St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-06
GRESSMEN IS SOMETHING OUT
OF THE ORDINARY.
CHANGES FROM THE SOUTH.
RESENTING SIXTEEN OF THE
STATES OF DIXIE.
SETTLES PHENOMENAL CAREER.
An Independent ProtectiOnist-The
New Members and the Speaker
Free Silver.

! WASHINGTON, Jan. Taken by
! classes, the Southern Republicans in
! congress are by far the most interest
! ing class, being so very new and, as
1t were, so very unexpected. In fact,
the South has been Democratic so
long that many have forgotten their
history. Hon. George II. Noonan has
! been referred TO as "the first Repub-
lican congressman from Texas He
is an able man and a very solid one.
| but not the first of his party from
that state. In the first years of re-
construction the cotton states, from
Roanoke to the Rio Grande, were al
most solidly Republican, and when the
first Democrat from Texas, Capt Con-
nor, entered the house in 1870 Ben
Butler made such furious fight
against him that he would certainly
have been ousted if he had not been a
| federal veteran. Indeed, it was not
till 1875 that the Democrats had ma
jority from the old South. But this
is only "Reminiscences.
NEW MEN FROM THE SOUTH.
From the sixteen states once called
the South there are in this congress
thirty-four Republicans, but twenty
three are from the five border states
and three from the old Republican
stronghold Of East Tennessee. In the
flrty-th1rd congress there were seven,
OF whom three were from the border
states and two from East Tennessee,
leaving from the real South only the
colored Murray of South Carolina and
Hon. Thomas Settle of North Caro-
lima. AS the latter gentleman is the
sole Republican survivor of the Fifty.
third congress from the South, and is
credited with having engineered the
fusion which captured North Carolina.
he has attained rather dizzy promi-
nence, but he bears it, we'll He has
had phenomenal career, indeed, as
a precocious youth. He was admitted
to the bar at twenty, elected district
solicitor at twenty-one, elected to con-
gress at twenty-seven, and now. at
the age of thirty, is in his second term
and the recognized leader Of his Sec
ton.
The new men from the South have
borne their honors most becomingly
but some of the gangs which followed
them here have amused old spectators
by their refreshing innocence.
Hon. Alonzo Craig Shuford. of the
Seventh North Carolina district, is a
trifle aggravated by the fact that the
newspaper and the first official list Of
this congress set him down as a. Re-
publican, whereas he is a Populist of
the most pronounced sort, believes in
the whole Omaha platform, and is half
fharn en-,
North Carolina has indeed been badly
misrepresented in the papers. The
Democrats declared from the start that
the so-called Populists were Repub-
Means IN disguise, and, when the terms
Oh the fusion were carried out in the
election of senators, that there were
virtually two Republican senators.
as Marion Butler was one" In truth,
the boot is on the other leg, as we saw
IN Paris. 1t would be much nearer
correct to say that there are two Pom
ullst senators, for, though Mr. Pritch-
ara IS ranked as a Republican he is
certainly the mildest one on finance
that have run against since green
back days out West.
INDEPENDENT PROTECTIONIsT
the Ninth
North Carolina district, ran as an en-
dependent Protectionist," and so re-
cofds himself in the directory but aside
from tariff tenets L doubt if he could be
cidssed. Sun more paradoxical is the
position of Hon. Romulus V. I,innev
VINO was elected as a Republican. and
so classes himself, but has already in
trCduced bill for coming all the silver
bullion produced in the United States
ana expects to make the fight of his
congressional life on that line. He also
wants all the silver bullion now owned
by the government coined into dollars
at the old ratio, and all the national
debts paid half in these dollars and half
In gold. He is very rudy and stockv
gentleman of fifty-four and looks ex
actly like successful farmer. but is q
lawyer. He is also a very pleasant
talker, and his war "reminiscences
would make a very readable article.
Il joined the Confederate airy at seven
teen,' he says, land got my disabling
wound at Charlottesville. 1 well re.
member that as L lay wounded Lieut..
Col. Hill, Lieut.. Mansfield Campbell
and Lieut. Robert A Bullock. all of
my company, lay dead just in front of
me. AS to politics, L was always a
Democrat till I read Cleveland's mes
sage and saw that there was to be war
on silver. Then I left the party and
have fought it ever since"
Now, isn't that a rather queer sort