The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-09-17

b. Impetuous, and burning under the
ght that Senator Quay had embalmed
Election bill in what might be perennial
y, Kennedy surprised the country with
udaciously indiscrete speech and no
after it was all over was more surprised
himself.
.<lezA The result is not
AElMlN~ what he may have
MHSMEaz2gW \. expected. Quay,
NEVNMgfslm x<ah& without doing q
NVS8@NW ~, thing, simply look
W4ttGs ing skyward and
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Sx.s3 upper and neither
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.kA millstones of party
XnSS%N$2SAM fealty and public
M,EyA%NA\\MM\ resentm emit of
MZkI(SAN\WHM what is generally
ifW WSfAfr.h.MN regarded as indie
NM {lilIIllllWIl corous criticism
W NHHJ| l1NN> by a member of
kp lNtl1'ZIky1js*'' one house of a
nv V1112W member of the
bI||Mj other. This anti
yUNN1/ climax is quite as
IMtWf amusing as any
-, lNlHII( thing connected
IVkE|l with the affair.
E=GlllVl Nobody congratu-
I'M - lates Kennedy. To-
- night I saw him
uAY SAYS NOTHING. walking alone east
out of the capitol grounds to his home
a in the section where Speaker Randall
80 many years. Quay, without de-
ing himself or ttering a word about
merits Of Kennedy's ugly charges is
graduated on all sides for something or
r, nobody quite knows what.
ennedy in appearance is an interesting
!. He is stout and tall as the average
e-bodied man. His columnar neck
straight to the crown of his head. His
d back. too, is straight and pillar-like.
tial in everything he does. His broad,
est face can be seen always on his side
The house, and his keen, piercing eye
IN all that is going on. The sobri-
king Bob'' we'll fits his appearance.
t was title that fell upon him after his
10 with the democrats in the Ohio SEN
before he came to congress. Using tao
since made famous by Speaker Reed,
ounted quorum of the Ohio senate
There is no one,' he said, "but our
es: all republicans, to ask for roll call
bake the point of no quorum. If none
tlarity.'
he seated the four republicans from
alton county. He had forced the demo-
to withdraw to break the quorum, by
ries of rulings in the chair as arbitrary
prous and royalty despotic as they will
or want to see again. Thus he became
ing Bob.''
King Bob" came very near having diff
Mt sobriquet. however, some years be-
he came to congress. He is not quick
Jed man and brillianoy is something his
friends never imputed to him. He
prs long and we'll on all his speeches and
are good specimens of English when
finally appear in the Record. This
it of pounding and digging on a speech
formed early in life when he first began
practice law. On one occasion he con-
lcted good old fashioned stump speech.
took an entire summer to it-began in
.ch to slick into shape' ammunition to
ct off in October. It was good speech
p pounded the enemy, extolled his
party, and shook things up generally,
i'm good, smooth classic English. It was
it. He got it off in his town of Belle
taine and the boys fairly lifted the roof
h applause. There was an Urbana man
he audience and Bob was hardly done
sing before he was crowding up with
hundred others to shake hands and
gratulate him on his speech, and before
o@o0AAs AAASAA wssS uAAAOASA4 AAC AnA AAAeh~sS
tnedy promise to come over to his town
speak.
You can let off this same thing, yor
W." he said. II won't let on that ever
I'd it BEFORE"
3 King Bob went over to Urbana and
le the same speech there. Being away
n home and going over the speech the
)nd time he did even better than he die
pre-. There were men present from
EN- neighborinR towns and the result
Kennedy had to deliver his speech TO
rly month. He never changed a lin,
gesture, but to all who heard it it wa
III, pointed and satisfying. The sue
of that summers work was a BIZ
ag for Kennedy. He began to lean OF
{ speech. He got off part of it at
lquet down at Cincinnati. He used tn
grafton with some changes. before
in murder trial. He was called OF
bout warning to make few remarks a,
lneral of friend and before he knew i
had launched into the exordium of tina
speech. While he was collector of in
aal revenue he came to Washington an,
ed ON the secretary of the treasury
oost before he had shaken hands Kim
had reeled off four or five nice BIZ
iods from his standby.
Yes, Bob" said Sherman, II believe you
said that same thing. remember, il
lr speech last year in my town."