The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-01-11
T0M.iN IN WIsHfNGTON.

| Senator Hill often has something to say when he speaks, either in his place 1 in the Senate, or to newspaper re- porter. His latest utterance to a news paper reporter has made quite stir.
 It was bound to, for it attacks one of
 the most powerful factors of life if not the most powerful The Senator is un-
 married and not Society man and he apparently thinks that it would be bet ter for the nation if more of those who
 are trying to do some governing in 1 Washington were like him. He openly and boldly says that he thinks it would I be a mighty good idea if the women were packed away and sent out of ] Washington and the men left alone there to attend to the business that The trouble is, there are too many din- ners and too much social dissipation in
 official circles at the capital. No man l can go to these dinners night after
 night and sit up until near morning, attending to social functions, and be in any condition to grapple with the knot 1 ty problems of finance and affairs that l are at this time forced upon the con- sideration of our public men. know" said the senator, with a smile, that ]
 am called a crusty old bachelor; but if any sane man will think over what I have said I believe he will agree with
 mo and acknowledge that I am right. This criticism applies to members of the senate and of congress and to off, cials of the administration. I know a certain prominent official who was re- gently called upon by well known l financier and Informed that if he would
 meet him on a certain night he would give him some useful information that
 at this time would be most valuable to 1 the administrations. eOh,' said the off, cial referred to, knitting his brow, ''Mr. l So-and-So, cannot meet you because I have a cabinet dinner to attend to on
 that night, but when you come to Wash | ington again will be glad to talk with you It is needless to say that | the financier left in disgust I attribute good many of the foolish blunders
 made by public men of late to just this l thing; too much society and not enough l attention to public affairs"
 | This is plain language and has enough l truth in it to be impressive. But there | is another side to the shield and no- | body can show it better than Chauncey I M. Depew. Unlike Senator Hill MT | Depew has been married and he is l sometimes accused of waiting to be
 married again. He admits that the
 vast majority of public men have not
 the training to resist the temptations
 held out to them at fashionable dinners
 and social functions. To resist them re- quires the severest self-restraint. But i they can be resisted. Mir. Depew says i he can resist them and that others | ought to. He says that the man who
 would dine out often and attend to his business too, must lay down four rules
 for himself and obey them: He must
 eat very little and only of the solids
 that are placed before him. He must
 drink very little, He must smoke very little. He must never, never eat a late
 supper. And as for driving the women
 out of Washington he says an emphatic
 no. And he adds: Most of the women
 in Washington society are politicians
 the very eleverest politicians. They
 have a finesse. delicacy, a keenness of perception that no rude male politician