The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-08-31
Che aahita Daily Eagle zriday zorrig august 81. 1894

tu DF I-le DeTnOcfatlc party ASAJ 4aIl
Mr.. Baker Of New Hampshire is noted for
having voted solidarity and alone against
the Dockery commission bill, and Mr..
Bankhead of Alabama enjoys the UNIQUE
distinction of not having passed single
general bin recommended by his commit
tee, that On public buildings and grounds
Mr.. Bartholdt is an ex-newspaper man.
Mr.. Bartlett is the best dressed man in
the house, and Mr.. Berry is the talleSt
though Mr. Curtis Of New York is good
second. Mr.. Blair, who graduated from
the senate into the house had the rare
good fortune 10 anticipate Mr.. Reeds Top
on the silver question by about month
He has a beautiful scheme for resuming
the free coinage Of silver on the lst of Jan
uary, 1898, on much tina same plan as the
resumption act, giving the people time 70
prepare for it, It would never do TO print
in a family paper what tho radical silver
men say OF this proposition. They are
unanimously Of opinion, l believe, that
three fourths Of the misery of 1878 was
due to the fact that everybody was wait
ing and dreading and preparing, and that
the shortest method in finance makes the
least trouble.
Spoiled Fruit.
his eleventh consecutive defeat on free
coinage, but is IL q better huInor than
ever to get up and try IL again. Cliff
Breckenridge is just now a very interesting
figure, as his cuckoo" performance on
silver took him out Of congress and made
him minister TO Russia, his So, coo year
changed for ST., 600. the rank of a minister
TO start on and probably that of an embas-
ha
famous defendant who was led astray,
he has spared himself a good deal OF hu-
initiation by being absent most OF this ses-
sion.
Il is somewhat amusing to hear the
members opinions Of each other when
they are talking in the freedom of the So
cial hour. OF the veteran III. :. Bundy,
who came back after so many years in re
tirement, ii is said that he has ''yindicat-
ed Foraber's selection Of father-in-law
and added several more TO the old stock OF
Lincoln stories;" of the veteran O.. \.
Grow, that he is interesting chiefly as a
reminiscence, and generally of men v1lo
return after having been out of congress
for "a longtime it is noted that they seldom
or never regain their old places or even
get in touch with the new methods.
As 10 Bryan, the boy orator OF the
Platte, the Democrats are unanimous
in thinking that he has made bad break,
but it looks as if he may be senator from
Nebraska Just the same. The hardest talk
is about Cannon Of California, who came
as a Populist Democrat, but during the
late riots a trainload of English walnuts
from his district was derailed, and the
fruit spoiled, and now-consequently, his
colleagues say-he is a strong government
Cleveland Democrat.
Accented on the Penult.
All his cOpaTtiSans say that Speaker
Crisp inundated himself on the altar of
his party when he refused TO accept the
Georgia senatOrship, and they are very
sorry that on the next day they had TO
adopt a caucus resolution directing him 10
abandon his long sustained position and
adopt most of Tom Reeds plan for count
ing u quorum. Yet it had 10 be done Mr..
Dockery has made really brilliant success
of his scheme for reorganizing the system
of business in the departments. Mr.. Dur
borrow, after four years good service in
favor of Chicago and the Worlds fair,
made slip of the tongue in speaking OF
Cleveland and the strikers and was not
even mentioned in the convention which
nominated his successor. The poet Eng
lish of New Jersey is so anxious to quit
that he can hardly wait the expiration of
his terra and VIII come no more. DR.. Ev-
erett, who got here by one Of the queerest
accidents in politics, has succeeded in get
ting into The Record an authoritative de-
cision that the Greek word for cuttlefish
is accented on the penult and pronounced
octopus" Mr. Gear Of Iowa, after long
service in lower bodies, will enter the
United States senate at the age of 20, and
Mr. Griffin OF Michigan is. his friends fear,
doomed to complete deafness.
The Head, Not the Heart.
These will do for specimens of the
strange experiences and mutations of po-
litical life Many warm friendships are
formed at each congress, and there seems
to be no distinction in this respect by
party lines The painful feature Of it Is
that one is taken and the other left when
the next political revolution comes, and
they seldom or never meet again.
Some very remarkable successes have
been achieved in this congress. That of
Mr. Dockery has already been mentioned
Mr.. Sorg, chosen at q byclection 10 repre-
sent the Dayton (O.) district after the
death of George ". Houk, was scarcely
sworn in till he went TO reconstructing
the offices in his district and actually sue
ceeded in getting the Republican posunas-
ter at the soldiers home ousted, although
his term had not expired. and many Dem
ocrats had attacked him in vain.
General Wheeler of Alabama looks upon
the admission of Utah as his particular
personal triumph, and Jason Brown Of
Indiana feels good over the the fact that
in every contest 80 far decided his commit
tee has ousted the Republican and seated
tho Democrat Mr.. Harris Of Kansas really
enjoys the distinction of being the only
ex-COnfcderate ever elected TO congress
from the great central west. His coll
league. Nj Baker, and Mr.. Pence Of Col
orado are the two men noted for their en-
jovment Of congressional life. Both are
active working members but the fact that
this is = great body. and that they are in
II. Is 10 them q source Of never ending en-
joymcnt.
To sum it al up, 7 am perfectly satisfied
that the Fii1v-Jhird congress Is body
Of very high average in honesty and mo-
raliry; that there are in II very few men in
deed not actuated by high motives. and
that whatever errors are committed result
only from mistaken Judgment and from
TO lack Of honesty, patriotism OF viii -
serve the people. !. =. PAEEE
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