Omaha daily bee., 1890-01-12

ciS 10 no - - ~ OhaSh - ShaAs' '-N
big man is Sanders and the little man
is Powers. Sanders is tall, angular, black
eyed and black-Laired. He reminds one
of Abraham Lincoln and he has as much
magnetism as James G. Blaine. He 10 n great
orator and he holds his audience in the hollow
of his hand five minutes after he mas first
opened his mouth. He excells especially in
the vindlctive and he has a poison Tag at the
end of his tongue equalizes into that which
supplies the vitriol which spurts forth from
the mouth of John j. ingalls,. He is well up
in English literature, quotes from poets as
though he had been raised with
them and is one of the great lawyers Of the
northwest. For the twenty odd years dur
which he has lived in Montana he has been a
noted man and he has done more to crystal
ize civilization in the great northwest than
any other Montana citizen. He settled first
at a little mining camp and moved from
there TO Virginia City, lie was practising
aw in this mining settlement during the
days of Montana. when every man
carried his life in his hand, and the road
agents ruled the territory. The sheriff be-
longed to a band of robbers and road agents
and justice was unknown until one day San
ders called the miners together, denounced
the robbers and organized a vigilance COM
mittee and a set of mining courts. He
tNt'hS'' t'tS " oV Obn hS was
eventually able to clean the robbers out of
the country, and this was not done before
there were a number of hangings and hot a
few bloody shooting affrays.
Senator Sanders made money in Virginia
City at the law. He made more at
Helena and now at the age of fifty-six he is
worth about 5000 COO. He was born in New
York and married his wife in Ohio where lie
was admitted to the bar. Mrs. Sanders IS a
very bright woman. She is widely travelled,
cultured and dignitied, and she will. | am
told, be one of the leading figures of Wash
ington society. She is now presiding with
grace over the fine residence of Senator
Sanders in Helena, aud she is very proud of
her three grown up sons. the youngest of
whom has lust graduated from Exeter col
lege.
SENATOR POWER AND HIS $500 0 PALACE.
Senator Power is a trltle older than San
ders. He is a little, rapid. nervous business
man who started life as an Indian trader up
the Missouri river many years ago, and who
has been engaged ever since then in trading
with the Indians, the whites and The gov
eminent, and has made it pay. He is worth
three or four hundred thousand dollars, and
has a big agricultural implement establish
ment at Helena with branch establishments
throughout the territory. He is building one
of the finest houses IN the northwest. 1t is
an inmense marble structure trimmed with
granite and red sandstone, and 1t is to cost
ySO,0O0. The red sandstone trimmings are
exquisitely carved, and it will take all of
next year to finish them. The house con-
tains about twenty-five rooms, and it con-
sists of two stories, a basement and an attic.
About six years ago Senator Power got the
political bee in his bonnet. Why 1t attacked
him no one knows, for he is no speaker and
has heretofore had no political con-
nections. He became a candidate
Tor congress, and was later on
defeated by Governor Toole IN the cam
paign for the gsvernorship. 1t was his defeat
here that formed the chief reason for his
election to the senatorship.
HOW N FAT CATTLE MADE CAMP
BELL GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
James L. Campbell will be :naugurated
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 i'll his first congress
sional campaign and he thereby got the
prominence that makes hum today the
greatest man in Ohio Campbelps opponent
during his first congressional campaign was
ex-ConRressinan Little, whom President
Harrison appointed this summer as "a
member of the Venezuelan commission.
Little IS q tall, sober aristocrat,
families OF his county and who considers
himself lar above the ordinary run of NOR
tails. He had represented the district lin
congress and he had no doubt of his ~re-elec-
ton. he did not NIX much with the com
mon people, and coward the last OF the cam
paign when he and Campbell spoke together
at Il big agricultural fair he made a scholarly
Grafton on the intricacies of the tariff while
Campbell devoted his talk to the glories OF
the agricultural show and oiled his tongue on
tine fairness of the cattle and spoke glowing
words on the rich yellow golden hue of
Greene county pumpkins. After the
speeches We're over Campbell went around
the fair grounds and shook hands with the
farmers He talked with Farmer Simpkins
about his winter wheat and praised Mrs.
Jones' yellow butter. He chucked the coun-
Try, maidens uuder their chins. kissed all the
babies without regard to SEX, and
alike. MIR. Little strutted about
the grand stand and received the
congratulations of his friends upon his fac
effort, and when his friends begged him to
come out IN the evening and help the crowd
fire OIL rockets aud sample Cincinnati lage r
he gravely remarked: THAT the people
must have their sports but that they would
enjoy them more il gentlemen did not miu-
gle with them" He was not TO be rooted
from his hotel parlors and the ring politi-
clans OF his party swore roundly as they saw
Farmer Campbell doing his political mix
ing. This same kind of a campaign was
managed by Campbell throughout the whole
district and the result of tho vote was d
the election of pious Dick Bishop
some years ago. Bishop was
the greatest mixer Ohio had
ever known but Campbell Is his equal. He
hdo tit1Atu w ohkI1 anu tuC CuhhBc III
the vote about tbs agriculture fair showed
Ohio pumpkins will beat patriotism any day
in the week.
HOW ES-MiNIsTER LASGsToN LEARNED FRENCH.
The Hon. Fred Douglass, according TO some
authorities, seems TO be having a hard time
In Hayti and he would make a much better
minister If he had "a thorough knowledge OF
the French language. The Haytians speak
French aud this is the diplomatic tongue Of
the court, Minister Langston told me
the other day of his difficulties IN this regard
at the beginning Of his mission and how he
finally surmounted them. Said he:
had a young white man as my secretary,
who was a complete master of both Spanish
aud French, and l supposed that | would be
able TO get along through him. AT the first
meeting OF the diplomats q case very impor-
tant to the United States was presented. 1t
was given in tina Spanish language, and the
discussion upon II had TO be conducted in
French. l could not utter a word in either
language, and | remembered with regret an
opportunity which Charles Summer had Of
fered me but which l had refused. He had
told me that | would some day probably be
called upon to take a foreign mission, and
that | ought to known French. If you care
to- try / will teach YOU, he said.
was, however, busy at the time, and had