The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-04-04
PLANTATION MANyERs.

Befcrc the war the Southern b1lly, with
his pistol, his bludgeon and his bowie
knife vas character Of national import
znce; be rose often into view out Of ,he
ranks OF Eiave-holdiag and siave-dstendiug
congressman; he wSs nrlttE11inous and
irrep-essi5le in the lobby and among the
hotel lozzg~rs- Sometimes j; vas Graves,
Of Kentucky. and Wise, Of Virginia,
ho12diag the gifted CsIley, Of Maine. into
dzsl sa6 driving hiz TO his unsirnely
death: i wEs Brooks. Of sozsh Carolina.
trying % osss o.; Summers brains with a
loads1 cane On tie 3oo- Of the Senate: /.
WAS R1sf. q Arkansas. striking Horace
GreelsEs 4 wAs F9,9ss. Ct MIsssssspp pull
Ing pistol o. Senator Bs-ton. Of Ms
s7aras Il vas BstEs4sle, Of Mississippi, a.
s&zl1sug Grow i vas P-yo- challenging
Bz-lings-s AID Potter, sc4 Bob Toon5s,
Ben Wade
These were s3-s Of tie more violent
eThiais2ons o. the Sozthsra bully, breath
Tag ih-s&isnizgs sni slaughter, Ticking
the is1ss q Northern o-zFens with his
soou-gS1g tongue q aa-ze and fury. spit
ting 81 over the isnd the copious venom
Of bis pirate speech. But Eiih the exodus
during the first months OF ISL OF Southern
congressman from Washington City these
legislative hullirs ana their swarm OF
oosrSer satellite. lef; ~. and since the
vsr the az o. The capitol has been seldom
verei By the sound Of the falling lash Of
that peculiar Backyard speech, whose
sign Is the brandished Est. the pistol
pocket affeciionAtely paited. and the
ruftling look and sSsrger Of ba-roon
fighter. /; IS be; jus. 10 the South 70
cay that their senators elected since the
war did not bring back with them the
old inp-ecations. the Old threatening,
the old contemptuous leer and rutsanlv
strut that used 10 be recognized IS The
distinctive marks Of what was termed
plantation manners"
1: was reserved for United States sena.
tor voorhees,. Of Indiana. the leading COW
srdly wolf Of the northern prairie rack
that BIT and borrowed in the nation s
flank. when she stood like q buffalo a,
hsy, with her face turned full on the en-
envy IN front; II was reserved for this
strawberry blonde statesman in his famous
debate with Senator ingalls, TO revive the
tradition of brutal plantation manners on
the floor of the United States Senate. ba,
even the blsckguNrd VOORHEES, did no,
stoop SO low in debate as did Hatch O:
Missouri, when in his speech during III.
silver debate he insnlted Isado- Rsvner. 8
Hebrew, by saying thst the MARYLAND
congressnan's race was once driven from
the holy temple because Of an excessive
itching for gold.
Mr.. Rayner is s Democrat, s gentleman.
IN eloquent and able speaker, who has
from first TO last opposed free silver not
only as an sc, Of supreme financial folly,
but As = gigantic fraud which proposed to
take slSo 600 ont Of the pockets OF the
American people and give il TO the mine
owners, who, under free coinage, viii re.
ceive legal tender dollar certificate 70,
every - cents worth of silver bullion. \
man who into the discussion of s broad
question Of pubic policy would drag =
vulgar religious and race prejudice is about
the worst incarnation Of the old-time
plantation manners that we have seen
since the war. Farmer" Hs.ch's man
ners need cultivation badly; he evidently
has not been ''Inanured 20 public speak.
ing"
Mr.. Rsyner ought to have answered