The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-11-25
A FADED BOUQUET.
CONGREGATIONAL Flowers Doomed to
Wilt Away Unseen.
Memphis Anpeaf.


The recent election has removed from pub-
lie view bouquet Of faded flowers for
which the country ought 10 be thankful.
There is James Hamilton LEWIS. who
roamei over the state OF Washington
district congressman de ture. a congress
man at large de facto. James Hamilton
Lewis, during a period OF mad political
revelry was elected ana sent 10 the capital
and after MS return home his constituents
were welded 10 the Momus-rnask thar
some Of them seriously talked Of electins
HIN 20 the United States senate. Reason
returned. and
James Hamilton Lewis has fallen.
Lemuei Eli Quigg. OF New York. rose
suddenly above that horizon and going
Tom Hoods fair Inez'' one better dag
zled the whole country before and after
the sun went down. Lem was hga-class
heeler with icw-elass instincts. He was
Tom Platt's first lieutenant. He performed
all the dirty work for his boss. He was
about as much at home In congress as a
pugilist would be in monastery. He was
a power in the land. disgrace 10 the land.
and
Lemuel Eli Quigg has fallen.
Jerry Simpson. Of Medicine Lodge. Kan.
Is a sharp, shrewd. INSCRIPTIONS oppor-
tunist He is a man of considerable at
tainments and be is no. without polish.
He was a Populist for what there was in
II. and he preyed upon the prejudices Of
his hirsute constituents with fendiSa
wantonness. The stories about Jerry wear
ing no socks Were for home consumption.
His Endorsement OF Populist.c vagayies was
a matter Of business. He believed in none
of these wiid-eyed movements. and very
little in anything else save the gull!blity
of the Kansas voter. He was q political
confidence man, who played his little part
on the stage OF l.fe, and
Jerry Simpson has fallen.
Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany gave
the people Of Buffalo a Rowland FOR their
Blennerhassett for one term in congress.
and for only one term. Rowland Blenner-
hassett Mahany-it used 70 be Mahoney-
was no worse than many another man who
has broken into congress. He was very
badly handicapped by his name. People look
upon congress as a national law-making
body--a serious businessmen no one can
be serious in contemplating the name OF
Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany Each
proglottid in the combination excited de-
rision, and there is no place in congress for
it. II is TOO suggestive OF a circus clown in
church. One term in congress was all the
Buffalonians could stand, and
Rowland Blennerhassett Mahany has
fallen.
Edward Sauerherring, of Wisconsin. a
man Of some ability and OF modest de-
meanor, has also suffered because OF the
glory and the nothing Of name No
one can keep a straight face while con-
templating the name of Saucrherring or
While associatng il with the craftsmanship
OF q committee or the maker of "A mott N.
You may break you may shatter the vase
as YOU may: the scent of SaueTherrng has
come here TO stay. He is a victim of a
cruel and murderous patronymic, and
Edward Sauerherrng has fallen.
out where the buffalo and the noble red
man lived on terms of intimacy until with
In a short tine-out in the Vastly West far
from where the mighty Missouri rolls
boundless and free-west, where tornadoes
twist human nature into all sorts OF freaks
dwels Windy Bill Alien. BY an inscrutable
caprice OF fortune, Windy Bill broke Into
the senate. His megaphone mouth sounded
like a fog horn. Il was set on a hair trig
ger and was ready to go off with a speech
at any hour of the day or night. His pres
ence in the United States senate reminded
calf, a four-egged man or some abnormal
ity existing in open defiance Of the laws of
nature. No officer with a warrant for his
arrest would ever think of finding him out
side Of his home pasture. He was Cave
of-the-Wi in breeches, but his people
tired Of him and retired him, and
Windy Bill Allen has fallen.
This bouquet of carrots, stink-weed and
cabbage-heads has been removed from the
ndtional conservatory and dissipatod
throughout the country, where It's consttu-
ent elements will be lost forever more Lit
us hope that the end is not yet. There are
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