The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-03-13
Oklahoma Is Amused.

| Oklahoma is Amused.
FL Reno, O. T., March 12-(Special)-
| This town is enjoying a good laugh.
| 1t is over a fight between two editors
| and the queer turn affairs have taken.
The principal actors in the play are
! Edited Hensley OF the FL Reno Dem
! ocrat and Editor Peery OF the Ell Reno
| Globe. Both are rival Democratic pa
| pers, and for some months they have
| been engaged in playfully swatting
| each other behind the ears, and wip-
/ ping the earth with each other in so
/ far as the English language, with an
| Oklahoma twist, viii enable the earth
| TO be wiped.
| A feeling has been engendered be-
| tween the two and not a week passes
! that thir columns do not corruscate
with livid flashes OF irony and abuse.
Recently Editor Hensley made a
! speech before the editors of Oklahoma
| at Perry. The assembled brains of
! Oklahoma heard the speech with un-
| concealed pleasure. 1t was voted a
masterpiece, for it abounded in jeweIed
! epigrams and philosophic conclusions
! that only come TO d man once in
! life time.
SAID 1T WAS GRAND
The Perry papers were lavishIy pro-
/ fuse in deafening encOmiums on the
| speech, and all the edotirs, when they
| went home, wrote individual puffs
/ about it,
! Now Editor Peery was not at that
! meeting. OF course he read Hensleys
| speech and as he perused the heroic
! passages "a dim, misty recollection
/ caused him to pause and ponder. The
! result is that he says in his paper this
! week that the best part of the speech
/ was stolen. He declares that the rich
! est passages We're taken almost bodily
| from an address OF the Reverend
| Thomas Guard, formerly of CapetoWn
| Africa, but more recently of Mount
| Vernon Methodist church Of Baltimore
! This address was entitled "Savonarola,
| Martyr Of Florence and His Times"
| Editor Peery says he has received a
! copy of the work published by Hunt
! and Eaton, New York;, and invites all
| his subscribers to come in and read the
! passages which occurred in Hensley's
| speech.
The deadly parallel is brought into
| full play and the people are now anx-
| iously awaiting the next issue Of Mr.
! Hensley's paper to see what he has 10
! say about it,
1t is the first instance in Oklahoma
where editorial differences have en-
! ployed literary weapons of defense and
| the result of the attack has stirred up
| curiosity.
WHAT EDITOR HENSLEY SAID.
| Part of the alleged plagiarism is as
! follows. This is what Mr.. Hensley said;
There is a difference between the
! politician and the statesman. The pol
| itician is full of temporary expedients,
| the statesman of eternal principles.
THE politician deems himself the
| center of the system of government,
! the statesman regards himself as but
one Of the small lights revolving
| around the governmental center.
Tine politician thinks of himself;
| the statesman of his country.
! The politician feeds upon his coun-
| try; the statesman dies for it.
The politician honorS the govern
ment by serving it: the sta tesman is
honored by being permitted to serve it.
The politician acts for the present;
the statesman labors for the future.
The politician travels in an ever
narrowing orbit; the statesman moves
with majesty of step around pathway
ever simplifying.
The politician surveys the state
from the benches and through the
fumes ofe the grog shop; the states
man climbs the watch of serene truth
! loving, philOSophic contemplation,
| whence he can look both before and af-
ter, learning from the past how best
to steer the ship of state through the
UNEMPLOYED ocean of the far reaching
future.
1T IS STRANGELY LIKE.
This is what Rev. Gerard said:
| There is a distinction and a difference
between the politician and the states
man. The politician is full of Temporal
~ expedients; the statesman of eter-
nal principles.
The politician deems himself the CEN
ter of the system of government; the
statesman regards himself as but one
of the lights revolving around the gov
ernmental center.
The politician thinks Of himself; the
statesman of his country.
The politician feeds upon his country
the statesman dies for il.
The politician honorS the government
by serving it; the statesman is honOred
by being permitted to serve il.
The politician acts for the present;
the statesman labors for the future.
The politician travels in an ever mar
rowing orbit; the statesman moves
with majesty of step II a path ever
amplyfying.
The politician surveys the state
from the benches and through the
fumes Of an ale house: the statesman
climbs the watch tower of serene. truth
loving philosophic contemplation.
whence ne can look both before and al
ter learning from the past how best -
steer the vessel Of the state through
the UNEMPLOYED ocean Of the far reach
ing future.