The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1888-08-02

Democrats claim to be the reform party, you
know. The man in the back row-next to
Senator Mitchell-whose hair runs back from
a very high forehead and makes him look like
he had experienced great fright that had per-
petuated itself by turning him to stone,
is Senator Teller. In his speeches he
says some of the most interesting things
in the most uninteresting way on earth.
| That big fellow on the other side of Mitchell,
who looks more like an overgroWn boy, and
dull one at that, but talks like anything but
dullard, is Senator Plumb; his ideas of woman
hood, however, are neither brilliant nor origi-
nal for be says he would rather kiss one pretty
girl than listen to the brightest speeches of the
whole Woman Suffrage Association. The two
at the extreme end of the Republican side who
are talking SO earnestly together, are Senators
Stanford and Stockbridge, and they are doubt
less swapping horses or something very like it,
as they are both cOnnOiseur5 of good horse flesh,
and perhaps even better posted in equine ethics
than in political theories in which they are
neither of them slouches, by the way. They
each own some very fine animals.
LIST OF sUPERLATIvEs
In the House the chaperone above would
continue thus:
The best advertised man in the House is Judge
Martin of Texas There he is, tall, spare
man, who looks far more like cowboy than
judge. He is the chap who blew out the gas
in the hotel, set his watch by the street-car
indicator, and took pull at the fire extin-
gUishers.
The man who is at once the most fortunate
and the most unfortunate man in the House. is
Edward J. Gay, of Louisiana. He is the most
fortunate because he is the richest sugar dealer
in the country, the first President of the Lou
isiana Sugar Exchange, of New Orleans. He is
the most unfortunate, because accident has de-
| prived him of the use of hands. One arm is
| gone entirely, and the other is paralyzed, and
if you viii observe him you will soon see that
| for everything he needs hands he has to resort
! to some other device. For instance, if his nose
| itches he leans over and rubs it on his desk.
The man who can do a gracious act most
! gracefully is also Southerner. 1t is Hon. Il.
! Ii. M. Davidson of Florida. AS rule the men
who represent us at the Capital are the most
| kindly, accommodating men in the world con-
! sidering the fact that they are badgered to
! death every day Of their lives by all sorts of
/ people. Mr.. Davidson is that stately, dignifed
man with pleasant face, brown hair in crnkly
! curls, and slightly touched with gray, mus
! tache and chin whiskers of the same color.
! The most abused man in his own party, but
| who will go down in history all the same
| while his critics will not even appear in
! the index, is Samuel J. Randall. He is
! not here now, for he has been very
! Ill, and may Heaven preserve his use
/ full life The wittiest man in the House
is Mason, of Illinois. He is that heavy
set, squatty fellow who sits on his foot back
! there on the lounge. Healways sits on his foot
| even when he visits the Senate, and his hair,
! that he seldom finds time to cut, is so thick and
curly that it looks like lions name set on
bead-large, too, like that of the king of beasts
! The mostly softly, suave, polite man, the Ches-
terfed of the House in short, is Breckenridge of
! Kentucky, that man over there with such pro-
| fusion of snow-white hair and beard that it
makes him look like hermit. The biggest
mar n ct ie Fn6u
! Barnes, Of Georgia. He must be I" de massa
/ that the song says was 50 five foot one way and
! six foot toder"; but the biggest according to
/ all four points Of the compass, with the horizon
/ thrown IN, is Reed, of Maine. The smallest as
! to circumference and the largest as to voice is
/ Symes, the millionaire Member from Colorado.
lie is large In other ways, too, for he is one of
/ the best thinkers in Congress. The hOmeiest
man, a tie between West and Lyman. The
/ most courtly man, Gen. HOyey. He is never
I seen lounging with his feet on his desk picking
his teeth, or gouging his ears with his pen han
/ die; does not rant even when fighting bill
/ through, but he got there all the same last
/ Friday. The man who looks most like dude,
I but talks like statesman Notwithstanding is
/ Rayner, of Maryland. The man whom most
! people love is Col. Henderson, Of Iowa. Even
/ the pages contend for the privilege of waiting
1 on him, and while he was absent every one felt
/ the vacancy. lie has been laid up for many
Weeks OH account OF the Dfcakl ing out OF an ola
1 wound, but Is in the House again now as en-
! ergetic and unconquerable as ever His meth
/ DDS IN legislation convince one of the wisdom of
electIng soldiers to our National Legislature;
/ for the very same qualities that enabled the
! boys in blue to conquer in our civil war, are
/ those that make Col Henderson nvincible in
! the many hard fought battles of the House He
is always sure of the field and has the
/ courage to take it, with the advantage of mex
| haustible munitions of war in a sound good
understanding and a most eloquent tongue
/ with the magnetic attraction that carries his
hearers with him and wins their sympathy
/ The Colonels wound is at once his great honor
and his great misfortune, because it is a him
drance that only his unequaled energy could
! conquer.
ABOUT PEOPLE
The Democrats Of the Seventh District of
/ Virginia have renominated Chas. T. O'Ferrall
! by reclamation He is as years old, entered
! the rebel army at the outbreak Of the war as
1 private IN cavalry regiment aud was pro-
/ noted TO Colonel, and al the surrender Of Lee
/ commanded all the rebel cavalry in the Shenan-
doah Valley. This is his third term. Ia 1884 he
received 1850 votes against 1856 votes for
! his opponent, an Independent Democrat The
/ Republicans will probably run Senator II. d.
! RIddleberger against him.
The Republicans Of the Third District of
I Tennessee have nominated II. c. Evans Of
/ Chattanooga, for Congress. Evans is a very
! popular man, and was beaten four years ago by
a small majority by John Randolph Neal, the
/ present Representative, who ran against Gen
! }. /. Wilder IN 1884, and received Ais votes
to Wiiders l3,765 Neal served in the rebel
/ army rising to be Lieutenant Colonel Of the
| 10th battalion Tenn. Cav.
The Democrats of the Second District of
/ West Virginia have renominated Representative
Vim. L. Wilson by acclamation, and Endorsed
/ the Mills bill. Mr. Wilson served in the rebel
army, and has been elected to Congress three
times. At the last election he received 17II2
votes to l7,022 for his Republican competitor
! and Isl for the Pr0hibitionist candidate.
Daniel Ermentrout who represents the
Eighth District Of Pennsylvania (Berkg
County,, is having his usual ight for renonlina-
/ ton. large faction Of Democrats resent what
/ they call Ermentrout's bossism" but he has
been nominated aud elected four times. His
/ majority the last time was nearly 900
Senator Palmer has made up his mind to re-
tire from Congress at the expiration of his
term, March 4, 1889. He is tired of public
life though he has been very popular and sue,
| cessful during the six years in which he has
| represented Michigan III the Senate and the
| people here arc as DESTROYS of having him re-
turned as those Of his State are to return him.
Some Michigan gentlemen were on here last
week to urge him to allow himself to be re-
elected but he was decided in his refusal.
Representative J. B. Weber, of the Buffalo
IN. y District dined with Gen Harrison Iast