The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-02

New York city has not had much to boast
of. Alexander Hamilton, whom most peo-
pie imagine was native OF the town, was
born in the West Indies, and Burr and l.iv-
mgstone would about complete her list.
The present generation of statesmen has no
very great names TO add to New orkS roll.
Sam Cox, one of the deservedly conspicu-
| Gus figures on the floor of the House of Rep
reSentatives, belongs TO her only by right
of adoption and is an original ONO ruraliSt.
Boston gave the country Charles Sumner
and shared with Philadelphia the credit of
producing and maintaining Ben Franklin.
But the world has not been electrified by
| the doings of any other great men that
the cultured New England city has pro-
duced within the memory of this or the
past generation.
She cannot lay claim to Webster or any
of the Adamses, for the country districts of
Massachusetts produced them and gave them
to the country The same thing is true of
ThaddeuS Stevens, Jeremiah Black, James
Buchanan and Simon Cameron, who were
veritable "haySeed" PennSylvanlanS and
not Philadelphians.
William t. Marcy, Sias Wright the Van
Burens, Horatio Seymour, William H. Sew
ard, Roscoe Conkling and the other men
who have made history for the nation be-
longed in their days of craftsmanship to the
interior districts of the State ana not to
Manhattan Island. Abraham Lincoln and
Stephen A. Douglas were both sent to the
front by rural constituencies, and before
their time the same could be truly said
about Henry Clay, Lewis Cass, the Ran
dolphs, Madison, Monroe, Jefferson and the
long list of old timed statesmen.
Bluff old Ben Wade, Oliver 2, Morton,
jefferson Davis, Henry Wilson, Andrew
Johnson, Allan G. Thurman and hundred
other names that will occur to the intelli-
| g H., III,
duct of a great city.
Perhaps this may be called ancient his
| tory, but even now the central figures in the
everyday life of this nation are not the sons
of the metropolitan cities.
Grover Cleveland springs from the buco-
| lie element in our politics and 1t was the
| country districts that took him up and made
him a candidate for Governor and thus
started him on his upward and onward IA
reer James G. Blaine was elected to Con
gress from one of the most rural districts of
! the rural State of Maine, aed such men as
| Senator Allison. Ben Harrison, Judge Gre
sham, Frank Hiscock, John Sherman and
many of the other men who are willing to
| take his place at the head of the Republican
party have been made possible candidates
| by the rural constituencies that have sent.
them to. the halls of national legislation.
Who are the cent al and most prominent
| figures in Congress to-day?
Speaker Carlisle is back country Ken
tuckian, and Roger Q. Mills before his cleo
! ton to Congress, ten years since, never saw
tidewater Tom Reed, of Maine, lives out
in the country near Portland, and his con
stituency is four-fifths of the rural persua-
sion. William Walter Phelps on his farm
in Ten Eyck looks out upcn his district of
three counties, with no big city within its
borders. Holman, Springer, Cutcheon,
| Cannon, Culberson, Grain and the other
leaders are all "hayseederS."
| How many conspicuous figures on the
| floor of the House of Representatives rep
resent city constituencies! Only Sam Ran
dali, of Philadelphia, and Sam Cox, of New
| York
| How many Senators OF national eminence
are nam ed as city men. Only Evarts of
New York, Hawley, of Hartford, Eustis, of
New Orleans, and Stanford, of San Fran
| cisco.
Senators Morgan and Pugh, of Alabama,
| Voorhees,, Cullom. Ingalls,, Beck, Vance,
| Hampton Edmunds, Reagan and mos of
| the others are men who may be called
"backwoods Senators" and the records of
the various departments of the government
| if examined would tell the same tale with
reference to the origin Of most of the Sen
ators who have made the nation great and
honored in all its various governmental
ramifications.