The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-05-19
Senatorial JeaIousies.

Senator's have to be very careful what they
say about each other. The least thing will
make quarrel. Pretty much every body be-
lieves nowadays that the defeat of the Re-
publican party was due to Mr.. Blaines
tuTkey-cOck epithet which he fastened upon
Roscoe COnkling. A bright, keen thing said
by one public man about another is pretty
sure 10 live. Nobody ever looks at old Joe
Brown without thinking of Senator ingalls,
picture of the old man washing his hands
with invisible soap in imperceptible water.
Oid Joe himself made comment on Ben
Hill that made the two enemies for life.
Somebody asked Governor Brown what he
thought of Ben Hill. Old Joe said, in his
quaint way: "MeeSter Hill is q very good
gentleman, but be lack judgment" This re-
Ply, made with his deliberate pronunciation
Of final syllableS, in a way that caused a great
deal Of humor in the Senate came round to
Ben Hill and he never atterTari spoke to
Zoe Brown. 1t is very easy tblns 70 strain
tie relations between two ambitious me1,
especially if they come from the same State.
Republicans watch with humorous curiosity
the relations between Plumb and ingalls,.
The two do not exactly affiliate. but they
manage to get along without an open tight
They are very unlike in temperament, Plumb
being self-made man, who rose from the
printers case. whose grammar is down at the
heels and who has an exhuberance of brains
and feeling. and at the same time vulgar
greco money. Anu ne cares llLLle now ne
gets II, whether by square investments or
round ones. Ingalls, is student, college-bred,
reclusive, independent poor, and proud He,
in his heart, despiSeS Plumb for his vulgarity
and want of culture. Still, the two get on
together fairly well. A good deal of the
same thing exists between Mcmillan and
Sabin, of Minnesota. McMillin has been
Chief Justice of the State, a fine lawyer, and
a college graduate. while Sabin is a self-made
nan who, little over twenty years ago, with
lis pants in his boots, wearing a bingham
shirt, hauled cordwoOd into Springfield,
Mass. and stood around on street corners,
stamping his feet to keep warm until Gus.
TONER came. With $4,000, not all his own,
The proceeds Of the sale OF his fathers farm,
ne made his start in Minnesota. and two
gears ago, at tie time Of hIs failure, was
worth probably 8, 600 COO, all of which, |
venture to say, will again be his own in fair
ard square right The two seldom meet
each other, and trust TO silence to preserve
the peace. Probably the strongest and most
wholesale affection between any two men in
the Senate exists between Sawyer and John
SPOOneT. Sawyer looks upon John with all
tie iOndness and admiration OF father;
and he treats him as such, and the junior
Senator looks up to Philetus Sawyer with
almost filial regard.
But, speaking about how careful Senator'S
are IN what they say -oout each other, re-
minds me to repeat a little cOllOquy which |
was Iriyiledged 10 overhear between SpOOner
and Saoin. Both are prime good fellows,
keen as whips, and good natured as boys.
The other day they had gone into the marble
room in reply to card, and CHANGED to
meet. SpoOner is very plain and out
spoken, He happened 10 ask Sdbin care
lessly II he were going that night TO din
ner 10 which they had both been invited.
Sabin said Yes" Systander remarked
that ne had better take along pair of cork
legs 20 90 home on. because the host vas
noted for his excellent wine cellar. The
mark seeme1 to touch SpOener up very
sharply, and he turned on Sabin aud re-
marked. with diabolical incisiveness, That's
II. Sabin; you will 90 there and you will
drink yourself blind" The remark was
made in all seriousness. Sabin turned it off
lightly. But" added SpOoner, lit is not
Joke You remember the last time you
went TO Dig dinner in New York you came
home and was sick for a week. You are no
great drinker, but you can see just what a
httle wine can do for a fellow when he is out
of health. Now, you had better do as do
say No 70 everything OF the kind. IL l
were on the edge OF eternity i think / would
show some sense, and IL it were nothing
more than the remuneration of good wine /
would make it." Saoin sail, with an ugly
lock Of seriousness in his eye: John, don't
you think you are talking TO plain?' whirled
on his heel and went Off. Spooner is not a
teetotaler, and has never had much to say
che way or other about temperance, but il is
a tact that he never touches drop OF liquor
Ct any kind Whenever he is questioned
about il, and about the general subject OF
temperance, he replies indifferently: IL
have three boys that l love. They have
lever smelled liquor in my breath and they
lever shall" That's the only temperance
argument that he has ever made.