Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1885-04-11
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The sartcfial Peounarities OF Some OF our
Statesmen

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Washington Letter 70 Cleveland LEADER
Luke p. Poland Is the only relic of the
old statesmen Of the days of Clay, Cal
houn and Webster. He still clings TO
the sWallOW-tal coat, with the bright
gold buttons which were used by all Of
the fashionable men of that time. 1t Is
cleaner and prettier than the Prince Al
bers or the cutaWay Of the present In
fact the dress Of men has been growing
simpler during the past century. Wash
ington, who died in 1899, wore ruttes on
his sleeves, and half Of the men who
signed the Declaration Of Independence
wore powdered wigs. Jefferson spOrted
nee-breeches, and Madison was proud
of having worn a suit of clothes Of Amer
lean make at his inauguration.
Daniel Webster usually wore a suit OF
a snuff brown color, with a large, soft
necktie. Martin Van Buren, was very
fastidious about his clothes, and always
appeared during the Summer IN the
Whitest of white duck linen. His clothes
4 were cut in the latest styles, and he wore
very high stock neckties, out of which
peeped his standing collar, making his
head look like that Of John the Baptist
on a charger. Andrew Jackson also
dressed well, though he did not make
his clothes a great matter. Henry Clay
wore a swallow tail, and a standing col
an was always very precise IN his clothes,
always appearing in tulI dress. he had
a great trouble as to how he should ap-
pear when he was our Minister to Eng
land, and the discussion involved even
the Queen of England herself.
To-day half Of our public men go about
In suits as business like as those Of
bank cashier. William Walter Phelps,
with all his millions, wears clothes which
al Coz urnH q GrnPfG q red
necktie. Tom Reed dresses IN dark
tweed business clothes. Lyman, or
Massachusetts, wears a green scarf, Or
landO POtter's gray clothes would not
sell for So to a secondhand clothesman,
and the black ones of Col. WOOlfOrd, Of
Kentucky, are shiny with age. Charles
Neal, Of Philadelphia, is natty IN his
dress, and his red neckties are always
new and his collars clean. Jim Reltord,
on the other hand, sometimes wears
clothes that are positively dirty, and
they hang on his square, angular form
like the old ones of a farmer who has
framed them on cross to scare the
Grove Both Carlisle and Randall wear
little inch-wide black neckties, and both
are generally dressed in black. Both
stOOp a little and neither is very car ful
as TO his appearance. Judge Reagan, of
Texas, wears a black diagonal Prince Al
a
~ BelmOnt's little frame, every ounce OF
which can be fed with its income OF
many thousands a year, is clothed IN
closely buttOned black brOadclOth. Gov
ernor Long, VINO is to read the address
1T the dedication of the monument, has
a good tailor and his wide blue seer
sucker pants of last year made
him the envied Of all the Wash
ington dudes, but bluff Oscar Turn
Tg,-,k,-r1~vv Tho nrAlovv Of tho
Purchase often comes into the House
without a vest, and buttons his panta-
looms with a belt strap. DOrsheimer
clothes his six-fOOt form and his three
hundred pounds in black diagonal. Sam
Cox ALWAYS appears on the floor IN black,
and Horn, of Michigan, has on a suit Of
business cut and pepper and salt mate
rial. Calamity Weller's clothes are as
rough and crazy as his brain. His
Guiteau-like face looks as though it
needed a razor, and his hair always
stands on end. Phil Thompson, that
little fellow with the pleasant face and
the mild air, dresses very neatly, and his
clothes fit him. He has no look about
him which will indicate his history as
the killer of several men, and his man
ners are as gentle as those of a woman.
He is, in fact, as mild hammered man
as ever cut a throat. Phil Thompson
has twin brother who dresses just like
him, and who is his very image in face
and form. The doorkeeper cannot tell
them apart and Phil's brother, who is
not a member of Congress, and has no
right on the floor, can move in and out
of the House at will, the officers of the
House taking him for his brother. At
one time it is said that Phil was a prose-
cutting attorney in Kentucky, and not
feeling well one day, he asked his
brother to 90 and try a case for him. He
did so, and the Court did not know the
difference