The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-05-06
How Representative Holman Is Re-
spected in WashingtOn-Manic-
ipaI Elections in Indiana
Yesterday.
A Building in Brooklyn, New York,
Caves In and Then Takes Fire
Many Persons Roasted
to Death.
REPRESENTATIVE HOLMAN.
The High Respect IN which he Is deid In
Washing gton-secretary stanton.


Special 10 the Sentinel.
WASHINGTON Msy 5.-The hardest worker
1 have met is Mr.. Holman. and no member
of the Indiana delegation is accorded larger
respect IN Washington. His own district. If
possible, exceeds no other section OF the
country in paying him honor. His judgment
is asked on interests from all points and
rendered with scrupulous exactness. The
influential position he holds quickens
State pride and he grows on the
Hossiers ss they near him. He not
only has the learning in governmental al
fairs that results from long service, but the
polite learning that would introduce him
into any company, or solsce his solitude that
comes of close study. To him there is SER
mon in the stones. music in running brooks,
and more tnan bright empurpled beauty in
bed OF flowers. He is never IN q hurry and
always hurryipg; always ct leisure to dis.
| pose of business as it comes up. To callers
be gives every shining hour, aud devotes
himself sssidrously to one OF the largest cor
| Iespondence in Washington at night. To
| have been twenty years in Congress, he must
be much more than an ordinary man, aud
| during Oh interview this fact becomes pal
| pable.
Few can have forgotten that Mr.. Holman
| was The New York Suns candidate for Presi-
| dent. Some People were disposed to treat
| this advocacy as a piece of insincerity. /
remember that the subject once came up in
a general conversation among a party OF
| Democrats when Mr.. Hendricks was present.
| "No,n he answered III am dlsp ,sed TO regard
| Mr.. Dana candid in his estimation of Mr..
Holman. There is much in bis character
| and the history OF his service to attract the
admiration OF such man as Mr.. Dana. Mr..
Holman is scholarly, accomplished, and, Of
! all the legislators, one of the most careful.
His Congressional course, in It's fidelity to
| great interests, is absolutely above criti-
] cism."
| Lately during an agreeable half-hour in
Mr.. Holman's Office asked him, Are you
intimately acquainted with Mr.. Dana?" He
laughed knowing full we'll what was in my
mind. Il merely know Mr.. Dana" was the
snswer. II met him frequently during the
war, and once during his last visit to this
| city. By invitation of the gentleman at
whose house he was stopping, passed . most
agreeable afternoon in his company"
what was your impression of him?'
He Impressed me as q man of tremendous
| reserve power, whom was forced to COM
! pare to Stanton" Everything relating to
! the iron Secretary OF War possesses uncom-
mon interest to me, and inquired, "Do you
believe, with some people, that Stanton was
4 -. = al~~k
Stanton died Of overwork. trouble and com.
| plete exhaustion. While a tyrant, remorse-
| lSs in the discharge OF q conceived d1ty,
| Stanton was q martyr to his country. re-
member visiting him one day in the interest
OF man originally from my district in
| Indiana, who had knowu some sxpe.
rience in the regular army, and who
wanted q commission. This msn had his
tory. He had disappeared from the com-
| munity in which / was raised when quite
young. No one seemed to know anything
about him. That was long bstore the var.
He had completely faded from my mir d,
when one day he appeared before me, mide
| himself known, and asked me as an old
friend I'VE had been boys together-I was
then Member OF Congress) to 20 with him
to the Secretary CT War, saying th.t
he bad served in the regular army,
in General Tsie's command, if my
memory is correct. / responded cheer
fully, and al hour was fixed for
next morning. When the hour came l
could not compute the hundreds, standing
IN line breast TO back awaiting their turn.
had fine opportunity for studying Stan
ton, and left his presence full of admirttion
for bis wonderful ability. To one, an Off ,er
| in uniform. the Secretary said: sD1stor.
you are charged with haviag allo we'd
a boat loaded with wounded aud
invalid soldiers. that arrived st this point
| early in the evening, 10 remsin all night,
the men dying OF insttention, when a re-
| novel would have saved many q life In
| stead of either seeing or directing them TO
the hospital, you sought hotel With Pc.
feet in6ifferen &c and DID not appear mt
| next morning. What have yon 20 say?
Tee secretary stood erect, eyeing him in.
tently, and every word seemed to barn.
Tne Doctor explained with some fervo-
that he hsd been sick; thar even on that
| particular evening his hesitn was bal The
| Secretary seemed TO completely relax dur
ing the recital, but the Doctor halted, went
| back some months and came sgaln, making,
On the whole. a verv lame excuse, with some
| impudence-impud because OF the defect.
"Have VOC anything further 10 say?'
II believe not" answered The Doctor.
instantly Stanton was changed man. He
! bad already assumed two distinct character
| iktics. There wss q terrible ~ re In his eve.
He became all fapgs and claws As with the
paws OF sild beast he reschsd out both
hands and tore the shoulder.straps from the
officer and then throwing lhsu ct him ejssu-
lated in yoics that was iearfol, 80, sir.
goi Away"
My man was TIE next. and, turning TO