The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-01-18
HON. WILLIAM MORRISON.
HIGH TRIBUTE FROM \ REPUBLICAN
SOURCE,

T. VI, Clark, editor OF the Gate City,
Republican journal, published at Keokuk.
Iowa, in his Washington Notes." pays
Hon. VIM. X. Morrison, representative In
congress from the seventeenth Illinois dis.
trict, the following high tribute:
Contrarics are one OF the elements OF the
mental law Of suggestion; and are somc-
what fierce diatribe is suggested by the
grace Of courtesy and the sterling qualities
of two gentlemen who carry their Office
without aifcCtstion. We never had so good
an opportunity to sec tho true inwsrdRcs~
Of Mr.. Morrison, of Illinois. Nature ha,
50 stamped him with tue manlincss that
one az all familiar with men need never speak
word 10 him "a know shat he is genuine
unaffected, brave sa.scious, high prince.
pied and trustworthy. To know him better
is easily to Know why the people Of thi,
district trust him se unrescrvely, and why
Speaker Kerr, man as genuine and IN.
ifectcd as himself, picke,l him to I've chair.
man Of the COMMITTEE. OF ways and mcans.
There is lots o. Grant about Morrison. hut
more worldly sagsci,y or worldly capacity.
The nl"n look somewhat alike; there is the
same low. square set body and brain with
with work and rcliahepcss in both. Nor
:ison. a. he told us, entered public life by
the back door" BON and raised On farm
talking such learning aS came 10 him from
southern Illinois district school, growing
10 manhood 70 take care OF his own bu>i.
ness, bu, compelled hy the growing cont
dcnce Of the people he had lived among
IN his trustworthircss and sagacity 10 taxi
both military AMI civil office he has been
long in public life with the diliidrncc and
reserve Of man who meant all his life to
be an inpyctcntous farmer. So he is very
modest OF his ability 10 meet the demands
Of public station with the completeness
that he imagincs scholar IN COurt,cr
might DO it. But only simpcton would
mistake his reserve for affectation or dis
courtesy. And the limitations which il j,
easy to see he thinks his lack of accomplish
ments put upon him exist only in his i'm
aglnaton and are an unconscious tributr
10 his own .enuineness and manlineSs. Ills
opinions about the public men OF Illinois
and the country past and present, givin.
the freedom of friendly discourse were acute
and FAY sighted. We shall state none OF
them, for We have great dislike toy the IN
tcricwins reporter in journalism he is in
teresung. but an inpeYunence and nuisance :;
not from his owp choice always, but the
compulsicn Of public wi.hs morbid cray
in. for news. Morrison is ffV-thrcc medium
size, square OF head, brain and body; iron
grsy--the CONFORMATION ot' work and po~cr
rather than brilliancc. Dcmacrat and IT.
Ntfievable partisan, but plainly philosoph
zeal, given TO looking on all sides N his
patisanship, moderate and catholic IN his
judgments ofothcr men and stheY measures
cautions u avoid extremes Of opinion or
conduct, generous. honest and warm heart
ed, he is typical western American Of the
best sort. The measure OF his party may
from oar standpoint be hcpelcssly vnon.
hut in the sterling nanliness Of aan like
Mr.. Morrison one can have trust moro
supreme than any worry over i'll policies
and i'll politics.