The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-01-25
THE SILENT SENATOR'S.
THEY DO NOT CARE TO FIGURE AS
ORATORS.
Farwell Lets His Money Talk-sawyer
Fixes Things Hearst is Bashtul-
Sabin, Ingalls,, Payne, Quay, Etc,
From the Boston Advertiser.


talk Senator Phietus Sawyer, Of Wiscon-
sin, belongs TO the first class because he does
TO the second. He is the dumbest man on
the Republican side He has been in the
Senate six years and never has said word
in support Of or opposition TO a measure.
The pine baron is worker, though He ac-
complishes by quiet conversations with his
brother Senator's what some other men try
to do by oratory,
Watching him closely, one will see his
rotund form trotting briskly about. but
most Of his whispering is done outside the
Senate chamber. He is only about feet
inches, with n thick body and legs bowed
somewhat His only hair is a fringe of
white locks just near the rear Of his shirt
collar. There is a thin, white beard on his
face
Henry B. PAYNE PAGES up and down, up
and down in the Senate, but never talks. He
is in the disabled class
Charley Farwcll, as all the Illinois poll
ticians call him, may talk a little later,
though the men from his State do not look
forward 10 such an event. Just now he
probably would keep still from modesty
at any rate He should be put as a medium
Of the first class But Farwell will get into
the way of pulling wires as successfully as
Mr. Sawyer, if he does not belle his career
He is rated as an A politician, as well as a
keen-eyed business man. He is short, thick
set, with gray hair and full beard, and in
his spectacles looks grandfatherly.
If Mr. Farwell or he and his friends
wanted go to farming he could probably
own the largest farm in the United States.
The syndicate of which he is the head took
in return for building the State house in
Texas Il tract of land FIVE times as large as
Rhode Island, The grant is in the Pan
Handle part of the State, lying between
Indian Territory and New Mexico. The
syndicate, which is not slow about blowing
for its own goods, advertises it as contain
ing the best agricultural, grazing and cot
ton lands in the State. Cullom has been
counted in many quarters as Blaine man.
He may be, but his colleague, unless he
gives up some most decided convictions ex-
pressed by him at the time when Blaine was
at the head of the Cabinet, and not con-
cealed since, is certainly the opposite.
Senator Hearst may be bashful The
Senator belongs to the second class dis
tinctlv He has been bashful ever since he
made that famous eulogy in the Senate on
his dead colleague Miller, in which he mixed
death, the moon, picturesque scenery and
moral all up together The Senator talks
pretty brisl<ly when he gets into the chair
that Col. LamOnt's visitor alwaEJ occupies,
mac. especially if post office is in the air,
but not on the floor OF the Senate But
Hearst's ledgers can content him with the
thought that his silence is golden. He is
rated at 81. 100000.
Senator Sabine of the unwilling class did
not say a word last session, but keeps gen
orally very silent He has the lool, Of Logan
but very little if any of the gilt of public
speaking that "Black jack had as one Of
his talents.
ingalls,, ex-officio of the second class, has
been silent for nearly year, counting the
recess. This has been enforced upon him
now by his position in the chair. He talked
readily when on the floor before and always
had good-sized audience; always fond of
an epigram or floating bit of rhetoric, he
cut deep sometimes. and not infrequently
did not say just what he meant, sacrificing
exactness for effect.
His heart would probably not be in his
speaking now, should he talk. A stranger
who saw him at dinner Friday night. said
his face was one of the most disappointed
! seen for a long time. The burning of his
house in Kansas, with ali his books and
papers and household gods, will be a heavy
loss to him, $25, 900 over insurance, bis son
Ellsworth says But he cannot be barred
out of his grip on Kansas That is one of
the striking things in Western politics, the
admiration of the men III that STATE, young
| and old, for the man. They don't know
| him personally in the way in which they do
| Plumb They feel always that they can
| step up to the sandy-bearded, homely, jun
! Tor Senator, and talk post Offices or petty
! politics of any sort with him. But Ingalls,
is looked upon as the intellectual leader of
the Senate. His wit and keenness are COINED
over and admired. They like his ability
and fighting powers
1t did not come easily to him. This repu-
tation of his for "book-learning and litry
TASTE as against practical politics
did not stand much of chance.
Even when he came to the Sen
ate he WIS rather looked down upon by
| Conkling, Edmuads, and the leaders. But
stop his talking. He said what he pleased.
| 1t was usually sharp and sharply aimed.
| Repartee seemed gift. His sayings IN
! creased in cleverness until he held his own
| Now lie can afford to be silent.
Senator Bowen, of Colorado. is very in
| frequent talker Manderson of Nebraska
makes very few speeches. He made a feel
ing Grafton on Logan. and sometimes talks
| on military matters But he contents him
self largely with silence Eli X. salisbury
| talks a great deal less than is expected of
! him at all after so long period Of service
! in the upper branch Senator Stanford is
a poor talker, but 10 poorer than Don Cam
| erOn. They are disabled takers. Mr.. Stan
ford occasionally arises and reads from
great bunch of manuscripta set speech on
| some Pacific coast question, not more than
! once or twice a session. EXtemporaneouS
! speaking he does not master
Don Cameron is no speaker. Even what
he reads from his manuscript Is low, mono
tonous and mumbled, hard even for the
! stenographor to hear, and almost painful to
! listen to. Cameron is a man who shows to
a great degree the influenced his wife Dur
ing the past few years, ne has greatly al
tered il style. He used 20 come into the
Senate in a rough sack coat and tumblcd
i'll appearance His ties were loose and
dangling and his neglige was often
markell But as Mrs. Cameron has made
her home one Of the first society houses in
| Washington, she has made her husband q
society man in appearance.
! He never seems To enjoy the aetna!
fact very much. But in the Senate Chamber
now, his black frock coat is of the finest and
! his fawn colored trousers almost dudiSh
( At festivities, though, he isapt o looi, bored
( lie was standing in the big corridor at the
! White House Thursday night, Just coming
ont Of the jam. He looked pailid and dis,
contented as the party turned away. \
cigar and talk Of business are his greatest
! consolation.
! Matthew 5. Quay, the clever politician
! from Pennsylvania, does not talk yet. lie
probably will Palmer, of Michigan, talks
! seldom, and Gibson, of Louisiana. very
! seldom senator German WODl6 certa i'm X