The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-17
CONGRESSMAN DoLLIvER
Blatherskite Russell on the
Populist Party.
SAYS II GAVE HIM LIBERTY
Col. George M. Rose and Senator
Faulkner Renew an Intimate
School and Wartime
Friendship.
friendship.
Washington. D. c., April 16.
News and Observer Bureau,
Metropolitan Hotel,

Washington, d. c., April 16.
On Tuesday last, Col. George NJ. Rose,
of Fayetteville, who was here among
counsel in the Shaw case, took occasion
to call upon his old friend and college,
mate. and comrade-in-arms, Senator
Faulkner, of West Virginia. Col. Rose
had not seen the Senator for thirty
two wears. They had been cadets to-
gether at the Virginia Military lnstl-
fufe. and had stood elbow to elbow in
that loving line of little boys at New
Market. when the sixteen year old lads,
behaved as if they had been on dress
parade instead Of ia battle. Their gal
lantry brought tears to the eyes OF
the Confederate veterans and captured
the admiration even of their foe A
few of them now lie on the hill, near
the barracks at Lexington. Joe Wheel
wright and the rest, a half dozen of
them, 16, Is, II, lads scarcely away from
their mothers. There is no other spot
Just like that.
Senator Faulkner looked hard at his
old comrade. but did not recognize
him. They kept looking at one an
other, hand in hand. At the end of
the pause. Col. Rose called slowly in a
voice not too steady: Ezekiel, Francis
Faulkner" (the old school-role of
boys, yet Faulkner did not know him.
Reed, Kicks, Roller, Rose!" (Rose
tried this now,) and paused again.
FRose!" exclaimed Faulkner. The bars
were down, and over the undulating
years, the memories Of each came
trooping hack, with many a twilight
shadow!
The guides in the corridors of the Cap
itol have their thin tricks as we'll as
all other trades One of the great pict-
ures was being pointed out yesterday
by. one of the guides to a lot of school
girls visiting Washington. A newspa
per man passed rapidly down the steps,
and heard the guide say this: And
young ladies, / should say to you that
You look upon that picture under cir
cunstances under which you would
not perhaps again see it, were you to
visit Washington one thousand times.
There goes the artist. You see him go
ing down the sfeps?H The girls aimed
q solid glance upon the newspaper
man, who couldn't draw horse.
Y ~
What Danny Russell, the blatheTskite
Of his own people, really did say DUR
ing his speech against Lockhart, hath
not yet appeared. 1t is as followsI
took IT down word for word: He went
with the Populists mot because he
stood for our financial views, but for
our liberties. We were disfranchised.
was as much disfranchised as any ne
gro on my rice plantation, and am as
much under obligations to them (the
Populists) for my liberty as the Me-
groes in slavery were to the Grand
Army Of the Republic!" A pretty Gov
efnor he would make of North Carolina
gentlemen.
Some funny things are sometimes In
jeeted into an otherwise dry debate.
Dolliver, of Iowa Republican,,
man CT considerable briIliancy, took a
hard IN the filled cheese bill before
the House Friday. His speech was
humorous defence lmeant seriously
of the American COW. TT was too long
70 quote from at length, but the clos
ing sentences Will give a hint Of the
whole:
s.Now,'' said Mr. Deliver, II happea
fc represent State that is first iii the
production of swine, and first in the
production of improved milk kline, and
feel authorized, for one, to say thar
the American hog does not ask
my friend from Tennessee lMcAliIlin1,
who has already for the sake of cotton
seed oil, helped to drive him out Of the
Iard business-does not ask him 10 re-
pair the injustice by trying 10 stick his
hose into the butter and cheese BUSH
nessn
Mr.. McAlillin: Eve ask you to keep
yours out Of it. fLanghter).
Il was making no reference to my
friends nose, hut the law, fer the pro-
lection Of the public, proposes TO put
its nose in, because the integrity of the
business concerns the American people
i say, give the American COW a fair
chance. She has been the faithful SER
want of man. She landed with our an
eestors at Plymouth Rock Qaughter);
and tied behind the old weather. beaten
emigrant wagon, she has marched
with the household goods Of the
pioneers who have i@'ken possession
of this country, from ocean to ocean.
(Applause.) She has increased and
multiplied ard replenished the earth,
until to-day the industries which she
has made possible contribute annually
TO the wealth of the world more money
than the great combinations of modern
capitai--more than iron and steel,
more than lumber and coal, more than
cotton and wheat. more than all the
looms Of New England, more than all
the mysterious riches Of gold and sill
ser. Yet there are men in this House
whom / have heard to-day sneering
at this biil who spend most of their
time trying to get protection for some
insignificant enterprise, or talking
through their hats in the silver debate.
iI4aughter.) ] say give the Ameri-
can COW fair chance! For myself,
am in favor, Mr.. Drummer, OF her
monopoly monopoly that God gave
her in the production Of butter and
cheese. (LaughteF.)
i'fanner: Then you ought 10 en-
courage the production Of her cheese
ra than cut it down.
llo3Yer: ."That is one monopoly that
j am IN favor Of. And IL every man
In this House, who, I'm the days OF his