Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-24
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
A Queer AdmiXture of Character in
the New House.
MANY SURPRISES IN STORE.
Members From the Wayback Districts
Who Will be Notable
BY REASON OF THEIR ECCENTRICITIES


will have among its members some whose
presence will add picturesqueness to the
assemblage. A considerable number OF the
new members who will represent districts
heretofore strongly Republican are men who
were nominated without any idea that they
would be elected, and whose election was as
great surprise to themselves as to anybody
else. In some cases very different men
would have been nominated if there had
been any apparent chance of election. A
number of prominent Democrats, who de-
clined nominations, now deeply regret the
fact A few oil the new members from the
West are men whose education extends
scarcely beyond an ability to read and
write.
A Democratic member of the House, who
is prominent campaigner, was telling the
other day of some of his experiences on the
stump in the West. 81 was to speak in the
town hall at Blank" he said. ga large as
semblage filled the hall. The leading Dem
ocrats of the place occupied seats on the plat
form. There was committee of leading
citizens. bankers, merchants, members of
the board of trade and the like, to receive
oAu AhIIOuuCc Lue spedheTS.
A VERY MODEST CANDIDATE.
81 made speech of about an hour, calling
upon the Democrats in partic ular, and all
good citizens in general, to vote the Demo
cratic ticket and send the Republican who
was misrepresentlng them into retirement.
While talked there. was a man in the gal
lery upon whom my eyes rested, probably
because he leaned forward and listened with
MT
about him personally to attract attention,
and his place was among the less important
element OF the meeting who were crowded
promiscuously in the gallery.
After the meeting was over walked out
OF the hall with one of the committeeman,
and as we got to the door we ran into some
one. My companion turned. and, seeing
who it was, said In an Indifferent, halEapol-
ogetic sort of way: 'Oh, this is Mr.. Jones,
our candidate, and then, without stopping
to exchange even passing remark, led me
on our way, while the candidate lost him
self in the crowd without attempting to cul-
| tivate my acquaintance. I merely had time
to observe that he was the very modest, but
deeply interested individual, who had sat in
| the gallery"
THEY ARE STRANGE STATESMEN.
Not one of the three new men from Ne
Senators or the Representatives now holding
seats In Congress from that State. Ryan,
the Democrat, from the First district, is
bright young lawyer, who, while he has not
| yet gained any prominence at the bar and
has not been long in the State, is college
| bred man, and has the gilt of eloquence.
McKeighan is the man who has been re-
| ferred to as a ne do-well, who immigrated
to Nebraska from Illinois.
KEN, who beat Mr.. Dorsey, the rich and
brilliant young banker who now represents
that district, claimed the votes of his fellow
citizens as a Farmers Alliance candidate,
upon the ground that he had been farmer
| In the district for ten years; that he had
never made more than $500 in any year dur
ing that time; that he was the father of six
motherless children, and that he had q
mortgage of 81, 500 on his farm. In his
speeches to his admiring constituents he
ADVOCATED the confscation OF all railroads
and their operation by the Government for
the benefit of the farmers; the hanging OF
all bankers who charged farmers more than
per cent interest on loans, and the destruc-
tion of grain elevators whose owners charged
farmers more than cent bushel for the
storage of wheat.
Ignorant, forlorn and without money, he
game out of a sod-covered hut and got the
votes of his fellow citizens, and will repre-
sent them in the next House.
THE SUCCESSOR OF CANNON.
The man who succeeds "Joe" Cannon is a
wealthy man now engaged In the brokerage
business, but he is said to possess some Pc
culiar characteristics which will make him
suitable successor to the fame of Martin,
of Texas. He has seen more of society than
has Mr.. Martin. He has been soldier and
bears the title of Colonel. Just at the close
of the war he captured a fort down in Flor
ida, which, it is said, had already been de-
serted by its defenders.
During his campaign some of the news
papers advocating his election published
great two-page cuts depicting the capture of
the fort, in which is represented one man
on the earth works, far in advance of the
rest, with revolver in one hand and a
sword in the other, casting defiance and de-
struction into the ranks of fleeing foe. In
big white letters across the hero's back is
written the name "Busey." Mr.. Busey has
but one eye and can see very imperfectly out
of the other. One of his pecullarities is said
to be fear of being abroad in the dark. 1t
is said that he is never known TO go out of
his house after night-fall.
THE LEADER OF THE ALLIANCE.
The leader of the Alliance in the next
House. and probably in succeeding Houses
| If the Alliance membership increases, will
be Livingston, OF Georgia. He is a tall,
rawboned old farmer with keen eye and a
glib tongue. He is fairly we'll educated
and is very bright and shrewd. He has un-
bounded confidence in MS own ability. He
thinks that with but small chance ne Can
devise legislation which will cure all the ills
the farmer complains of.
He believes that he possesses those states
man-like qualities which will enable him
to assist in bringing about an economic mil
lennium. He is man of very positive con-
victions and has fund OF information con-
firmatory of these convictions.
A GENTLEMAN IN TRUTH.