The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1894-07-19

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EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
A visit to Washington IS to me
always q most interesting past time.
but as saHntersd mp Pennsylvania
Avenue few days ago ( mHst con-
fess that I was not long in arriving
at the conclusion that theFe were
other places much more attractive
and comfortable than our National
Capital undeg July sun. The as
pha't pavement attracts
and holds the i.sst to an al
most baking degree, and the Gloss
humidity Of the atmosphere accentu-
ates the feeling of intense bodily dis
comfort. which one experiences in
Washington during the summer
Under such conditions q Big Stone
Gspian signs for his homeland app
preciate how much better we are sit
uated way out here in tho mountain
Businesses than the poor mortals who
are doomed to swelter and suffer in
| the low county.
| had obtained seat IN the House
galleries a few minutes before that
body was called to order. Quite q
number of members were in their
seats or gathered In groups smoking
and talking, and l at once found my
self busy identifying some of the most
interesting characters of this most
interesting body, There happened,
fortunately, to be seated next to me a
gentleman who, although an intense
Republican, was very familiar with
the personnel of the House, and, with
his assistance, [ was able to To-
cate the most distinguished members,
Tom Reed soon emerged from the
speakers room, and with his ungain-
ly stride stalized towards the Repub-
lican side. A slight murmer going
the rounds Of the galleries, and a
glance. assured me that he WAS the
chief and central fgHrs ofinterest to
the onlookers. And | can well Mnder.
stand this. Holding as he does the
absolute and unquestioned leadership
of q determined and aggressive mi
nority, endowed with mental quail
ties of extraordinary brilliancy, calm
under excitement; ready in emcrgen-
cy; bold in attack; defantly courage
GUS IN resistance; fully equipped with
every weapon of debate, it is g. matter
of no wonder that to-day he is re-
garled as the most potential factor in
the House. He is to all outward APP
4 pearances most unattractive per-
| sonaijty> Absolutely devoid of any
| grace of person CT po%ement, with a
countenance almost repulsivs in its
ugliness, apparently without an Gle
ment of personal magnetism, he is far
from pleasing to the Impractical eye.
There is about the man, however, on
! closer inspection, an indefnable sense
Of force of ipdomitable will and of the
most absolute seif reliapce. And
his impression receives strong con.
firmation when he addresses the
House. Burrows, Of Michigan, a
scholarly looking gentleman, not un-
like DR.. j. L. NJ. Curry, Of Virginia;
Cannon, of illinois, who looks the
| narrow and mean spirited South
hater that ho is; Dalzcll. Of PennsYl-
vania. fiery little fellow. and Quigg,
of New York, who has a dude-like
bearing, his hair parted in the mid.
die, and appearing not over twenty.
Eve years of age, all approach their
their leader, as in lounging atti
tude he throws himself into his seat.
A hurried whispered coference is
held and they disperse at the
sharp"rap, rap" of theSpeaker's CAV
81. And the Speaker himself, very
handsome man, tall, well built and
gracefully proportional, with iron
gray moustache and hair. frmness
and determination written on his
face, looks every inch the fearless and
able ruler that he is. On the DEM
ocratic side Wilson, thin and enact