Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-01-05
Then and Now,

O"o year ago Mir. Wilson, in the house, nrl Mir. EoorhCos, in the senate EcIO as surfing us that tho new tariff L.ll would become law by the 1st of March. Now Mir. Wilson is among the left, though with judgeship in prospect, and though MT. Voorhees, holds his seat there is no specu- lation in his eyes. X year ago Mir. Bland told us newspaper men that the speedy triumph of silver was certain. He is now badly distlgured, but still in the ring and defiant as ever. Willie" Breckinridge was then going down fast. He is now coming up again, and once moro his silvery voice is heard in the house-occasiunally. Mir Bryan, the boy orator of the Platte" then looked forward to q senatorship. He now talks of permanent work as a jour naliSt. MT. Byuum has lost interest since then in politics and is going to Indianap- oils to practice law. but owns to being rather glad that the new legislature has put that city and county in a congreSsion- al district by itself Champ Clark is un- daunted as ever and perfectly confident of coming back to the Fifty fifth congress Judge Culbcrson is to be father of the house next term, but is perccptibly failing in activity and energy. The amiable Hugh Dinsmore, Q year ago so popular in con- gress and society, is in the far south and | so feeble with pulmonary trouble that there are grave doubts of his return. Hard Money Harter takes no moro interest in | this congress than in the folkthing of | Norway and is. ready to quit public life in | disgust. JI.dge Holman will go home and l writo look oa his experiences here. Lafe | Pence 8 as cheerful as the cricket on the | hearth Jerry Simpson, who was defeated 1 because 0,000 of his voters moved into
 tho Cherokee strip, thinks that in all tho
 states west of Illinois the opposition to the Republicans w:ll be able to unite in 1S96
 on O platform with three short blanks, | and, as for the rest of tho defeated, havo not their sorrows been sufficiently cele-
 bratedi
 Eight Million People Unrepresented. l As for the victors, it goes without say l ing that they are in it, for the holdover
 Republicans are so few that every ono will | necessarily be a committee leader or somo
 other kind of leader in the next house.
 Tho happiest, perhaps, is Mir. Settle of | North Carolina, for he has gained every
 point this year, is sure of his job and
 would be United States senator soon if he
 were not so young. Of tho Republican
 members renominated Mir. Murray of ] South Carolina was the only one defeated,
 so there will be no colorcd man in the
 fty-fourth congress. Thus at tho close
 of 80 years after the war, and 25 after a
 completed reconstruction which sent a
 score of them there, n race including
 1000, 900 people will be as completely un-
 represented as in 1880.
 Society goes on gayly, ignoring political
 revolutions, and by long Washington usage
 the early part of the season Is given to the
 misses just coming out. It is over these
 that society writers gush In their sweetest phrases, and so wo will take 1t for granted that this years outturn of buds is pecul'
 isrly sweet, talented, refined and generally fascinating. Aside from this, however, an