Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-02-24


the pioneer statesman worked. did so,
and was RECALLED for an hour with bits of
Cicero, Shakespeare, Marcus Arelius, and
other choice quotations with which Palmer
varied his philosOphic conversation be-
tween his skillful taps of the ivory balls.
In fact however, Palmer's speeches bear
the plain marks of Palmer himself, and
he has certain individuality which shows
out for itself He is well read and cul-
tured, and he has as much good common
sense as his Percheron horses, who, he
says, far surpass humans.
Here is slice of Massachusetts and
these two venerable men are the senators
from the great state OF cod and colleges.
Senator IIoar IS a smooth faced man in
specs, with patriarchal, innocent, grand
fatherly air, and the gray bearded, bright
eyed man at his side Is Senator Dawes.
Senator Hoar is q man OF extraordinary
culture. He has never wasted his leisure,
and am told at the Congressional library
that he knows more than the dictionary.
He is thoroughly up on matters Of Amer
lean history, and he has the Constitution,
The Fetleralist, and the 200 and more vol
umes of The Congressional Record by
heart. He is we'll up on other things out
side of America, and he knows books like
biblophile. He can tell you the edi-
tons, and had he devoted as much time to
money making as he has TO his reading he
would be worth Il fortune. One Of Hoar'S
peculiarities is that he will not submit to
interview and he prefers he says, to write
his own views, over his own name, for his
| own paper.
This is unfortunate for the other papers!
Hoar boards here at Washington, and
| he is Il student rather than q society beau.
Senator Dawes is one Of the oldest men
in congress, and he had long term in
| the house before he came to the senate.
lie is an older man than lloar, though he
does not look il, and keim's Handbook
says that he sis remarkably well pre-
served, being in perfect vigor of intellect
and body No one who has ever seen
| Senator Dawes speak would doubt the
truth of this statement, for he has AS
many gestures rs he has muscles, and he
enforces his orations with all the gyra
tons of an India rubber man at the cir
Gus. He'is u man Of brains, too, and he
has been noted MS a sympathizer with the
poor Indian. lie does not agree with
Phil Sheridan that "the best Indian is a
dead Indian" and he has as broad views
Of most problems as had Charles Sumner,
whom he succeeded. Senator Dawes
wife is one Of the cultured women of
Washington and his daughter is n writer
of books. Miss Annie Dawes, however,
does not choose wishy washy subjects to
elucidate with her pen, and the fact that
her books, "lIOw We Are Governed and
The Modern jew" are widely read,
shows that She is n chip Of the old block
in her tastes, running toward statesman
ship rather than fiction.
This is a very good pose of Senator Al,
lison, as he stands with his hands behind
him there at the back of the senate, talk
ing with II man who looks like senator,
but who is in reality a messenger. Ali
son is straight, tall ana rather inclined to
stoutness. lie wears good clothes, and
he buttons his double breasted frock coat
tightly around him, He is noted for his
diplomacy, and Ingalls, once said that lie
could walk on the bare floor from one end
Of the senate chamber to the other with
Dutch clogs and make no more noise thar
n fly on the ceiling. He mixes his dip
lomacy, however, with brains, and he i,
q thinker as well as n politician. Ht
started life in Ohio when Andrew jackson
was serving his first term as president
and he went To school near Cleveland