The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-23
FLORIDA LAWMAKERS.
What They Are Doing for the Land
Of Flowers.

Il
fishing a Railroad Commission-A
Law Equalizing Assessments De-
manded- Incidents OF the Reception
of the Iowa Editors Measure to
Regulate Party Primaries - Other
Matters of General Interest.
Tallahassee, April 22.-Do women like
politics. The question was put the other
night to a bright little lady in the Leon
hotel. There was no harm in it; there
was none in her-only little spice of in
nocent coquctry to leaven the lovely lump.
She smiled; her pensive eyes rested
calmly upon the motley crowd about us in
the brilliantly lighted office-on senator
and striker, representative and attache,
farmers fresh from the field politicians
who are never 'fresh''-in a word, the
men who have got there, and those who
are still en- route, or think they are.
Il don't know" she said, Il am not sure
that know anything beyond
the Alpha and Omega Of N.Y.
brothers encyclopedia. Those of
us who find ourselves in Tallahassee dur
ing the session ought to- however, in self
defense How little else we hear, how
little of what we hear we ever wish to
hear again. and how little of it all we
comprehend-all this no one can know
but a girl whose men folks are haunted
by the splendid specter of political sue
cess, and who hold caucuses in their bed
room next to hers"
The young lady paused-perhaps for
breath, perhaps for the purpose of
drinking in the eloquence of
Senator Weeks, the third party
orator, who at that moment was in an adj
Joining room defending himself and his
party against the charges of fraud and
corruption brought by the democrats who
are contesting his seat. Like his party,
the piney woods senator is peculiar and
there is in all his makeup nothing more
peculiar than his voice. 1t is not sweet
voice. People would not pay TO hear him
sing But it has the carrying quality-it
carries everything but conviction. Stri-
dent, piercing and metallic on this par
ticular occasion, urged by the necessity
of relieving his party from any suspicion
of guilt in its manipulation of the registra-
ton books and other implements of polit-
ical warfare, it rose above.even the artless
babble of the lobby and the broken muir
murs of the ''fiirtations"
One can hardly close ones ears in pub
lie so the young lady in pink and in pol
itics did the next best thing. She closed
her eyes. However, they soon opened,
and by an unwritten law of nature, her
lips opened with them, and melancholy
smile curved their scarlet thread.
You see what we suffer in silence
well, no, ! will modify that We take
refuge in speech. Never she continued,
with sudden animation, never again ask
me if women like politics. The voices
around us rose and fell, like the waters of
a stream that runs in a circle and goes
nowhere The Young woman in pink once
more sank back into the depths Of her
chair and her despair And yet she
went on, with an air of deep meditation
that was almost as pretty as herself,
were you to ask me if politics liked
women, do you know | should be inclined
TO say yes
No other word falls with so much grace
from pretty woman's lips as that magic
monosylla BILE and her attention was
drawn to that fact by way of paren-
thesis
THAT is true. like to be complaisant
] foresee-I feel it-that l shall some day
drop that fatal affirmative to somebody
who posters me. But-where were we
at2 Seriously, | believe that We
yes, we, with all our foolishness and fur
bellows. would make better politicians
than the average man, who mistakes
coarse fattery for diplomacy, and who
tries to be adroit and only succeeds in
being cunning and clumsy Isn't that
moon out there and a veranda. Let US
60" And we went.
THE WEEK
has been one full of color and variety.
First, there were the visiting editors
hCl
joint session and formal election of Pasco
10 another term in the United States Sen
ate. This was, of course, a fOregOue con-
clusiOn, and equally certain was the hos
pitality lavished upon the western news
paper men.
No people are more given to welcoming
with open arms and doors the casual
stranger than the people of Tallahassee.
For him nothing is too good, and on the
occasion in question. the ladies of the
town clipped their choicest roses until
the visitors were puzzled to find place
for them. II is not customary to wear
more than one buttonhole bouquet but
more than one lady of the editorial party
was seen with an immense consolidation
of fragrance in each hand.
An elegant breakfast was rendered the
party al the Leon, the table being hand
somely dressed with flowers and no pains
were spared by Landlord Ball or the
people of the town to put our distin-
guished guests at their ease. All this. it
should be noted, was done in the old-time
spirit of hospitality, and if any editorial
pocket was in anywise depleted here it
was not the fault of Tallahassee. In no
other place in the state has the party
been given the freedom of the city, and
Walter Coleman Of the Florida Central
and Peninsular railroad, to whose charge
the editors had been committed while en-
route, was loud in his praise of the place,
people and their profusion.
The fall of piece of plastering from
the ceiling of the House of Representa-
tives as Judge Raney was delivering his
address Of welcome to the editors did lit
tie damage, but gave Speaker johnson an
opportunity to compliment the Judge upon
having brought down the house. Thus
far, however, no compliments have been
heard issuing from the eloquent lips of
Matthews of Marion 1t was upon his
head that the plastering descended and
for several hours after the fall in build
ing material the handsome young repre-
sentative might be seen absently putting
his hand to his head to see if il was all
there
The lady who was struck by the edge
OF the ceilings cyclone lost nothing
worse than her senses and a little cuticle,
both of which were only temporary.
The tax assessors convention. which
adjourned last night was something of a