Show I l 1 of ur senator eaI Balle 1 V preliminary r canvass can of the Democratic Demo cratic critic senators that time the lea lend heal f fr r of or the lie minority will be c given at the opening of or the coming session to lo Cul elson of or Texas reus instead nl 1 of or Senator Bailey who was as figured th the thelo lo logical Ita candidate for COI the honor With Hh the el death ath of oC Senator Gorman Baileys Bailey's natural gift gIrt his hh oratory orator and debating force marked him for the minority od J leadership an and l tho time position was tendered tend tend- tendered cre ered him by 11 his Democratic colleagues s He lie declined It it with the explanation that It Il should go to tu Senator burn urn whoso long experience lIco In th the tho senate entitled him bin to t tie tP f honor A As Ay Blackburn hind had already been heen defeated t for tor re election It was wao generally i un understood understood under under- de stood that the real leadership shou should o em to tu Billie Bailey with the opening opening- of time the Sixtieth th congress c Put But ut In I been bi u iu o Daile Bailey and anti he lie is now out the of-the of ot the run run- I ning Senator u triley y li- li hs lia a boon beau uric una- lire at home and while he lie e escaped with v. his hili political ll life r he did nut mil corn come out of the n tight fight ht I For or this ibis hl re rf SOI it is intimated he is particularly anxious to tu be selected select tl us as hl Ida his party party's Jart leader leacIel In to the senate Such an honor would carry more murl than a n sug- sug lIb lIb- that his colte colleagues ues In the sen- sen ut rt fully exonerated him from tiie harts made against a him before Lefore the tho Texas legislature and und from which h he escaped wilt wilh a u coat of ur whitewash lh vcr very inartistically applied However Cr tie ac- cordina to tu Indications ho he Is to lo bc c de denied de- de r riled led this tI desired hll J |