The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1880-05-16

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WASHINGTON, May /, 1SSO.-It can be set
Gated case of lockjaw reported from Ken
lucky. People begin to talk there with great huency
nal tongue waggng, with slight intermlssions for
meals, until required to stop from old age and pure
rounings of that State that brings about these inev
table results? Is 1t tho whisky or the blue grass, or
is II because they never mix the first and turn tho
second over TO the cattle? However II may be
counted for, taken abstract proposition. moth
Ing can lie more singular than the uniform ability of
Kentckias to talk and generally to talk WELL There
Is tho present delegation In Congress. forclby
struck with this coincidence the other day, when Me-
kenaie was scoring the Committee on Ways and
perfectly proportional man Of about fifty. His long,
sandy beard and the souched hat he Invariably
on the street brand him at once fine type OF the
Southerner. His features are well moulded, and you
tell by glance at his blue eyes that his heart is
full Of fun and Kindness. Socially there Is no more
original and charming man In Congress. His pec,l
liar gift Is rare, juicy hnnor and 1t flows from his
lips as IL they had acquired the secret of perpetual
motion. Whether prepared or hot, when lie takes
his the House listens, and is disappointed.
Now, 50 much for Mckenzie. He Is the innocent Ill
stlgaor of this anson to Kentucky tongue, hut he
merely points the moral. Call the musterroll OF Ken
lucky day In Congress- To lead of with the House
OF Lords Mr.. Beck II need scarcely be sad is pecu
on Appropriations and his Scotch combativeness, he
manages to fill as many pages of the Record as any
lias has superior In the Senate for the style Of his
&C temPore sentences, and, though not powerful or
ready debater like Beck, he has better developed
power of expression. The country already knows
what matchless word welder the Senate lately lost
in the defeat of McCreery, that snglar compound Of
pcEwck and De Quincy. Then pass over to the
House. The very same principle holds good there.
Each man from Kentucky has a wonderful, an almost
instructive gift of CAB. Beside Mckenzie, we have
Proctor Knott. who might be somebody and
do something If he had not committed the
objectionable sin of supposing that man cancels his
obligations TO the world when he makes speech at
Duluth; then Blackburn, whose uency will be hest de-
scrbed by Sam Cox refusal be painted In the Elec-
Orol College picture unless he could he taken imme-
liatey behind Joe Blackburn's Jaw, and, finally,
deaying out the few other less known Kentuckians,
all Of whom can talk that prince of fine speakers.
Carlisle Look at that man's head. II is u study.
The bumps of perception protrnde like big bow win
dows on his brow. a square 1awed man, firm set,
niexible discrimination indicated In his mouth, and
keen sense of public duty shown In the intense
earnestness of his face. No either side of the
House commands such universal respect for his logic
and honesty Carlisle, and, II may be added, taking
1t for granted that the next House is Democratic that
man stands better show to be Its Speaker. He can
MI tho chair to perfection. Returning, then, to Ken
tpcky, It should not he forgotten that the 'Historic
Seventh, giving the district represented
by Blackburn has sent Clay, Brecknridge, and Tom
Marshall, and again we ask Is 1t the whisky And II
so, can't Kentucky he made to dsgorge sope of this
superior home article that seems to preserve and per-
pctuate the secret of Oratory among her sppsY