkeley has been the most
ardent champion Of the negro SOL
diers who were discharged from the
army without honor because OF the
Brownsville shooting affair. He had
loyalty supported the Ohio senator in
every move of the latter to bring
about the reinstatement OF the dis
charged soldiers. not caring II ne. did
"get in bad at the White House for
doing 50. He had prepared an able
speech on the subject and was pre-
pared to help Foraker force the mat
ter to vote in the senate.
Then one day Foraker got up in
the senate and announced that he
would not try to secure q vote on his
Brownsville resolution until next De-
cember. Bulkeley was dumbfounded
not to say habbergasted. 1t was the
first intimation he had had that the
fight was of. Left without time to
map out a course Of action, he got up
and protested against the delay. But
what was the use? Everything had
been arranged In that never slip @
cog' manner which prevails in the
greatest deliberative body in the
world" The senate heard Bulkeley
politely and then went ahead with
the postponement,i as per programme
To be left marooned like that now
was enough to make any man mad;
but Bulkeley didn't really get hop.
ping until thes rubbed salt into his
wounded pride. When the "inner
ring" saw how Bulkeley felt about the
matter it sent an emissary to smooth
things out. This emissary was no,
exactly diplomat.
Buckley" he aid, "we're awfully
sorry you weren't consulted about
that Brownsville matter. We'd have
been perfectly willing to have told
you Of the programme If we'd thought
about 1t, but. the truth is, you
being a new senator, it never occur
red to any of us that you ought to be
told"
Now, If you were a dignified old
gentleman of more than seventy
years, were a former governor Of your
State and a veteran of the civil war,
how would you like to have some
young fellow, not much over fifty,
pat you on the head, fguratively
speaking. and call you "sonny?"
The Hon. Morgan Gardner Bulke-
ley, United States senator from Con-
necticut, didn't like it a bit. and his
chief occupation in these closing
days of the session is to sit and
glare at the members of the inner