Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-01-27

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growth and can stand many a storm, while
| the friendships of women are too often over
! turned by breeze that comes very far from
being Il cyclone.
There are but few men in public life who
do not follow out this common aspiration
! of their species Here and there is one who
| pursues his way alone, unblessed by the
| confidence of his fellows, moody, solitary.
| peculiar. more or less unhappy. Such IA
one is Senator HILL For some reason, which
| no one bas yet quite fathomed. the New
| Yorker does not seem to be desirous OF
| forming any warm friendships in the SEN
ate chamber Though the rule in that body
! is for every man to have one or more
chums, Mr. Hill apparently feels quite
| strong enough to get on alone. This does
| not mean that he is without friends, or that
! he has no ore to talk to on the floor or in
| the cloakrooms. But, so far as can be dis.
| covered his friends are more or less distant
F.! friends. In all the lot there is not one close,
confidential companion of David Bennett
! Hill.
Senator PefTer's Chum.
| Senator PETER is another who seems able
| to get along without male confidant. Mr..
| PETER is gloomy and peculiar so far as out
ward appearances go, but he has an init
I mate friend, one that sticketh closer than
q brother 1t is Mrs PETER. She and the
long whskered statesman from Kansas are
, inseparable. She serves as his private sec
retary When he is in his committee room,
she is with him. When he is on the floor
she waits for him outside. When the lunch
con hour comes, they lunch together They
are companions on their way to and from
tn. capitol and during many leisurely, aim
less walks about the city. No scene on
the streets of Washington is more com
mon than that of Senator and Mrs PETER
walking slowly along-he with big, dark
goggles over his dark eyes, and she nimble
and active, apparently serving in the ca
pacity Of mentor, friend and guide.
Another senator whose wife is his chum
is the venerable Mr.. Palmer of Illinois.
Senator Palmer was about 20 years old
when lie married Mrs Hannah Kimball of
Springfield, Ills 1t has proved a happy
nIatch, despite the sneering of the busy
bodies. Mr. Palmer is a giant almost in
SIZE, while Mrs. Palmer is little bit of a
woman. but full of life and energy and an
Invaluable assistant to him in all his work.
She accompanies him nearly everywhere
he goes Almost any day she may be seen
at the capitol lunchng with her husband
or hclpng him with his work in his COM
NJ ttee rooGi She says she has to go along
to take care of the old senator, but he
laughingly retorts thai she has not AS yet
/ become accustomed to life in a big city and
| dare not trust herself out of his sight amid
SO many temptations in such Il wicked city
g& Washington.
Old TiEle Friendships.
Even presidents feel the need of having
near and comfortable friends. General
Hayes had for his intimates while in the
{ " hite House Secretary Sherman, William
Mckinley and General Henry c. Corbin,
now the assistant adjutant general of the
army. Hayes was always fond of Mckin-
ley. and not Il little of that gentleman's
rapid rise in the political world has been at
tributed to the help which President Hayes
gave him. General Arthur's chum was SEN
ator Jones of Nevada. 1t was to Jones'
house on Capitol hill that Arthur came
when he arrived in Washington to be pres
ident He and the genial Nevada man were
inseparable companions. They dined, drove
and sat up nights together.
President Gariield's nearest friend was
none other than James 6. Blaine, an exam.
pie which President Cleveland is following
in making his secretary of state his favor
iSe cabinet officer. Cleveland and Gresh-
am are like boys together. Their relations
are of the most easy going, informal sort
1t is currently reported that they are even
chummy enough to swear at one another at
times, and certainly they have had enough
10 swear about during the last few months.
.;resham and Carlisle are also cronies, and
tie two of them fit i'll pretty we'll together
Will. the president, but Gresham is obvi-
ously the favorite at the White House
When the new cabihet came into Office,
people generally expected Cleveland and
Bissell and Cleveland and Lamont would
b. the cronies. but for some reason or other
that expectation has been disappointed.
While it is still true that Dan Lamont is a
man on whose keen judgment the president
pretty heavily leans, and that LaHlont can
come nearer handling the old man." as we
often put it in Washington, with our local
irreverence for greatness born out of long
familiarity, Dan and Grover are far from
icing the chlms they were in the old days.
Gresham's Attractive Personality.
Secretary Gresham, just now generally
regarded throughout the country as the
member of the cabinet IN the most unenvi-
sble position on account of the Hawaii fias-
s0, has the rare quality of making friends
of nearly Ill the men with whom he comes
in contact. Even the men who most Bit
terly oppose his international ideas or who
most bitterly denounced him for swapping
parties in the middle of the stream are
forced to confess that as man they have
nothing bus affection FOR him. He is one of
the men who appear TO cast q sort of spell
about these who rub up against them.
Blaine had this quality to a marked degree,
though ina little different way.
Blaine magnetized, hypnotized mere men
than any other great publicist we have
had in this country since the days Of An
drew jackson. He was fond of making the
very mcawho once hated and despised him
Row Under the influence Of his subtle
charms, end there are many known in
stances OF his success in this direction. In
decd il Is considered certain by those who
are familiar with the facts that if Mr.
Blaine had ,ice been SO fond of exercising
his magnetism on his enemies. making
.sis.atas xnd advisers OF them to the neglect
more or less. Of his older and trustie,
f.ieuds, he might have gained the summit