New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-01
PAINTING U. s. SENATORS.
Frank Mead Tells the st. Paul Globe
Something of their characteristic
A Picture Of the Great 4 en- as they Ap.
peared when Pfeffer Spoke,

~scription of the Z. S. Senate during PEI
fer's speech on Thursday:
1t is a gloomy date in the senate, be =.
cause without the rain comes down with
a steady, ceaseless, intermediate drizzle
A cushion of clouds miles in thickness
absorbs the suns rays. Within the cham
Der the gloom is made more oppressive
by an occasional incandescent light. the
rays from which peer mistily through the
damp, dark and impure air.
And this remark provokes the inquiry ::
Why did the people of Kansas send this
man here? Your correspondent has no
desire to roast or ridicule Senator PETER.
Doubtless he was and is good average
country lawyer, a citizen without guile,
and would make a harmless, innocuous,
lnot1ensive. if not superexcellent justice
Of the peace. Why will certain sections
of this great and glorious republic occa-
sionally pull up by the roots some one
among their unsophisticated citizens and
undertake to transplant him into the I'M
canny soil of the nations capital? Here
in Washington Mr.. Pfeffer seems to be
of no possible use. II he really does not
stand for reform in political, financial
amp official methods, then may God pro-
tect the methods.
1t is possible that in the divine chem
istry Mr.. Pfeffer may stand for some un-
known anI incomprchensible spiritual
ingredient which is sometime to become
purposeful in our national evolution But
now his uses are certainly hidden, his
utility clouded, his sphere circumscribed,
his function concealed.
Meantime Mr.. Pfeffer is speaking. No
one knows or cares just what he lsspeak-
ing about, but nevertheless he continues
to drive his remarks into the tired cars
of the official reporters.
On the Democratic side of the cham
Der there is a bright eyed, manly look
young fellow sitting beside Wolcott of
Colorado, and the eloquent senator is
evidently telling him Il good story, for
the young man laughs heartily with a
frank, genuine boyish laughter-cycs
sparkling and sides shaking with glee.
This man is apparently under thirty
years Of age. Nature has not as yet
thrown out her 81 gnals Of accrued wisdom
by cndowing him with any portion
of silver in lis dark brown hair. And
vet this man has led the Democratic par
ty of Massachusetts five times in heated
state campaigns-twice suffering defeat
three times listening to the grateful hur-
rahs Of victory. :Thc boy" is Gov, Rus
sell, related by blood to the most noted
Puritan familics--the Lowclls, the
Holmcscs and the Adamses of the old Bav
state. He is splendid type of the brainy
young American who has failed to cult
yatc his muscle at the expense of his
brains. Slender, but robust. erect and
alert IN movement, modest and respect
full, but cordial in his intercourse with
the senatorial big wigs who smile upon
and salute him-thus he appeared from
the press gallery, as he saunters around
the chamber shaking hands with friends
just now Cullom, of Illinois, and Vor-
hccs of Indiana, are in close and confd-
ential consultation. The latter has been
more discussed during the repeal fight
than any man i'll the country. He has
submitted to more causeless criticism
and unmcrited abuse than all the Other
senators combined. Senator VOORHEES,
IS sixty-siX years old, has spent more
than thirty years of that time in public
life, sixteen of which have been in the
senate. He has ability of high order,
loves literature, and was formerly very
fond of convivial sessions with "the
boys" including indulgence in the great
American game of "draw." Of late
years he goes to bed betimes, avoids late
dinners and rich food, obeys the COM
mand to ''look not upon the wine when
it is red" and is altogether staid digni-
ged and respectable citizen. He is a
very sensitive man and grows hot in the
collar with greater velocity than almost
any other senator. He is rarely happy
in retort, because he is liable to allow
his temper to run away with him. The
intellectual fighter loses his most irresist-
able weapon when he goes into con-
test with the blood in his brains and his
pulse quickened by passion. This is
Senator Voorhees, weakness. It is liable
to be the failing of all generous and great
hearted men.
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