New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-01

Ind, at the time of John Browns raid
on Harper's Ferry. In Browns army of
fanatics was an imaginative young fellow
of twenty-five, a brother-in-law of Gov.
Willard, then the Democratic chief exc
cutive of Indiana. The young man was
arrested with Brown, and Gov. Willard
employed VOORHEES, to 60 to Virginia to
defend him. His plea to the jury was
published everywhere, and gave young
Mr. Voorhees, national reputation as all
eloquent advocate. But his young client
was hanged just the same.
In the fight for repeal Mr.. Voorhees,
has done all that any man could do to
pass the measure, hampered as he has
been by the laws, rules, customs, courte-
sy, and all the undefnable humbug of
that august body. He has also held his
temper in check very much better than
any one who knows him supposed could
be possible. Knowing his weakness, the
silver senators have nagged him syste-
matically, while several Republican re,
pealers have added to his burdens by an
noyances that seemed at times wilful, if
not malicious. Frequently the Indiana
man has been On the point of tearing up
things by the roots, but has by Almighty
effort refrained.
If the sacred saying is true, that
"Whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth,' >
the Almighty must have great and
abiding affection for Senator Dan Voor-
| hees.
AS I write, that intellectual little bull
terrier, Senator Vest, engages in CONVEX
sation with the shrewd, sagacious and es-
tute senatorial representative from Mary
land, German. That conversation, in
which both seem to be deeply interested,
would be worth promotion to- some bud
ding newspaper genius, if he could only
get on to what they were saying.
1t is singular how the peculiarities of
lower animal life, often vouchsafed to
men, are justified and verified in the char
acteristics of those to whom they are OIL
ven. Senator Visit has decidedly intelli-
gent cast of countenance, but possesses
the build as well as the facial develol
ment of the bull terrier. With these
physical workings, he has also the men,
tai tone and temper of his model. He
is essentially good tempered with his
equals, fearless with his superiors, su-
prelnely contemptuous toward his inferi-
ors and loves a shindy like an Irishman,
albeit he rarely engages in the personal
snarl and wrangle which weakens the
influence of so many able men upon the
floor of the senate. When Vest does shy
his castor into the ring, however, the fell
lows he is after always know he is there
to stay.
Of the same type, though larger phy~
sically, is Wolcott, of Colorado. AS yet
these two have never tackled each other.
1t IN the future they should do so, the
wicked man of the world can stake his
last dollar that there will be tun for the
galleries.
A glance Of the eye out of the window
shows that the rain is still falling mono
tonously "solemnly and slow" A
slight cooking of the left ear proves that
Petfer IS irksomely repeating his dron-
ing and tedious lesson. Let us continue
to muse while the weary rain drops anG
the idealess words continue to descend
upon a listless world
On the Republican side of the cham
Der Senator Sherman, of Ohio, the griz-
zled veteran of more that thirty years,
speaks smillngly to Senator Lodge, of
Massachusetts, the youngest recruit.
The senior poll bald and gray-is
close behind the junior sco..ce- close
cropped and curly. One IS irresistibly
reminded of the mother cat teaching the
juvenescent kitten to catch mice. The
veterans motions with his hands seem to
let go Of the frightened victim while the
young senator reaches out in reply as if
to capture the escaping prize.
Just at this interesting point David B
Hill of New York strolls across to the
Republican side, and pauses with his per-
petual Mephistophelean smile to speak
to young Senator Dubois, of Idaho. Al
ready these two begin to respect each
other. Each is in the very prime Of life,
and just beginning to put into full play
the intellectual muscles with which ma
Jure has endowed them. One has won
his spurs in fierce battles in the crowded
East. The other comes from the brand