The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-16

~ DIDO lie does not gesture much as he
[ tatAs, and he never sits down under leSs
tnAh lou' columns. Tne republican who
/ comes nearest 70 Sim IS 3 ar OF New Harln-
siire. VINO is now crying out that the news
/ papers wJn5 print wha he utIers.
senator Blair IS q character. He Is n
sehdy-nalred grandmother OF a man, with
| an eye as blue as the skies which float over
the bay OF Naples, anu with hair which
was once OF that bright red color which
lltlaA loved to paint. Age has turned his
| locks to dirty brown and his sandy brush
heap IS now mixed gray. He tears the air
When ne talks and ne works hard enough
10 make himself great reputation. He IS
Connected with all the cranks and isns of
the time, aud there is no moral scheme so
wiz that he Is not a part of it. He eats,
| sleeps, and drinks his educational bill. and
he talks it upon every possible occ sion. He
las wonderful perseverance, and you might
as well try to chop down a tree with an ak
Mantle as TO cha ge him.
Joe Blackburn is great sneaker. Beau
tlIul howers sprout spontaneously from the
end OF his tongue, and he is one of the most
popular men with the galleries. He is one
Oh the readlest men in the Senate, and
though his speeches are sometimes light, he
Is always listened to. One of his strongest
points is the state of kentucky, which, ne
says, has the prettiest girls, the brnvest
:
under heaven. and about which he can reel
oil poetic etfusions of soulful eloquence by
tie yard. Blackburn can make a speech
with as little preparation, perhaps, as any
other man in the Senate, and there are a
number of senators who have the reputation
of making great inpromptu speeches who
never rise to their feet without days of
preparation.
One of these is Senator Hoar of Massa-
chusetts. To see his child-li1e, bland blue
eyes shining out through a pair of gold
specs, while with one hand in his pantalOons
pocket and bunch of keys in the other, he
easily talks out his ideas in tie best of
Aaglo-Saxon, you would suppose that
speeches flowed from him with tie greatest
of ease, and that the wise words he utters
we're the sparks struck bv the occasion from
the New E gland flint rock of his BRAIN
You would not suppose tat he had set on
these ideas for weeks and had one by one
Matched them into words. You would net
imagined that he had trained the chickens
of his intellect into perfect shape by con-
tinuous rehearsing and the brushing of the
feathers this way and that, nor would you
imagine that man of his years would rise
before daybrea to 60 over MS orations to
the Senate.
Not long ago Mr.. Hoar delivered a great
speech, which was reported as wonderful
extemporaneous effort. He was living at
the time in rooms on New York avenue, and
Mrs. Hoar had, think, gone home to Mas
sachuseJtS. A couple of Washington clerks,
in changing their residence, came TO the
house at which the senator was room
ing. They told the lady that they wanted a
quiet place and asked her whether she had
any Objectionable or noisy boarders. She
replied that she had not, and that she would
give them a nice back room on the second
floor adjoining that of one of the most
scholarly, pious and prim of the United
States senators. One Of the clerks was not
very well and he was making the change IN
order that he might rest better than at his
last noisy boarding place. They liked the
outlook, took the room and moved in their
belongings.
The next day, just as the sun had begun to
paint the bronzs cheeks of the Goddess of
Liberty on the dome Of the capitol, they
heard stamping and roaring in the next
room. The half-sick clerk tur led over and
asked: "What is it!' His companion woke
up and said 1t sounded like cross between
saving wood and stump-speaking, and the
two lay and listened. At tne end of an
hour they got desperate, for the hubbub
still wenU on, and then the half-sick clerk
crawled from his bed, got on a chair and
looked over transom.
There before a long pier-glass, in the
light attire of spectacles, mig ltgown and
slippers, the gre 1t MaSsachuse rs senator
pranced up and down, and unded the air
as he talked to himself of the beaut es of
education. His necktie tapped about his
| fat, round calves as he thuidered out Mr..
PRESIDENT" and his blue eyes beamed mag
unanimously into his own as he looked into
the glass and stretched out his hand, saying !:
"My Colleagues will agree" etc.
1t was Senator Hoar in the throes of his
great impromptu speech. Slch prepare
statesmen, and Ben: Perley Poore once
told me that when Martin Van Buren's eff
fects were sold at auction the carpet in front
of the glass in his bedroom was found worn
threadbare by his walking up and down in
| front OF the mirror In rehearsing his
| speeches.
Senator Sherman prepares his speeches by
reading well up on the subject beforehand,
| getting his notes in shape and then dictat-
| Ing them to his stenugrapher. He has good
scrap books, and the volumes of scraps in
| his library cover more than generation of
| public life. His first speech in congress
was delivered more than thirty-five years
| ago, and he told me once that he was fright
| ened when he arose to make it, He was in
the lower house, and there was an old fell
| low sitting beside him writing during the
session at which he spoke.
| There were a number of new congressman
~
| This old member was a sort of a nissan
thrope, and, as every new member ended
| his speech, he would mutter out loud enough
for Sherman to hear, "Another dead cock
| in the pit" cat last" said Sherman, sit
came my turn and spoke. As | sat down
| said to the old member, well, sir, here Is
another dead cock in the pitt o. said
| he. kindly, L hope it won't be so bad as
that with you'n 1t was not bad, for Sher-
mans speech made hit, and he soon got a
place on the floor. He has spoken probably
| q thousand times since then, and he can
make speech impromptu. He Is careful,
however, in revising his manuscript for the
press, and he takes considerable pride in his
public speeches. Sherman is a fine looking
man upon the floor. He gestures in pump
| handle motions, and has strong enough
! voice to reach every part of the gallery.
| Senator VOORHEES, writes out most of his
| important speeches. He uses large sheets
of printing paper, all Of the same size and
neatly cut, and he jots down his thoughts
with pencil. Senator Call also uses print
| ing paper, and he writes out the speeches
he makes when he is not angry. Calls hand
| is a terrible scrawl, and the government
printers tell me they are wearing their eyes
out on his hen-tracks. He is rather a vio-
lent talker, d his face grows red and his
blue eyes fash when he imagiues himself or
| his state to be assaulted. He is directly the
| opposite of Chandler. who is his bette noire
In the Senate. Chandler is slender, narrow
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