National Republican., 1882-12-09
THE COLONEL HAS COME,
But Wo Havnt Been Compelled to Widen the
Avenue
ro" oo,,IErce and His Recent Canvas,
in Texas.

Col. Tom Ochiltree, congressman-ele elect from
Texas, arrived in Washington yesterday, a
bright and buoyant beam from the wreck In
the great southwest. lie held an informal
Iovee wherever he CHANGED to locate for the
moment last evening, and received endless
congratulations on account of his famous
victory" He says he rode, Walked and ran
through every county Of his district, which
embraces Il territory three or four times as
largclaS Massachusetts,, ovcrcaIne an adverse
majority of 5000 and obtained his seat by
nearly 1000 majority, with several New
Mexican, Colorado, Arizona, and Sonora
townships yet TO hear front
A reporter asked the colonel if he had heard
OF sam kandalfs remark that the avenue
would probably have to be widened the day
that Tom took his seat in congress" "
The Texas colonel laughed and answered,
That may be. / don't feel broadened out to
any alarming extont yet, but you can say
this, that the district authorities will have to
make Pennsylvania avenue mile wide before
] VIII consent to vote for Sam Randall for
speaker"
""nat caucus will you go into in the next
con8ress?" quericd the reporter, land who
will you vote for for speakcr2"
Col. Ochiltree smiled good-humoredly and
replied: " don't want to get too far ahead OF
| the procession. Come round in about year
and I'll tell you confdentially about that"
Ne'o Torh Sportsman.
We have had long, interesting, and
pleasurable acquaintance with Maj. Tom
Ochltree, and with our graphic and cs
teemed correspondent " Ranger" but ac-
cOrding to all accounts from the south the
Hon. Tom is likely to be II cut above us in
the future. He has carried q demo-
cratic district which formerly gave 5000
majority by $500 for the republican party.
Furthermore, he has been dined and
,l (,I.
the business mon" think there will be no
representative reaches congress. The Hon.
Tom Ochiltrce is an able man. and he may
have slightly gammoned the voters of the
Galveston district in respect of deep water
on the bar" Mortiner'8 son being stolen in
his infancy was bound prentice 10 a brick.
layer. That son Gn T. # u
There shall be no more nobility
throughout thisreahn OF England, fourpenny
loaves shall be sold for Il halfpcnny, the three
hOopcd pot shall now have ten hoops and l
will make it felony TO drink small beer" 1t
appears that some of the BUSINESS men were
told by the democracy that the Hon. Tom was
dissolute and sport. Lord, how this world
is given to lying Our esteemed con
temporary of the Galveston Neics saws, " If
he is nothing at all why did the seventh dis
tIict elect himY Now that is just what
everybody out of the seventh district wants
to know. The NeWS adds "There must be
something in the man" We should think
so after the banquet given to him at the Tre-
mont house by about thirty of the most promi-
ent business men of Galveston. There are
upon the "menu" (that word is French and
Tom should have stuck to Texan) sent to us
by the proprietQrs of the fremont, eight
courses, and eight sorts of wine and punch.
Good but where did the " deep water"
come in?