The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-01-22

simply history repeating itself and this
remarkable episode and spectacle was
simply . reproduction OF tho prophecy
OF Dickens, and tho picture Of Cruik-
shank, when they depicted, the one in
description, the other with his pencil,
that famous scene where Mrs SQueors
gathered the boys around her at Dothc-
boys hall and administered to them
with long spoon their doses OF brim-
stone and treacle (retrenchncnt and ro-
form) for the purpose OF breaking down
their appetltcs and saving provisions.
lGreat laug hter knew you would
recognize the picture, and tho only
feeling OF melancholy l have in connec-
ton with tits that Dickens died before
seeing the realization OF his dream.
Oh, yes; it was all according to pro-
gramme, all familiar, even when our
friend, Mr. Pecksnilf, arose and, with
tally in one hand and amendment in
the other, undertook to forward the
great on.moving car OF rotrenchmont
and reform. And then our other old
friend, the Rev. Mr.. Chadband, of!ken-
lucky, comes in with "Bless YOU, INV
children" and pronounces the bene-
,diction. [Laughtor.]
Why, MIR. Speaker, there was more OF
history and fun condensed in yesterday
afternoons proceedings than | have
ever witnessed before in a week.
There was our volatile friend from
Alabama, General Wheeler, 4 gentle
man who always leaps upon the back
OF the great question OF debate, to "ride
the whirlwind and direct the Storm"
with an impetuosity which reminds
one OF the manner in which reprcsen-
tative OF the Darwinian theory would
ride upon the trick elephant in a circus.
Laughter.
He started out, Mr.. Speaker am al
ways interested in what he says, and
more interested in the way he says it
he started out yesterday morning to
"hurP something or other back with
scorn" [laughtcrl; but he omitted to
sufficiently lubricate his "hurlcr," and
in some way or other got into difficulty
| before he was through. Laughter.
He opened out like calliopc on a
Mississippi river steamboat, and he
wound up like a sand-peep in the last
stages OF asthma. Laughter He re-
minded me-for these events were full
OF suggestiveness to quiet outlooker-
he reminded mo OF one OF those modern
patent dolls OF Edison's, with a phono-
graph inside. Those OF you who have
ever practccd with that instrument
may remember that sometimes IN i'm
perfect cylinder is showed into the
machine, so that from the full diapason
OF brass band you run down to afeeble
squeak when the diaphragm needle gets
out OF the groove. Laughter
From the way the gentleman started
and the way he ended Twas afraid some
thing had broken inside OF him. Loud
laughter. The holiness OF his aerial
flight and the suddenness OF his descent
reminded me of the excuse the Irish
man made for being bow-lcgged, when
he said he went up in 4 balloon once
and walked back. Laughter.
Then there was our distinguished
friend from Missouri MIR. Dockery1 a
gentleman who is haunted all the time
by the nightmare OF apprehension that
he is too good looking to be taken for a
Democrat [laughtcrl, and who there
fore feels obliged to enter protest on
all possible occasions 10 keep up the as
surancc OF his party orthodoxy. Why,
he does look like 4 iirst.class, cloan-cut,
wcll-conditionod Republican citizen,
proud of his country, its glorious
achievements and possibilities; vet
when he rises to spcak-in this ouse he
undcrgoes q transformation boy ond nv
power OF description.
From tho expression OF countenance
that he adopts on such occasions, and
that panied tone, that exceedingly
distressing sound that lie, attaches to his
oratorical efforts, l cannot help think
ing that making Democratic speech
actually goes against his system.
Laughter.
And behind all this, the stage man
nGer, the gentleman from Indiana, un-
dertaking to start the reform exhibition
by protestations to the3 people in adj
vance; trying the old game OF throwing
out q cloud OF proclamations without
regard to performances 10 succeed them:
proposing to deal with this great nation
and its illimitab!e responsibilities and
destinies as though it were nickel.in-
the-slot machine, and even then, irving
to beat the machine by dropping DO.
gus nickel in tho slot. Great laughter
and applause on tho Republican side. I
Now, Mr.. Speaker, am somewhat
tired after all my amusement with this
sort OF performance presented in this
house in the name OF legislation. |
have been watching wifi IA great deal
OF care and curiosity, l have read with
more attentiveness and regularity than
Is good for my mental health or my
moral condition the record OF the prc
tensions and the expressions OF the
leaders OF the Democratic, party cxtant
to-day, and in the last ?.ttaix months |
have found only one expression from n
Democratic source that rises to the
level OF American patriotism, and that
came from the lips OF woman, tho
cstimablc lady who is now, presiding
over the executive mansion in.the State
OF New York. f3s
Some OF You may have read the ac-
count, and cite from q Heading Demo-
cratic journal tho experiences OF the
wife OF one oiour former associates horo
on her arrival ut the executive mansion
i'll Albany, an executive mansion pro-
ivided by>n "protligatc legislature" to,
enable the governorof that state to live
in what some OF our friends who have
spoken here to-day would designate as
OBSERVATIONS atElucnccp Laughter. |;
Isay that some OF you may hayo read,