The Washington times., 1894-08-06

Another or the stories related Of Mr. Martin
by a Texan Congressman. well illustrates his
stubbornness and capacity for "Ggnt, when
sufficiently aroused.
Mr. Martin had his rooms in Washington IN
a house in the Syndicate block. so-caiied,
row OF brick houses which are all alike in ex-
terror, and have exactly the same interior
plans. GIr. Martin had not Il good bump Of
location. and as all the houses had the Same
number be used to tie q string on the iron
fence before his house so tina, he would know
it when he came back. His footman got on
to this singular method OF marking his house.
and as a joke fastened the string before one
Of the other houses.
When Mr. Martin came home that night he
looked for his string, as usual. found it. went
into the house. and proceeded 10 seek his
room. The interior OF the house being identi-
cal to that in which he lived. ne did not dis
cover his mistake, and groped up stairs in the
dark and went 10 bed. II was not long before
he was aroused from his slumbers by the
rightful occupant OF the room, who wanted 10
got bed and was decidedly angry Ht the inva-
sion Of his quarters. 1ir. Martin refused to let
him in. and would not dcsist until police
man was actually summoned and the obsti-
nate Congressman compelled TO vacate the
premises When he found out the explanation
OF his difficulty he was as much tickled as
any one at the mistake. and gave the footman
a dollar for the fun he had had.
Representative Johnston Cornish, of New
Jersey is being doomed in his State for the
next Democratic nomination for governor.
The Congressman's friends. who are many,
declare that he would be one OF the strongest
men who could be chosen as the banner
bearer OF the Democracy in his State, and rs
he is young well-to-do, ambitious. popular,
and shrewd. it would not be at all strange TO
see him landed in the executive quarters at
Trenton.
Champ Clark predicted the other day that
if the opponents of tariff reform kept up their
battle against the tariff bin much longer they
would find after the fall elections that almost
the entire West-by which he meant the coun-
try west Of the Mississippi-even to the Re
pubiicans of that section. would vote for any
ticket that meant tariff reform.
1t is a great mistake, said the Missourian.
TO imagine that the sentiment of the East is
the sentiment of the United States. It Will
not be long before the transmississippi terri
tory will equal in population al! the States of
the East and make the sentiment OF the coun-
try As it is ] believe to-day that the real
American sentimen. of the country Is to be
found west of the great river.
Some OF the papers far away from Wash
ington succeed in working up the most gro
tesque and impossible stories from the Ma
tional Capital which can be imagined. All
thesurface moves in the political world are
taken by them on their face value and often
times for 4 good deal more.
One of the most amusing stories of this
kind, published in aNorth Carolina paper,
was exhibited in the House the other day by a
member OF the delegation from that State. It
was published n day or so after Senator Hills
famous speech defending the President and
after declaring that that defense OF Mr..
Cleveland was thoroughly sincere. it stated
that the Sunday before Senator Hill had dined
at the White House with the whole Cleveland
household, and that all was forgiven and
forgotten.