Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-09-23
TWO ELOQUENT MIssoURIANs.
A Prediction That They Will Yet Be
Great Leaders in Congress.
From the Washington Post.

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Great Leaders in Congress.
From the Washington Post.
81 predict that before the world is
much older the two leaders in the
American Congress will hail from the
same state"
Thus spoke Lew Chase, of Kinks
vile, Mo-, at Johnson's.
"While parliamentary Leadership 1
our country does not 60 to the extent
it does in England" he continued,
s'we have leadership after a fashion,
and it is gagged by the caliber of the
leader, and there have been grades in
leadership all the way from Thad
Stevens to Bill Springer. Blaine was
brilliant, magnetic; Randall was ag-
gressive, savage. But the list Is a
long one.
"Webster Davis, at present Assist
ant Secretary of the Interior, will
some day be leader of the Republic
cans in Congress. He is the. finest
orator in the Union. Champ CLARK
will some day lead the Democrats.
He is the most formidable debater of
them all. Both are from Missouri.
Like the state, both are big, stalwart.
commanding. CLARK is the better
student, but Davis is a genius. Clark
is a Kitchen knife whetted on a brick
bat,' but Davis is the Damascus blade,
as keen and az cunning as the cimetar
of Saladin. Clark is the mountain
torrent; Davis the meadow brook.
Clark jams an argument through an
audience; Davis ~persuades his way.
81 recall the first time l ever heard
of Champ Clark. He had made a
stump speech In one of the northern
tier of counties, and q friend Of mine,
a Republican, like myself, heard him.
Clark was then a very young man,
and never a springtime gave promise
of a more bounteous autumn. He
fairly carried my friend off his feet.
Hon. Harvey Watterson was one day
telling Felix Grundy of great speech
he had heard Jo Holt deliver. sDid
he make the dobbing stick; that is, do
you remember a point he nader
asked the veteran lawyer, rival OF
Henry Clay. That is the test of a
speech, and / determined to ascertain
If Clark could make the sdobbing
STICK and the first chance I had /
went to hear Clark speak. He made
the 'dobbing stick for he made me as
mad as a wet hen and as miserable as
a wet rat. And that is what he did
for every Republican in the crowd.
He did not convince me, but l shall
always remember his points.
"Well, some years ago a friend told
me of a marvellous speech he had
heard Web Davis deliver the day
before. He was enthusiastic, extrava-
CANT, in his praise, asseverating that
Davis was the greatest orator living.
1 am always suspicious of your orator,
your sky-scraper, your word-monger,
your declaimer. He Is apt to shoot
over your head. When I was a boy
Ole Bull made a tour of this country,
giving concerts. One day a plain
Missouri farmer paid a dollar to hear
him, and when the show was nearly
over and Bull Was in the middle Of a
solo that would have chanted all Ger
many from the bridge that Trojan
built to the town that Spinola
destroyed, our old granger in a fit Of
petulence blurted out, Il guess the
Dutchman is a good fiddler, but why
in the hell don't he quit his tuning
and give us some music?' I feared
that Web Davis was too much given
to tuning I determined to hear him.
I did hear him, and I found that while
ne could tune with the best OF them,
he could give us music with the best
of them.
"Both Clark and Davis are both fine
looking men. Davis is the handsomest
man I ever saw. Clark is as blonde
as any Saxon that eve robbed a
Britain, and Davis as smart as any
Norman that ever robbed a Saxon.
Davis is the. genius and Clark the
student, and Clark is the man of
moods, and Davis is uniformly de-
bonair. Clark is forty-seven and
Davis is thirty-five. 1 only hope
Davis will read as many books the
next twelve years as Clark has the
past twelve years. He cannot digest
them better.
eyes, Stree, Missouri Is going to
furnish both sides with a leader before
the close of the century. That Is
something no other state ever cid.
Evans was FROM Maine, McDnfiie was
from South Carolina, Thad Stevens was
from Pennsylvania and Vallandigham
from Ohio. Blaine was from Maine
and Ben Hill from Georgia. Garfield
was from Ohio and John G.. Carlisle
from Kentucky. Randall was from
Pennsylvania and Tom Reed from
Maine, and Dingley is from Maine and
Bailey is from Texas. Missouri lie che
first state that win furnish both the
majority and the minority with lend
ers-Champ CLARK, the Democrat, and
Webster Davis, the Republican"
Lost, on Monday evening, between
Jas. Henderson's and Mexico, Q black
cape trimmed with hercules braid.
VIII finder leave same at LEDGER