, 1880-10-16
~ - After I anne.

Under this caption the Youngstown,
{Ohio) Register, gives its opinion Of the
dciDgs of Mr. Tlos. II. Brents, our dele
gate in congress. This article was copied
into many prominent and influential cas-
tern newspapers. This is the only record
Mr. Brents made for the money he re-
ceived and We wouldsimply ask theyotersof
Washington territory TO read 1t and then
oteaccordingtod dictates of common sense.
"What is the use of being elected to con-
gress if it be not followed by notoriety Of
some sort The delegate from Washing
ton territory had some such conception Of
what was expected of him, and knew that
/. would never do for him to seek the
shining shores of the Pacific or to look on
the mighty frs Of Puget Sound, whose
lofty tops whisper to to the upper air their
sombre secrets, and out of whose unmeas-
ured trunks great cities might be hewn,
without achieving for himself a name and
fame.
One Of the principal businesses Of n
territorial delegate at Washington, is tt
advertise his territory, to make people
talk about it, and force inquiry into its
resources. The present delegate from
Washington has passed along without see
ing any mention of his presence IN the
National Capitol in the metropolitan press
OF the country, and he awoke TO the neces,
sity Of doing something startling lie
would have made a speech If he could
he would have introduced bill if he
could have caught the eye of the speaker
he would have written poem If the fastl'
dious muse had ever for moment deigned
TO smile upon him. As it was, he was
compelled TO get along without any OF
these things but he must do something
before the close Ct the session or admit
himself failure
Accordingly he went to secondhand
clothing establishment and bought a suit
nf clothes for fifteen dollars, risking in
the venture about one days salary as a
congressman. He may have expected
that the fifteen dollar suit itself would
have won him Immortality, but it didn't,
and SO he resolved on the second step in
quest Of glory, I'D took bis fifteen dollar
suit back again and demanded return Of
the fifteen dollars purchase money The
second hand dealer demurred to this pro-
pesal. and the delegate. sure now that he
was on the, high reed to a, resounding
fame, went around the corner apd EN-
plcyed an attorney, and sued the second
hand dealer for his fifteen dollars. He
knew that it would cost n,ore than fifteen
dollars to prosecute the action but then
II was . cheap way of obtaining An adver-
tisrment for himself and hts TERRITORY
and he did no. shrink.
He sued the second hand dealer for the
fifteen dollars and claimed right to re-
eovsr on the ground that the secondhand
dealer aforesaid hsd agreed 10 take the
clothes and give him his money back, in
case the fifteen dollar suit was not perfect
ly satisfactory, but the second hand deale;
in clothes hired lawyer also, and met the
delegation from far of Washington, the
t rritory ve mean, in the presence of the
court, and solemnly swore that he onl,
agreed to make What was vrorg about the
suit right, if anything wrong was diseov-
cred, aud % presented his case, and 50
worked on the intellec: and heart of the
court that . remotely Possible United
State senator fa,led 70 get back his fifteen
doIlsrx He walked from the court room
beaten. but happy. II wasn't the fifteen
dollars that he was after, nor the snit OF
: c,athes that he xas anxious to get nd OF.
He vas on the search for renown, and the
,apers hsve very generally accommodated
lin We should like to prove equally
oblising, but really We have forgotten A's
/, name. INIT his constituents awfy on In
shs ncs<huest have not and vii not