Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-07-02

The kings that ruled the mountain thrones are van
ishins away
But from thousand cloudy nests the fell.
plying.
The eagles of tomorrow are the nedslnss of to.
day"
Not since I can remember-not since before
the war-have so many young men begun a
career in Congress as had their names first
placed on the rolls last December. Most of
them have proved commonplace and have failed
attracted attention and displayed qualities
which promise to keep them ut the front dur
ing this generation. OF the former it is not
necessary to speak further, for they will vanish
next March into the obscurity whence they
came or stay in Congress wrapped forever in
the same twilight of lilac mist; but the latter will
often be heard from hereafter, and of course a
majority Of them are democrats on account of
therevolution last election day.
SOMETHING ABOUT BRYAN
The phenomenon and prodigy Of the present
House is W. J. Bryan of Nebraska, aged thirty
two. He came here almost totally unknown
and has mounted to the front rank among the
leaders. No other such success has been at
tanned in recent years-perhaps not since Henry
Clay was elected to the Senate at twenty-nine.
Mr.. Bryan looks a little like younger edition
OF the lamented Randall-the heavy build, the
square face. the massive and protruding Jaw
His speech is deliberate and half meditative,
his articulation is excellent and his voice has a
strong carrying quality. When he speaks-and
it is not often-everybody hears him. 1t may
be safely added that there is nobody on either
side who is listened to more willingly, unless it
be Reed, whose amusing Yankee monotone
always causes hush of interested attention.
HIS FIRST GREAT SPEECH
Sayers, who had the floor one day in March.
lent it to the obscure Bryan for an hours speech
on free wool. 1t was soon obvious that full
sized man had arisen. He used familiar argyll
ments, but he made them fresh and new; he
spoke of-hand; he had a pleasing. deferential,
conciliatOry manner. Fifteen or twenty repub-
licans interrupted him with questions and he
parted or answered them all with extraordi-
nary readiness. His hour was extended by
unanimous consent to two, three, four hours,
and when he had finished it was obvious that
he had made one of the great speeches of this
Congress. He is an artist in the use of words
as suave as Wendell Phillips. and seems booked
for a notable career-unless he loses his grip in
Nebraska.
MAN WITH A MISSION.
None Of the new members have attrac ted
more attention than johnson, republican, of
Indiana. He is a tall, gaunt. raw-boned man,
Ingallsesque in architecture and bearing, with
O beardless, Gothic face, a large mouth and a
lantern jaw hung loosely in its sockets He NAV
briefly be ticketed az the untiring defender of
the friendless colOred voter and the champion
tail twister Of the confederate opossum john
son Is awfully sincere. perfectly fearless warmly
eloquent in advocating what he considers JUS
tice.
He favors the extreme principles of the force
bill to protect the southern negro's vote and
advocates them at every opportunity. Like
Sumner, but without his calmness. he speaks
oa<t. llr-o
brigadiers from Dixie generally get fighting
mad whenever he rises to speak Indeed there
have been dangers of an encounter more than
once.
did you say was no gentleman" asked
Wise Of Virginia. following him to the clerk
desk after one of his characteristic speeches.
II don't remember what l said," answered
johnson. THE Record wi | show
because if Won did I'll hold you response
ble,'' continued the virginian.
''yery WELL if did I'll stand by it. That's
the sort of hairpin ami retorted the radical
Indianian. dropping into colloquial phrase for
the occasion.
What Johnson had said was, 'swhen the men,
Der from Virginia emphasize, the word gen
teman he Is obviously no. abiding to him
SELF. So there was no fight.
RAPIpIrY OF SPEECH.
Johnsons chief characteristic is the tremen-
the fastest talker in Congress since Rufus
Choate. He sometimes speaks $50 or 800 words
a minute and is the despair Of reporters and
he was 30 excited and voluble that his frame
shook all over like a corn shelter with an OBJ
structed hopper, as il it were coming to
pieces in the effort to deliver the words
faster than the epiglottis could 1utter
Even Andrew Devine has to take his chin
c ha,, h., h<, T1l
velocity. however, interferes with effectiveness.
A New York member said to me one
day: "Well! 1 wanted to get at the
facts OF this case and l went and
sat right in front of johnson while he explained
it, and I'll be - il understood a single
word he said!' During a speech of seventy
five minutes he filed seven solid pages of the
Record. But a man with such obvious pur-
poses and such unwearying enthusiasm has q
place in the future of his party.
ANOTHER ENFANr TERRIBLE.
ono quorum" exclaims O young man rising
in his seat on the democratic side, and the
stranger in the gallery cranes his neck forward
and exclaims inquiringly, "Great Scott. who's
thatT' The director is the very Youngest and
about the most numerous member of the House,
He was not born when the battle Of Gettysburg
was fought. He is ROBBED in somber alpaca and
a white muslin necktie. He is a large, heavily
built man, with dark brown brOws over
hanging q broad, handsome face, as smooth
rs a womans. Somebody has detected in him
q resemblance to the youthful Daniel Web
ster. He is from Texas and Bailey is his
name-"Bailey, Junior" he nigh. be called
in consideration of his years. as the stout young
servitor in Martin Chuzzlewit' was called ''to
distinguish him from Old Bailey Mr.. Bailey
is man Of serious habits and retentive
memory, readiness, facility. courage and per-
sistence and he is not backward about coming
forward.
WANTS QUORUM EVERY TINE.
Early in the session he announced that he did
not believe it to be constitutional to pass laws
'by unanimous consent without q quorum.
and be should prevent important legislation
under such conditions. So he has killed a good
hundred Of bills by interposing his objection.
He refuses to yield to oblge anybody-even
Father Holman-and he pours out his acidu-
lated conscientious scruples alike upon the Just
and the unjust. He has been fire.
quently assured that he was "too fresh, u
that he was 'making fool OF himself, Vi
that he ''would know more in twenty years, -
and given other bits of succulent information
but he goes straight on in the execution Of his
relentless purpose. Since Congress convened
he has completely paralyzed the House for
about two weeks in the aggregate. He has
grisvously offended the leaders on both sides,
especially of his own side, who declare
that Il is the checklist thing
they ever heard Of ''for the kid Of the House
to insist on running the House," but he is i'm.
nlarahla He has heeu hatra vad into nvn ~