The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-10-25
THE SILVER SENATOR'S.
Description Of the Men Who are
Hating the Government.
STEWART, TELLER, PETER, KYLE
JONES, EFT AIS.

! Dubois Young Warrior in Pepper and
Salt Subtitle Ever Ready Walcott. of
Colorado.-A Curious Joke on Fellows
| Here they sit punched together near
the main entrance to the Senate cham
Der, writes Congressman Amos j. Cum
mings in the Washington STAR They are
Macedonian phalanx known as the silver
Senators. What care they for angry pro-
test from eastern and middle States?
They laugh at them. They are not the
representatives of those States. They
listen to the appeals of the States lying
close to the backbone of the continent
States that have honored them and look
to them for protection. Whether their
views are broad and statesmanlike is not
the question with them. They represent
the vital interests of the people of Ne
vada, Colorado, Idaho, Montana and
outlying sections. It is to these people
that they look for political preferment
and not to the people of the East. In
deed, as they say, the sufferings of their
people are far more poign ant than the
sufferings of others. Nerved by the cries
of their constituents they have deter
mined to fight the Voorhees, bill to the
last. They have power to defeat any
action by filibustering. and they intend
to use it, There is no doubt about it; they
mean it. The most of them are COM
paratively young men and have the physi-
cal endurance to carry out their inten-
"a H. g.
them. With two of their NUM- Der i'll the
House they can f1libuster Indefinitely
while their opponents must maintain a
quorum to do any business whatever.
Senator Stewart of Nevada is the Alex
ander of this phalanx He occupies a seat
at the head of the main aisle nearest the
door His very figure, let alone his
record and attitude, is protest against
any action. He was farmers boy and
had cut the leading swath over many an
acre of timothy. He has been miner
and has used the pan and worked the
rocker in California and Nevada. He has
been lawyer in mining camps and he
was once prosecuting attorney, and after
ward an attorney general of California
Anon, he was a leading spirit in the de-
yelopment of the celebrated Comstock
Lode. The Senator has faced death more
than once in his early days. There is no
doubt of his determination and the
rigidity of his back bone. Tall erect,
graybearded and gray-headed, all that
he wants is scythe to give him
Resemblance to Father Time
Aroused in debate he is the most strik-
ing figure in the Senate He has not yet
concluded his speech on the silver ques-
tion, and the Lord alone knows when he
will finish it, One ludicrous incident of
the speech will bear repeating. After de-
failing the legislation as to gold and sill
yer for years, he suddenly turned toward
the Democratic side and said: "And
now you propose to introduce this Tro-
jan horse into our midst"
Before t he sentence was concluded the
door opened and Col. John r. Fellows
entered. Stewart was facing him with
both hands uplifted. Fellows seemed
cloak room in apparent excitement he
turned to Senator Blackburn and said,
as he dropped on the sofa, "Who told
Stewart that | was born in Troy?n
Near Stewart sits his lieutenant, the
ever ready Senator Wolcott of Colorado
There is Bourke Cochran look to his
face, although it lacks Cockran's heavily
his chest expansive, and there is some
thing of the Norman horse in his COM
position. He has a pleasant face, with
varying expressions 1t is hard to tell
at times whether he is ruled by spirit
of humor or whether his intellect is
dripping with sarcasm. All we know is
he is the best hand-to-hand fighter
among the silver men. Rather negligent
in dress, his appearance is highly credit
able to his tailor. But Wolcott has an
intellect and a, diction in full consonance
with his dress. Whenever it is known
that he is to speak the galleries are al
ways crowded, and they may well be, for
he made his reputation in tie Senate by
writing his speeches and committing
them to memory. This was probably
owing to a lack of confidence. Since
then he speaks extemporaneously and
produces even a greater impression.
Near him sits his colleague, Senator
Teller He wears spectacles; his features
are sharp and this physique thin and
why. He combs his hair a la Andrew
jackson. He wears a frock coat and
black clothes, and his shirt front is hid
den by large four-in-hand black tie
Senator Teller, while good talker HIM
self, appears to take delight in interrupt
ing others. He ceases his opponent BY
putting pat questions. Woe to the man
who has not facts and figures for his as
sertions; Teller will turn him on the first
opportunity. Like Stewart, Teller was
pOIu Uu d NEW DIX .sldTfu.F lie never
held an office until he was elected
TO the United States Senate. He was
President Arthur's Secretary of the IN
terror.
Not twenty feet from Senator Stewart;
sits rotund, roly-poly ge tleman, with
an expansive shirt front and trimmed
goatee, and round head inclined to
badness. His hair and beard are gray:
his eyes are black and swapping. He
has broad forehead, an expansive chest
and small hands and feet. He has the
most pleasant face of any man in the
Senate. Even in repose it bears the i'm
press Of good humor Very few men in
the Senate have had a more varied career.
This gentleman is the Parmenio of the
phalanx-
senator Jones of Nevada.
He is as intel minable talker as his
colleague, d even more interesting.
He has had practical experience in
mining camps, and has won and lost
fortunes in developing mines. In his
early days he was prominent figure on
the Comstock Lodge Like Stewart his
fund of "reminiscences seems inexhausti-
lbe. He always keeps in touch with
the DPnroia Rnrp in, Tn, ba ;e