Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-08-31


 unanimously of opinion. I believe, that three fourths of the misery of is75-s was due to the fact that everybody was wait ing and druading and preparing and that the shortest method in finance makes the least trouble.
 Spoiled Fruit.
 NIT. Bland says that he has sustained his eleventh consecutive defeat on free coinage, but is in better humor than ever to get up and try 1t again. Cliff Bleckinridgc is just now u very interesting figure, as his cuckoo" performance on silver took him out of congress and made him minister to Russia, his S5, 600 n year changed for $l7, ,OOO, the rank of n minister to start on and probably that of an embas- saClor in another year As to Willie, " the famous defendant who was led astray, |" he has spared himself a good deal of hu- initiation by being absent most of this scs- sion.
 It is somewhat amusing to hear the members opinions of each other when they are talking in the freedom of tho SO ciai hour. Of tho veteran II. = Bundy, who came back after SD many years in re tircncnt it is said that hc has ''vindicat- cd FurakcrS selection of a father in law and added several mOrC to the old stock of Lincoln st0riCe:'' of the veteran G. A Grow, that he is interesting chiefly as n rcminiSccncc. and generally of men who return after having been out of congress for n long time it Is noted that they seldom or never regain their old places or even get in touch with the new methods
 As to Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte" the Democrats arc unanimous in thinking th&t he has made n bad break, but it looks aS If he may he senator from Nebraska just the same. The hardest talk Is about Cannon of California, who came as n Populist Democrat, but during the late riots n trainload of English walnuts from his district was dcrailcd, and the fruit spoilcd. and now-consequcntly. his colleagues Say-hc Is a strong government Cleveland Democrat.
 Accented on the Penult.
 All his cnpartisans say that Speaker Crisp immolatcd himself on the altar of his party when he refused to accept the Georgia scnatorship, and they are very sorry that on the next day they had to adopt n caucus resolution dirccting him tC abandon his long sustained position and adopt most of Tom Reeds plan for count ing quorum. Yet 1t had to be done. Mir. Dockcry has made n really brilliant success of his scheme for rcorganiZing the system of business in the departments. Mir. Dur borrow. after four years gnOd service in favor of Chicago and the Worlds fair, made slip of tho tongue in speaking oi ClcX cland and tho strikers and was not even mCntiontd Il in the convention which nominated his suCCCssOr. The poet Eng fish of New Jersey is 50 anxious to quit that Inc can hardly wait the expiration of his term and will come no morc. Dr. Ey- crCtt, who got herr, by one of the qucCrcst accidents in politics, has suCcCcdcd in gct- ting into The Record an authoritative dc cisiun shat the Grcvk word for cuttlcfisl is accented un tho pcnult and pronounced octopus" Mir. Gear of Iowa, after long service in lower bodies will enter the United states senate at the ayr of 70. and Mir Griffin of Michigan iS his friends fear, doomed to complete deafness.
 The Head. Not the Heart.
 These will do for Sp,cimrns of tho strange rxpvrirnccs and mutations of DO litical life. Many warm friendships arC formed at each congress. and thCrr SCCms to he no distinction in this rcsptCt by party lines. The painful fcaturc uf 1t i, that one Is taken and the other left when the next political revolution comes, and they seldom or never meet again.
 some very rvmarkahlc sucCcSSCs have bCcn achieved in this cungrrSS That oi Mir Duckcry has already hCrn mentioned. Mir. Surg, chosen at n hyrlcCtiOn to rCprc sent the Dayton (O.) district after tho death of Grur-r w. lIuuk, was sCarCl! sworn III tlil nt went tb rCthlSiTlCtltlE the offices in his district and actually sue c,Vtcd in getting the Republican puStmas ter at the soldiers home busted, although his term had not expired. and many Dem Ocrats had attacked him in vain.
 General WhcV'lcr of Alabama looks upon the admission of Utah ns his particular personal triumph, and Jason Brown ot Indiana feels g,utl uNVr the the fact that in every contest Su far decided his commit trr has busted the Republican and seated the Democrat. Mir. Harris of Kansas rcnlly enjoys the distinction of being the only Cx- Confederate ever elected to cungpss from tho great central west. His col lcaguc, MT. Baker, and Mir. Pence of Col oradu arc the two men noted for their Cn- joymcnt uf congressional life. Both arc activc working members but the fact that this Is great body, and that they aro Ill it. Is tO them n source of never ending en joymCnt.
 To sum it ail up, am perfectly satisfied that the Fifty-third congress Is body of very high average in honesty and mo rality: that thCrC urc in it very few men in deed not actuattd by high motives, and that whatever errors arc committed result only from mistaken judgment and from no lack of honesty. patriotism or will tC serve the people. J. E. pARkE.