The Portland daily press., 1893-09-11
AN ELOQUENT TRIO.
congressman Bryan of Nebraska, Pence OF
Colorado and DIR. Everett.



WASHINGTON. Sent. 1.-THE young men
of the house are coming forward. Inc
days when man must have oeen IN
congress at least one term beIore ne
opened his mouth, save at roll cal, are
fading into tradition. The leader OF the
younger set is easily Mr.. Bryan OF Ne
braska. He is serving only his second
term in congress, but never rises to
speak without getting an appreclatlve
hearing and having the house Ill rapidly
from cloakrooms and corridors. Save
Mr. Bland he is the sole free. coinage
speaker who really commanded the I'M
divided attention of the house IN the re-
cent debate. His rise has been that OF
the rocket, but his fall is unlikely to be
that of the stick, for to aptness and elo-
quence he joins much of solidity.
William Jennings Bryan is only II
years out of classical college, and his
single as an attorney had been hanging
out in Lincoln, Neb., only three years
when the tidal wave following the Reed
congress swept him from Lincoln across
the turbid Missouri to the hall OF repre-
sentatives in Washington.
In 1890, he suddenly shot forward as
the Democratic congressional nominee,
leading to victory what was regarded as
q forlorn hope. 1t was a fortuitous cir
cumstance which sent him here, for he
probably would not have gained the
nomination had the old timers thought
a Democrat could win. Chance again
aided him, and throwing his whole for
tunes with Mr.. Springer in the speaker
ship fight that gentleman landed the
young Nebraskan on the ways and means
committee when he was made chairman.
His hold on his district is described by
men who have Travelled through it as re-
markable. AS a stumper he has few
equals in the west, and a pleasant per-
sonality, considerable magnetism and
abundant good humor has aided him in
building personal following.
The only one of the silver men from
silver mining states who took any con-
spicuous part in the silver fight in the
house was LATE Pence, from the First or
Denver district of Colorado, the newness
of these silver state members to congress
generally operating to keep them in the
background. Mr.. Pence, though he had
been sworn in but few days before,
took the floor in the white metals be-
half. His speech was exceedingly well
received by the house and was commend
ed as moderate, well chosen argument,
presenting the Colorado side of the sill
yer question without any of the blood
to-the- brides characteristics of the utter
ances of Colorado's governor.
Mr.. Pence has passed only IS mile
stones in life. By birth he is a Hoosier,
and his first taste of politics he got in
that hotbed of political strife when he
was lad struggling for class and soci-
ETY. honors in the college at Hanover,
Ind, from which he was graduated in
1877. In college, if not successful in
mathematics, he was in oratory and de-
batting, beginning even then to train
himself for the rostrum and the stump.
There were plenty of lawyers and not
an overplus Of clients in Indiana, and
Horace Greeley's advice being taken
Mr.. Pence landed in Wichita, Kan, and
thence in Rico, in the San Juan section
of Colorado, colony of Kansans accom-
panying him. Luck favored him there,
and the town intrusted him with de-
Tending town site claims against three
adverse mill site claimants, the stake for
the winning side being the town and its
borders.
In 1887 Mr.. Pence moved up to Denver
and went into the firm of which Tom
Patterson, the proprietor Of The Rocky
Mountain News, is senior member. Here
he made reputation in the Londoner
case, suit brought to stop election
crimes in Arapahoe county. He was
made chairman Of the Democratic coun-
ty committee and was serving in this Ca
pacity when Cleveland was nominated
and the last Chicago platform adopted.
He bolted the party, and the Populists
and silver Democrats sent him to Wash
ington as their representative on the
Weaver-Field ticket.
The exact antithesis of these young
westerners is q new member from the
busy factory towns around Boston, the
eccentric DR.. William Everett, who sits
in Senator Lodges former seat by virtue
Of the defeat of audacious young Speak
er Barrett of the Massachusetts, legisla-
ture. A goldbug and radical civil serv-
ice reformer, he shows one extreme in
the Democratic ranks, as Mr.. Bryan
shows the other extreme.
William Everett is the son of the ia
nous Edward Everett and a Cape Cod
blueblood whose family tree takes in in
it's branches members of the Hoar,
Lodge, Quincy and Adams families, to
all Of which he bears some relationship.
The doctor was born in Massachusetts,
has lived all his life in Massachusetts,, is
Bay State man in all his ways, senti-
ments and thoughts. He is scholar in
politics. Around him cluster the yarns
of the schoolroom and the blackboard.
Congr essman Everett is the author of
several books for boys of an outdoor
sporting nature which had a great vogue
in their day. though they have been
somewhat less heard of lately.
He spoke some on the Republican side
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