Telegram-herald., 1890-07-04

70t1-e q eS ways, - improve the great
Talents AID opportunities which rhe f2tes
Lac se1t hl1- She pointed czt q hln
tns hsignts whi1a he nlght ssoend, ap-
Pesled u his pride, stirred AIS manhood.
ohs dld not thus labor IN VAN wolcott
stesdled himself, worked hard, Increased
his poPal@1lty, became eAsily the hrst
lawyer and ls@3ing politician Of bis
state, and from such strOng rivals as Hin
aud Tabor slaIched the senatorial prize
Meanwhile his partner Bass aaed, and
the widow returned u her old home in
tho east. She Is now the bride of sen
ator Woicotts proad and happy IN MS
triumph.
Ia ths judgment Of his associates the
baby II the senate Is az the threshold Of
great career. The wild young lawyer
Is no nore. h his stead VIC have the
sedate though genial, tho stsdioas, re-
hective, eloquent young senator. His
debut ia the senate was such distinct
triumph that broadening Of his fame
viii hereafter be al easy task. Mr. and
Mrs. Wolcott sre settled in a beautiful
home ON Connecticut avenue, almost op-
posite the British legation
f Woscott's success as a senatorial ora
tor Is AL the more striking for the rea-
son that in making his effort he broke
+ down one Of the procedents Of the body
I There is sort Of unwritten law that a
new senator must sit two years in silence
before venturing % make set speech.
Wolcott has served only q little more
than one year, yet the seniors forgaye
him (for his eloquence, | SUPPOSE and
/ crowded about him with congratula-
/ tions. What would happen if a senator
/ Of few months should presume to de-
liver set speech cannot guess, but we
may have an opportunity OF seeing, for
Senator Carlisle, the newest men.Sor Of
the body, will probably make speech
/ in a few days on the tariff question.
4 II is rather odd fact that Senator
( Carlisle dishkes speech making. Though
many years in public life, and before that
a lawyer Of large practice, screwing his
courage up to the speaking point is with
hun an experience similar to that which
the average man must 20 through before
paying a visit to his dentist. If could
make a speech like you" one of his con-
/ gressional friends once said to him,
with everybody paying close attention.
and with the words rolling out so easily
and eloquently, / would want to be
I speech making all the time" That is
the way it looks to you" replied Mr.. Car
/ Isle. but the facts are | am positively
4 IL 7 hax
T 1t is great load on my mind; it makes
me morose and unnatural. And yet,
/ with faulty which | am unable to ex-
/ plain, am always accepting invitations
to deliver speeches. My first impulse is
/ TO favor the people who are hind enough
/ to do me the honor of asking me to ad-
/ dress them. But after accepting | often
/ become frightened at my own temerity
and write withdrawal of my accept
+ ance"
/ In the senate chamber Carlisle is al
ready one of the marked men. He is
/ one of the senator's whom strangers al
ways ask to have pointed out to
them. His is face which would at
tract attention anywhere, and his a
/ mind which would make itself felt
/ among any sort of associations, no mat
/ ter how learned or eminent. To nv no.
/ ton, these two new senator's. Wolcott
and Carlisle, will make their way in
this ancient and tradition trammeled
body. They are very different, how
ever. Wolootts is all imagination, Car
/ Isle al logic. The Colorado senator
/ could improvise poem with nothing but
I the multiplication table as text; Car
/ lisie would analyze Virgil according to
I the rules of logic. / am told there is
not the slightest trace of imagination in
! the Carlisle family. Wolcott, on the
I other hand, comes from family of poets
and preachers.
This new orators first leap into fame
was when, as a member of the Colorado
/ legislature, he spoke TO bill of his own
introducing Georgetown, Colo, was
reached by railway which found it's
way through the great canyon Of Clear
creek. Here the tourist first saw the
marvels of Rocky mountain scenery.
I and here the sign painter, the patent
/ medicine aud stove polish advertiser
daubed the rocks. Mr.. Wolcott proposed
bill 20 suppress this abomination, and
in support Of that measure put forth his
best efforts. II was speech with flights
loftier than the snow capped peaks. he
+ spoke of the torrent Of Clear creek rush
I ing in sparkling beauty through the SOM
Der chasm which it had been ages in
+ forging; Of tho everlasting hills, with
their fringe Of pines silvered in the
morning sun against an azure sky; of
the Golconds treasure vaults beneath,
honeycombed with veins of precious
metals, and the slopes gilded ike an
oriental dream: of the hunter in buck.
SKIN securing the forest pElmeyal for the
elk monarch. and Of the disciple Of dear
Sir Izaak alone amid the solemn gran
deur Of a storm in the Rocky Mountains.
The orator coDclUled - follows:
Mr. President, the climax il worthy OF she ap-
p~oach In charming contrast 70 The aefsl sub
hritY q the canyon Is lovely valley in whca
uestles The pretty town - GeOrKetcwn yciept
The silver Cuecu r and environe>i BY natural bat
tleuncncs of granite towering heaven high There.
O.. sutid al surrounding grandeur. you reed. IN
blaroucd IN letters taat be deoipacr~d miles
away Have you worms
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