The Washington critic., 1888-02-11

motherly look of "Oid BEN"
His nose \ Is not 50 large as Ben
Buffers, and The only similarity lies
in a queer little twiich Of the eye.
Senator Davis sits in The back row Of
the Senate, and he lives here at
Washington in three-story pressed
brick house in the fashionable north
west. His wife is one of thc prettiest /
women in Washington society.
nER "DARmSG" HUSBAND.
Iseethat one Of the correspondents
refers TO acertain Senator's wife who
always calls her hus band darling"
Darling is six feet high and weighs
240 pounds, and he has nothing af-
fectionate in his manner. When he
talks hisvoice sounds like fog horn,
and he is as rough as bear in his
actions. The wives of public men,
however, are no different from wives
the world over, and il is very amusing
of their so-called "better halves"
her husband by any other title than
General" and it is 'the General
says this, and "the General says
that" and "the General thinks So"
and "the General thinks otherwise"
Mrs. Logan sometimes called her
husband darling" but the closest
of relations existed between the two,
and she did not utter the word in
such n way that IL had the sickenipg
sound that IL sometimes has, nor did
she speak of him in this way when
talking with any other than her in
innate friends
SOME SENATORS WIVES
use the diminutive "ie" at the end of
their husbands name, and doubt
not that all these grave Senators as
boys had such titles. A generation
ago there was little big-headed
Willie Allison, who played tricks at
school, and jamie Beck, who twisted
his legs under the long sermons
which he had to attend in Scot
land. Joe Blackburn was
"Young Joe" then, and Johnnie In
gals was one of the trickiest students
of the little Massachusetts, town
where he went to school. Daniel
Voorhees, may have been called Dan
ME, and Farwell was never known as
any thing else than Charley.
Senator Morgan, who is so grave
that he seems to have never been q
boy, was Johnnie Morgan at Athens,
Tenn, and when he emigrated to
Alabama be was Johnnie Morgan still.
/ wonder if Leland Stanford was ever
called Lelie, and whether he owned
more marbles and broken handled
jackknives than any of his fellows at
school, and whether Tom Bowen
played the game OF checkers with as
much skill as he now plays po-poli-
tics. Senator Henry NJ Teller prob
ably received the endearing title of
Henpy from his first sweetheart in
short dresses, and Joseph b. Brown
was probably known as Joey when,
as boy in his bare feet, he plowed
| the hillsides with those noted bulls.
| Senator Sherman was little Johnnie
Sherman once, and even Edmunds,
with his bald pate and Senatorial air,
was George EdInunds, and perhaps
| received the punishment which
| wicked Georges sometimes get.
Senator German of Maryland was
| called Artie when he trotted from
| House TO Senate as a page boy, and
Dawes of Massachusetts, whom the
l
| call Grandmother Dawes" now, has
his euphonious name of Henry
heightened into Hennery by his
school boy friends, and as a school
| teacher he used the rod and corrected
! 9th or liitlo Dof=ser5.o. il 10 he.1 %
| think of George Hoar, but doubt
not he jingled his marbles in school
as he now does his keys in the United
States Senate, and as for Tommie
Palmer, he must have been a good
natured, dark-eyed little fellow, who
| always preferred to carry the water to
the bayfield, rather than work, but
| who, nevertheless, always came in
for his share of the wages
SENATORIAL NIcKNAMEs.
frankie Stockbridge was, l doubt
not, good fellow in Maine, where he
was born, and Cush Davis was one of
the best hatured boys of Henderson,
| New York. Eddie Walthall was a
lean, gaunt, ungainly sort of youth,
and Jimmie George was his mothers
own boy, and he grew manly before
his time in having to take care of her,
frankie Cockrell would not have
taken the prize at baby show, and
George Vest was an undersized boy,
| who was chosen to thrash any
strange boy who came into town--and
did it, Charlie Manderson was one
of the youths who never got left, and
Algy Paddock never received his full
name of Algernon until he was grown
up. Senator Stewart of Nevada was
called Bill by his fellows, and he early
displayed his money-making talent
He had o better coon dog thar
any of the rest, and the
first money he made was in the sale
of coon skins. Hen. Blair of New
Hampshire was red-headed boy,
and his wicked fellows warmed theil
hands over his head, and caused him
endless trouble by telling him that he
must have been out at night, for thu
dew had made his hair rusty. An(
little, nervous Bill. Chandler was /;
leader among his fellows. Senate
Payne Of Cleveland had woe as a boy
in that his father owned brickyard
and little Hen. Payne had to throw
bricks now and then.
! And SO it goes on. Blodgett o
New Jersey was Rufy Blodgett IL
New Hampshire, and, tall and lean
he was filed with ambition. Bill
EvaFts, the boy, stood the best in thu
| debating societies, and little Donnie
Cameron Of Harrisburg was q Sepa
tors son and was always treated well
Matte Quay holds to his boyish nam'
of Mat Quay still, but Isham G. Har
ris was never called Ishy. Coke o
Texas had a good name as a boy il
Dock Coke, but John Reagan neve
got the nickname of Jack. Daniel o
Virginia was, however, known a
, Jack Daniel, and Riddleberger ha'
} his first nnme Of Harrison contradict