Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1875-02-26
VOL. XVIII. NEW SERIES. VOL. XXI.

for each and for all" A ruddy Monte Girls
to; an intellectual Turbeydrop: classic
Jim Fish. Talleyrand without commission
in his pocket and without crutch. Henry
Clay or Junius Brutus Booth materialized
INTO struggling commonor 'vho must
live" and has only his wit to live upon.
Ills wit? it is very scholarly and trenchant.
lie Is as apt and reeondite as poor old Alex
ander Dimitri. He is as scintillant as Re-
verdy johnson. He is quite as effective
raeonteur as Robert J. Walker or John
Thompson Gray-without Office; without
fortune with only his wit Quid rides
The man is not shallow-pated humbug he
Is a good scholar; he is very fine gentleman:
he has prodigious memory and vast expert
ence of the world. The statesman does not
avoid him as mere adrenturer, because he
Interests the statesman and statesmen, like
other people have their emotions, and are
moved. Genius will tell, and there is-in
this wretehed, old, crotehety world of shams
"A genius for failure which conciliates the
the genius OF success. 4 successful man is
ever fattered by the attention, and usually
pleased by the companiOnship, of brilliant
failure, who does not happen to be a cynic
or bore. lie sees his superior beneath
him-loyely prospect he smiles with
a good-natured complacency, and will listen
AMI do. This constitutes Sam Wards pow
er. There Is no place at Washington which
sam Ward has not the capacity to fill with
distinction-giving him fair conditions
from that of Bristow to that of Schultz,
running along through the rondeaG Of gov
ernmental business. You ask why, then,
mock monarch with crown Of straw upon
his head? ? Ii is the fate Of some men to
trbble away their lives. To them life is
Is mere comedy. They evaie its tragic
places by sacrificing its splendor: and they
end Il ali ambition ends, in grand finale
y disappointment and regret. Ii is not our
INrpose to dissect, psyohologically, this pre-
sent king of the lobby, who has given such
graphic and amusing sketch of himself and
his vocation. We merely take his visible |
man in outline and in charcoal leaving his !
stranger career-like that of other heroes
hid IN mist. Who is he? Whence
came he? Bless your simple soul. how do |
we know? Ask the Wandering Jew, ask |
the Three Guardsmen, ask Herr Speilhagen |
Tor his adventures in Germany, ask Nine
George for his adventures in France. Per
haps they will tell You.
What q stride there is across the gulf be- |
tween the first and the last kings Of the lob |
by, between Colonel John Dade. familiarlv |
known as Jack Dade, and Mr.. Samuel |
Ward! The one was all rufile and very lit |
tie shirt: ths other has a more capacious |
shirt, vith gorgeous f-ill. The one took |
in 4 bar-room, Z simple minded |
gentleman whose capital consisted Of what we |
call gush. The other commands all the |
modern inventions andj eonyeniences-a sen
-imental stock-broker in federal ethics.
The one chewed tobacco The other drinks
Chateau Nquem and smokes a hookah. The |
lne rose at = n. m. The other rises at
noon and takes his cafe au lait in recum-
bent posture. The one was Author of the |
round table; the other is-shall we shall we
say it liking Charles the Second, the me--
~ monarch, to whom all things are but
the while-aways Of time and care. q munif-
cent spendthrilt, useful to everybody seeking
IN the amusement Of others his own pleasures,
bagatelle Of fortune happiest and most gilt
-ering in the air
Old Jack Daie, the sloyenly gush Sam
lel Ward, the brilliant man-of-all-work
which OF the two secured the prize of per-
eSs otium cum dignitate sought by both
which Of them really got his Z" sinecuree -
The dead monarch or the living king?