Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1883-02-02
Presidential Aspirants.
A Glance at Some of Them
from the Senate Gallery.
William Window Very Rap
idly Losing Ground in
Minnesota.
Senatorial Aspects in Other States
Presidential Aspirants.
AMONG TIE SENATOR'S.

freSluentlAI ASplrantS.
AMONG TIE SENATOR'S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.-Looking down
from the senate gallery you will see
twenty men, all in one room, who want
to be president. The best looking
one is
PENDLETON.
He is man of impressive appearance
and is one of the most gorgeous enter
tainers in Washington. In the view of
those entertained, this is one of the
greatest qualifications for the position
of chief executive. But it is not the
only stock in trade of. Mr.. Pendleton,
for he is skillful politician and has
the faculty of hanging on through
thick and thin. He is the handsemest,
most treacherous, most polished and
courteous, and most talked about of
any man in the senate.
JOHN SHERMAN,
the other Ohio senator, still cuts very
conspicuous figure in the legislative
branch Of the government, but as a
candidate for president he only re-
minds the beholder of some "grand
old ancient ruin" Sherman grows
better looking with age, and the
flood of years" has melted much
of the ice which for so long sur
rounded him. But still he is soured
mana man with bitter recollection
of being "taken in and done for" by
those who should have been his stead
fast friends in 1880. He was the victim
of treachery in Ohio, and the wrong
will never be righted. He is lucky to
have refuge in the senate; and in
stead of feeding the fires of higher am
bition which doubtless will rage within
him, ne would do well to look out for
q return to that body. The accom-
plishment which gave Sherman his
presidential strength is now an old
story, and he hasn't even as good q
chance for occupying the white house
as
DAVID DAVIS,
who sits like a mountain in the chair
of the senate, David looks more like
an obese curiosity than a man fit for
the walks Of craftsmanship, and
the wonder is how man so
gross in body can prod his brain
to activity. Davis goes out of the
senate without having satisfied the
hopes which led him from life posi-
ton on the supreme bench to the field
of active politics: but he has never alb
solutely left the fence, and may come
into prominence again in the crash of
parties and the wreck of politicians
THOMAS F. BAYARD
has come to be regarded as one of the
race-course; but the first obstruction
in his path is the fact that the state of
Delaware is not large enough home
base for so much of a man. Even
the powerful influence of the Bel
monts, and the backing of the banks,
is not a force great enough, even
when added to Bayard's own intel
ectual strength and character as
Senator, to lift the head man in a
melon patch like Delaware to the first
place in the first republican govern
ed world. Indeed, it is almest dis
tressing to gaze upon the
MIGHT-HAvE BEENs
in the senate. There is the pudgy
Window, of Minnesota, who went
west from Ohio, and who, probably
first presuming on that promising
circumstance, has been spoiled by
being elevated to the cabinet, and by
bein, voted for in the last republic IN
national convention. Windom's tough
struggle for return to the senate is not
catapult act in the direction
of the successorship to Arthur
There is Edmunds, the grizzly old
New England senator, brainy and hon.
est, and one of the great sustaining
powers of the republican party in con-
gress; but he is not in iminent danger
of being poisoned by the malaria of
the white house. The rugged Beck, of
Kentucky, is not eligible to the p1esi-
dency, and great is the pity. He was
born in Scotland, and you might guess
it by looking at him. Dan Voorhees,,
your Indiana democratic neighbor, is
too outspoken and positive to train for
the presidency, and is understood to
be happy in the hope of succeed
ing himself in the senate. Ben
Harrison, who is occasionally trotted
out on the republican side because he
is tie grandson of his grandfather, and
because he lives in a state which has
been invested with much consequence
in two presidential campaigns, doesn't
tower up in the presidential timber.
You have to visit Morton's monument
now to cite republican, of much ac-
count in Indiana.