Arizona republican., 1892-05-27

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 Tnere is so much hypocrlsy among the professional statesmen, so much posing and insincerity, so much protestation and rhetoric for the benefit of "the dis trict" at home, that the scribes soon lose patience with that sort of thing and learn to judge the men on the floor be- low at their true value. do not mean to say that all statesmen are insincere, nothing but actors, striving for popular ity. But many of them are, and l state without fear of contradiction that a ma jority of them are moral towards in the face of public opinion, Day after day we see men voting on questions present. ed for their consideration, acting net upon their judgment or their conviction of what is right, but with sole reference to what the popular opinion is in their districts. 1t is almost pitiful to see a man of sense and experience, of good judgment and wide knowledge, sitting here a mere slave to the caprice or no- tions of his constituents,
 Take the silver bill which have men, toned, for example. personally know of at least twenty men who voted on that bill, some for it and some against it, who would have reversed their votes had they dared to express their honest convictions. Of course their excuse is that they are representatives and not free agents; that it is their duty to act as a majority of their constituents would have them and not to express their own beliefs. They argue that the house of representatives was created and organ ized with this in view; that it was in- tended to be reflex of the opinions and desires of the people rather than place for men to exercise their judgment. This view of the duty of a congressman is held, think, by majority of the members of the house, and this is one of the many reasons why l should infinite ly prefer seat in the press gallery to one on the floor. A Republican may represent a Democratic newspaper, or a Democrat Republican paper, with much less sacrifice of self respect and wrenching of his conscience than is re- quired to represent a congressional dis trict in the house.
 Once in awhile some statesman be- comes offended at the whole corps of cor respondents and starts out to get even" with the press gallery. A number of bold men have tried this little thing, and they have always failed. In con test between statesmen and scribes the latter invariably stand together, and in variably get the best of their adversary. Colonel Sterett, of Texas, the best story teller in the press gallery, has his unique way of describing the fate of the states man who starts out to get ahead of the correspondents.
 "When l see plain, ordinary senator or representative go on the rampage try ing to do up the press gallery" says Colonel Sterett, "l am reminded of the manner ill which friend of mine in Texas whipped John l.. Sullivan. His name was Marks-Al Marks, cot ton screwer in GalvestOn-one of the strongest men and gamest fighters in Texas. Sullivan came down there on a tour and offered $500 to any man who would stand in front of him with gloves three rounds. Marks accepted the chal- lenge. After the contest, two weeks after it, interviewed Marks, and this is the way he told his story: As walked up to the stage people cheered me, and l felt pretty proud. was going to put my hands up against the great Sullivan. l felt sure could whip him. But when got into the ring and John l.. stood in front of me he appeared to be heap bigger than he had looked from my seat. But the people cheered me and deter mined to astonish him right from the jump. So after we had shaken hands l let him have a good one right in the jaw. Sullivan looked at me in a sur prised sort of way, and saw that had his heart broken. Said to myself, this man has met his match at last, and he knows it, He is afraid of me. So l gave him some more hard knocks. John l.. looked at me almost appealingly. He tried to stop my blows, but he was slow and clumsy. Said l to myself Marks, you are made man. You'll whip this fellow easy. He is so slow with his paws that you can batter him all to pieces" But l made up my mind l wouldn't knock him out till near the end of the third round-l didn't want to rob the people of their sport. At the end of the round l asked Sullivan how he was get ting along, and he looked kind O scared and said only tolerable. In the second round l gave him several more hard ones and he continued to look scared. said to myself it was ridiculous for this man to be posing as the cham piOn of the world, and determined that in the next round I'd put an end to his absurd pretensions. About the mid dle of the third round, just as was get ting ready to do Sullivan up, 1 saw an other sort of look come into his eyes. He looked like some wild animal. In the next second he caught me under the left jaw with his right and lifted me no