The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-01-19
OUR MAMMOTH SENATOR.
How he has Thriven Under the weight
of HonoTs.

To the EditOr:-ln a recent issue OF
the News and Observer there appeared
a very clever caricature of the Hon.
Marion Butler, of Honeycutt's town
ship, Sampson county, one of the toy
Senators now registered from North
Carolina Washington.
The custom for freshmen Senators
to hold their peace in the Senate until
they are initiated was totally disre-
garded by Senator Butler. Being Pop
ulist, he began speaking on coming in
sight of Washington and has kept on
with scarcely any intermission.
Though the galleries and Hobbies are
as effectively cleared when he speaks
as if an executive session was ordered,
the Senator is undismayed, and pro-
ceeds i'm determined effort to create
a Populist quorum by asphyNiating all
the Democratic and Republican Sena-
tors. He has even overcome one Popu-
list. Senator Kyle, of Dakota, who as
sisted Senator Hill i'll turning him
OFF, in one of his gaseocis harangues
in the Senate last week.
The caricature referred to represents
the aforesaid statesman to be greatly
pulled up by the honors which the
Douglass memorial association thrust
upon him year ago. So much so, that
other men have come to be small specl<s
in his sight He is as a Brobdingna-
gan lately arrived in Llliput. The COM
mon herd of men are no longer visible
to him. They are below the line Of his
vision and must keep out of his way
or he will trample upon them uncon-
sciously as a giant would tread upon
the little mites that creep the earth.
He has attained these proportions III n
brief span. and is vet in the infancy of
his immensely and importance. What
he may become in time is stratIing
thought His future promises some
thing beyond the most favored I'M
aginings Of his fondest admirers
Even now he towers above the tall
est houses in Washington as he stalks
about that city, and it is nothing for
him to spit upon the dome of the Capt.
toll. As he comes to the Washington
monument, 555 feet high, he reaches
down and pats it upon the head in a
sympathetic manner. 1t is the nearest
approach to companion which he
can now find in Washington. But the
time is coming when he viii have to
he uON II 10 Whisper III ITO 1tit
1t was only the other day that he
stood by the Washington monument
and expressed to it his regret that it
was without legs and therefore unable
to take a walk with him and break the
monotony of his hopeless loneliness.
The monument replied that if it had
been blessed with legs it could not
long be a companion for him as his
having to stoop SO much in conversing
with it would cause him to go back on
it and seek the more congenial compa-
ny of the Eiffel Tower.
Our mastodon il the wonder of
Washington and the nation, and still
he grows. His own paper, the Cauca-
sian, declares him to be a statesman
and it must he So As the nation stood
yesterday upon the brink Of a yawning
chasm contemplating suicide he crept
up behind it, seized il by the neck and
re-founded it. upon Peffersonian prin-
ciples.
The glory of this feat hastens his
growth. Ii he keeps on, ne may soon
be expected TO derange he present
schedule Of the solar system. lie is
now approaching perihelion with
Jupiter and if the planets do not keep
out Of his way he will not hesitate to
come into collision with them and
bring the day of judgment upon such
Of them as are inhabited. He will take
them one at time, or all together. lie
in passing from us with the marvellous
rapidity of jacks bean stalk, and soon
his beloved heels will be all we shall
see.
r. A. BETHUNE,
Clinton, y C., Jan. IS.