Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-02-08


Mr.. Martin, as everybody knows,
ieaped iptO fame before he took his oath
of office, because the story was published
about his blowing out the gas. That
started some of the newspaper men and
some of the members of the house TO
playing pranks upon him and telling sto-
ries at his expense. Now is there any
one in the whole country who does not
know Martin? Recently he has demon
strated that he don t want to be trified
with, and ne may live to get some other
fame.
A short time ago a new member who
had heard of Martin thought TO have
some amusement out of him. ''No
man - he said, has become famous as
rapidly as you, Col. Martin. am new
member-eiect of the next house; tell me
how to get famous. Martin looked at
him very hard for a moment. Then he
leaned close up to his ear and whispered
impressively: elbow out the gas!''
INGALLS, INvECTIyEs.
However distinguished are Senator In
gall IS statesman qualities, it is not
to these so much as to his bold and start
ling invectives that he owes his wide rep
utation. His fame is builded on his vo-
esibulary. His series of speeches and in
terviews, full of unique and catching
combinations of curious and extraordi-
narily expressive words, have made him
talked of more than any man in the SEN
ate. His jagged eccentricitY like fOrked
lightning, projected him into prominence
in an incredibly short space of time.
Evarts first got fame for the length of
his sentences, and Morgan for the length
of his speeches, each climbing slowly up
a rhetorical stairway, but ingalls, was
quickly elevated by an explosion of
speech.
Everybody knows how Riddleberger'
name was taken up by the loud voice of
notoriety. His eccentricities on the
floor of the senate, his twisting the
British lion IS tail, and his threats against
the time onored secrecy of the senate
executive sessions, have sent his fame
far.
Frank Lawler, in the house, sprang
into prominence through the eccentricity
of his speech ingalls, is known for the
vastness of his vocabulary. LAWYER, on
the contrary, got his reputation for the
small amount of dictionary he could
get along with, and for his proposed re-
form of spelling.
HUMoRIsT.
Allen of Mississippi has made wide
reputation as a droll story-teller and
humorist. His humorous sayings have
been picked up by the newspapers, and
his name has become well known where,
two years ago, it had never been heard
Bacon of New York got much written
about on his appearance in congress be-
cause of his striking resemblance to some
of the portraits of Shakespeare.
Bayne and Adams are famous, each
through his resemblance to the other.
The fact of their looking so much alike
and sitting side by side has caused mach
to be written about them.
The name of Bland and the silver dol
lar are inseparably associated. Where
one goes the other follows. 1t is the
Bland dollar.
Bryce got his name in the papers
through his repeated attempts to defend
the record of Hewitt on the floor of the
house.
COwles has earned notoriety through
his recent defeat of the ways and means
folks IN the matter of the reference of his
tobacco bill.
Gibson is famed for his handsome face
and ApOllo-like form
Mason s name was published far ON
account of the extreme breadth of his
humor in some of his speeches.
With all his long service Oates was
never so far famed until he took charge
of the filibuster against the direet-tax
bill
Weaver got great fame as a filibuster
in the Oklahoma matter
Sowden got much capital from the veto
of the Allentown public building
Spinola is famous for the width of his
collar.
Symes is indebted to his Unfortunately
loud voice for being given n large share
of public attention.
Vance's red head has been an adj
vantage to him.
THE NAME OF MILLS
has been pretty familiar to the public
for number of years, but in the popular
mind it was associated with the idea of
fire. eating and a lot of wild Texan cow
boy business. 1t is only during the Fiji
tieth congress that the real Mills has be-
come known. His reputation now is
through his tariff bill. He is now known
for we'll balanced political economist
instead of fire eater
Many men who are regarded by their
colleagues as among the ablest in con-
gress are scarcely known at all outside of
congress. Turner, Collins, Seney and
Culberson are regarded as the ablest
lawyers in the house, and they occupy
Il most eminent position among
their colleagues, but, excepting Collins,
none of them have anything approaching
a national reputation Though regarded
in the house as among the highest, Turn
err S name was practically unknown out
side his own state until he got on the
ways and means committee.
Wilson g service on the ways and
means committee has brought him out of
obscurity into the first rank of orators in
the house.
Savers and Crisp are men who do not |
seek notoriety, and have received scarce
ly any advertising, but in the aft airs of
the house they are both powerful.