The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-15
JUDGE wAXEM GRlEvED,
ne WAS MOI MADE CHAIRMAN or
ANY COMMITTEE.
He 6~mofhered His Indignation ut Not
Being Mad Speaker. but he Second
Overnight II Too Much, and He Con-
ssdcrs Himself Grossly insuited.
Especial Correspondence

Onct more the Wheals OF legislation ar IN
motion, and us Legislators is keepin them
creased with talk. SO fer | haint had no
opportunity Of maxim a speach, but line
git4in loded fer one, and when | take the
fore on some Of the leadin questions OF
tho day, the echoes from Wayback will
resOund along the storm clad cliffs of the
Atiantick coast, and rushin westard in
ther flite will sink, like swallers IN the
eycnin, TO noisy rest on the goiding
shoars of the pacifick, whar the roses
blossom forever, and the oders Of the
orange blooms is heyvy in the evyerlast-
inp sunshine Of that favored cline.
That's one Of the reasons line ded agin
abollishin The Congressional Record
that nobel messenger OF pOliticle eddica-
ton; that rammilies 70 every portion OF
this CRATE and glorious republic, which
can support q repperesentitiv in congress,
and has q ~pOstofIise %anywbars inside of "a
distants OF twenty-five mile. what
would us congrissmen do without that
valublc adjunck TO legislation? What
would the people do without this inesti-
mitble privilege Of lernin what was goin
ON in the very midst Of natinal l~egislativ
axiom, untramelcd by personal ieelin and
not handicapped by political byus. IL Is
the only paper printed in this nobel land
OF liberty, that its edditir-I beg yOre par
dings, ge~ntlemen-aint got an AK to grind,
and the only one that gives MS statesmen
a fair show with Il chance TO take back
anything we have said that we don't want
.1 1fA,. - .Lana o.
print. No other paper viii publish
our speeches in full, unless We pay
% sents n line for IL, and take 5000 cop
pies, more or less, and goodness knos a
congrissman's sallery can't stand every
strane that is put n 10 il. 10 seems to
me ef edditers was The rite kind Of pattri-
OTIS they would sacrifs a little therseives
and take out all Their advertisements 70
git in the abel efferts Of Their repperescnti-
tiv man onct in a while at the national
capital, but they won't, and in that re
speck ] think the edditers-agin ! beg
yore parding, gentlemen-needs higher
eddication than seems now TO be pfevaliD
amongst them.
True, We mite make shorter epeacheH,
and git them into the cOlyums Of the fam
ley %iurnal's circulation in our respectiy
deestricks, but is q statesman 10 shut 81
the inviggeratin drafts Of p~oliticle wisdom
which his constituents is therstin after be
cause q newspaper amt big enough 20
hold the supply? No, stree, not so long as
thar is the ineXostible and unlimitahle
space of The Record, and | am not only
fer it, but fer "a supplement- two er three
times a weak, IF the supply Of wisdom i
runnin purity strong.
But enough Of that, and now fcr a per
SOnal explanation.
Did il fewer apeer 20 you, Mr. hdditer,
that % statesman ON the plnnickie OF fame
could feel the waty lode of dissapp!nteG
hopes and the s0rrcrs and panes Of IN
gratitude ambishuns? IL don't look like a
man that had everything ought to want
more, but they do, and feel in that fx
myself. Usually ! am n patriot that Is
wiilin TO serve his country in the unblest
br most exalted capasity, jist as IL hGpens,
so longs The sallery keeps cumin
ID, hut thar is a limmit 70
Endurance and j have reached that
limmit. Fer a long time l have felt
that Wayback ought TO be reckOni2ed
prominently in the Affairs Of government,
fer Wayback is an element in the cOmpO-
sition of the nation that amt 10 be hid
under n bushei measure, and when con
gress met agin this winter ] thought
mebbe we WOuld have the reward our
merit deserved. On that account ! pei
mitted myself 70 be a candidate fer
speeker Of the house of Representative
in e quiet, unobstFusive manner, but when
the time come | was left ont. Like a true
patriot, / held my peece and newer
opened my month, though my brest was
heavin with the contendin emotions that
struggled inside Of my bosom. ] come
to the conclusion that it was IN oversize,
and made up my mind TO let it 90 with
silent contemp, peryidin ], and through
me, my deestrick, was reckonized in the
e~electin of committee cheermen. ! had
had my eye sot on the ~cheerrnanship of
the committee Of appropriations, fer that
was the ch0ise of my constituents, and !
was induced TO think | had q show fer 1t,
but alase, my hopes was all IN vane. Agin
1 was overlooked, and Mr.. Edditer, thar is
a bitterness in my soal today that only
time with its aswagin poaltise can ever
heel. One oversize may bea mistake, but
two is an insult, and Wayback has rites
that has got TO be indicated, er thar will
be q change in the administration Of ma
tional Affairs. My constituents had hopes
Of gittin q sheer or two from the apro-
priations if | was apinted 10 the place Of
cheermaD, that they will have to CIV up
now, and set idle by, and see the money
goin into the Golfers of lugshurious and
bloted deestricks in the eject east that
gifts all the swill, and cabbidges all the
Ofises, and our patriotism will be stunted
~ferevver. Craps, to grow, has got to hav
rain and tendin, and the modern pollisy
of this government has been and j. now,
to destroy the craps of WGyback aud
plant the sile with new fangeled notions
and politicle fiubdubs that is wuss than
pizin TO the soais OF glpuinc homemade
patriots that is sattisfide to trade coon
skins and ginsang fer coiie and shugar,
but wants money TO pay Their taxes with.
Mebbe it faint ittin fer me, a states
man and patriot, To be complainin IN this
kind of manner; but a stuck pig is bound
10 squeel, and | hav been stuck, and that
in the house OF my trends, and justis de-
mands fer me To sound some token OF
righteous Indignation on behalf Of the
Wayback deestrick, which ] am dom my
best TO represent in the hall Of national
legislation and in the politicle serkeis Of
the national capital. Thar is too mulch
politics in the country, and my disapint-
ment is the result Of it. AS n uniyersle
1A.. a,...ax.