St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-01-12
GOSSIP OF DIPLOMATS
The Montana Republican Sem
ators--Who They Are and
How They Look.
How Baby-Kissing and Pump
kin-Raising Made Camp
bell Governor.
Why Frederick Douglass Is
Unpopular Among Resi-
dents Of Hayti.
Langston Learns French
Palmer's Ambition to Be
Michigan's Governor.
Special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
WASHINGTON, Jan. l0.-The two sem
ators from Montana, whom the Repub-
licans have elected, are as different as
the poles. They have hardly an attri-
butte in common. and according to Mon
tana men. one is as great as the other
is small. The big man is Sanders and
the little man is Power. Sanders is tall,
angular, black-eyed and black-haired.
He reminds one of Abraham Lincoln.
and he has as much magnetism as James
e. Blaine. He is great orator, and he
holds his audience in the hollow of his
hand five minutes after he has first
opened his mouth. He eXcels especially
in the vindictive. and he has poison
bag at the end of his tongue equal in
size to that which supplies the vitriOl
which spurts forth from the mouth of
John j. ingalls,. He is we'll up in
English literature. quotes from the
poets as though he had been raised with
them, and is one of the great lawyers
of the Northwest. For the twenty odd
years during which he has lived in
Montana, he has been noted man. and
he has done more to crystaliZe civiliZa-
ton in the great Northwest than any
other Montana citizen. He settled first
at little mining camp,a and moved from
thence to Virginia City. lie was prac-
ticing law in this mining settlement
during the stOrniest days of Mon
tana, when every man carried
his life in his hand, and
the road agents ruled the territory. The
sheriff belonged to a band of robbers
and road agents, and justice was I'M
known until one day Sanders called the
miners together, denounced the robbers
and organized a vigilance committee
and a set of mining courts. He pushed
this organization so that he was eventu-
ally able to clean the robbers out of the
country, and this was not done before
there were number of hanglngs and
not few bloody shooting ARRAYS. San
derS made money in Virginia City at
the law. He made more at Helena. and
now, at the age of tifty-SiX. he is worth
about S200.000. He was born in New
York. and he married his wife in Ohio,
where he was admitted to the bar. Mrs.
Sanders is a very bright woman. She
is widely travelled, cultured and digni-
fed. ana she will. am told. be one of
the leading figures of Washington So
ciety. She is now presiding with grace
over the fine residence of Senator San
derS in Helena. and she is very proud
of her three grOwn-up sons, the young
est of whom has just graduated from
Exeter college.
POWERS $4,000 PALACE.
Senator Power is a tTIfle older than
Sanders. He is little, rapid. nervous
business man who started life as an In
dian trader up the Missouri river many
years ago, and who has been engaged
ever since in trading with the Indians,
the whites and the government and has
made il pay. He is worth three OF four
hundred thousand dollars. and has q
big agricultural implement establish
mtnt at Helena with branch establish
ments throughout the territory. He is
building one of the finest houses in the
Northwest. 1t is an immense marble
structure trimmed with granite and red
sandstone, and it is to cost $4,000. The
red sandstone trimmings are eXQuiSitely
carved, and it will take all of next year
to finish them. The house contains
about twenty-five rooms. and 1t consists
of two stories. q basement and an attic.
About six years ago Senator Power got
the political bee in his bonnet. Why it
attacked him no one knows, for he is
no speaker, and has heretofore had no
political connections. He became a
candidate for congress and was later on
defeated by Gov. TuOle in the cam
paign for the gOveru0rship. 1t was his
defeat here that formed the chief rea-
son for his election TO the senatorship.
PUMPKINS. FAT CATTLE, CAMPBELL.
James E. Campbell will he inaugural
ed governor of Ohio next week. He
owes his position to his appreciation OF
pumpkins and fat cattle. 1t was this
element of his nature that made him
successful in his first congressional
campaign, and he thereby got the prom
inence that makes him to-day the great
est man in Ohio. Campbpll's opponent
during his first congressional campaign
was eX-Cungressman Little, whom Pres
ldent Harrison appointed this summer
as memberO of the Venezuelan commits
sion. Little is tall, sober ariStOcrat.
who belongs to one of the influential
families Of his county. and who cOnSid-
erS himself far above the ordinary run
of mOrtalS. He had represented the dis
trict in congress, and had 10 doubt of
his reelection. He did not mix much
with the common people, and toward
the last of the campaign, when he and
Campbell spoke together at big agri-
cultural fair, he made scholarly ora
ton on the intricacies of tie tariff,
while Campbell devoted his talk to the
glOries of the agricultural show, and
oiled his tongue on the fatneSS of the
cattle, and spoke glowing words on the
rich yellow, golden hue of Greene
county pumpkins. After the
speeches were over, Campbell
went around the fair grounds and
shook hands with the farmers. He
talked with Farmer Simpkns about his
winter wheat, and praised Mrs. Jones'
yellow butter. He chucked the country
maidens under their chins, kissed all
the babies, without regard to sex. and
shook hands with old and young alike.
MIR. Little struttpd about the grand
stand, and received the congratulations
OF his friends upon his fine effort; and,
when his friends begged him to come
out in the evening aud help the crowd
fire off rockets and sample Cincinnati
beer, he gravely remarked: That the
people must have their sports, but that
they would enjoy them more if gentle
men diG not mingle with them He was
not tOberOOted from his hotel parlurs. and
the ring politicians Of his party swore
roundly as they saw Farmer Campbell
doing his political mixing. This same
kind of a campaign was managed by
Campbell throughout the whole district
and the result of the vote was a greater
surprise than that which came after the
election of pious Dick Bishop some
> Cuio uSu' OiSilop was TIE greatest
mixer Ohio had ever known, but Camp
bell is his equal. lie was elected to
congress, and the change in the vote
about that agricultural fair showed that
Ohio pumpkins will beat patriotism any
day in the week.
LANGSTON LEARNS FRENCH,
Hon. Fred Douglass, according to
some authorities, seems to be having
hard time in Hayti. and he would make
much better minister if he had thor
oUgh knowledge of the French IAN
guage. The Haytians speak French,