National Republican., 1884-03-01
ON THE AVENUE.
Small TSIi, About Men and Measures.


Small TRlit About Men and Measures.
&c haven't heard Congressman James Clay, |
from my state. speak in the house yet" said !
the Kcntuckian, but predict that ho will
mako for himself q reputation as an orator.
havo heard him speak many times and re-
member one occasion when his ability TO talk
without the slightest preparation was put to
tho test most severely. 1t was several years
ago, when the kentucky press association
visited the city of Henderson, whore Clay
| lives. Tho mayor of the town was an old
| Dutchman, whose qualities were not such as
| to cause him to shine ou state occasions In
fact the citizens were ashamed of him, and
! desperate effort had been made to coach him
for tho public welcome which it was proposed
to give to the press association. The eccen
trio editor of local paper had written
speech of welcome, and q crazy retired
| Methodist preacher undertook to teach il to
the Dutch mayor and instruct him concern
I ing the use Of his hands. You can imagine
what n state Of mind the oldTDutch mayor
was in when no stood up to deliver that
speech Murat Halstead, Henry Watterson,
and other distinguished gentlemen who don't
usually 20 about with press associations
happened to be present. The Dutch mayor
started out bravely with the speech written
for him by an editor and taught TO him by q
preacher: Shentlemen of der press associa.
tion ov kentucky said he, i, in der name
ov dor city of Henderson, Welcome you to
herr There he stuck. He thought tho
next word was hospitals, but that didn't seem
just right, and he wasn't sure; so, after hosi-
tating n moment, he turned and said with
desperate earncstness: Here's Meester Clay,
he'll tell you all aboud i'd Then he sat
down amid great applause. Clay was your
lawyer then, although 1 think he had served
one term in the Kentucky state senate. His
face grew very red but he Immediately rose
and mado one of the best speeches ever
heard"
"Mr Randall sits on the hearts of these
whisky men," said the gentleman from
Georgia, "like horrible nightmare. They
are afraid Of him. The whisky men expect
to get their bill before the house and passed
next Tuesday. They are shivering with the
fear that Randall will come in with an ap-
preparation bill which will take precedence
of the whisky bill and postpone it inden.
nitely. Nobody has heard Mr.. Randall say,
as far as l know, why no is opposed to tho
whisky bill, but tho whisky men say it is
because he wants all the internal revenue
taxes abolished, thereby getting rid of the
surplus in the treasury, and forcing the gov
ernment to retain the present tariff in ordcr
to pay expenses"
go
Along newspaper row tho ordinary form
OF salutation is Got anythingY The
n
ally the correspondent addressed does have
bit of news and communicates it. Then the
other correspondent is happy and makes
special dispatch of what he learns. The truth
of the statements made is never questioned.
Mr. John b. Mccarthy, of the Baltimore Sun,
understood this and took advantage of the
contiding nature of the young men who send
news from Washington. He evolved from
his inner consciousness far reaching conf
dence game which should take in" the people
of every state in tho union 1t was last Thurs
day. The first correspondent to say, Got
anything?" to him was gentleman from
} Georgia. "Yes," said Mccarthy, 'Ive got a
little thing. Make good paragraph for a
, Georgia paper"
What is it?"
"A party of young ladies from Georgia
went to Mount Vernon yesterday. don't
know all their names, but Miss Laura Spec r
and Miss jessie Hammond were among them.
Miss Speer is fine singer, and the other
young ladies are musical They organized a
! little concert in the Georgia room of the
) Washington mansion, and delightfully."- enter
tanned the numerous visitors"
} The Georgia correspondent was glad and
| ha
to question Mccarthy was an Indiana corre-
| spondent. Exactly the same conversation
took place between them, except that Georgia
} was changed to Indiana, and the young
, ladies were Miss Holman and Miss Calkins.
D When New York correspondent met
him, of course the concert was given by
party of young ladies from New York
, in the New York room" of the mansion. So
the thing went on, and, according to Nc
Carthy, taking them all together, there must
Q have been several hundred daughters and
3 young lady cousins of congressman and sena.
tors at Mount Vernon last Wednesday.
. The result Of McCsrthy's little scheme was
; that the people Of nearly every state in the
union read in their home newspapers on Fri
f day morning that the rooms in the Washing
I ton mansion named after their states were
b filed with the music Of the sweet voices o.
c young ladies from their own state last Wednes
, day afternoon.
o s*e
Q do you know that we are getting very
Q tired of Mr. Randall's methods" said al
n Iudianian to the Avenue Man.
:, whats the trouble nowP"
,. We'll, we think it about time that thu
d chairman of the appropriations committed
q should attend 10 his business and put tn
\, appropriation bills through. We know wha
d his game is. and in fact, he has admitteI
8, that he has laid his plans to delay the worl
D of his committee, and expects to utilize tn
of pending appropriation bills to antagoniz
any and all tariff Legislation
% that does not square with hi
u Pennsylvania protection ideas Those of u
t. who worked earnestly to secure the eectio
of Mr. Carlisle to the speakership warned hin
he whom he was forming his committees that
le would be hazardous to select Mr.. Randall fc
|" so important craftsmanship as that of th
~ oopn ,ittoa nm annrnnriationa To ha exnlici