Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-06-17
speech making.

There are few really good takers in
Ctpgtes5 that "a, Men who are dis
lnynished for thei, cratofy and rheto-
rio. Senator Conkliug heads the list OF
the hest. Conkling's speeches never
peod revision. Senator EjEunds
makes his spec ches and then Is done
with them. He is so careful With what
he says end does that he can never be
picked up on All utierance. The brill
liant Matt Carpenter was always IL
neck of trouble when he made speech.
C.rpenter was averse to study, and
relied upon his memory, which grew to
he family. He always revised his
speeches, tore them to pieces and re-
built. interlined, crossed out, and made
frigh.fal looking proof sheet. Then
he always insisted upon getting he
messenger from the printing office
"fuil" when the latter was sent for
his copy. Carpenter always den or
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upon a night when he would make
great eliot in the Senate. Judge
! Thur,n ans speeches never needle re-
vision, except to see If the quoted au-
/ thori:ies were correct. Senator Bayard
/ is one Of the most pleasing speakers on
/ the Democratic side. ana he generally
glaI ces ov,r tie proof to see that no
mistakes creep in. General BdrDside
repeats himself il about every ten SEN
ie: ces, and is apt to become nervous.
Ben Hill fires away in sledge-hammer
st, lie of ora;ory, and, no matter how
trivial the matter may be, will work
himself up to fever heat and expend
| as much earnestness as if great things
were to be accomplished. Morgan, of
! Alabama, is another ID 5mocratlc orator
possessing the distinctive peculiarities
If the takers Of tie South. A gallery
| lCunger can tell in second from What
section Of the country speaker Gomez.
/ rhe pecuiiarities of dialecI are marked
in tho representative men the same as
| IN In. lower Glasses of society i'll their
vicinity. Over in the House" Sunset !"
Cox causes ttouble to the printers. He
always prepares his speeches and re-
viscs them. He writes OH all sorts of
paper. Oue page may be yellow. an
otLer white, third leat from book.
Then his bat d .rit,ng is not letter press;
50 Cox is dreaded. Randall revises
cttEy epCCCl uC SCAClhl
| White had a habit of sending for books
during debates until his desk Was
Uttered. and he could scarcely be seen.
By the time he found the au, hOrity de-
sired debate would be exhausted, and
| he would produce scare, nothing
more. This was an old trick of White 8.
The most remarkable instance of the
fleet Of talking is that which Mr..
BlOuOt's voics has upon u j 'urnaiIst
who is we'll known heIe. Bluunt has
the pure, unaduiterated Southern nc
cent, and il inciiued to be harsh,
without meaning 1t. a few years ago
young In "a. who was student at the
Annapolis Academy, WAS detected in a
hazing scrape. The latter came before
| Congress and Mr.. Blount inside q VIC
lent speech against the naval cadets
One of the young men occupied g. seat
in the gallery, and the effect of Blount's
speech, coupled with the thought OF
being dismissed from the academy, was
such that he became violently ill and
had to be carried from the Capitol.
Later in his career he brsnched out as
a journalist, and was assigned to duty
n the House gallery. B,ount arose to
speak, and the reeOllections OF past
events came SO wildly to the young
mans mind that he again became i'll.
lie tried in vain, day after day, to con-
quer the feeling. but it WAS found to be
impossible. Every time Biount spoke
he became sick. At last he was COM
PEELED to relinq uish his position Oh
this account. Even to this day that
gentleman rever appears in the House
gallery for fear of Blount.
The great debates are confined to the
Senate, and the crop is being fast
thinned on, there. The retirement OF
Wallace. Thurman aud Blaine and the
death of Carpenter took away four of
tho most brilliant men at a swOop.
1t costs $50. 900 per year for the mere
jotting down of the remarks OF the
Congressman. The crops of official
stenographers, both in the Senate and
House, is probably the best in the
United States. Every word uttered is
recorded. and many Q Congressman is
surprised the next morning to find in
the Congressional Record some remark
which was hardly intended for publica-
ton. 1t requires u resolution to ex-
punge the annoying paragraph, fact
which REQUIRES members to be careful
what they say Philadelphia RECORD.