New-York tribune., 1897-08-04
A SPECIMEN or UYSPOKEN ORATORY.

TIE ELOouENCE OF "TWO-CHAIR' GAINES RES
CUED FROM OBLIVION.
Washington. Aug. (specIaD.-Many OF the con-
tributors TO the posthumous Congressional Rec
ord" are exceedingly negligent: In fact they appear
not to know or knowing. not to care, that the
Issues of that invaluable publication always out
last session Congress, and olier eh'iaoie OPP
portunities to scatter what might be called cod
storage eioquence broadcast among their constitu-
ents I'm the back counties. But there are other
statesmen-faithfu sentinels on the watchowers OF
liberty-who impro these opportunities TO the Ut
most. They continue to ply their industrious pens
and cry "Murder! and shout Police" so to speak,
I'm loaded type in these convenient pages, which can
be spread broadcast free Of postage one OF the
latter sort Is "Two-Chair' Gaines of Tennessee.
who Is said to devote good deal OF his time 10
trying to look like portrait Of Andrew Jackson
and az some OF his friends aver. with partial sue
cess They sadly admit however. that the fancieh
resemblance vanishes soon as Gaines opens MS
mouth to speak in the House Of Representatives or
takes his pen in hand to write thoughts tnat
breathe and words that burn to be published IN
"The Record" 1t Is in the latter case that nc
probably appears more natural ana "alheseedue
than at any other time 1t is also something 10 De
thankful for that his humane instincts, or some
thing else cause him to refrain from uttering IN
the House Of Representatives some OF the uhspoKeh
speeches which he publishes In THE Record. III
he should do So statesmen with sensitive nerves
like Reed and Payne and Dingley and others VINO
might be named. would probably be thrown mo
uncomfortable paroxysms, and there Is no teihns
what would happen to such strong and we'll
balanced statesmen Jerry Simpson and D. liam
!ton Lewis few brief excerpts from "speech
which has been published In The Record. anu
which that journal crroneousy says was dehVereu
by Mr. Gaines In the House on Juy ls, VIII not
only show why this is So but give fair taste OF
his quality:
, NJ Coip i'm
of his closet to the absent Gar rs monster
and a monstrous churn wherein Is deposited all
the prime elements Of commercial ana industrial
wealth. to be churned until they yield up theii LAT
SKINNED of and appropriated by the lords
high proDrietors, leaving the whey ana curus lo'
the rabbe to scramble for" Not only that' says
Gaines for besides being "a monster and mon
sirous churn" it is "the incarnation Of false pre-
tence" "a misnomer "a lie upon It's race, the
end and aim OF which Is pillng Ossas OF "eai'h
upon Peons of fortune" etc. But all TINS was
ID compared with what Gaines wrote when ne
rose to lofter heights and poured the molten lava
OF his burning eloquence and fiery rhetoric upon
the devoted but unconscious heads OF MT.
Speaker" and the Republican party. Yes, indeed
Hear him. or rather read what he wrote ana au-
init that ne is the proprietor of an Imagination
and vocabulary which have rarely been equahed
and never excelled:
Could l invoke the ghost OF he murdered C.. com m
CORY locks in this chamber. what arrghted scam, am,
pering there would be upon the other side OF that
aisle. | can imagine the frghtful spectre as u
alights from phantom ship at portals or TINS
House and stalks into this presence ciad IN tne
sombre cerements that Ill conceal the ghasty
wounds that brought 1t to its cruei death, barring
those red iawed TO the startled gaze OF gem
temen descendants Of It's murderers and them
selves conspra tors after the fact and can see 1t
make grewsome obeisance before that awful ros-
trum where sat the director-ge general Of the lords
high executioners who presided at the wake. and
floating on beyond that awful desk II passes With
out that door and pointing It's skeleton nnger '.r
and Means. 1t squeaks Thou ddst IT,. Anchored
the portals of this chamber rocks the phantom
ship that bore this spectral visitor from the pale
realms Of shade stranded and rattling In its tim
bers. with broken spars and shredded sails with
dripping seaweed tangled in its rotting ropes,
matted with cnging barnacles careening and
screaking dismantled and discintcd, the ptiful
wreck OF a once royal merchant marine. stranded
upon the rocks Of rapacious greed and swept 20
destruction beneath the waves OF vicious pro-
tectiye policy