The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-12-05
Stories Told by Legislators on
Their Return.
SPEAKER REEDS COMPLIMENTS.
He Saws If Was the Men Who Write for the
Newspapers Who Overturned the House
Other Matters.

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tell the happy from the unhappy ones by I
looking at them from the gallery. Every
where there are smiling faces. Even the I
big speaker does not look very miserable |
as he ascends the rostrum and starts the /
legislative mill in motion, and he yields !
Che gayel with all the vigor that character
lied his rule previous to the recent I'M |
pleasantness. The mill is grinding away
in perfunctory and monotonous fashion, |
but not much attention is being paid to it. 1
This is an hour Of good natured badinage,
in which the defeated receive with compos- 1
ure the thrusts of the victors and often re-
turn them with compound interest. 1t is
a reunion of personal friends, and Repub-
licans and Democrats mix together telling
stories of the great political battle that
has been fought since congress adjourned
two months ago. Congratulations and re
grets are in order, and there is no lack of
subjects for comment The great hall is
full of men who have either won notable
victories or been hurled down in over
whelming defeat. Even the speaker, busy
as he is, finds time to tell a campaign story
to a group of newspaper men who have
called on him in his private room in the
rear of the hall.
paper press is increasing every day" said
the speaker; sit was the newspapers that
overturned our majority in the house.
And one is not surprised at this when he
takes note of the men who make the news
papers-how keen, how bright, how saga
cious and how handsome they all are"
Whereupon all the correspondents present
bowed profoundly in acknowledgement of
the compliment. Why" continued the
speaker, II have even learned that you
newspaper men can write better speeches
than we fellows who make business of
that sort of thing. During the campaign
/ had chance to note this in most
striking way. One night out west made
a speech in an opera house. and about
midnight the editor of the local Republi-
can paper came to me in peck of trouble.
The reporter whom ne had assigned
to report the meeting had gone off
somewhere and filled his skin full of
liquor, and the editor did not know
where on earth he would get a re-
port of my speech. He said he must
have it or he would be the laughing stock
of the community. Had / a manuscript
copy of it? l regretted to say that | had
not but the poor editor was in such dis
tress about it that told him if he would
send me stenographer [ would help him
out. This he gladly consented to do, and
] sat down and ratified off my speech, or
what / thought was my speech, again
Next morning it appeared in the local pa
per in full, and the editor was correspond
ingly happy. But there was an evening
paper in the town, and its reporter had
not gone off and got drunk He was on
hand and T1a1a n rarprf, of NV crlaacb nd
when it came out in type l saw at once
that | had been mistaken in supposing the
speech which / dictated to the stenog-
rapher was the same speech which | had
delivered at the opera house. They were
alike in that they bore some points of re-
semblance, but that was all. Now, would
you believe it, the speech printed in the
evening paper was so much better than the
one printed in the morning paper that
have been ashamed of the latter ever since?
have since often thought that you news
paper men do more for our speeches and
our interviews than we do ourselves
Among the many victims of the elections
none receives more expressions of regret
than Billy Mason, the popular wit and
orator from Chicago Mason was not only
defeated for reelection, but on election
day diphtheria carried off his pet baby
boy. eff / had my boy back" says the
congressman, 81 wouldn't care if l had
been defeated for president of the United
States During the days that the poor lit
tie fellow was lying there choking to death
the elections never once entered my mind y
But Mr.. Mason has in a measure recovered
his usual good spirits, and he tells an
amusing story of his friend and townsman
AAorgoc 1x-bO rr-aS o1so do
feated for reelection. Mr. Adams had a
hard time getting the nomination in his
district, and while the primary struggle
was on hired a large number of ward
workers to get out the votes for him. One
of these local statesmen put the price of
his influence on primary day at $40 but a
bargain was finally struck at $50, and AS
Mr.. Adams handed over the bank note he
inquired, ''Now that you have your money
for the work you are going to do, where
shall find you on primary day, so that l
may satisfy myself you are attending to
business?"
''Misther Adams,n replied the ward
statesman sternly, with look of pain on
his countenaace, as if his intelligence or
his honesty had been called in question,
''Misther Adams, would have you know,
eDT, ltldb Oh OCIdSlOtlS VI OlliS Splb. SUI. VIC
usually votes from warrud to warrud. If
you want to find me to-morrer ye'n have
to hunt me all over the district, sor."
The primaries were carried and Mr..
Adams received the. nomination, but at
the polls he was cruelty beaten. Mr..
Adams himself does not care much for
This, but his accomplished end estimable
wife is much cast down IN defeat. She is
h. i
is Justly proud of the reputation her hus-
band has made in congress, where he is
known as the man who stands next to
Senator Ingalls, and Speaker Reed in the
perfect diction of his impromptu speeches.
Mrs. Adams is a woman of wealth, very
fond of the social enjoyments of the CAPT.
tai, and is credited with having furnished
much of the genius and inspiration of her
husbands success.
That the average American woman is a
pretty good politician we many have oppor
tunities to observe at the Capitol City
Here is bold, eloquent Ben Butterwortt
receiving the congratulations of his friends
on the fact that he concluded to get out Of
politics and go into money making But
the flavor is taken off the compliment by
the consciousness, Of which Butterwortf
cannot rid himself, that he would have
been reelected had he stood for the honor
and that in the next house he would have
had an extraordinary opportunity to dis
tinguish himself. Butterworth's success
sor is another example of what an ambi
tious woman can do for her husband whe1
she sets out to lift him up few pegs il
the world. Bellamy Storer is the new con
gresham from Butterworth's district, an,
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fiuential Anderson family of Cincinnati