St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-06

| Of Republican, who cleft the Demo
| cratic party because 1t was opposed to
silver? Hon. Harry Skinner and Hon.
| William F. Stroud, of the First and
Fourth North Carolina. are like, Mr..
Shuford, POpuliSt from the start, the
former a lawyer, the latter a farmer.
With very rare exceptions, members
go into caucus with the party by which
they were elected, and support its
measures, but were it not so I should
set down the whole North Carolina
delegation in both houses as silverite
and Populist. Perhaps the busiest man
among the Southern Republicans is
Hon. Walter Evans,oef the Louisville
district. He is spare. r why sort of
man, and his life has been put in at
hard work His constituents and a
very large section Of the South out
side of his district seem TO have taken
it for granted that be can stand any
thing. Another hard worker appar-
emily is Hon. George H. Noonan, of
San Antonio, Tex. iEwho represents
thirty-seven counties, of the most di-
verse climate, people and productions
He was Judge of the district court for
thirty-three years, and his Democratic
friends attribute his election entirely
to the high character he sustained in
that office and his resulting populari-
ty Judge Noonan, however, will not
thinks it was all on account of the
Wilson bill putting wool on the free
list
Among the very distinguished new
men from the South is Gen. James A.
Walker, the only Republican from Vir-
ginia, and it adds not a little to his
rank that he carried his district by
some 1900 against Cyclone Jim Mar
shall, who carried it by some 5000 in
1892. 1t is worth nothing that Gen.
Walker is also radical silver man.
and it may be said in general that the
big percentage of extreme silver men
among the new Republicans is one of
the surprises of this congress. He
talks it, too, with more than the aver
age freedom and is very confident that
an overwhelming majority of the Re-
publicans of the south would vote for
the free coinage silver at once if it were
put to a popular vote. The general. as
everybody knows-for he is a man of
national reputation-was one of the
most brilliant soldiers in the Confed-
crate army, having commanded the
famous "Stonewall brigade" and
Early's division in the latter part of the
war.
I have been much interested in the
reasons given by those Southern Re-
publicans for their being here and for
the general political revolution OF 1894,
but, after all, it seems that the enthu-
siasm of the politician nearly always
overcomes the judgment of the man,
for each is confident it was due en-
tirely to the particular feature in which
he takes most interest. Hon. J. II.
Huling, of West Virginia for instance,
attributes it altogether to the tariff and
the slight which the Democrats put on
the industries of his state, while the
North Carolina men think treason to
silver had a good deal to do with it.
THE man who beat Billy Wilson" is
the popular title for Hon Aston Cor
don Dayton, who has been a great sue
cess as a lawyer, but admits to some
surprise at his sudden promotion to a
congressman. Of course he thinks the
tariff did it all, and that West Virginia
is to remain Republican.
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