Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-12-01


been his custom to take a horseback ride
every day during his stay in Washington.
Mr.. Cannon is now 53 years of age, and he
has been in Congress for the last 16 years.
He has always held good position on the
floor, and he is noted as fighter. His
favorite attitude in speaking is with one
foot on the chair nearest him. Then lean
ing over he shoot his words at the rate of
200 minute at the opposite side Of the
House, gesturing as he does so by shaking
his finger at the Democracy, and by now and
then violently throwing his hand at them.
He is good speaker, is we'll posted on the
rules, and he has many friends There is
nothing sRobbish about him, and everyone
knows him as Joe Cannon.
Mr.. Cannon has not as many enemies as
Reed, though he is by no means so meaiy-
mouthed as one of his Illinois constituents.
Mr.. Cannon told the story of this man the
other day. When talking about the habit
of "taffy-giving," which SO largely prevails
at Washington, ne said: ST have in my dis
trict out in Illinois man who ought to have
been Washington society woman. He has
good thing to say about every man and
everything, and he comes in especially strong
at funerals. will call him Jones for short.
There is never funeral in the county but
virtues of the deceased there is no praise so
profuse nor tongue so glib as Jones'. He
can find virtues in the worst of reprobates
after they are dead, and he is packed full
of the milk of human kindness
from the bottom of his fiat cowhlde
boots to the top of his bald crown. This
popularity of his has become a matter of
county talk, and two young fellows of Dan
vile made a bet upon the death of a repro
bate of the county that Jones could not find
anything good to say about him. This man
seemed to be altogether bad; he had been a
worthless, good-for-nothing, lazy fellow
during his whole life, and he was one of
those idsosyncrasies of nature which seemed
to have no good in them. At the time of
the funeral the young fellows making the
bet stationed themselves in the window near
which the procession going by the coffin
must pass, and waited for Jones. He came
along in good time with his handkerchief in
his hand. He stopped the procession as he
stood beside the coffin and looked down on
the reprobate's face long and earnestly. At
last with sigh he exclaimed:
swell, anyway, he had good teeth"
HENDERSON AND BURROWS.
The two other candidates for the Speaker
ship are Henderson, of Iowa, and Burrows,
of Michigan. They are both reaching out
their hands after the gaYel, aad there may
be some dark horses which may come in at
the last minute. Burrows and Henderson
are both built on the Brutus order, though
BpTroEsbas- been christeped by his parents
Julius Cesar. They are plain, blunt men,
and large part of their capital lies in the
open-handed, hail-fellow, well-met style
possessed by each. Burrows is Pennsyl-
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adoption. He has been in Congress from
Michigan for ten years, and he thinks the
sun rises and sets in the Northwest. He is
a man of more than ordinary ability; is
good speaker and good stumper, and am
told that in the campaign which he has Just |
finished in Virginia has made him very |
popular with the Republican element OF |
that State. He talked to the people of the |
back counties as though he were teaching a |
kindergarten, and gave them their first |
plain understanding of the tariff.
General David Brenner Henderson is a |
Scotchman, who was brought to Illinois at |
the age of years, and got his education in
Iowa. He was only an ordinary member of |
Congress until about three years ago. when
he made great hit in his defense of Colonel
w. w. Dudley as Pension Commissioner.
Henderson does not look unlike Dudley; he
has the same dark hair combed up from a
high forehead, the same dark complexion
which turns to the color of the moss rose as
he talks, and the same halflimp walk, due
to the wooden leg replacing that which he,
like Dudley, lost on the battlefield. Hen
derson is a good speaker, he gestures well,
and has lungs equal to those of the famed
bull of Bashan. He is a lawyer by pro-
fession, and he lives at Dubuque. He is
one of the handsome men of the House, and
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a slouch hat and a cutaway coat, and not
his wooden leg he walks well
without crutches. He is man of great in
dustry and unlimited ambition.
THE CANDIDATES WIVES.
2 All of the Speakership candidates are
married. Mrs. Reed is a finely educated
woman, and the daughter of the Rev. S. H.
Merrill, one of the noted Congregational
height and has dark hair and eyes. She is
of much social ability, and she
will be a fit leader for the ladies OF the Con-
gressional circle Mrs. Mckinley has
not been able to go into society fer some
years on account of her health. She is a
very pretty woman, and is, like her hus-
band, of Ohio birth. Her father was one of
the Oldest newspaper men of that State, and
the founder of the Canton Repository. Mrs.
Cannon also comes from Ohio. She is noted
as society leader, and she will bring to
her aid two daughters, who are very well
educated as well as very pretty. Mrs. Bur-
rows met her husband when the two were at
school together. 1t was case of love at
first sight, and Julius Caesar married her as
soon as he came out of the army. Mrs. Bur-
-oWs is tall and slender; she has sparkling
eyes and a rosy complexion. She is fond of
society and society is fond of her, The sane
nay be said of Mrs. Henderson, who is
pretty entertaining Iowa lady; and. however
he fight for the gavel ends, it is certain that
he House social circle will not lack an ac-
leader.
FRANK G. CARPENTER.