The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-12-13
CONCERNING STA TESMEN AND
OTHERS.
Sketches In and Out Of the Careers Of .
Few of Onr Stateamen Now Corrniled
in "A Marble Building at WASHINGTON

Sketches In and Out of the Careers Of q
Few of Orr Statesmen Now Corrniied
In IA Marble Building at Wnshinston.
WARRINGTON. Dec. 12 Tho crop of sto-ies
from the newly sprouted Congressman prom
ises fairly excellent results, even at this early
date. These raw recruits TO tho historical
army OF national lawmakers. though It Is a
year before they have any rights in Washing
ton that q policeman is bound to respect, are
dropping into town quite frequently and, OF
course. they have to talk. Indeed. II q Con.
gresham or any kind of . statesman didn't
talk, he would be under suspicion at once.
AS one of them said on one occasion: 'Of
course, people say we are fools because we talk
30 much. but II we didn't talk. those same peo-
pie would say we were knaves; so there we are,
and what are we going to do about III"
So they keen on talking. for no statesman
likes to be suspected of knayfshness.
One Of the new members was in town last
week and he told a story about his four-year-
old boy which he says he will swear TO II any
That bov q mine" said he after nsrrSting
l think, for he would a her tell things TO peo-
pie than do ANYTHING else. unlessit might he
to ASK questions In his search for know ledge.
AS he is at the age when he has n lot TO learn,
he is in a position to have n great deal 10 tell.
About a week before l lett home. no came
rushing in from school and bouncing into his
mothers room with hi, books under his arm
N"'oh, mamma. did you ever hear of George
Why, Kenneth. OF course said she. I
told you Of him a long time ago. Don't you
This was q disappointment. and Kenneth
shook his head In a feeble effort TO recall what
his mother had told him.
tended. i. ..a
"'Oh. but I'm sure It isn't H. he insisted.
Yours didn't live at Mt. vormin: did her
the eSh meS H2sla s "and 70 i have Ss SAID 'e eo"" YOU'D
have been misleading. so she explained mat
tiers by showing him the name Of WashinSton.s
home in print and asking him TO spell and pro-
A member of Congress from Tennessee COM
night Il TIA last Week was telling stories, In the
smoker with him was a Methodist Bishop. who
ing a few sly digs at the Congressman and at
the kind OF moral material which found Its
way in%S the .I makeup n of s'e .sis sbs member.
getting tho Bishop, in a corner, "A good
many years ago we had n fox law In my state
scala Of eNch and every fox Delivered to tho
County Clerk OF each county. We also hhd q
Bishop thinks We ali are. to wit. he was a bold.
bad man. That Is TO say. he was remotely
suspected Of removing horses from the prem
ested. so rumor said, in a money making
scheme in the mountains. said money being
counterfeit. In other respects no wasn't
He was a member Of your State LeGisla-
ture.. which, you should have also gunner
"'Yes'"iaUrhed the Congressman, Tho was
that. too. Well, u law to repeal the iox law had
been introduced, and as the fox scalp receipts
were about the largest actual money receiLts
the constituents OF this statesman saw. he vas
anxious TO keep them coming as lorg as possible
OF tho law: Why. Mr.. speaker and fellow
course Of q long and able effort, the repeal Of
this law will be a deadly anu fatal blow TO tho
grand and bee utiful cause Of religion IN my
country, and will plunge us Bal into tho vortex
OF the darkness OF to middle ages. Yes.
gentlemen OF this ,Houee. II YOU repeal this
mon good and let the foxes run wild in our
midst at their own sweet will. they VIII eat up
Al ALL e Mr, faIiksp nr. so 6sns wiz MitSo %i teh HS nHms f tSr
low citizens, there will be no Methodist preuch-
ers In our section, and that 10 the only KIND we
have. Therefore, ,Eentlenen. you &c" what
this repeal will end in and what VIII become OF
the gospel among my, "onstituents.,n
"Welly" inquired the Bishop In doubt.
They wouldn't repeal the, law, OF course,
under those clrcumst9nces.' responded we
Congressman. and the Bishop went after the
Member on another tack.
The gentleman from Texas was convereing.
There may be some people. said he, who
don't think Senator Coke, who used 10 be IN
do Senate from our state. Is IA great, Dig man;
but there are more who know that he Is. and
glory, he is n mighty good steady light TO 90
By. / remember away back yoEder, when, he
was making himself Il power, ne WAS plbbc'i IL
some kind of race, ! don't recall Just what,
against n man named Cole, and Cole was no
slouch. either. His chief weakness was his
mouth, and he could not keep IL from talking,
d. what no would. In other respects he was
.Ioke'B equal. for he was at least ten years Older
and had had a great deal more experience. AZ
the race progressed 1t WAS seen that Cole was
getting rather,the better Of Coke, and the Coke
crowd made o superhuman effort, so 10 81 eak,
and got one of the best speakers they could find
to speak at u big barbecue they we're 70 give.
'NVheE the time came, much 10 the dlslilaJ
OF the Coke party their best speaker was taken
sick and could not be on hand. What To DC
was the ~uuvstion of the hour, and calling a
meeting of the committee they discovered in y
except n rougn-And-tumble sort OF q reno"
who had been n coal miner In West virginia Do
fore he came to Texas, He consented. OF course
when called on, and the was In teai
and trembling, wondering what he Houlu 90
But they didn't fear and tremble long.
"'Feller citizens said tho speaker IN .
voice that would shake the slate roof off Of
about Coke and Cole. You know mo and y3r
know ! know what I'm talking about: ana
want TO ask you II YOU know the difference
bet tween Coke and Cole. But II amt necessary
every man of you knows that the dill srence-o be
tween them Is the gas that Is In the Cole
II don't remsmber the rest Of his speech,
concluded the Texan, and | don't believe Al Y
body else did, hut I'm mighty sure that Col
never forgot that much of II. And what's more
/ believe tho effort he made TO do less talkinI
killed him, for he died before he was forty
Expert Knowledge or Dressed Poultry.
"They 81 y" said a citizen, that the eIper
poultryman knows at sight Just " mere n dresse'
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