Mexico weekly ledger., 1898-12-01

Sth Of November. Those who are poking
fun at QuiRg now are premature End
may live to rue H. for he is young.
smart plucky. ambitious and most
probably will tiss again, There is no
man Amy acquaintance fonder Of a
Ehindy Saan LamueL he will probably
re-anter the newspaper business and
from that coign Of vantage viii even up
things with those who now despitefully
use him.
Quigg improved greatly whils in con
gress. Upon his first appearances be was
decidedly ''toppy." but he gradually
settled down to 3 slower but safer gait
and was climbing mp at . healthy rate
being, IL I remember correctly third
on the great committee on foreign af-
faira Naturally q bright man, BY prac-
tice both a ready speaker and q reader
writer, Lamuel Eli Quigg will be amply
able 20 take care Of himself wherever he
may land. and will be heard from again
in politics-of which he appears 10 be
enamored His defeat may prove 10 him
a blessing in disguise, for, after all
journalism Is better than politics. and q
great editor more to DO envied than a
great congressman. In the journalistic
field all m Quigg's congressional ccm-
panions will probably wish him the
highest success / know that ! do from
the bottom Of my heart
James Hamiiton Lewis.
Shortly after the beginning Of the
extra session Of the Fifty fifth congress
M morning there entered q bright
manly vision. like a bright exhalation
Of the morning. He attracted universal
attention IN the ioor and the galleries,
and has been attracting ii ever since.
BE will continue to attract attention so
long q he lives-this rare and radiant
statesman from Puget sound-James
Hamilton Lewis. Everything about him
il peculiar, unique, bizarre, brilliant
his personal appearance, bis raiment.
his mind. He was not only a surprise,
but a pleasure. Those who assumed
that he was a dude-merely that and
nothing more-because he devoted
much attention TO his toilet and attacked
linn on that theory were soon unde-
oeived, for he soon demonstrated that il
be wore a velvet glove it concealed a fist
Of steel; II he had the manners Of a
Chesterfield, he had the courage Of a
lion; II he INDUCED in words Of six syl-
tables, as Amos }. Cummings alleged,
he made them cut like q Damascus
blade; IL he had an abundance Of au-
burn hair and a superabundance Of III
tinnesque whiskers-parting both hair
and whiskers in the middie-he carried
around in his pate a wondrous quantity
and a b~ewildering assortment of knowl-
edge. which he was On adept in using
to the best advantage; is he wore gold
s~pectacles, be could see rs far into a
grindstone as anybody, and IL be woro
white spAts he could kick a hole-deep
as a we'll and wide as q barn door-in
the most i~ngeniously constructed piece
Of sophistry ever constructed.
The career Of this young man out Of
the west is typical Of our national life
A stevedore--proud of the faot-a law
yer Of eminence, a congressman, q lieu
tenant colonel in the national guard,
having received II votes for vice presi-
dent in 1895 at Chicago, and having
served with the rank Of mister on a
generals staff during the Spanish war,
he Is still in the prime Of life-the vigor
Of youth. I'll warrant the fact TO be
that be is in no way diHmayed by de-
feat, and that he is already m~editating |
new conquests. Restless as q disem-
bodied spirit, energetic as the law Of
gravitation, ambitious rs Julius Cesar,
be will rise again and not only rise, but
soar to new heights.
n Industrious Shoemaker.
Joseph Henry Walker, variously
named ''the Sage Of Worcester, " ''the
Gray Eagle Of the Quinsigamond, " and
"the Illustrious Shoemaker" would
have been immortal II such a painter Of
animated nature as Charles Dickens had
ever olapped his ayeB upon him. I once
declared in print shat he was the worst
tempered man l ever knew, and, while
I am not inclined 70 retract that opin-
ion ! am prepared TO say that be has
many engaging and admirable qualities
and Notwithstanding the fact that in
politics he and / are as widely apart as
the poles / am glad 20 rank him among
my personal friends. His irritable and
gunpowderish temper leads him into
saying many III natured, biting and ex-
trayagant things. In debate he is like a
buzzsaw or q porcupine. But LET IL be
said to Brother Walkers credit that II
he gives hard blows with alacrity be re-
oeives them with good grace-which is
more than can be truly said Of many of
the scrappers of the house, an arena In
which the capacity for enduring punish
ment is as important and as rare as In
the prize ring, rarer II not more impor-
tant than the power Of indioting punish
ment. Personally have come gradually
to entertain only the kindest feelings TO-
ward the fallen statesman. His fall is
one Of the o~uriozties of politics. In
1895 he was elected for the ifth time BY
II, 900 majority. This time he is snow
ed under. Nothing in elections that I
know Of more thoroughly demonstrates
the Inconsistency of fortune--the unoer-
tainty Of human affairs.
Mr.. Walker Is about 90 years Of age,
with brain intact, hair as white as snow
and wonderfully preserved. A Baptist
In religion, a radical Republican in poll
tics, q multimillionaire shoe manufac-
turer in business, an author Of consider
able repute, be appeared destined for a
long career and to die with harness on
his back, but II was written otherwise
BY the finger of fate and he goes the
way Of all flesh.
He performed one capez in congress
- this septuagenarian Yankee
which, II he had been a southerner or
w~esterner, would have been talked about
Tor years by the Pecksnifian editors Of
The east as a sample Of bad plantation
nannerA" One awfully hot day during
ihe Ffty-frst or Fifty-seoond congress.
10 the story runs, for have Il by hearsay
lit was before my congressional expert
nee began-he was making an extended
Ipeech, and the weather being oppressive
10 pulled of his coat and proceeded in his
Ihirt sleeves to emulate Demosthenes,
cicero. Mirabeau. Charles James Fox I,