The Irish standard., 1896-03-07
BRIGHHl I'D AND ROSY
suohI the Appearance Of asartlD Mag
innls In Washing
&. .:@5 tom.
fHE WAY BE INFLATED SUNSET COX
How james Cavan augh t7eostvsd HIS
. First Memlnation TO Com
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First Nomination to Con.
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The Washington correspondent OF the
Journal Of this city writes as follows:
Ell Delegate. Martin Maginnis, of Mon
taaa, has recently reappeared on the
streets of washington, looking gray and
grizzIed but bright eyed and rosy, and as
he passed ten or more years OF his life at
the federal city, he is still able to find
his way about and to reach the capitol
without being lost en- route. Martin was
a mere lad when he enlisted in 1851 in
1! the First Minnesota volunteer infantry,
and left Redwing to fight the battles OF
! his country on the bloody fields of Vir-
ginia. He came out of the war with con-
siderable fortune, having risen from the
rank of high private of the First to that
of major Of the Eleventh, Of which regi-
ment the late Judge James Giltillan was
! colonel. H.
| Mai. Maginnis settled in Montana after
the war and became a prosperous news
paper man, which brought him to con-
gress as the delegate from that territory.
| He attained considerable distinction In
| the house as ready debater and hard
| worker for his constituents. But he has
| never succeeded to the dignity Of full
| hedged member, for, after Montana be-
came state in the Union, some other
| fellow came to congress, and Maginnls
| never enjoyed the supreme felicity OF
casting a vote or being recorded among
| the yeas and nays during the long years
of his delegate service In the house.
! 1t was common talk during Maj. Ma
gjnnis' representation Of Montana in the
house, that he had taken ,"Sunset, Cox
as a model in the method of delivery,
pose and gesture. OF course, he DID not
| attempt to emulate the superb bltndant
and Incompatible wit of Sunset Cox,
for that was impossible for any man,
since Mr.. Cox was endowed by nature
with characteristics peculiarly his own.
But Maj. Maginnis did succeed in adopt
| ing a very fair imitation of Mr.. Cox's
! graceful gestures and method Of delivery,
particularly the side pose of the head and
the spasmodic twisting of the body, so
that when ait his best and talking earn
estly, the resemblance was easily detected.
The successor Of Maginnis as delegate
from Montana was Jim Cavanaugh, who,
with Mr.. Phelps, was. the first congress
man elected from Minnesota. He served
one term and emigrated to Montana, de-
generating into delegate. Thus Min
nesota furnished two Montana delegates
to congress- Cavanaugh obtained his
nomination to congress from Minnesota
by the merest accident. 1t so happened
that the two party conventions charged
with the duty of nominating two con-
gressmen declined to take them from
single districts, and selected them at
large. In the Democratic convention the
Irish element predominated, If not in
numbers, certainly in influence, and Cav
anaugh, approaching that the struggle
would be fierce between.a score of rival
aspirants, remained a dark horse and
comparatively unknown until the SUI.
preme moment was reached when, OBJ
tanning the floor as a delegate, he deliv-
cred an eloquent and stirring address,
in which he dwelt with JUNCTION upon the
salt mist of the Irish isle' and eulo-.
gized the Democracy in company with
Sheridan, Curran, O'Connell and all the
other Irish patriots and orators, and end
ing with glowing panegyric upon
Thomas Adds Emmett, Wolfe Tone and
Charles O'Conor. of New York, with
whom he claimed friendship and asso-
citation. This speech carried the conven-
ton by storm, especially the Irish dele
gates, and he was nominated on the next
ballot This nomination proved equiva-
lent to an election.
A newspaper man tells how one night,
when wrestling with a short account of
news items, and wondering how he
would be able to fill his space on the NOR
row, Cavanaugh entered his office toward
the Wee; sma' hours and asked the
pencil pusher if he had few days to de-
vote to his service, to which, of course, he
received an affirmative answer. Il am
going to deliver. a speech in the house"
said Cavanaugh, ION the question of ter
ritorial history, and I want YOU to look
up the entire history of territorial or
ganization, from the ordinance. Of 1887 TO
the present day; and give me- all the
facts and statistics you can gather.
want. it written like one of Macauley's
essays, and I am told you can do it in that
exact shape!'
81 want you.to take your, time at this
work." continued Mr.. Cavanaugh, "and
have it ready in a week or 10 days.
Then taking out his. wallet. he drew
from the roll Of money three new, crisp
$500 bills, threw them on the scribbler's
table. saying: II am sort OF newspa-
per man myself and know the value of
the work L have asked you to do.
could do it myself, but ! have not the
time. Take the $500, as you may need
little money and want to pay for help,
and if the stuff peases me, will give
you a couple of hundred more. l want
to buy some brains and am willing to
pay for them. -
The astonished correspondent, to whom
the $500 was like mama to the starving
Israelites inb the wilderness, promised to
do his very best, and Cavanaugh strobe
out of his office. merely rernarking that
|. he had no doubt the work would be we'll
done In due. time the manuscript was
duly delivered to- Mr.. Cavanaugh, and
the statistics and salient points Of our
territorial, history were duly ineorporat-
T ed in the speech which Ca vanaligh Short
~ thereafter delivered. Great demand
was made for that speech, and it was re-
garded with particular favor at the time.
True to his word, Mr.. Cavanaugh handed
the newspaper man. 5000 more and, ex-
pressing his entire satisfaction with the
work. simply observed:
II tod you a lie. | said I could do
this work nyself if + had the tin1e@:ss:sThatt
was untrue. Il apologize. and want you
T to accept it as sincere. If you want good
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