The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-05

Some times the ambition OF wire IS to
get her husband out of politics., We have
a case of that sort right under our eyes.
Here sits John Wiley, member from Buff
falo one of the few Democrats of the pres
emit congress who are not elected to mem
bership of the next congress. Mr.. Wiley
would have been returned but for his wife.
Mrs. Wiley can see nothing in politics that
a man of business ability should sacrifice
his time for She says it is simply hiring
ones self out to whole lot of people, in
stead of working for some one and having
but one boss, or, what is better, carrying
on business and being your own boss.
What makes this case the more striking is
the fact that Mrs. Wiley is a young and
beautiful woman, who came to Washing
ton only year ago as bride, end who has
won marked social distinction here. Adj
mired by all and envied by many, the pop
ular belief was that Mrs. Wiley had simply
followed the fashion and become infatu-
ated with capital society. Great surprise
was expressed when it became known that
she had declared Washington society to be
as empty and unsatisfactory as political
career, and had prevailed upon her hus-
band to retire from congress and return to
buldlO private ClUlZGil. DuJ every one
who knows the restlessness and hollowness
of the life of a family devoted on the one
side to politics and on the other to society
will applaud Mrs. Wiley's choice as wise
and bravely womanly.
Many inquiries are made of the defeated
members concerning their successors One
of the queerest cases brought out in this
way is that of Mr.. Peters, of Kansas He
has never even seen the man who will take
his seat in the next house. The new mans
name is Simpson, and he is the town mar
shall in small frontier city-a gossiping,
dry goods box whiting chap, as shrewd
as the famous Philadelphia lawyer He
made no canvass for congress, but Just sat
around and talked to the farmers as they
came into town, and was elected by hand
some majority. There is another Farmers
Alliance member of the next house who is
likely to win fame as the man who wears
no stockings. We already have in congress
two men, Senators Reagan and Coke, who
wear no neckties. and the latter wears
no collar, but a statesman without stock
ingS will be a sight to see Rumor has it
that this same genius, Simpson, the town
marshal, is the person who gets along
without hosiery. If this be true he and
Tom Vim, of Georgia, the latter being the
! man who never rode or the cars till last
summer, and who viii bestartled when he
! sees his first electric light, will be apt to
acquire even more prominence in legis-
/ lative annals than was enjoyed by Maj.
/ Martin, the long haired member of this
/ house who once blew out the gas.
Billy Mason is another statesman who
! has never seen his successor. In the next
congress Mason's seat will be occupied by
young man whose name is Durburow.
/ The joke on Mason is that when he re-
turned to Chicago after the last session of
congress he was told that a man named
Durburow had been put up to run against
him. "Who in thunder is Durburow?'
asked Mason; and his followers took up
this cry and pasted the dead walls of the
district with placards which read: