The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1897-08-27
HON. JOHN WESLEY GAINES.


a late number of the Washington
Post contains the following mean
ingfuI paragraphs:
CDR. William White of Nashville.
Tenn, was seen at the Shoreham last
evening, with Congressman John Yves
lev Gaines.
"You can say in the Post" said the
former, "that Mr.. Gaines course i'm Con-
gresS and general record has the cordial
Endorsement of his constituents, and
that he will he rejected in 1898 without
any difficulty"
While the doctors words are clear,
unequivocal, positive, dogmatic,
even ebullient, enthusiastic, intense
and intolerant, they do not halfway
represent the true feelings of Con-
gresham Gaines constituents when
they are discussing and FLOATING
over his record, IN his presence, at
the ShOreham. Be it remembered
that the Shoreham is X-Vice-Presi-
Gent Morton's famous resort. 1t is
a magnificently appointed retreat.
Real plate-glass mirrors from
France; cut-glass ware from the
same place; mahogany furniture
from South America-not meanly
veneered, but honestly solid-wdl-
nut through and through; rich gar
nishings, tapestries worth principali-
ties, carvings that are dreams, pic
lures that walk out and away from
the canvas to follow you about the
hOuse-cuspidOrs of rarest blue delft.
That is the Shoreham, but only
part of it. There are no hy-specked
crackers, skipperful cheese, sickly
green olives or sugar besprent pop
corn on the counter, and there are
no soiled towels hanging under it.
They order things better at the
ShOreham. You don't line up
around the counter like negroes
about barbecue pit. Not at the
Shoreham. You sit down at table
with your Congressman. He asks
you what you will have, and he
orders. When the servitor departs
he is called back and something is
whispered to him. You know then
that your congressman is "on." You
can contemplate him while waiting
impatiently. Finally it comes.
There is napkin with each glass of
water, and there are other touches
of high life. What is next to the
water is the piece de resistance.
Aged" to a turn; colored with
prunce.juice and charcoal, until gold
looks shoddy in comparison. And,
man alive! the bead" that is on it!
Crowns of jubilation! Coronets of
joy! Globules of glory! Diamonds
sublimated! the aroma tickles the
senses until they swoon. With sim
ulated nOnchalance you invert the
glass and let the INDECENT liquid de
part on its journey. 1t is not u liquid,
exactly, but a succession of large
contiguous drops of rapture-an ar
ticulated confederation of sump-
tuary beatitudes. Your congress-
man is a lawyer, and as soon as a
precedent is established, he respects
it and so do you. He desires to
strengthen it with repeated indorse-
ments, and so do you. About the
steenth time you half close your eyes
in raptureful bliss, the strong points
in your congressman appear to stand
out as large as promontOries and you
wonder why you never have noticed
| them before. Your soul is converted
| luJD ulNSJlCdi llOOllIS uJ, Unt lIGt
of feeding is shaken violently, and
all the sleeping larks and mock birds
are aroused and set to singing in
your heart.
All this at the Shoreham. When
to this is added congressman who
is interesting at all times, who is
scholarly, eloquent, gracious, enter
tanning, and whose rudder pockets
are made to hold quarts; a man who
could make the desert of Sahara
seem garden Of Gul, a forest soli-
tude seem State convention and a
cross roads hollow seem an Olymp-
ian summit, with himself as the
great Jove, one can fancy how weak
are words when trying to sound Con-
gresham Gaines virtues at the
Shoreham. We agree with DR..
White. We would have liked to
have been present at the Shoreham
to add our testimony. We would
have prolonged our vigil in honor of
Congressman Gaines, and in defiance
of the succeeding terrors of that Oh
what a difference in the morning
feeling-the shadow of the katzen-
TANNER that falls ominously on the
most brilliant feast. Gaines re-elect-
ed? We should smile, a long, deep,
gurgling smile, at the Shoreham.