The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1881-12-31
SENATORIAL ORATORS.


upon any important measure without |
having made the most elaborate prepa- |
ration. The library is ransacked for |
books, old newspaper files are brought |
from their hooks, and cords of paper |
are used in taking notes" These |
notes are filed out, put in order, and |
then you have .tset speech"
DAVID DAVIS, PERHAPS,
more than any other senator, INDUCES
in manuscript preparing even i've
minute speech with great care. This
is his inflexible rule, and has been since
he entered public life. After he dellV-
ers his speeches, or rather after he
reads them, he hands his manuscript to
Mr.. Murphy, the senate stenographer,
who sends it to the government print
ing office. The compositors never have
any anathemas for the Judges writing.
which is large, distinct, and full OF
character.
EDMUNDs NEVER USES NOTES,
and once q speech is out of his mouth
he doesn't bother his head about it.
During all the years he has been IN the
senate he has not revised q single
speech. He turns everything in his
mind beforehand, and never rises to
address the senate without having
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what he intends saying.
BEN HILL WILL SPEAK
for three hours without scrap OF pa
| per. The only preparation he makes IS
| marking references and passages In
| this book or that. l have seen him
time and again thunder away for two
hours without stopping even for glass
| of water. He revises his speeches,
| ndH
| tions in q clear hand, much like that OF
a college boy, and gives the printers
| little trouble with his ''proof." Hill
has an astounding memory, and no
man ia public life except Edmunds'
has his imperturba- bility. The only
| man who could well worry Hill or ex-
| cite his wrath in debate,
WAS TIE LATE MATT CARPENTER.
How it. tickled Carpenter to putsome
adroit question at the Georgian and get
him confused!-a hard thing to do at
any time, but Carpenter often succeed
ed And it was more the result OF an
Irresistible propensity for fun than any
thing else, for never was man who had
less malice than Matt Carpenter. lie
had heart as big as mountain. he
was exceedingly particular about MS
| speeches when they were upon legai
questions. After he got the ''proof
from the foreman of the Record he
would hack it TO pieces, send the cor,
rected proof back, get second, ana
treat it in like manner. His writing
was characteristic, hard to read-a foi,
licking harum-scarum sort OF hsC-ailo u
a st,dy to the printers. He used to say
tn me .eTbe shortest road is the best
road when yon're in n hurry" ana
: thouoh he could write fine, full. round
D hand. he dashed off everything al
LIGHTNING speed - Another senator
! who. like Evarts, never revised
speech,
> WAS THURMAN.
Occasionally he spoke from manuscript,
> but the stenographer took down every
/, word he said, Is the old gentleman
b, would forget his manuscript ana arlit
into extemporal sloquence. Thurman
: though never n graceful speaker, was
alwaVs forcible. He was beyond al
: doubt. the ablest Of the democrats. ano
their leader from the time he entered
= the senate.
. BAYARD WORKS HARD
u at his speeches, and though he writes
S them out and fd3ows lis manuscrIp
( closely. he revise after proof Is taken
6 He makes few tlianges, however, bn
;. holds the proof 3ery often until tw'
:, O'Clock in the morning. rs he spend
his evenings genesally in social circles
He is a good psiman, writing INC
diupa-sized running hand.
LAMAR IS A sREAT REvIsER.
cuts ..proof' into EATERS, writes hor
| rible hand, and aies the soul OF
printer. Occasionally he goes dow
to the governmef printing office K
look after his sp,echps, which whel
published. are vasiy different from tn
IS stenograper's repoet of them
SENATOR coNKL Nc SELDOM MADE
II a correction of Us utterances in th
!, senate chamber He is perhaps th
n best extemporanetns speaker In TIT
a United States, ande ven his remarks Il
:. running debate ARD splendid induces o
great ability. Duing The extra session
of the Forty sixti congress he DEW
cred a speech upolsthe army approprl
alton bill without note, papers. BOOK
Z or reference of .4y kind. When til
q vice president annAnced 1.-The senate
d from New York, hip rose the statel
y form of Roscoe 0pnkling. Never DC
4 fore or since had asena'or such an az
:. dienee. He spoke for four hours. be
= fore the adiournIient of the senat
u $50, coo copies of Is speech had bee
> subscribed for. Efery printing estal
L Iisment i'll Washington sent to the sen
$ ator its ''lowest Estimate. In Vef,
!. short time Cystic. one of the best liz
i ing types. and foreman of the Co7gI'e!
sionaE Record, had the proof of til
great speech ready. He took it up t
Wormley's about nine O'Clock IN tn
morning and asked for Senator Conf
20 ling. HE is not mp yet, said til
Q priyate secretary; .'the senator break
:. fasts about eleven; however, as yoa al
: ia a hurry and want TO see after tn
sreach / shall call him. TELL Nj
a. Ser to come in-ah! how do you
Se MIR. Oystsr,' ard Lord Chesterfield
ct never was more polite than WAS Conk
D. limo il. his fig!ltshirt. After rubin
r. lis eyes lie looked nj the proof" mad
at few tliang,s, and struck out I'll
Il ..IIon. b fore. Roscoe Conkiing
y You will never find it prefxed to b
name in any sp, ech intended for geE
l. eral elistril,tltion. After he receive
the speech he wrote his thanks, vet
kindly. to f, relaan Oyster as 70
lows
% bsay I. 1872.
MI DEAR sIR:-I beg you 10 iec.ise n
than for he Bal S &C IN TOR 70
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