Arizona republican., 1898-02-14

like 1t. Colonel WattersOn has been
 here three days and hasn't eaten a
 bite or taken a drink except in MT.
 Halstead's company, and vice versa.
 The first thing I do when the colonel
 registers is to telegraph over to the Commercial Gazette office for MT Hal
 stead. If he isn't there his managing
 editor sends runners out to find him."
 Deacon" Richard Smith, who had
 been superintendent of the Cincin-
 nati chamber of commerce, and was
 editor and proprietor of the Gazette
 before it's consolidation with the Com
 mercial, was one of coterie of five
 influential fossils who f1ocked togeth-
 CT and apart in the St. Nicholas hotel.
 If there was anything each hated to do
 it was to treat at the bar, and along
 in the afternoon-every afternoon-it
 was fine comedy to see the old chaps
 trying to dodge one another and sneak
 in for wee nipple. The deacon"
 would creep into the corridor, slyly
 glance around, see the coast clear and
 cautiously peer through the bar ooom
 door. If one of the coterie happened
 to be there ahead of him he would
 slip noiselessly out, to return again
 in quarter of an hour to get his soli-
 tary drink. Then they would all meet
 at dinner, throw out their chests,
 stroke their chins and wait on each
 others liberality for several minutes,
 till the occasion became frost. Fin
 ally one would venture: Well, gen
 tlemen, isn't it about time we all took
 drink?" Each knew the other had
 had a dozen or more, but there never
 was an insinuation of the fact.
 d116o of
 fence, is Edward Oliver Wolcott, who
 is said to possess seventy-five suits of clothes; and he never wears a pair of trousers more than three times His clothes are always of the most fash ionable cut, and it is even alleged that he changes his costume two or three times during a long days ses- sion at the capitol, keeping a small wardrobe in his committee room for that purpose. Allison, McMillan, Cor man and Wetmore are all of them we'll dressed men. Cockrell is the worst dressed senator; it has been said of him that his trousers bag at the ank- les
 The best dressed man in the house IS, beyond question, Harry Bingham. Who carries the republican party of Philadelphia in the palm of his hand. Though 57 years old, and with a rec ord of service in ten congresses, he has all the air and activity of a youth ful beau. The look of having just come out of band box is with him at all times. His nearest rival is a Cincinnati member, Jacob H. Brom- well, who taught in the high schools Of that city for seventeen years be- fore his constituency decided that he would find wider field for pedagogy in congress.
 | lie trouble about Cromwell is that 1 ne Is almost painfully well dressed. ] There IS an obvious effort in his get up which is absent from the perfect and gents furnishing exhibit | of MT. Bingham. Bromwell's neck ! tles are perhaps too rich red and his | collars trife too exalted. However, | 1t IS possible that this may be a mere | lack of education in taste on the part l or the writer. It may be declared i without any reserve, that the worst | dressed man in the house is Romulus Linney of North Carolina. For some reason, interesting as a subject of psychological inquiry, he appears n a very much dressed up condition on rare occasions, but that the phe- 1menon is purely spasmodic. and inn nediately he relapses into his accus- omed disorderly aspect CustomariIy ae looks as if he had on his wedding suit of forty years earlier-shiny and outtoned awry. Nevertheless he is a brilliant orator, in the old time f1orid style, impetuous and earnest.
 speaking or oratory, it is surprising o find that there are no great ora ors in the house of representatives oday. Such orators as there are sit lmong the republicans, and the only hree of any note as such are all of hem Iowa men, oddly enough. There s Henderson of Iowa, fervid and inn 'resslve; Deliver of Iowa, smooth md mellif1uous, and Cousins of Iowa vho has a fine voice and prepares his peaches carefully. All three are elo- uent men, and Deliver is a wit of the irst water
 On the democratic side no man is to 'e considered seriously as an orator. lnless Bailey may be so termed, which, in strict sense, is doubtful. The republicans have a rising man in 1oody, from the old Essex district of massachusetts,, but among the leaders If the house at present there is re- narkably little oratoriacl ability. )ingley is a poor speaker; Cannon is cry bad, and Hit seems to have lost lls grip. Dalzell of Pennsylvania is ;
 good talker and debater, though his elivery is somewhat marred by a buzz , aw Pittsburg accent. Private John Allen of Tupelo, Miss, the accepted 7it among the democrats, is somewhat ( f clown. He tells funny stories at IS own expense and has little other equation, though a really able man. Deliver, on the other side, is his qual, though more reserved. John on of Indiana is the fastest talker of he house. and at times the official have time in keeping ace with him.
 At the senate end of the capitol, rye and Wolcott are the best ora ors. Wolcott is the wittiest man in he upper house, and is always sure If attention when he talks. Aldrich if Rhode Island is the most expert de- )ater Stewart of the SiIvar ion ono