The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-12-18

name in any speech intended Tor gem
sral distribution. After he received
the speech he wrote his thanks, very
kindly, to Foreman Oyster, as fol-
lows:
May 7, 1879.
MY DsAR SIR:-I beg you to receive my
,hanxs for the bound speec7, and for your
kindness t rouEaout. am RI d to have made
POUR ncquaint .ncT3 and trust my kno" you
ROSCOE CoSKLISo-
E W. OYSTER, Esq.
OF all the senator's, Conkling writes
Ihe best ~hand-large, easy, graceful
and legible. His signature, however,
would be a study TO any n not &C
quainted with il.
C. BLAINE
when a member of the senate, used TO
look carefully after his speeches. which.
Tor the most part, were made from
''headings." Probably there never
was in the United States senate a man
who needed less preparation than
James G. Blaine. He Is infallible in
history and ~impregnable In debate. His
memory OF facts and fancies Is abso-
ntely wonderful He can begin with
william the Congucror and give you
the name Of every sovereign of Eng
land down 10 Victoria, with the dates
Of their reigns. Now and then the sem
utor would give his personal attention
| TO the printing OF aspeech. One morn
ing Oyster found him busily Mt work
''cutting up copy" for the printers,
.'Hello, Oyster, I'm ahead Of you. See.
I'm dividing copy" Yes, senator. i
see you're ahead OF me; but went
home only six hours ago. and shall be
here for sixteen consecutive hours"
well, l know it's hard work, Oyster,
I've been at it and know what night
work eans.
VOORHEES, PREPARES HIS SPEECHES.
carefully and revises moderately. He
is one of the few-very few-men who
use manuscript in such a way that moi
n single oratorical grace is diminished
thereby. Whether this is because he
commits bis speech well IN the memory
or not | never could tell l rather
think he does. But, with or without
manuscript. Voorhees, is an orator oil
the first school. As a rule, the very
sight of manuscript in the hands of a
speaker is enough to nerve me for a
bore. Demosthenes was right when he
said: ''Oratory is delivery-delivery-
delivery:" and delivery is killed by
manuscript.
JONES, OF FLORIDA,
always n hard student. labors diligently
at n ''sct speech" He is p~assiouately
fond of Edmund Burke. and knows his
works rs | never knew any other to
know them. He has a memory equal
to Blaine's or Ben Hills, and time and
again have | heard him repeat page af-
ter page OF Burke's immortal speeches.
II Is the same with the speeches of Phil
lips. Grattan and O'Connell. Jones lie
II very abe man. His democracy is
extreme. but mi of politics he is one
of the clevcrcst fellows the world over.
DAVIS OF WEST VIRGINIA,
though an old member of the senate,
has made but one speech-on agricul-
ture. 1t was printed exactly rs it was
wri' ten. His remarks" are left TO the
tender mercies of the stenographer.
BECK, DAVIS COLLEGE
on the committee on appropriations, is
the most rapid talker in the house oil
congress. Well for him that the senate
has such a s~tenographer ms Denis Muir.
ply, whose hand travels oyer paper
like lightning. | doubt IL his equal
could be found anywhere. Beck is an
untiring worker, has the constitution OF
a Kentucky race horse. ard no amount
of labor is too heavy for him. He is
not much Of n r%eviser. going Oh tho
principle of Pontius Pilate-quod scrip
81, scripsi. He is MS blunt as Joey
Bagstock. and MS good na,ured as Mark
Tapleys As there are no ''icaves tc
print in the senate, no senator can
publish n speech without having at
least read It from manuscript. The
first page of the Daily Record is quite
n desideratum a. a place to air the tito
Of q speech, and many a grave senator
who would willingly sit at tho lower
end OF McGrrgor's table is 10th to have
his speech hidden in the middle of tho
Record In vain to attack Solomon's
theory about variety.