The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-07-08
YOUNGSTERS OF FAME.
ooNeREssMaN OF TENDER YEARS
WITH PROMISING oRATORY.

coniel Websters in Miniature - The
1Csssius- Built Calamity Bulletin"
vrom the Tenth Georgia District.
From the Pftsburg Dispatch.
" .s91NGroN, July At is customary
.. bewail the great men of the past and
'r,ocine that thew will never have success
Like boys playing on the shore we are
fond Of inverting our field glass and be-
uttling the objects that are near us. And
yet
The Rings that ruled the mountain thrones
are vaOishIng away
prt from a thousand cloudy nests the answer
1.-THE eagles Of tomorrow are the lodgings of
to-day"
Not since l can remember-not since be-
fore the war-hsye 30 many young men
bagun a career In congress as had their
names first placed on the roll last Decem-
bar Most of them have proved common
Dlsce and have failed to make any mark
Irbatever, but a few have attracted atten-
t,on and displayed qualities which promise
N keep them at the front during this gen"
systion. OF the former IL is not necessary
10 sneak further, for they will vanish next
March into the obscurity whence they
in the same twilight of lilac mist; but the
latter will often be heard Of hereafter, and
If course majority of them are democrats
on account of the revolution last election
day.
SOMETHING ABOUT YOUNG BRYAN.
The phenomenon and prodigy Of the pres
emf House is W. J. Bryan of Nebraska,
aged 49, He came here almost totally I'M
known and has mounted to the front rank
among the leaders. No other such success
has been attained in recent years-perhaps
not since Henry Clay was elected TO the Sem
ate at 20. 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 mediIative, his articula-
ton is excellent and his voice has a strong
carving quality. When he speaks-and it
ia not often-every body 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 husn OF inter
ested attention.
Savers, who had the floor one day in
March, lent it to the obscure Bryan for an
hours speech on free wool. It was soon OBJ
vious that a full sized man had arisen. He
used familiar arguments, but he made them
fresh and new, he spoke off-hand he had a
pleasing, deferential, conciliatory manner
Fifteen or twenty republicans interrupted
him with questions, and he parried or an
swered them all with extraordinary readi-
ness. His hour was extended by unanimous
consent to two, three, four hours, aud when
he had finished it was obvious that he had
made one of the great speeches of this CON
gress 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 MISSION.
None of the new members have attracted
more attention that Johnson (repubIiosn) OF
Indiana He is q tall, gaunt, rawboned
man, IngallsesQue IN architecture and bear
ing, with beardless, gothic face, a large
mouth and lantern jaw hung loosely In it's
sockets. He may briefly be ticketed as the
untring defender of the friendless colored
voter and the champion tail-twister OF the
confederate opossum. And there is no
denying that the opossum winces. johnson
is awfully sincere, perfectly fearless warmly
eloquent in advocating what he he con-
sidered Justice, and his words as Lowell
said of Whittier'sl are
ferily,furnaced
In the blast of life that has struggled in earn
est.
He favors the extreme principles Of the
force bill to protect the southern negroes
vote, and advocates them at every oppor-
tunity. Like Sumner, but without his
calmness, he speaks sarcastically and CEN
seriously.
TALKS LIKE A CYCLONE.
Johnson's chief characteristic is the ire
mendous rapidity of his speech. He is, per-
haps, the fastest talker in congress since
Rufus Choate. He sometimes speaks $50 or
300 words a minute, and is the despair of
reporters and the terror of listeners. have
heard him when he was SO excited and vol
uble that his frame shook all over like a
corn-sheller with an INSTRUCTED hopper. as
If it we're coming to pieces in the effort to
deliver the words faster than the epiglottis
could flutter.
Vocal 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 ! went and sat
right in front Of johnson while he explained
IL, and rl be hanged if l understood a
single word he saidl"
During speech of seventy-five minutes
he filed seven solid pages Of the Record.
But man with such obvious purposes and
such unwearying enthusiasm has place in
the future OF his party.
HERE'S ANOTHER ENFANT TERRIBLE.
mo quorum" exclaims a young man,
rising in his seat on the democratic side, and
the stranger in the gallery cranes his neck
forward and exclaims inquiringly; "Great
Scottl who's thatm The objector is the
very youngest and about the most numer-
Gus member Of the House. He was not born
when the battle Of Gettysburg was fought.
de is robed in somber alpaca and a white
hecktie He is a large, heavily-built man,
with dark brown brows overhanging a
broad, handsome face as smooth as a
woman's. Somebody has detected in him a
resemblance to the youthful Daniel Web
ster. He is from Texas and Bailey is his
name-"B Bailey, Junior" he might 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 a man Of serious
habits and retentive memory, readiness,
facility, courage and persistence, and he is
not backward about coming forward.
Early in the session he announced that he
did not believe it to be constitutional to
pass laws 'by unanimous consent" without
aquorum, and he should prevent important
legislation under such conditions. So be
has killed good hundred of bills by inter-
posing his objection. He refuses to yield
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