The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-08-19
WASHINGTON STORIES OF RUIN
THE PITFrL DESCENT MADE BY TERRI
ToRIAL DELEGATE AND UNITED STATES

ToRIAL DELEGATE AND UNITED STATES
SENATOR.
One name among the list of territorial
delegates I will not mention. He was in
the house for four years and from the
time he entered it until the expiration of
his second term he was greatly respected.
He was an exceptionally able man, a
profound thinker, chaste logician and a
brilliant speaker. He was collegebred,
had spent years in foreign travel, was a
lawyer and had been in many responsible
official positions. He had been in the
Ilegislature of one of the western states,
had been receiver of public moneys and
surveyor general. While in congress he
lectured before church and scientific So
cieties here, and no man in congress was
more generally respected. Would the
reader like to know where this great man
is now2 He is still in Washington and
about as low in the human scale as it is
| possible for q man to be. He first be-
came the victim of a gambler who was
himself at one time distinguished men,
Der of congress from a great western
state. Together they carried on what
they called private club rooms, and where
they feeced their victims as they could
catch them. They were frequently raid
cd by the police, bus they managed to
set off. But they sunk lower and lower
Zach year, until finally they got to the
lowest game of policy" The ex-con-
gresham from western state died few
years ago. The ex-delegate is now keep
ing one of the lowest dives in the city,
The place is ostensibly cigar store, but
q thin partition separates it from bagnio
cf the lowest character. The man faunts
his shame in the broad glare of day, and
may be seen at almost any time sitting in
front of his disgraceful abode in his shirt
sleeves, brazenly facing people who knew
him il his better days. Here is another
case.
In 1874 there graduated from Harvard
university a young man of wonderful
promise. He was % years old, and the
world opened bright and promising, be-
fore him. He was, believe, for a time
teacher in Harvard, and subsequently he
founded very successful school in Mas
sachusetts. Some time afterwards he
went south as principal of state normal
school. The war coming on, he was driv-
en- from the state and came north. At
the close of the war he went back to the
southern state as collector of internal rev.
enue. When the state was reconstructed
be IVES elected to the United States SEN
4e and served with distinction for six
years. He was chairman of the commit
tee on education and labor and a member
of the appropriations and other important
committees. He was a very strong and
pleasing speaker and stood very high
among his colleagues. After his term
expired he was appointed assistant secre-
tary. 1t was here that he fell. He was
oOurted and fattered and used. Wine.
cards and women did their part to ac-
complish his fall. There were some very
crooked transactions while he was in of
flee, and, some way or other, the assist
ant secretary lost his Office and landed in
jail. He was speedily got out, however,
but he became wretchedly poor and got
to borrowing fifty-cent pieces of his old
friends. 1t was pitiful sight to see him
about and know what he had been. Fin
ally somebody had him appointed to
twelve hundred dollar clerkship Che wrote
a beautiful hand) and it was thought he
might pick up and recover; but he didn't.
He got a passion for gambling, and
whenever he could obtain any money he
sought the tiger and of course lost it,
and soon be lost his clerkship. under
stand he borrows dollar or two where
ever he can and goes into the lowest
places and plays until it is gone. If he
has no money, which is nearly always
the case, he will sit where the game is
going on and keep the score for the low
wretches who infest the dives lie visits
He once had charming family of boys
and girls, but the Lord only knows where
they are now.