St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-27

spicuouS part, that the man who has
been far more serviceable to his end of
it than Mckinley has been to high pro-
lection, has hardly been mentioned, and
is not known to one voter in thousand
by name, while assuredly not one in ten
thousand knows him by sight. This is
partly because he is not politician or
legislator, but mainly because he's a
modest man.
Rze Furnishes The Thunder.
others peddle it out. Deprived of his
aid. the army of writer's and speakers
on the subject of tariff revision would
be in mighty bad fix. Pick up the
Congressional Record and turn to any
of the great tariff debates for the past
twenty years, and it will be found by
those familiar with them that this eX-
pert'S arguments, essays, and statistics
have been paraphraSed, used and quoted
10 a greater extent than those of all
other authorities. living or dead.
The tariff reform primer, circulated
by the million in this and former presi-
dental contests, was written and in
vented by him. When William Nj.
Springer, of Illinois, was made chair
man of the committee of ways and
means of the present house of repre-
SentatlYeS to put up 4 fight against the
recently enacted Mckinley bill, he
sought the advice of this same author
ity as to how he should form his line of
battle, and followed to the letter the
suggestion to attack it in detail by
separate susperseding bills, as, for eX-
ample, the last one, which reduced the
duty on manufactured Woolens and took
it off of raw wool. Moreover Congress-
man Springer'S adviser was the power
behind the throne, the consulting ac-
tuary, as it were, OF Speaker John G..
Carlisle and Roger Q. Mills when the
famous Mills bill was being prepared.
The Leaders, Name.
Now the name OF the gentleman in
question is the Hon. David A. Wells.
of Norwich, Conn. AS the armorer who
FORCES the weapons, the Strategist who
points out the weak spots in the enc
my's lines whereon they may be used,
and the enthusiastic knight-errant who
SloSheS around and makes forayS on his
own hook wherever he sees a chance to
strike telling blow, it is as sure that
TINS militant apostle OF tariff reform aft
er the 18th OF next March will again eX-
ercise decisive influence in the councils
lustment of that complex subject. as it
is that he has fought most brilliantly
and effectively to make the victory sure.
Hence there will soon be a robust and
bullying curiosity on the part of the pub
lie to know him not merely as a name,
but as parsonage.
10 his friends and neighbors. who see
the most Of him when he energies from
his studious retirement to run for con-
gress or preside at public meetings, the
subject of this sketch appears as a gen
tleman above medium height, thin and
spare in figure, with scholars stoop
and dropping left shoulder and
Nervousness OF Gait;
showing, when his hat is off, head
with the keen. sharp features and high,
intellectual forehead that denote a
thinker, the hirsute adornment of the
somewhat rigid face consisting of sandy
hair, muStache and side whiskers. The
pair of gold-bowed spectacles he CON
Stantly wears add still more to the pro-
fessional air he carries about with him.
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