St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-05
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON.

calm Is spreading itself over Washington to-
day, and, as perspiring humanity looks at the
mercury in the thermometer boiling way
up aloft there, 1t mOps its brow aud wishes it
were OF the number of lucky ones who have
gone to Minneapolis. Enterprising legis-
iatOrs who yearn TO win fame by raising the
objection of no quorum can have all the
laurel wreaths they eau carry home now, for
there's not likely to be quorum in the house
until conventions are a thing of the past.
People began to go yesterday. They wanted
to be OH the ground early to spy out the
land and win over the Southern delegates.
The correspondents go tonight, and every
man Jack of them has been forced to adopt
temperance principles for the trip. Tomor-
row and Saturday the exodus will continue,
and when Monday swings round again the
town will be practically deserted.
Minneapolis apd the Northwest are land
unknown 10 great many OF the men who
are fiOcking there now, and there has been
unlimited discussion as TO what constitutes
the proper wardrobe for the trip. The
opinion that frosts may be expected seems to
prevail. Some of the men are taking their
winter overcoats with them. Some are car
rying heavy fianuels, and others still, antIci-
alone in the llghtest of hot weather attire.
There are lots of congressman who would like
to go. but don't dare. Why? Why, Dur
borrow. of Illinois, says that the bad feeling
his failure to furnish seats for the nine or
ten thousand particular friends of his who
nave asked him for them has engendered
distinctly lessons his chances of reelection.
The men who do go to either convention will
be thus worried to death.
Reed. Tom Reed. Of Maine. Tom Reed
the great, will not leave Washington till
Saturday night. but when he does arrive at
that convention, you'll know it. He is such
great man. You would be very much sur
prised at his horizontal proportions, if his
perpendicular measurements didn't surprise
you more. His cheeks are of infantile shape,
and his small moustache looks as if it would
like more room to grow in. 1t and the rather
thin hair on the great mans round head are
light and indiStinguiShable i'll color. Mr..
Reed is a great fayorite with newspaper men,
who know that five minutes talk with him
is always good for half column He doesn't
like to talk, and whatever he says is always
interesting. He will appear to greater ad-
vantage in Minneapolis than he Goes here
just now. for the heat is not becoming to
him. There are dark hints of his possible
nomination, and eonspiritors are at work.
And do you know what conspir ator is?
This is a definition Mr. Reed himself gave of
the term yesterday: "a conspirator is a
man who, not being a federal officeholder,
still aspires 10 the presidential nomination" :"
Mr.. Burrows, of Michigan. went last night.
When your eye falls on him you will see a
large and handsome man. with hair suspi-
cieusly careful of arrangement and neat
pointed sandygrey beard. Mr.. Burrows has
deep-laid scheme that he chuckles over to
himself, and one of these days he is going to
force Speaker Crisp to stand up and count
the members of the house one by one, to as
certain the presence. of quorum. a thing
that so far Mr.. Crisp has avoided.
General Land Commissioner Carter has
gone TO his Montana home, and will just ac-
cidentally drop in on the cony ention. A
shrewder man never lived than that same
Carter, and it is commonly said in Washing
ton that nobody is quite so well informed of
Mr. Harrison's hopes and fears as he. He is
rather short man, with a peculiarly smooth,
lineless face clean cut and quiet. His eyes
are very, very blue, and very, very keen.
His hair is a trifie bushy. and yellow, and his
beard, worn on the chin alone. is of the same
tawny hue. He believes in Harrison. They
say there is some doubt among the faithful
up at the White house, though, and yester-
day everybody knew that Mr. Halford had
been swearing, and when Mr.. Halford finds
recourse to profane cussWords necessary,
you may know the props are coming out
from under the sky.
There was clever and delightfully."- imper-
tinent newspaper woman up at the White
house yesterday. We'll" she said to the as
sembled garrison, ''hoW do you feel?' Con
fident" boldly answered somebody it is bet
ter not to name. what makes your was
the amazingly saucy shot the newspaper
woman flung out as she went away. That
same newspaper woman declares that Mrs
Blaine doesn't deserve half the unpopularity
she has attained. She declares the wife of
the ex-sscretary of state is not half SO for
midable as she has been made out. 1t is COM
monty known that Mrs. Blaine does not look
upon Mr. Harrison as a friend and a brother
Far, far from it. and since there is, they say.
woman al the bottom of everything. Mrs.
Blaine may be the moving spirit of the cam
Daign after all.
Mr. Bryan, OF Nebraska, is much hurt in his
vanity, of which. truth to ieil, he has goodly
amount because certain Michigan paper,
III publishing the account of Deeming' 8
hanging. presented to curious public, as q
portrait of the murderer likeness OF the
young man from Nebraska. Mr.. Bryan says
he supposes the editor had no actual portrait
of Deeming aud SO used his to illustrate the
criminal type i'll general.
Mr. Joliey, OF South Dakota. went over to
Alexandria on Sunday, into the land of roses
and forgotten yesterdays to walk in the old
church yard and attend service in the very
church in which Washington was wont to re-
peat the litany ITS very old church, :"
every hing just like it was 100 years ago
text same sermon"
And. do you know, when Mr.. Jolley was
looking Washingtonward, and wondering
how it would feel to be congre ssman, he
made it Ga great point to flatter the farm
ers by his admiration for live stock and his
accurate knowledge OF everything pertain
ing thereto. He went one day TO visit a man
VINO had just bought a magnificent Shire
stallion. an immense animal, weighing tons,
at least Mr. Jolley sized the noble creature
UP. looked him over carefully, and then said
nonchalently to the owner: "How fast can
he trot!" r. *.
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