The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-11-28

Sayler is one Of the "good fellows" in
public life, whom everybody likes, and q
man of considerable ability withal, yet
he is not essentially leader, nor in fact
worker. He likes good company, good
wine, with ease and comfort The boys
say, too, that he is not aversc to little
game of draw. In habit and disposition
Sayler somewhat resembles Carter Har-
rison, another western member who failed
to connect. The Chicago papers face
tiously talk about "Our Carter" but here
in Washington he is known as Marine
Band Harrison" At the first session Of
the 44th Congress Holman of Indiana,
and some of the other economists, who
have no music in their souls, undertook
to cut the item for the support Of this
band out of the appropriation bills.
Without that band life at the capital
would be reduced to barren ideality.
Harrison took in the situation and rose
to the occasion. In an off-hand speech
he detailed how he proposed, upon the
election of Tilden, to cock his feet upon
the balistrades of the White House, and
listen to the heavenly music of that band
Just as the Republicans had done. That
settled it. He had created a laugh and
saved the band.
Governor Swami, of Maryland, is an
other of the old stagers who got left.
The Governor has been in Congress five
terms, and wanted to come again but he
got married last summer to a rich old
girl, widow of sixty, and while off
courting and honeymooning some of the
younger bloods in his district set the pins
up against him. The Governor is very
rich and most too old to be Of great use
fulness in Congress. Once in a while he
makes a little speech, or at least the
Record credits him with doing so, but I
doubt if anybody has heard him. When
he stands up to talk he is perfectly mo-
tionless, except slight movement of the
lower jaw, and that is the only sign that
he is saying anything, as his still small
voice" cannot be heard three feet away.
He is liberal entertainer, and next to
Fernando Wood gives the most elaborate
dinner parties of any Congressman.-
These two and Mr.. Hewitt probably ex-
eel any three men ever in Congress in
the glorious art of tickling the palates
of their friends. Fernando is the
only one of three who comes back, and
he had tight squeeze, both in the nomi-
mating convention and at the polls. He
lost caste somewhat with the party by his
course during the exciting times of the
electoral count. 1t did look strange to
see this old Bourbon Democrat hobnob-
ing with Eugene Hale, and other Radi-
calls, and taking the leadership of the
Republicans against those of his own
party who were determined to defeat the
count by filibustering. Hostility to Til
den has been assigned MS one of the pro-
pelling causes. There is not a greater
aristocrat in manner, bearing and gen.
eral appearance, than this same Fernan-
do Wood. He is as straight as ramrod,
while from his dress, dignity, white mus
tache and soldierly carriage, one might
readily mistake him for Kaiser Wilhelm.
If he was ever popular with the rabble,
as must have been the case in the palmy
days of his career in New York, it was
before he married rich wife and took TO
the exclusive ways of bloated bondhold-
ers.
On the other side of the house there
are quite as many notables to sink from
view after March 4th. Eugene Hale is
among the first. He is considered man
of fair ability, but his chief prominence
as leader comes from parliamentary
knowledge, and tendency to get ON his
feet oftener than any body else. When
Blaine was in the House, Hale was such
close follower of his that Cox one day
in the heat of debate termed him
"Blaine's little pup" but the language
was withdrawn. The name ofteneSt
applied to him is Club" Hale, and am
not quite certain whether it arose from
his relationship to Zach Chandler, or his
Lieutenancy to Blaine. Townsend, of
New York, is another of the vanquished.
He is the humorist of the Republican
side, though there is nothing so very
funny in anything he says. Besides
these there is Burchard, of Illinois, dress
parade Banks, and last, though by no
means least, Ben. Butler. But must
cut this thing off somewhere.