Telegram-herald., 1889-05-10

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A good deal 4 ; statesman : senator
Hiscoez. but lis personal beauty aAs
earrssl Is nAElls d lTsL4Sr tnSn LIS ability
c0ul4 have d08s, lad u been twice -
sreat Ths f4cE thai Senator (Iofuaa
VS. once page ID the senate &ad after
ward tsall pl3yet las contributed much
u thss eass and rtpldi = with which ms
name his becou4d Is familiar Is house
hold y oT4. SeaJ Jtor ingalls, Is more IA
ul1sIs fer hIs inye tive TllzIl Tor lis statsr
nlAuship and sloq 1snee.
senator Aorgal Is not well known the
country over, but Ia many places thai
h Is known, Us Tor his long. continued
ln-ouF-next spesches and not Tor i4ls
general worth IS q senator Minister
Palmer IS known a. the man who gives
such ENJOYABLE dinners and tells 80 many
good stories. Ex-senator kiddlebsTgeT
has become famous for his eccentricities-
Senator Sawyer Is noted for his cor
pulency and good hamOr. Even IN
really great statesman like John Sher
man his alleged Characteristic of frigidity
or manner Is the first thing that comes
10 mind when hi5 name Is spoken. Who
has not heard OF Martin, of Texas, HIS
name is known from Maine TO Oregon
because the newspapers have told stories
OF his peculiariries, some Of them apoc-
ryphal. When asked, recently, how 10
win fame, Martin replied: BLOW out
the gas.
Morse, Of Massachusetts,, was in con
/ gress a number OF years and enjoyed but
/ local reputation till Mckinley Illus
/ trated his tariff speech with suit OF
/ clothes bought for $40 in Morse's Boston
/ store. An able and admirable man Is
William Walter Phelps, but his bang
and red necktie arc better known than
| anything Phelps ever did or said. Allen,
| Of Mississippi, has won fame as D story
/ teller and not Is statesman, and his
namesake OF Massachusetts, will go down
I III history, not as the brilliant young
member from the Old Bay state Though
this distinction he may be fairly entitled
to-, but as the man who carried a camera
under his vest and took snap shots at his
fellow members OF the house III all their
various and undignified attitudes.
\ witty, brilliant, eloquent, useful
and industrious man is the Hon. 5. S.
Cox, but his fame is twice US broad with
| the nickname Sunset as it would have
been without it. SO great is his reputa-
tion rs a wag that one of the trials Of his
life is TO convince people that he is sin
/ cere. Springer, of Illinois, is known TO
fame as the man who always wears a
pink boutonniere, though he, too, is Il
hard working and useful legislator. Con
gressmen Baync and Adams are known
as the men who sit side by side in the
house and look like a pair of twins
Frank Lawler, of Chicago, very clever
Irishman, has had his name sent to the
four corners of the country on account
Of his peculiar use of the PRESIDENT 5
English. Bacon, of New York, came
down to congress and became known
almost instantly and very widely as the
man who looked like Shakespeare. "Some
men are great, some achieve greatness
and some have greatness thrust upon
them"
Gibson, of Maryland, is well known
as tho Adonis Of congress, Spinola as
the man with the wide collar, Jehu Ba-
kcr as the statesman with suit OF
clothes of the pattern of Henry Clay 5
day. Bland, of Missouri, will live in
history as ''Silver Dollar Bland" Sow
den, Of Pennsylvania, became n national
figure because President Cleveland We
toed his bill To build government post
A Of
won more fame as the reputed author Of
"The Breadwinners," which he didn't
write, than as a molder of his country S
laws in the halls Of congress. Holman,
Of Indiana, will be celebrated through
al time as the great objector. John
Wanamaker's strides toward fame are
much accelerated by his Sunday school
suparintendeacy and his manufacture OF
trousers. Congressman Mason, Of Chi
cago. is becoming famous as q story teller
and wit, rather than as great public
servant, and the fact that all his friends
call him Billy" helps his progress
amazingly. Weaver, Of Iowa, won
much notoriety Is filibuSter. Xii
gore, Of Texas, had his namo printed in
every American newspaper because OF
his stubborn resistance to the bill &c
make Sheridan general Of the army
while that popular hero was lying on bis
death bed.
Thus it goes through long list Of men
whose names are familiar in the ears oi
the people. You can count on your
fingers the public men now living who
have n fame rs wide as the country itsel.
and who have not been helped thereto by
one or other of these little things OF
which the popular eye or car seizes Will
such avidity and tho popular memory
holds go tenaciously. Two conspicuous
instances, and only t,vo, come to MIND
81 I write. One Of these. and the mos.
notable one, is Senator Allison. who has
been Q quarter Of q century in congress
whosc fame is as broad as the domain o!
lis country. and who has no peculiarly
or characteristic OF common no,oricty.
Tho other IS Congressman Mckinley; bui
even he has been helped by his some
what theatrical and clever display 81 3
pair of trousers as emphasis 10 ms speech
on tine tariff.
There is an old saving that il Is the
little thinEs that make toe man. SurelF
IL is tie little things in this country an
era q gossip that make the mans rep1-
ta,ion WALTER WELLMAs.
rorIa9fcs Only.
ladi-s-Wh Whr is BE-. to2t Wnon yoH
.hus'aud or yCur chiirrn ere Hi, yo-
cusu't the best uT IN NJ once
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