Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
SEN A TORIAL SCRAWIS.


Tn the same way the characteristic some
of the Senators may be seen in their au
tographs. Lucius Quintius Lamar writes
as though he were monk in some old
monastery of the fifteenth century. The
letters ale small and neat and made in
the up.aud down strokes in vogue before
Spencer invented his curves and loops,
It is scholarly hand, and its warmer.
think, than that of George Frisbe Hoar's
which stands upon the paper as cold as
Massachusetts, and as reserved as Boston,
without Period or a redundant flourish,
and abbreviated at every point.
The late Senator Anthony wrote hand
modelled on the tracks in the mind Of his
big turkey farm in little Rhode Island.
The "y'' at the close of bis autograph
has flourish like big turkeys claw,
and it ends in n knob like the bone end
Of the same. The hand of David Davis
is as heavy as himself. He uses blue ink
and punctuates proiusely. Howell Jack
son, of tennessee, writes an oldtime hand
Senator Pugh, Of Alabama, scribbles in
acute angles, and lsbam 6. Harris throws
his pen about bodily as though he knew
john A. Logans signature takes up
half a page, and it is like nothing outside
of the hieroglyphics IN the subterranesn
tomb of Ii. 1t is as bold and aggressive
as Logan's own character, aud he closes
st with dasEing curve half as big as the
word which he carried during the war
Senator Edmunds has also An illegible
| signature, but it looks more like the sign
on Chinese tea box than the Egyptian
scrawl of Logan. Senator Fry writes his
name, State. and date without taking bis
pen from the paper, an emblem of quick
ness on the part of the Senator. Camden,
of West Virginia, and Jones of Florida,
have the same style of handwriting and
Ingalls,, of Kansas; Ransom, OF North
| Carolina; Bayard, of Delaware, and little
General Hale, OF Maine, all use up and
| down strokes, and write as if they were
no, ashamed of their names. Senators
Sherman, Vest and Angus Cameron all
have small, finely written signatures, but
VOORHEES, writes with a bold goosequil
| flourish clustering hand, and Ben Har-
rison evidently uses a steel pen
Philetus Sawyer, the millionaire of
Wisconsin, prints his signature; Warner
Miller uses goosequil; Plumb, of Kan
sas, writes hand which would delight
the old printers who set type FOR him
when he was editing country newspa-
per, and Senator Sewell, of New Jersey,
uses more ink than any other man in the
Senate.
Mcmillan, of Minnesota, puts long
flourish under his signature. and pens
his letters in bold, straight strokes. Van
Wyck, OF Nebraska, has signature like
q green schoolboy's. and his letters are
half like capitals and hal: small letters,
he puts his residence in all his autographs,
and gives the day and 5steaof his writing
Eli salisbury writes on a straight line
across the page, and he evidently has a
mathematical eye. Senator Tabor's sig
nature is the best thing about him Sen
ator Garland, of Arkansas, writes like
copper-plste, and Senator Call. OF Flori-
ds, has whip-like flourish under his name
which looks as though maiden's hand
had pcnned it. German, of Maryland,
writes big, bold hand. It 10 the frst
of a baseball player and man in s0und
physical condition. Hill, of Colorado,
writes well, but the autographs OF Beck
and Joe Browo look Oh If they were
scrawlsd off with the wrong end Of q
goose quill.
Take the Senators, ell in al, and they
ars as good q set of psnmen 40 you will
6nd in any bedy Of the kisa. They
write. - rule, palmer than the msm-
hsss Of the House, some OF wkem can
hasily read their own writiAg.--Cosp
Go ClscsIaad Leader.