The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-11

Farmers home. In me nMuRkyv suzrlc
young lswyers Mrs Bass took s1Indly
interest. she begged him TO consct
some Of his ways,to improve the great
talents and opportunities;whieh the fstes
had sent him. she pointed out to him
the heights which he might ascend, sp-
pealed to his pride, stirred his manhood
She did not thus labor In vain. WoleOtt
steadied himself, worked hard, increased
his popularity, became easily the first
lawyer and leading politician Of his
state, and from such strong rivals as Hill
and Tabor snstchAd the senatorial prize.
Meanwhile his partner Bass died, and
the widow returned TO bs< old home IN
the east. She Is now the bEide Of Sem
ator Wolcott, proud and happy in his
triumph.
In the Judgment Of his associates the
baby Of the senate is at the threshold OF
q great career. The Wild young lawyer
Is no mora In his stead we hsve the
eedate though genial, the stu6ious, re-
fective, eloquent young senator. BIS
debut IN the senate Was soch distinct
triumph that broadening Of his fame
viii hereafter be an easy tzS1. Ar. and
Mrs. Wolcott are settled IN beautiful
home on Connecticut avenue, almost op-
posite the British legation.
Wolcott's success as senatorial ora
tor is ali the more striking for the rea-
son that IN making his effort he broke
down one Of the preeedents Of the body.
There is o sort Of uawTfften law that q
new senator must sit twoyears N silence
before venturing 10 make set speech
| WoIcott has served only little more
| than one year, vet the eeniors forgave
| him for his eloqaence, / sapposel and
crowded about him with cougratula-
tons. What would happen II a senator
of few months should presume TO de-
liver set speech ce1aot guess, but we
may have an opportunity Of seeing, for
| Senator Carlisle, the newest member OF
the body, will probably make speech
IN few days on the tar16 q-Aeai0n.
It is q rather odd fact that Senator
/ Carlisle disfkes speech making. Though
many years in prhde afe. and before that
| lawyer Of large pvaes1eA screwing bis
courage up to the speaEtng ps&nt is with
/ him an experience similar TO that which
the average man must goEhroagh before
/ paving visit to his dentist. If | could
make speech ike yoa," enc OF his con-
/ gressional friends once said TO him,
with everybody paying close attention,
and with the words rolling out SO easily
and eloquently, l woald want to be
speech making all the time" THAT Ia
/ the way it locks 70 yeu, replied Mr.. Car
! Isle, but the facts are am positively
miserable when have speech 10 make.
| It is great load en- my mind; il makes
/ me morose and unnatural. And yet,
| with faulty which | AN unable TO ex-
| plain, am always accepting invitations
to deliver speeches. Ny first impulse is
/ to favor the people who are kind enough
/ 10 do me the honor of asking me TO adj
| dress them. But after accepting often
/ become frightened at my own ternerity
! and write a withdrawal OF my accept
ance,"
! In the senate chamber Carlisle is al
ready one Of the marked men. He Is
/ one Of the senators 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, 10 mat
| ter how learned or eminent. To my no
| ton, these two new senators, Wolcott
| and Carlisle, will make their way IN
| this ancient and tradition tranlmeled
! Il hon
ever. Wolcott is all imagination, Car
| isle all logic. The Colorado senator
/ could i-nprov1se a poem with nothing but
the multiplication table as a text: Car
| isle would analyze Virgil according 60
| the rules Of logic. l am told there is
not the slightest trace Of imagination in
the Carlisle family. Wolcott, on the
other hand, comes from a family of poets
and preachers.
This new orators first leap into fame
was when, as member Of the Colorado
legislature, he spoke to bill Of his own
introducing. Georgetown, Colo, was
reached by railway which found its
way through the great canyon Of Clear
creek. Here the tourist first saw the
marvels Of Rocky mountain scenery.
and here the sign painter, the patent
! medicine and stove polish advertiser
daabed the rocks. Mr.. WoIcott proposed
a bill TO suppress TINS abonin2slon, and
in support OF that measure put forth his
best Efforts. 1t was speech with fights
loftier than the snow capped peaks He
spoke Of the torrent OF Clear creek rush
ing in sparkling beauty through the SOM
Der chas1n which il had been ages il
forging; Of the everlasting hills, with
their fringe Of pines 9lyered in the
| morning sun against al azure sky; Of
the GolcondA treasure watts beneath,
honeyconbed with veins Of precious
metals, and the slopes gilded Ike an
oriental dream; OF the hunter in buck
SKIN securing the forest prinsEal for the
elk monarch, and CT the disciple OF dear
Sir Izaak alone AMID the seierRn gran
deur of g storm in tae Reek-y Mountains.
| The crater concluded as follows:
| xr. President. the climax IS worthy q the &p-
/ p-oach- In charming coaz<sss " tie awful sub
1 Unity Of tbs caE%on Il 9 sovetJ vzLtgv il which
nesCies The pretty tSs1 cE Georzes5rz. yoleps
the Silver Q1ee1- and eaTsrezsd ~ natural rat
tlen-ass OF granite se~-r1aS AeA -zn hiza- Thsre-
( O. arid 81 sarrozn4ssg grza&ez1F, goa Rad ar
blAzoaed n lesners fsls can be dectphe-ed za4les
/ away Have yo1 va-Ezst"
WALTER WEzLMAy.
II il rriasp5 n q .Tr-zEe--. boy who