The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-10-05

the whole of that time. During those twelve
years MIR. Reed bad participated in every prom
inent debate, and in every party fight; he had
acquired a national reputation and the leader
ship of his side of the House, and vet he had
never made long, formal speech lie
had done his speaking, said my
friend, under the five-minute rule; he
had addressed the House with the Speakers
gavel poised in the air and ready to come down
at any moment For years he had drilled him
self in the art OF making his point effectively i'm
sentence or in five minutes. AS the result of
all this, MIR. Reeds tariff speech in 1883 was on
OF the great speeches OF American politics Nv
friend went on to say that in the Senate men
were under no such training: and he made
comparison between Mr.. Carlise's discussion Of
the tariff when he was the leader of the Demo-
cratic minority in 1888 and as o member of the
Senate in 1890, and he thought Mr.. Carlise's
lnc1syeness and force had been impaired by his
translation from house where debate is mar
rowly hedged in TO house where debate has no
limits"
Continuing the discussion, another side of
the matter is presented: 'There is good deal
n this theory, but one must not generalze
from insufficient data, and the value of con-
densation may be too highly estimated. If
Mr.. Reeds skill in debate and his epigrammatic
style were the result of the House limitations
on debate, we ought to have more Reeds,
whereas we have only one, which is great
pity, looking at politics from the point of view
of literature and the drama, and looking at the
House of Representatives as a school of ora
tory. Mr.. Reeds colleagues have not been de-
tered from making set speeches or compiling
essays out of various public documents and
getting them printed in the Record as speeches
They have participated in hundreds of debates
under the fve-minute rule without growing
concise or brilliant; the Speakers gavel has not
hammered their speeches to fine points. On
the other hand, the most complete master OF
expression in either House is Senator Ingalls,,
who has been sixteen or seventeen years in the
Senate and never was in the House at all. And
SO am skeptical about the superiority of the
House rules teaching condensation and lumi-
Mostly.
runaway with unusual features occurred on
Eighth street the other day. A couple of gen
tlemen standing on the sidewalk saw horse
drawing light business wagon, dashing wildly
down the street In the drivers seat sat a man
of middle age, hanging onto the reins with all
his might, but apparently utterly unable to
check the maddened animal or to guide him.
On the helpless drivers face there was an ex-
preston of strange agony, and as the wild horse
dashed from side to side of the street he seemed
to be filled with perfect panic of fear While
the man clung to the relns as his only hope,
although at every jolt of the wagon he was in
danger of being hurled violently to the stone
paved street. There was something so strange
in the appearance and behavior of the man in
the wagon that all who saw the runaway had
their attention attracted to him rather more
than to the frightened horse. The spec
tators took in these details, of course,
in an instant, while trying to make
tn 6n IN
wild horse came, narrowly missing a number of
wagons standing in the street, moving car
riages, and pedestrians. Then wagon was
struck by the bounding vehicle and the occu-
pant almost hurled from his seat moment
later the runaway dashed into another vehicle
badly smashing it. This for an instant
checked the mad career of the frightened
horse, but the man with the strange agopized
look on his face made no attempt 10 save him
self by jumping. He seemed paralyzed by fear
and the horse was about to bound away again
wilder than ever, when man sprang to his
head, caught him by the bit, and succeeded in
stopping him. At the same time he yelled to
the occupant of the wagon, "Jump out Jump
out Why didn'tyou jump ?" II can't Jump
answered the man in weak, exhausted tone of
voice. 81 can see nothing. | am totally blind'
Ii is not easy TO imagine a more horrible sit
uation for blind man than this in which this
poor fellow found himself dragged through a
crowded street by maddened horse at ter
rife rate of speed, and utterly unable to do
Il X Il
Up at the Republican Congressional Cam
paign Committee headquarters they are trying
to figure themselves into a hopeful frame of
mind and claim to have done; but if the figures
given out as those through which the operation
was performed are correct, then Mr. Belden and
his lieutenants must be veritable Mark Tap
leys. They claim to have carefully taken
stock of the Congressional districts of the
country, and find 100 that are surely Repubi-
can. Twenty others have been classed as
probably Republican, while thirtythree now
represented by Republicans are admitted to be
doubtful. All told, these make 162 districts
five short of majority of the next House
But the Republicans say there are twenty-four
Democratic districts which with work and doodle
they feel confident of carrying. At least they
can carry enough of them to give them safe
working majority, provided they hold all their
own districts, probable as Well as doubtful. At
the very worst they will concede it possible for
the Democrats to get no more than a majority
of ten in the next House, so that the Republi-
cans feel they are justified in claiming they
have f1rst-rate lighting chance. And as they
are understood to possess in ample store the
''sinews of war;" with men who know how
and are not scrupulous about using them they
are naturally inclined to look on the situation
with confidence.
That they have plenty of money the expen-
siyeness of some of the vote-catching devices
they mean to put out proves. In fact, the com
mitee are going to introduce decided novelties