The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-03
MEN OF THE PEOPLE.
Distinguished Personages Gathered ct the
Grant Obseouiee.

Possibly so many distinguished men
have never before been. brought to-
gether in New York on any one COCA
sion. In the groups that gathered
now and again, there were to be seen
the incised features of Senator Evarts;
''the cultured Lincoln, as I heard him
called; Senator Morrill,, of Vermont,
tail, stoop-shouldered, with a white,
student face, something in appearance
like Charles Summers, but not so
heavy or leonine and vigorous; short
and inclined to be stout, with soldier
~ mustache and goatee, gold eye-glass-
es and light SLOUGH hat, and hand
some and dapper enough for the admit
ration of all the fair sex; Senator
Warner Miller, with his large round
face, blonde mustache, heavy weight
and slow movement; John Sherman,
erect and angular as guide-post. with
his keen face lifted above all his fell
lows; Senator Isham G. Harris of Ten
nessee, with bald and shining head;
ex-President Hayes, with sandy hair
and freckled face, stouter than OF yore;
ex-President Arthur, also grown trifie
grey and little stout, elegant in at
tire, as always; ex-Attorney General
Pierrepont, who, by his cut of whiskers
and facial expression, might have
stepped from q picture of a Puritan
gathering into his modern garb and
naedern surroundings; the smooth
shaven, wrinkled and smiling visage of
Governor Oglesby, of Illinois; Henry
Watterson, in a brown business suit,
brusque and nervous, with his head
turned slightly to one side and moving
constantly about to secure for his one
eye the vision of two; Murat Halstead,
with Field Marshal air, and mustache
and goatee white as the driven snow;
Speaker Carlisle, with a dark suit
strangely in contrast with high white
hat, under which the same cynical
smile is constantly to be seen on his
bare face; Samuel j. Randall, standing
by him. heavier in form, larger in mold
| and feature, with the same thin-lpped
smile, but dressed in better taste, Gen.
n. P. Banks, of Red river fame. These
| and hundreds of others command at
tention, by reason of their prominence
| in public life or their personal appear
ance. Nearly all OF the throng have
/ risen, as Grant rose, from the ordinary
| walks of life. 1t is a revelation of the
possibilities of the new world, of which
| General Grant wrote to General Buck
| ner, 81 know now the value of our in
| heritance." / saw General Sherman
moving about the Fifth Avenue Hotel
| corridors in an old straw hat, an alpa-
| ca blouse with q single button, and a
| pair of battered slippers, and then
| blOssoming out in full uniform, tall,
| erect, martial and proud, fine type
| of the American citizen soldier. The
| quaint manners and the freedom with
| which he can be approached by any
one and every one, are not least of the
features of his character that draw
men involuntarily TO like ''Old Tecum-
seh," the leader of the March to the
Sea, that cut the rebellion in two. Al
together different is General Phil Sheri-
dan, who went about with his brother,
Colonel mike" Sheridan, who is fire.
quently mistaken for him, as sort of
| twin Sheridan, in a crowd, and would
| be picked out by q stranger as a pros
| porous turtman. In civilians dress he
looks as if he had just stepped out of a
bandbox, except that his face is bronzed
and Redeemed. His suit of grey En-
glish goods fits him like wax. In the
| Wearer of high white hat it would be
difficult to discover off-hand the hero
| of Winchester and the gallant cavalry
! man who cut out the Confederacy at
| Richmond. These men were Grant S
foremost heutenants. In the group OF
Senators called here by the Vice-Presi-
dent. third type of soldier was pre-
sented to view in the swarthy face and
raven mustache OF General Logan,
who, perhaps, more than any other
man, is to-day the Iavorite of the vol
unteer soldiery, whose deeds and valoI
saved the Union. 1t would be hard to
find, the country over, or the world
over, a handsomer typical warrior than
General Hancock, whose $50 pounds
are carried in military harness with 9
martial air and gallantry beyond al
criticism. These four men, like Gen.
Grant are of humble origin.
CHANGING through the gathering
crowds l saw General Lew Wallace
looking sober and thoughtful, through
gold-bowed spectacles under a brown
SLOUGH hat. but missed his fellow officer
General McClernand, who fell with hin
under the wrathful criticism of GRAM
at Shiloh and Donelson. General Wal
lace has acted with a manly dignity il
the matter that / hear is likely to b.
rewarded, though ne may not know it
by words of justice to him which Gen
Grant has written and left behind il
his memoirs. General Wallace has
claimed that. but for himself and Nc
Clernand, Grant would have beer
crushed in either of those battles.
Grant should have so written it, Wal
lace may well have waited in silenc,
until now.-M r ITi6uRe's "Group;
at the Hotels"