Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-12-15
HORACE MAYNARD.

| HORACE MAYNARD.
A sketch of the Lonely Tennessee
| Member OF the Ways and Means
! Committee
From tho New York Herald.ls rg.a. fsi
Horace Maynard, who by relative po-
sition on the committee would be its
chairman in case Mr.. Dawes should
from any cause be incapacltated, IS an
old member of the House, and probably
one of the most stupid men init. he
Is fifty-seven years old, very tall, very
1.-THE and straight, with long, lustreless
black hair, no beard, sickly black eye.
sallowish, white complexion, and the
gait, coldness and vindictiveness OF an
Indian. There is a superstition abroad
in the House that Maynard possesses
some of the blood of the old Indian
tribes of Massachusetts, where he was
born, at Westboro, in 1874; early in life
he became temporary resident q OF
South Carolina, but received a. certain
sort of collegiate education at Amherst
| College, Massachusetts,; thence he went
out to gain living by teaching, and he
found occupation among the ignorant
and peculiar niountaineers OF that re-
gion. For six years he was tutor in
what was called the University Of East
| Tennessee, and while there. he studied
law. Being persistent quiet, relent-
less man in his aspirations, as IN his re-
sentiments, he succeeded so well as to
take a fair rank in that unlettered com
munity, and he filled several local Offices,
became, in war times, Attorney Gene
\ raj of the State; was twice Presl-
Dental elector, and has been seven
times sent to Congress. Maynard
is peculiar among Congressman. la
the moral points Of. character, strictly
defined, he is unimpeachable. lie does
not steal nor lie, nor break any of the
commandments outright; but in narrow
ness Of charity, a aflongevity Of resent
ment, an incapacity to look at any
question in its broad bearings, a GER
tainty to fix upon some small neighborly
point and torture 1t up by selfconsidera-
tion and vanity, so that it comes to en-
brace the whole issue-this is the sort OF
person who is adjudged worthy to be
named next to Mr.. Dawes on commit
tee which is called upon to be the most
philosophical comfnittee in Congress, TO
be least sectional, most dislnterested,
and to be capable of embracing the
whole United States in the benignant
and unselfsh eminence which 1t oecu-
pies. A volume might be compiled Of
all Maynard littlenesses and pursuit OF
petty tjiques. He has been a good while
on the Committee of Ways and Means,
and the only person with whom he could
ever agree altogether was Judge Kelly,
who bore toward his fellow committee
man pretty much like relation. Mr..
Allison, of Iowa, was once asked about
the inside operations of that celebrated
committee and he replied 'c-A u
"Well, Horace Maynard would be
willing TO put one thousand per cent on
any article of import. He don't care
what the article is. In many respects
he is ignorant of the developments OF
the arts and sciences, living off there in
the mountains of Tennessee; but merely
because in early life he embraced the
notions of Henry Clay, he is prepared,
down TO the day of his death, to vote o
Japanese policy for this country and
make il utterly isolated and selfish.
Some years ago Maynard had q con
troversy with Cullom on some little
question which became quite animated.
The Globe newspaper at Washington,
under the accidental necessities OF
prompt daily publication, had to give
Cullom more chance to correct speech
es in the controversy than it could to
Maynard. Maynard has never ceased
! from that day to keep up this little
grudge, and perhaps of all the men In
Congress he is the truest type of man
without a positive vice, and yet without
a negative. Prompt in his attention
upon committee, thrifty and temperate
in all personal matters--exoept his re-
sentiments and his littlenesses-this man
4 BY temperament is least acquainted with
his age and time Of any person now IN
Congress. Blaine gave him the place
be now occupies because he thought that
4 Maynard would amount to nothing in IT.
sod tt.at after Dawes he wOnld stand in
a SosiEop of a cipher which, with
the sgaI Q digit before it, makes a
ever so d without a digit before 1t
nothing. Ma 'oos Of fhe1 proteotion-
mort OF the positlD '.tse heretofore have
ists before the commi,. ,ss speeches of
heen recommendations OF -,sted with
schenck; what Schenck diluted
strength and dignity Maynard ~'abe
and Tambled over, dragging the "a,
with them. BE leads a lonely nie ~
washington so far as social assoeiatlons
are concerned; he resides close down 10 70
the Capitol gate in that part OF the Town li
where when night descends, the very
bats refrain to 90 forth, because they
can get no company gusaf r5fr
----.- -.--a4-o--p--------- .liHsa
saved by salt.
The Plattsburg (Missouri) Register
gives the following. .,
A few days ago VIM. Hamilton, resid-
ing near the Missouri Pacific railroad,
went into the timber abont a mile on to
shoot squirrels. Nothing being heard
of him all night, several neighoors the
next morning went in search OF him.
About three o'clock in the afternoon
they found him up leaning tree, thirty
feet from the ground, fast and unable to
extricate himself. After some trouble
he was taken down, and it was seen
that one foot and ankle were badly
torn and bleeding. He said that
Il 1f.l.aT- tho nrnv1Oua