Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-03-18
THE STATE CAPITAL.
lntere sting News Gossip From
Springfield.
Payne's Hilarity Over Pa'mer's Flee
neutrality-suspicious. VintOn's
Fidelity to Palmer and
Eaithfulness TO Duty.

SPRINGFIELD, March Is Especial Cor
respondence. Everybody must be
thoroughly conversant By this time. with
all the acclaim and excitement attending
the election of Gen. Palmer. Nothing
has ever been seen like it in this state ex-
cept upon one occssion-the election of
Gen. Logan. Every democrat was drunk
with excitement and success and some of
the republicans were drunk with whisky
and beer. Representative Berry, from
Carroll county, was bowling success
IN his cups. At one moment, during
the meeting of the last joint session, he
would howl like pack ofhungry wolves,
then yelp like an injured dog, finishing
up with growls like bear. He tried to
CLIMB upon his desk to make a speech, but
| couldn't accomplish it. He tried to sing
but that was failure. He struck his
| wife who had came down from Savanna,
on the banks of the Mississippi to OBJ.
serve how valiant republican could hold
| himself up in trying ordeal, but she
found that her husband in that respect
was not only dismal but shouting
failure. Friends gathered about and
tried to keep him quiet; others shouted,
put him out, but it was all in vain.
Speaker Crafts tried to treat the matter
as leniently as possible until the an was
carried out by force and locked in his no.
tel. The next day he was in ssckcl0th
aud bsndages, and mental perturbation
and said. as he viewed himself in the
glsss-the looking glass, not the other
What an awfully good time must
have had when Palmer was elected yes
terday."
The evening after election, PAYNE of
your district, was out with the boys sing
ing. We'll hang Old Streeter on Sour
Apple Tree, and other choice morcesux
of that kind. He was so inspired"
that he made democratic speeches and
sang democratic ditties and WAS hail fell
low, well met and half seas over. what
ever these expressions may mean. He
wouldn't 60 home till morning. till day.
light would appear, and he showed a won.
derful lot of staying qualities in carrying
out the idea. For few days past it is
thought that he and Berry have got to-
gether up home and been arranging some
place whereby the temper and element of
the Rock Island and neighboriug districts
should receive the attention it
deserves. Senator Crawford was
not Tin it rom the fact that
he heard that every man was supposed 10
keep his end up while out on these inves
LEGATION excursions and whatever II oughts
he may have had on the matter before,
were Immediately dispe,led when the sad
news came 10 him that some outlay would
be required. Besides he is so apt 10 get
"overnet" in loading up whether stock
or in any other way, that he couldn't take
the chances. But the letting 90 of
nickel, was after all. the principal objec
ton. 1t is said of Crawford that when
engaging room and board at one of the
hotels here he wanted the landlord to put
him in the garnet and not call him for
breakfast so that he might get cheaper
rate. And one who sat at the table with
him noticed that.he never took tooth
pick from the glass, and when one day he
was offered one he declined, but after
dinner he cautiously approached the nan
who passed them 10 him and asked how
much extra they charged for them
things" and when told they were free, he
said: BE gosh, | didn't know that"
and every day after that he used to take
nearly handful. Oh, Crawford is great
on ecoDomy-not political economy, but
was study during the last joint session
while the vote was being taken. When
hats and newspapers were being flung in
the air. and the fish horns were lOudest,
and Farrell. of Cook, was beating his
old fashioned dinner gong, and another
was blowing g tin horn that was over 10
feet long, and some of the republicans
stood facing the democrats and were
laughing in their own discontinue. while
the rest either buried their faces in their
hands or pretended to read the papers,
Crawford saw something that looked like
knot hole back of the speakers desk
and gaZed at it with face like the In
dian's cOrnfeld-all long but no wide
aud wished in his heart that he could oply
crawl through it. A few nights
ago be was missed from his usual
haunts around the hotels and when
some one asked for him, wicked news
paper man said be thought he was teach
ing spelling and rhetoric in q night school,
and this coming TO the ears of The states
man from Rock Island, he said it was not
so, that be had other things to attend to
be denied the allegation and proposed
20 whip the alligator.
There seems no question of Speaker
Crafts appointing his committees on
Tues day next. after which the work of
legislation will rapidly progress.
Representative Vinton has worked
faithfully and TO good purpose since he
has been here His methods are of the
quiet. unobtrusive kind and he has made
many friends by his conduct. He has
introduced number of useful measures
and now that the senatorial question is
out OF the way. he expresses himself as
ready for the hardest kind of work and
thinks there should be no further delay.
He has not been in favor of frequent ad,
tournaments and keeps q steady eye on
the interests of the state generally, and
his own district particularly. A million
dollars in gold, paid to him in hand, would
not have caused him to swervef rom Pail
mer. When there was a rumor that some
of the Chicago members would desert the
grand old man. Vinton had a stock of
choice old saxon on hand which he naad