The morning times., 1896-05-10

crossings and with both ha ndS on the reins
of the pale horse. prophecies We're uttered
to the effect that if this Congress didn't
do something it would do nothing, and that
there would be most melancholy funeral
of people in general in / S96
The vaticinations of the lady Oh the white
pony have been verified, prophecy has
been fulfilled. and if there be any doubt
ing Thomases let them gaze on this picture;
let them read between the lines of states
men, so to speak.
shift we the scene" The quotation is
from Marmion, or Rakeby, but the scene
shifter is our own theatrical property.
There are two great events in the life
of a Congressman, whether he Toe OF the
House of Lords, or OF the fleeting House
OF Commons. one is when he marches up
the hill. and another is when he marches
egnerhating Americans have stolen bodily
from monarchical France.
1t is scarcely worth while to speak about
the rank and file of the Commons, as
they march up the hill with their various
bills of national salvation i'll their inside
pockets; nor TO note the gradual metamor-
phoss OF the farmer or the country law
yer into The dandy OF the Avenue. IL is
not altogether TO the purpose of this writ
ing 10 say whether the political metemps v
Ghosts is effected by broiIed lobster and
musty ale, by friction with hotel clerks,
and homemade socks
Hearse and Its Followers
incidentally. however, it may be re-
marked that when Congressman has
been with us for few weeks, and has
rubbed up against the varnsh and been
venccred and galvanized, he is more ready
for a political apotheosis and burial than
if ali mis- neighbors at Smokes Crossroads
had been busy for two days in getting
him ready for intcrment in the parish grass
plot.
How ali of the gentlemen in the fore
ground prepared themselves for the present
sad occasion may be better learned by read
ing the Congressional Record, special atten-
ton being directed TO the supplement- of
1896, entitled The Hearse and Its Follow
ers.'' Most OF the gentlemen in the line are
really statemen, according to Speaker
Reeds definition to the effect that a states
man is a politician who is dead. this, Of
course, being figurative, as is ali OF this
commentary.
An acute ear might hear an earnest con-
versaticu in progress as the line moves to-
ward the Pennsylvania depot, where the
he3rse has by this time arrived, as pre-
dicted in May, 1894. by the lady who rode
in a side saddle on the white Ohio pony
The one thing out Of all the other unfin-
Ished things Of the session was the person
mel, as 1t were, of the entity in the casket
There were several distinct funeral fac
tions, however unseemly the phrase may
he. There We're Democrats, Republi-
cans, Siiveutes, Silverite Democrats and
Republicans, Gold Democrats and Repub-
cans, Republican, Democrats, Democrat
Republicans. Populists and the unclassified.
The Democrats Swore that the great un-
known dead OF the year was the astral
body of Republicanism; the Republicans
swore that it was the mortal remains Of
the solid South, and the patriarch of Kan
sas and his fellow -pallbearers swore, or
affirmed, that the casket contained twins,
one Republican and the other a Demo-
crat. Mr.. Teller of Colorado constituted
the other party. He was Sadducee with
a reservation. he denied the resurrec-