Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-02-23
Will Hubbard Herman Writes Of
Current Events and Topics
in the Nations Capital.
Governor shortridge Home From
Washing ton Where He Was in In.
terests of Cactus Bill.
Various Items of News Picked Up
in and About the Capital
City.

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in session here. I had not seen him for
nearly nineteen years, yet he had not
turned a hair" as the English say, in
all that time. Though ~ years OF age,
he is still the same straight, bright, alert
gentleman he was when, back in the '7O's
he held a prominent place in congress,
and when, back in the SOS he was comp
troller of the treasury under Garfield.
He has long had the reputation of being
the best lawyer in Ohio, and his rulings
while on the bench were almost invari~
ably confirmed by higher courts. He
told me that any reduction in the duties
on wool or WOODEN goods would prove
fatal to the industry that handles the
in question, and he will appear
before the finance committee of the sem
ate with i~ncontestible facts and figures
to make manifest this claim. He is a
keen, logical, cogent speaker, and there
will be a r%attling of dry bones in. the free
trade cemetery when his testimony is
sprung upon the public.
North Dakota journalists are we'll rep
resented in Washington. Since coming
here I have met Marshall Jewell, who
not only edits the Bismarck TRIBUNE,
but is conducting The Inventive Age of
this city, a paper that is rapidly forging
to the front as the foremost representa-
ton Of American inventors. I have also
met United States Senator Hansbrough,
formerly Of the Devils Lake Inter- Ocean,
who, in company with his wife, is located
in handsome quarters at the Cochran.
Mrs. Hansbrough has been quite ill for
several weeks, but, I am happy to say
that she is now convalescing. The
inimitable Col. Pat Donan, formerly of
the Fargo Argus, has become a Wash.
and is vice-president OF the
National Immigration society of this
city, a society that is on the high read of
prosperity, and is doing more than any
other one agency to develop the new
south. Harvey Wilson, at one.time the
bright, particular light of the Grand
Forks Plaindealer, later on the represen-
tative of the Richmond (va.) Times, is
now assistant librarian in the house
library, and is prospecting like a whole
glorious forest of green bay trees.
1 find a ~serenely sarcastic fling in the
TRIBUNE at a rather remarkable PROPOSE
ton made by an Ohio medic named Pyle,
in which he suggests that felons CON
demned to be hanged should first be
chloroformed and vivisected for the bene-
fit of humanity. The ~undercurrent of
the editorial shows that the TRIBUNE is
averse to the measure; but the Pyle
proposition has two sides to 1t for all o.
that, and I would like to ask if it would
not have been far better, for instance, if
the people of Paris, Texas, had ordered
that demon darkey to be chloroformed
and v%ivisected, instead of burning him
to death? / don't see that the Pyle plan
is any more barbarous than hanging, be-.
heading or electrocuting-in fact, it isn't
as barbarous, for the chloroforming will
make him unconscious of pain while I'M
dergoing the operation, while the medi-
cal profession will reap a rich harvest of
9 knowledge by a study Of his interior
%anatomy--a study they can use to save
countless lives and prevent untold suf-
fering.
Washington has one of the most per.
feet climate in creation. We have only
had one or two colo snaps this winter.
and only one or two snowfalls, both Of
which were light and left in short order.
1t is startling to note the notable
change of sentiment concerning Cleve-
land IN this city. One little year ago
the democracy we're bowling down before
him, while they ''sang paans and chanted
Apollo in his praise. To-day there are
few so low as to do him reverence. The
who don't anathematize him out and
out, take precious pains to say nothing
in his behalf. By his stubborn, un-
American, high-handed. course he has
not only destroyed his own usefulness
forever, but he has demolished the last
hope of his party for a quarter Of a cen
fury to come. Whether he has been
sincere in his policy or not I will not
venture to say, but if sincere, he is a
crank, and if not sincere he is a knave or
a fool. I leave. him to bear the brand Of
the former or wear the cap and bells Of
the latter, as he may choose.
Very popular with Dakotans here is
JAS. E. r. Ray, formerly of Memphis,
Tenn, but Q a superintendent of a
division in the treasury department. He
is a tall, slim, handsome young man, q
lawyer by profession and al .ofice-holder
because there was a demand for his SER
vices. Some men are born to Office,
some achieve Office, and some have office
thrust upon them. Mr.. Ray belongs to
tine last class. If he had lived in North