The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-08

The Story of a Missourian Who
Couldn't Wait on Weaver-PoIitics
Pronunciation and Grammar jun
bled Up - What "Gubernatorial''
Means.
| From the Washington Post.
To the cloak rooms of the House the
weary member wends his way when. ex-
hausted with talk and unnerved by
breathing carbonic acid gas, his heart
signs for relief and stimulation. The
/ chairs are tempting in the opulence of
| their cushioned luxury; ice water can he
had for the turning of the cock; cigar
smoke lulls the waking senses and attunes
| the mind to softer themes than the affairs
! of state.
He casts himself into a chair, bites off
the end of an Havana, lights it, puffs and
| Tolls back
What more is wanting2 Here is the
| true spirit of comraIerie Shaw of Wis
| consin drops in. Reed of Maine makes the
third. DR.. Everett, who eschews all
vices, even smoking, but who chats en-
tertainingly about the ichthyosaurus and
other phenomena of ,the post-pIiocene
| epoch, strolls in to drink ice water and
| breathe d Whit of air near Reed
| Meikle chm joins the circle, Lacey of
| Iowa looks in and concludes to sit down
| BY degrees a group forms, and one sub
| Iect brings on another. Before long there
! is cEoss-tire of bon mots. rafting dis
charge of jokes~folly and fancy, levitv
! and wisdom are suddenly treading on each
| others heels.
| From these impromptus the reporters
are religiously excluded. Now ana then
some of the clever things that are said
10 the cloak rooms percoIate through the
lobby walls and are snatched up by the
press. This is the froth that floats upon
the surface. The dross goes TO the bot
tom of the pot or, if it is sufficiently efer-
vescent, floats out through the ventilat-
ing ducts with the smoke of the cigars,
TO be converted into something more use
full. The skeleton of many an old Joke
rattleS its bones. the ghost of many a
profound thought revisits here the
glimpses of the moon. But everything
passes. No rules impose Limitation on de-
bate. and no committee. with autocratic
pow ers can set time for vote
In 1880, when Gen. Weaver was run.
ming for President of the United States"
said Mr.. Lacey TO the group, ''he ad-
dressed large meeting one day com
posed of rustic Missourians around
Cracker Neck, not great distance from
Kansas City. In his speech he pictured
Ctoplan epoch OF American history
when he should become President.
Money was to be as plentiful as razor
back hogs were in that neighborhood.
Everybody would have stacks OF il. 1t
should all be good money, too, convertible
on presentation-pape per, of course-green-
backs. Just as soon as he was President
he would begin TO issue it in volumes
sufficient to supply every man who
wanted it.
After the meeting" continued Mr..
Lacey, Gen. Weaver was approached by
an odd looking specimen. a regular type
OF Missouri cracker, in bare feet, butter
nut breeches that reached down 10 his
ankles, with one suspender and no coat
and vest. and a straw nat, through which
his tawney locks struggled into the sun
light.
"'Gen. Weaver said this citizen from
Cracker Neck, how soon DO VIC git this
money YOU been talkin' boutP
. Well, let's see, replied the general
earnestly, first I've got TO be elected
This is October. The election takes place