Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-15

popular. He is a natural dip lomatist.
and, suppose, will represent us abroad
under the next administration. He is
poor. FIneTty, of ChicasO-long. broad,
big-headed, staggering just a trifie,
brown OF hair and mOustache, loud and
liquid as to voice, a regular Irishman,
with all his faults and virtues. Finerty
represents the toughest Congressional
district in America, and rep
resents Il much better than il deserves,
too. His hot blood gets HIM into all sorts
OF personal difficulties; but be is always
quick alike TO repentance and forgiveness,
and he has many warm friends. Ordi-
narily, he is a very sensible fellow, like
NEST men who have succeeded as news
paper correspondents, but he is crank
on Two OF three subjects-Blaine, for eX-
ample, and dynamite, and kindred topics.
John Hancock, of Texas, another of the
retiring members, has Outliyed his use
fulness. You see him suggested Occa-
siOnally as good Cabinet material for
Cleveland, hut this is nOnsensical. He is
weak. WORKOUT old man with gray hair
and weary limbs. He bears an illustri-
record as one Of the Union men
of Texas who could not be CO.
creed into secession, and who was
expelled from the State Legislature
because he would not take the OatS of al
legiance TO the Confederate States, as we'll
as most patriotic and useful public man
since the war, but he is but the shadow of
himself. lie has a striking face crowned
with gray hair, which he brushes back
from his forehead in Andrew jackson
style. Fat little HOrr, of Michigan, has
reminded me sA winter of "Hamlet's' re-
marks to ''YOriGk's" skull. | have felt
like saying to EOrr: Where be your
jibes now, your gambols, your jokes, your
flashes Of merrimeGt that were won't to
set the House OF a roar? Not one now
70 mock Your own ijeering; quite chop
fallen" For truly, a merrIer man than
the HOrr of last winter and a sadder man
than the Horr of the winter it would be
hard to find. You see he is and was a
regular Blaineac. Re believed all Mr..
Blaine's claims. He does not fully
believe now that Blaine was beaten
and HOrr with him. You see Horn
lives in the lumber region of Michi-
gan, which Blaine moved TO tears by
some saw-dust sentimentslity, and Horn
thought sure that Michigan would give
Blaine $4,000 or 100000 ma 9riIy. But it
didn't. 1t didn't even re-elect Horr. Horn
was cut out for a circus clown. Pm told
he was one once. If net, he certainly
ought to have been. He is short, fat and
pudgy. He has gray hair, which rises 10
a tuft over his forehead aud a long gray
tJlft on his chin. He used 70 be as lively
as a cricket in the House, bat this session
he has seemed to be dazed. l
guess he is. He looks like a clown
who has been out all night in the rain.
The bright color has been washed off,
and With it his perpetual smile. l don't
know what he's going to do. He is poor
and ct emily for Ofice-holding. and he
probably won't be kept busy at that for
the next four years. Keller is Just such
another, except That he is a knaYe. and
that he has a small Ohio fortune. keifer
is a beefy. bulky, pushing fellow. with
Ohio written al over him. He is a per-
feet hog, and consequently unpopular
even with the men in the Republican
party who have peEIled their regulations
in trying TO patch up his. 1t is the irony
Of fate that tuis man, whose damn the
press Will never be forgotten in Washing
ton, should now be earning part OF his
income by writing for the newspapers.
He VIII relapse into the "WashingtOn
lawyer" class after March 4. That is,
he Will become a claim agent.
If Keller is the typical Ohio
politician. Col. Theodore Lyman, OF
BrOOkline, Mass, is the typical Massa-
chusetts gentleman. His fine figure and
noble head have rendered him very
conspicuous 20 the galleries, while
his cleVerness, his culture and his
courtesy have endeared him to every
man of sense on the floor. He
is most delightful companion and a
most faithful friend-a man absolutely
above reproaeh in every relatIOn-blessed !
with an ample fortune, an admirable edu-
cation, charming manner and much
genuine elOquence. He has been here
only two years, yet he knows everybody !
and everything worth knowing. and is
treated as though he was one of the old !
members. His constituents made q great !
mistake in suppIanting him with an ordi- !
nary politician. His absence will be
greatly regretted, but not more than that |
of Leopold Morse. This genial B0stOnian |
'-nOws every man in public life; he knows !
al "a details of public business in and |
M ~ 20. 0gress; he has more personal in |
luercs tim ny other member from New |
~ a. ~Sttuents have allowed !
nm 70 ratira MS T TIl I'll regret it. OF
course, he seanted to go. II ~ ~ - Su u
cOngr SIS. He came here in Ia. Ui;tH-
nth Congress, although you would th-uA
ne mad been here from the Tnirty.htth,
and soon made place for himself InerH
is no doubt about his place now, for he
has been very successful. The same
sterling qualities that gained
him q fortune gained him a prom
nent place in the House, and he has ev-
man, with a large, finely formed head and |
light hair and beard. He makes a good |
speech. plays a good game of whist, is
great diner-Out and is never so happy as /
when doing friend favor, especially If |
he's constituent. Tom OchIltree needs |
no further description from me. 1t is
enough TO say that that red-headed, cross
aved Texas ranger is about to retire from !
public life. Since, in his own /
words, after fighting through the
war on the Confederate side, |
he accepted the situation, after the ces-
satiOn of hostilities," of United States
Marshal Of Texas, he has always held |
either a State or Federal office. | don't |
see how be is 10 get on without one, but /
then l don't see how he can get one under .
the next administration. Old Luke PO- |
land. the last brass-buttoned, blue swal- f,
lOw-tail statesman in the House, is among !
the departing Congressman. He Is get |
ting old and White-haireQ, white-wbie- /
kered and venerable IN appearance. He |
goes back to his comfortable home in Yer |
mont to practice law prOtitaOly In the !
DAYTIME and think over his career re- |
pentantlv at night. O-Be-Joyful Potter, |
of New York, gray-haired, gray-bearded |
millionaire of the cold New England !
tvpe, whose boast Is that he planned the |
present national banking system; Gen. |
ROsecrane, "Old Rosy" whose Con- |
gressional career has been rather unim- |
portant, and who is growing gray and
wrinkled as he verges toward 20; Phil.
Thompson, of Kentucky, small, mild,
smiling young man, with very thin,
shrill voice and q very quiet, determined
manner, who wants to be Commissioner
of Internal Revenue; John ID. White, OF
Kentucky, a slim young man with much
black han and black whiskers, who is a
crank for Congressional notOriety only,
and as sensible as the rest of us outside,
and John S. Wise of Virginia, the smooth
faced, wren-like son of Henry A. Wise
and faithful lieutenant of Malone, are
also to be numbered among the 'killed,
wounded or missing" on the Congress
siOnal battle field whose names will be
struck from the active list in March.
THE FIRST THREE PRESIDENTS.
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