The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-24

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voice BY hammeripg like. = worker on,
boiler-plate, and complete fiery sentence:
that would ring fir above The upr 1,cur Of
the speakers CAL to order.'zA tpluckv man
is Sam Randall. butt something else is re-.
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took back pay" He Is also credited With
the initiation resolution id The platform "
the Pennsylvania J Democrats: He lis, 7
however, an important man, and it is like.
~ that he will be given the Craftsmanship
of the ways and:means committee if Kerr
is elected speaker. With his protective.
ideas. the people who do not love tariff
would rather see him elected speaker. rz:s
FERNANDO WOOD, #, ;,,~e
Fernando Wood in early life swallowed.
ramrod! It never digeste1,. and tho
result is that if it had not been for q
hinge that was set in his back later in
life the presence Of the ramrod might
have kept the great Fernando from ever
unbending. He is 03 years of age, is as
finely preserved as if he were embalmcd,
and is good for the next twenty wears.
He is over six feet in height, wears close
lifting military cut black clothes, and
looks like an old military swell stepped
down out of some 6rst-class English
novel. The old man has full set Of
white hair, and sports a snowy white
mustache Of such distingue order that
Fernando could yet be a regular devil
among the women if he should choose to
shorten up his life in that way. But he
don't. His chief amusement is poker
playing. He has a face as impassive as
stone wall, and he bets on a slim hand
with the recklesSness of an Irish Jockey
going over a hurdle. He has heaps of
money. has lily soft hand, sweet,
sweet smile, stately manners, and enter
tains like prince in the fairy tales. He
is hard fighter, the old gentleman with
the plush velvet hand, and with his din
ners and money might stand chance of
becoming Speaker if the Democracy were
only anxious to cut it's throat and bleed
for his sake. 1t is not necessary to al
Jude to his record. He is nice old man
in manner but devil of a fellow in the
management of public affairs. He be-
longs to past age.
LITTLE ''sAMMY'' COX.
That enc expression settles him. Who.
ever heard of any man whom his friends
called Sammy" ever achieving position!
Cox is small man, little over five feet
in height. He has not particle OF dig.
nifty about him, and, unless in leading
strings. is always doing something fool
ish. He reads everything, however, and
having parrot-like memory, secures a
reputation for being we'll read man that
he does not deserve. Butler never said a
truer word about Cox than when he said
he was debauched by too much literature.
Cox has been in Congress for seventeen
years, and during that time has never
done anything but wear the cap and bells.
He would sacrifice any measure at any
time for the sake of creating laugh. He
was never more cut up over anything
than he was over Blaine's ordering
$'laughter'' and 'tapplause'' to be cut out
of the official reports Of the House. II
he were made Speaker, the first order he
would make would be to have them re-
stored. He received money some years
ago, and therefore has some influence
he furnishes cash for the New York pc.
litical organizations, and in return they
run him into Congress from some district
in the city where he is least known. He
was defeated for seat in the forty.third
Congress, but poor Mellish dying in an
other district, he was enabled to take this
dead mans shoes. and again dance his
humorous dance among his cynical asso.
ciates. People who have lived here, and
really know Congress, are the only ones
who can fully appreciate Sam Cox. Ask
an old member of Congress about Sam
Cox's chances and he will smile at you.
He is smart little fellow for singing,
wasp-like speech of five minutes or so,
but give Sam Cox . task that requires
brains and he will bulge above his eyes
for hours in the vain attempt to compre-
bend what is wanted of him. Make him
speaker and he will be in the insane asy-
lum inside Of month.
OTHER CANDIDATES.
There are other candidates mentioned
in connection with the speakership, but
none of them have any strength. Milton
Sayler is a gentle idiot froia Ohio, who
ought to have some sense, but nature was
cruel to him. Ex-Gov. Walker, from
Virginia, is very handsome man, looks
like Gen. Banks, but he has never had
any Congressional experience, and he
would know no more about presiding over
the affairs Of the House than a railroad
NAVY would know about the problem
of squaring circle. CR.
ssBrick Pomeroy's'' Luck.
"Brick", Pomory has long been under
the medical treatment Of clairvoyants.
I'm IN. do h1o =.