The daily critic., 1890-12-01
TALKS OF MEN
L0CKW00D'S SPEAKEBSHIPCANDI
DACY RATHER PREMATURE.
TIL" CAMPBELL Is OPPOSED 10 HI2
lie Suggests That Mr Covert Would
Max. an Empire State Candidate.
EPlgfNlD BUILDER was HOT NEEDED
Sketch Of EoKiDlsy's Successor Opium
Dtus in This City, -Cbewers Of
Cactus Leaves.
TIN" CAMPBELL is OPPOSED 10 HIa.
( HgfWD BUILDER Was HOT NEEDED

Cactus Leaves.
II will be remembered that a few
days after election the Hon. Daniel
Lockwood, Congressman. elect from one
Of the Buffalo districts and known to
fame as Grover Cleveland's mascot an
nounced himself as a candidate for
Speaker Of the next House. Following
this announcement Congressman John
NJ. Wiley proclaimed to the world that
Mr.. Lockwood would "start out with
the solid New York delegation at his
back
Timothy John Campbell Of New
York city will warm a chair In the next
House, and he says that the Hon. Dan
Lockwood will not get every Demo
cratic vote from New York
1T is too soon, said Mt Campbell
TO THE CRrTC reporter, "to talk about
the Speakership. I think Mr.. Lock
woods friends make mistake in
claiming the votes Of members without
consulting them.
IF the Democratic party Of New York
State think Mr.. Lockwood should make
the race for Speaker, then I am for
him; otherwise | am not There Is
modest but very strong man In the
New York delegation who would
make an admirable Speaker. His
name Is James w. Covert, aud he repre-.
sents the First or Long Island district
Mr.. Covert has had great deal Of legis
lative experience both In the Congress
Of the United States and In the New
York Senate. He Is one Of the brainest
men In the House, and would be eq1al
20 John G.. Carlisle as a presiding OIL
Cer."
Major Jacob G. Donaldson Of the
Office of the Secretary Of the Senate IS
an Ohio man. Out there he Is generally
known as the pyramid editor" After
a general election, when the Republican
party had won. he would arrange the
names Of the States into two pyramids
the Republican towering high abpve the
Democratic pyramid. This sort OF
thing Is dear to the country newspaper
and the bucolic reader Is delighted
with n.
Colonel Isaac Hill. Assistant Door
keeper Of the House, Is as jealous a
~ AlAhAAhA NN ANANNNANNu ~ n AANIAb
] can. llill always has n quaint way Of
expressing his views Meeting Donald
son in this city for the hrst time he ex.
claimed:
You can't build any pyramid this
year, Jake. You only carried C1llfOr-
MIA, Cincinnati and Oklahoma.
Jake acknowledged the corn.
John d. Warwick, ex. x.Lieutenaut
Governor OF Ohio, who defeated Major
Mckinley Is a native OF Ireland. lie
came to this country over thirty years
ago and settled at Massillon. Ohio. He
has accumulated a handsome fortune
and Is the owner OF extensive planning
mills and coal mines. He lives In
big old fashioned square house with
ample grounds and In kospltable abund-
ance Mr.. Warwick Is about 55, Of
medium height, with small we'll cut
features. pair Of piercing eyes set we'll
back In his head and general express
sion Of shTewdness and philosOphlc
alertness. He Is In constant elbow
touch with his community, friendly and
pleasant In address and has the energy
Of trip hammer in business and poll
ties. He has one son, a practical clever
young fellow, and a wife who Is q
woman of great sense and admirable
domestic and social qualities.
1T Is a fact, said a man about town
10 THE Critic reporter, that there are
thousands Of opium fiends In this town,
most Of them young men whose ages
range from IS 10 2j years.
Are there many opium dens In this
ciiYP' asked the reporter.
MANY ! should say so. A man
can hit the pipe in almost any one Of
the many little poker rooms which
abound here. The time was when only
the Chinese kept opium joints but
now there are dozens OF such places
which are conducted by depFaved
white men. / used 10 bit a. pipe my
self, but | thank the good ord that
am now entirely cured Of e Wretched
habit. Ii is a rare thing hat a man
can break OF from the use Of
opium after be has smoked Il
ear, but managed 10 DO it
II was a great struggle though.
Would YOU believe that ] could pick
out confirmed opium smoker
from a crowd Of a thousand peOplel
Wei, j can do g. because they all have
a blush east of eountenance and
wild, semi crazy look out of the eyes.
Another narcotic which Is even more
powerful than opium has recently been
put upon the market. This is dried
cactus leaves. They are chewed the
same as tobacco. About six or eight
cheWs a day viii SET a fellow braiu
Whirliug So that he will imagine be is
tTeading on air.
Hon. II Dudley Coleman, the de
feated but plucky Republican menber
from Louisiana, who voted against the
Force bill, has arrived His action may
have bad something 10 40 with his de-
feat, the Republican party managers
probably having had something 20 40
with the effort 70 suppress him. Mr.
Coleman being Southern born aud an
old and tried citizen. may have been
more capable Of judging of the futility
Of the Force bill as a drastic measure
than the Republican leaders who have
not lived quite SO long in the section
Interested
Frank Lawler Of Chicago, who re-
fused a denomination 20 Congress ia
order tJrun for Sherid Of Cook County
and then got licked dOesn't look as
though he were suffering under the
paugs of defeat lie says be Is gOiug
to pull himself together aud 60 on the
road for some business house Asked
haI line Of goods he proposed 20 sell.
Dit LaWleT said, -cockroach paste.
A Ead Combination
Last evening a lighted cigar thrown
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