Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1895-02-15

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SENATOR j. c. PRITCHARD.
sam, who was born in 1926 and became 3
ptactlcing lawyer in 1S47, served long in
the North Carolina legislature before tho
war, and In the war fought his way ur
nom lieutenant colonel to next to the
highest rank and surrendered at Appomat.
tox, gives place to Marion Butler, who
does not even remember the surrender.
AND, With due respect to the veteran. it is
q good thing for the south and the country
to have these lads who, except as babies.
never saw a Confederate soldier or a slave.
come into congress.
The Colored Mans Friend.
Much has been said of Senator Butler.
for he is a hustler, but at first Senator
Pritchard of the same state was spoken of
rather slightingly. 1t appears that inius.
tice was done him, because his talents are
rather in the quiet line. He, too, is young,
though a few years older than his col
league, and the colored people look on
him as their senator. A score of years have
passed since the movement to overthrow
the reconstruction was in full tide in North
Carolina, and at the close of this session
1T will be IS years since John J.. Patterson
of rather unpleasant memory ceased to
represent South Carolina, and he was
ironically known as the negro's friend
70 the colored people the election of Mr..
Pritchard seems like the dawn after a very
long and very dark night. They crowd
the galleries to gaze at him, point him out
to newcomers with radiant smiles and gig
giles, waylay him at the doors or send in
their cards, and, according to their several
notions, shower on him advice or congrat.
ulations. They are still young in politics,
and it does not enter their heads to doubt
that the late overthrow of the Democrats
means a permanent change, and that all
the states with large negro votes are soon
to be represented by Republicans. The
change in South Carolina is not political
exactly, but it promises far more of the
picturesque, for Senator Butler has de-
clared his intentions to make the pathway
of the coming Senator Tillman extremely
rough, and by all accounts has planted a
sort of Internal machine on the road which
will cause interesting disclosures in the
next congress.
The Senator From Washington.
We were tickled almost into "geeminy
fits" when the wires licked the announce-
ment that Johnnie Wilson was coming
back as senator from Washington, for he
is not only a splendid fellow in general,
but gives information in a torrent to jour-
nalists, and we are glad on general prin-
oiples that the state now has two senator's.
He was born in the Hoosier Athens in
1850, and so we will count him as one of
the young men. He will be, as he has
been for three congresses, the smallest
man in either house, pale, Ratchet faced
and seemingly quite fragile, but all nerve
and energy. AS the first Republican elect
ed to the house from Washington and as
coming now to complete the senatorial
representation, he has a rank in history in
dependently of his talents. Incidentally it
is ar interesting bit of history that his ia
Their was the cause of Dan Voorhees, loca-
ton in Terre Haute. They lived in the
district north of that and were the rival
candidates for congress when the Kansas
question was driving exoitable people to
political madness. Both were great Or
ators, but Wilson was rather the more i'm
FASHIONED and effective. The closing day
of their series of joint debates was at
Charlottesville, the home of Wilson, and
he had the closing speech. He summed up
the misdoings of the Democrats, and clos
ing q long and eloquent peroration he
pointed his finger at voorhees, and fairly
roared, Daniel, come to judgment!'' It
was a chip and hurrah'' campaign to the
end, and Wilson came out 235 votes ahead.
Concluding that that district was unfavor-
able to him, Voorhees, moved to Terre
Haute and four years later entered con-
gress in spite of the Republican tidal wave
of 1860.
A Political Anomaly.
Michigan reversed the rule of the year
as to age, for the retiring Senator Patton
is but "A years old, and Senator Burrows
Is SO. It is a rather singular fact that
neither Senator Patton nor his colleague
had served in any legislative body before
entering the senate, but Senator Burrows
has probably made the most even and reg
lar advance of any man in congress, hav-
ing started as a lawyer and taken success
present place. The one overturn which
nobody here can explain is the defeat of
Senator Washburn of Minnesota by the
somewhat cratic statesman whom the
free traders call "Cute" Nelson. A Repub-
lican free trader from q wool and lumber
state bordering on British America is such
an anomaly that we cannot make him
out, and when, in addition, he defeats SO
strong a man as Mr.. Washburn we are
without a clew.
The protectionists FASTENED to assert
most emphatically that his free trade sen
timents had nothing to do with it, and
although he is a gold standard man that
could not have helped as against an equal.
~ good monometallist. Various opinions
are offered, one that Mr.. Washburn was
too high and mighty with constituents