Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1892-05-19
INDIANS IN POLITICS.
REMARKABLE RED MEN AT THE MA
TIONAL CAPITAL.
one Of Them Has Been Admitted to Prac
tice in the Supreme Court of the United
states-How the Tall Sycamore I'm.
pressed an Apache Delegation.
Ispeeial Correspondence.l

states-How the Tall Sycamore" I'm.
pressed an Apache Delegation.
Especial Correspondence.l
WASHINGTON, April l9.-Some Of these
days the American Indian is likely to break
into politics. lust few days ago the first
Indian was admitted to practice before the
supreme court Of the United States. His
name is Boudinot, and his father was a
famous chief OF the Cherokees. The elder
| Boudinot was educated at Yale college
and was Il lawyer of ability. He preferred
the peace and quiet Of his plantation in
the Cherokee Nation to the strife and ex-
| element of an active attorneys life, and
he seldom praeticed except before the
primitive courts of his own people.
Upon few occasions he undertook cases
| in the Arkansas courts near his home
and he conducted them with such ability
and success as to attract the attention of
leading white jurists He was offered big
fees to undertake important cases for his
white neighbors but he would not prac-
tee He educated his son. however, and
the latter, who has been out of college sew
eral years, is one of the leading lawyers of
the southwest. He, too. lives on planta-
ton at home in the Indian Territory, but
he is more ambitious than his father, and
enjoys large and lucrative law practice
Most of his clients are white men, and
some Of the corporations in the southwest
pay him fat fees for the transaction Of
legal business in which they are interested,
knowing as they do that fhe young Indian
lawyer possesses rare ability and eloquence
Young Boudinot is as swarthy as his an
cestors of a century ago. but his black eyes
sparkle with intelligence and his manner
is that Of the most refined and cultivated
man. He is an eloquent speaker and when
he addressed the dignified justices of the
supreme court on the day Of his admission,
in case in which he appeared as counsel,
every member Of that distinguished body
paid him the most profound attention.
The argument was clear concise and able,
and coming as ii did from an Indian it
created deep impression upon those who
heard IT,
But Boudinot is only one Of many In
dians who are well known in the capital as
men Of education and ability. Another
familiar figure is that OF J. 5. STANDBY. of
che Choctaw Nation The Choctaws are
near neighbors of the CherolSees in the In. |
white man than does Boudinot. though he |
is full blood Choctaw. He is tall, slender |
and somewhat swarthy. and he carries |
himself like a military officer He was edu- !
Gated at the kentucky Military institute |
before the war Of the rebellion. and when |
the great conflict came on he Joined his 1
fortunes with the Confederacy. He served 1
the war as a Confederate sol
II fasr 81 4H off ls.a
tied down on "A plantation among his own
people. lie j. planter. and being law
yer. too, practices a little now and then
He represents the Choctaws here every
winter before congress and the DEPART
ments and is familiar figure in Wash
ington. Few people perhaps among the
hundreds who are acquainted with him in
a business way know that he is an Indian.
He looks like prosperous ''paleface, and
be is popular with all the department Off.
cials and members Of congress who mum
Der him among their acquaintance.
Every winter the capital is visited by
delegations Of Indians, for there are always
IN relation TO Indian affairs be.
lore congress or in the departments A
lew weeks ago delegation Of Apaches
anne 20 Washington They wanted to see
he "Great Father" as they call the presi-
lent, and to talk with ''the biz white
,hiefs' in the department about some
lifairs in which their tribe was interested
Wild as the Apaehes are generally sup
,osed TO be- the members Of the visiting
delegation were not clothed in blankets
,ut they wore the same kind Of clothing
IS their white friends They visited the ,
galleries OF the house and senate and lis :
ened with the deepest interest TO the de {
lates on the tariff and on The silver ques- {
ION (
Perhaps they did not understand the ,
.reat problems IL state involved. but !
hey never manifested il by word or sign. s
hey put in several days studying the ora '
ors on the floors OF congress, and went Z
way evidently impressed with what they q
ad seen A department official accom- 5
anied by the interpreters, showed them d
bout the Capitol and told them who the 4
peakers were. One Of the senators espe-
tally interested them. He was senator i
'oorhees, Of Indiana. Mr. voorhees, is tall 5
nd Of commanding appearance, and he e
oppressed the Apache visitors rs an orator.
he senator's voice is deep and sonorous n
nd his gestures when speaking are effect
re. lie made an impression upon the In O
ians, and they coniided the opinion to the Z
licial who accompanied them that they
imired Mr.. Voorhees, style more than n
nat Of any other speaker they had seen
nj heard. n
Another Indian visitor in Washington 2
is Is-pa-he-char. the old chief OF i
le Creeks or Muscogees. He has been a
ere most OF the present session In ap- Il
sarance old ls-pa-he-char Is the .'noblest u
oman Of them ALL He has the splendid ii
CURE, the fins face, the digniiied manner
the rcd man told about in the books. h
ure Musoogee blood flows in his veins =
c Is quite rs Indian as his name sixty q
ur years ago he WAS a papoose on the O,
INKS Of the osanuppa. a tributary OF the I,
in Alabama From there II
: emigrated with his people. the Greeks.
the Indian Territory. When the war n
me on he was loyal 70 the government. Il
it'll which his fathers had made treaties. N
81 he joined the Onion army. a,
When the Creeks some years ago adopted III
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