The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-12-06

while l lay there wounded on the field
my mind went through q curious process Of
reasoning. | thought | had been struck by
q cannon-ball and l said to myself, 1 have
been struck in the head with a six-pound
solid shot. II has carried away my head.
can feel that there is little piece Of the
skull left on the left side. But my brain
must be gone entirely. Therefore l am
dead. And yet | am thinking. And how
can man think with his head shot off,
And If l am thinking cannot be dead. And
yet no man can live after his head is shot
off. Still | may have consciousness after l
am dead, but my body cannot have action.
Now if l can lift my leg, then 1t must be
that l am alive. ] win try that. Can II
Yes l can. [ see it rising. / am not dead
after all, and with that l woke up and
found that my head was still on; but rea-
soned as philosophically and logically over
the matter as though was in my office"
A man who can reason this way under
such circumstances is not Likely to have
much trouble on the Senate floor, and Cor
don has had. an experience in the Senate in
the past He was elected to the Senate in
1873 aud showed himself q brilliant speaker
and debater. He was reelected in 1879 but
resigned the year following on the ground
that he was too poor to remain in politics
and went back to Georgia and engaged in
railroading. He made fortune l am told
| but reverses came and he lost it. He was
elected governor of Georgia In 1856, and he
| has been in politics more or less all his life.
| Gordon Is one of the fine looking men of
the new members. He is tall, straight and
military in his bearing. He is very popu-
lar with his old soldiers and notwithstand-
ing the fact that he opposed the Farmers
Alliance and was opposed by them he was
elected to the Senate Senator Gordon is
| noted as Rn after dinner speaker. He is
fond of his fellow men and will have many
} friends here.
General John M. Palmer Is also popular
man. He is the oldest Of the new members
and with the exception of Morrill, he will
probably be the oldest man in the Senate.
He was born in Kentucky just seventy-four
years ago and he moved to Illinois at the
age OF fifteen. The earlier part of his life
was spent as Republican but he separated
from his party during the time that he was
governor Of the state and came out as a
| Democrat and he claims to be Democrat
as matter Of principle. Senator Palmer
is very approachable man. There is no
foolishness or snobbishness about him and
his friends say that his heart Is as big as
his body and he is physically one of the big
men of the Senate. He is especially strong
among the farmers and he is a presidential
possibility in that he could carry as large a
farming vote as any man in his party.
PETER AND KYLE.
The two Simon-pure Alliance Senators
are, however, Senator PETER of Kansas,
and Senator Kyle of South Dakota. Both
Of these men have gotten to the Senate by
being constitutional kickers. They have
run their campaigns on the begging basis
and have made votes by pleading poverty
and mortgages. Neither OF them venture
ever made over fifteen hundred dollars q
year during their lives and this five thou
sand dollar job is q bonanza to them. Kyle
came to Dakota some years ago as a Con-
gregational preacher. He started church
at Aberdeen and his enemies say that in
the articles of incorporation or in the con-
stitution of the church he left out three
:, very important mat tiers. One Of these was
as to the existence of God, second was
as to the existence of the Trinity and the
third as to the belief in a future state.
These, 80 the story goes, were left out
J merely through carelessness on Senator
Kyle's part but one Of the old elders recti-
fed the matter and they got in. Kyle had
little TO do with politics before. he went to