Waco evening news. (Waco, Tex.) 1888-1889, 1888-08-17
THE. JeoeE At WORK.
waxcm ut Washington Again-A Letss'
to the People.

Waxem at Washington Again-A Letss0
to the People.
Especial Correspondence
WASHINGTON, ID. c., -Dere
Edditer--Fallin in line with setch dis'
tingushed Teller Legislators on English sile
as Mr.. O'Conner and Mr.. Laboosheer, @
the house of commons, who motifs does
good deal of r;tin for the New York papers
IN topples of patriotic and politicle car.
sckter in which they air intrusted,
except yore polite invitation to serve You
In the saim capasity, and to furnish yore
Yeeders with q few hurryed remarks IN.
dited on the spot and jotted down betwixt
the ardous labers Of statesman that mas
got life, libberty and the persute OF hapi-
ness to look after in the national cappitai,
besides large family and diversyfids
constituency ut home.
Only them rs stands close to the poddy
politick can know how nations hart
beets, and only them as knows can tell IL
to the people waitin and watchin to heer
the NEWS. Fer that reeson l think no
nun Is better hxt fer bein messenger 70
the people than the servent they have
elected from Their midst to do Their leglsla-
ton fer them, and to tend to setch other
business Of pursonel and proflitibble ma.
ter as more or less actuates the boosoSl OF
EVERY Citizen of this CRATE and gloryous
republic, who very materially looks upon
the national capital as the national corn
crib in which he has got somethin morer
q corn cob, and he's goin to have 1t, ef
votes is worth anything to reppersenta
tive statesman-and they ushnally air.
la r ~nt., fpr M ~ 70
In of the last summer, was in the mater OF
sasstimes, but these air sakred duty,
and in the Yitin of them l hoap to b
ytded by
The inspiration that surrounds
The statesmans knoblest thought,
And elvates his fgger till
The statesman cant be bought
Havin made this brief explanation I
will perceed to business.
Congress, as you air awair by tellegraf
and otherwise, went into session in the
halls that have resounded fer yers with
the voices of them cryin aloud and not in
vane for libberty, last Monday at noon,
and don't think it has ever been my lot
to gaize on finer lookin lot OF patriots,
tride and untride The old wheel bosses
stood thar in the traces cam and collected,
lttllu tLdU w ueU IL was llLIc W puA tHcyu
know whar to set ther feet to git the best
heat, while the NEW ones, fist broke in,
was little skittish like, standin uneasy
and jerky, with notion to run away eff
they got a chance, but shown every one
of them the metal and the fire that Is
necessary in this CRATE and glorious corin-
try of ours to whirl the cherryot of pro-
gress along and distants everything on
the track.
Gray hairs and bald heds is notisible
IN a good nanny instances, Mr.. Edditer,
but age don't count in patriot. What
he wants is the opportunity to uncork
himself and let the fluids of patriotism
pore forth, and the halls of congress is the
opportunity Of statesmans lifetime.
The longer it has been stopt up the bigger
the flow, and before this session NOS
finished its ardious labers you will see
whar my predictun is more valubel than
the inexperienced ritter, that don't kno
patriotism except by redin Of it in pottery
novels and Forth Of July speeches.
Patriotism cant be drawed on paper,
but eff yore reeders want to see faint
likeness of IL, let them reed teerfully and
exaustibly the pages of the Congressional
Record after long session.
| It was a reel pleZure fer me - meet
onct more my cumrads in arms, so to
! speek, and to feel that we had agin met
together to foment rules and regulations
fer the well bein Of sixty milyun of free.
dom lovin people. 1t done me power OF
good to shake hands with felier members
errespectiv of party and the past, and to
let them feel and kno that notwithstandir
have been travlin in furrin lands and
walkin in the pallises Of kings and emper.
Ors, / don't consider myself a Superior
bein, and that to me now, more than ever
the American suverin Is .he mitiest DO
tentate that ever held the septer of hu
man rites err sot upon the throne of ma
don's freedom. That's the kind Of mar
am, Mr.. Edditer, and the American sit
tizen that's different needs reconstrnc
ton. We air as yet in an unsettled state
and won't git down to business fer som,
time, but the city is film up fast with
constituents that has axes to grind
and some Of us congressman ha;
got to turn the grindstone 81
DO some nifty tall explainin whe1
se return to orr respectiv dee
Itricks. Eff we could bid wall arount
the national capital, and keep out every
body but statesmen and boardin hous,
keepers, thar'd be good deel more werl
done, but the foundations of our Republi
can institutions wouldent hardly do fe
setch wall to rest on eff it was to be per
minent.
am ritin tits Letter at my desk on tn,
door, Is thar amt nothin before the hous
ut present IN which me or emmy Of m,
constituents is interested in, and tha
hint nobody in the cloak rooms tellil
stories, SOS to interfere with my duties IL
Ycre behalf; but l must close, as a carr
has jest been handed in from ledin rail
rode man, and must go out in the lobb,
and see eff thar is ennything of q mutua
cater between us. Ralerode men AM
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