Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-06-15

Mr.. Reed had particular aversion |
to the Hon William NJ. Springer of |
Illinois. One day in some controversy |
with Springer, when Springer was
chairman of the ways and means com
mittee, he said, 81 declare with Henry |
Clay that [ would rather be right than |
president, whereupon Reed drawled /
out, ''There is no sort of danger Of
your ever being either "
House FiIibusterS
Constantine BucEiey Kilgores of Tex
as was one of the most persistent and /
successful flibusters in the Fifty-frst |
congress and gave Reed great deal Of |
trouble. Nevertheless personally they I
were warm friends and joked each I
other great deal The motion to adopt /
the journal of the previous day was +
Kilgore's golden opportunity to fill |
buster. One morning. after an unusn-
ally prolonged tussle on that motion, |
Reed met the Texan in the speaker |
lobby, went up to him and said, Kill /
gore, why in the devil didn't you fiji |
buster against the ehaplain's prayer? p |
Judge Rodgers of Arkansas, now on I
the federal bench. was also an expert I
in flibustering. One morning, when /
Kilgore was kept from the house by |
business in the departments, Rodgers
precipitated a long wrangle on the mo- 7
ton to adopt the journal. When Kill
gore arrived at the house. about 8 or 4 I
O'Clock, he went up to the speaker 5 I
stand and asked Reed how they had /
been getting along without him, where
upon the man from Maine replied +
''By the help of God and Rodgers of
Arkansas we managed TO adopt the I
journal in three hours. If you had been
here to e-enforce them. we would
probably not have adopted it before
sundown.
Reed and Harrison.
There is no love lost between Reed
and Harrison. They speak as they pass
by. but that's about all the ccmmuni- /
tion they hold with each other 1t is I
utterly impossible that there should be
any kindred feeling between two such I
men. Harrison is cold as .Greenland' s
icy mountains, always on his p $ and
as and plumes himself immensely on
his blue blood Reed is hot blooded fer +
a New Englander, careless of the minor /
details of ceremonials. self made man,
who worships his Maker
Along IN the sultry days of August. |
1894, when any tariff legislation seem
ed hopeless and when the Democratic /
party resembled dissolying view more
than anything else, Reed came to where !
several free traders were sitting and |
began chatting them numerically about !
the condition of affairs After awhile |
some one said, Mr. Reed, how do you
like the last Republican presidential /
ticket got up by the newspapers n He |
lazily asked, 'sWhat is ii % His friend /
replied, ''Bob Lincoln and Fred
Grant " ''Oh, the deueep" he blurted
out. ''If they would only add Baby
Mckee to it, the thing would be per-
feet = And away he went. like great
three decker in surging sea.
In the greenback year in Maine he
escaped defeat by only 115 majority
When he went to supper, he thought
headquarters after supper, his follow
ers set up a mighty shout, Not having
heard of his election. be said to them
'.You are making tremendous fuss
over the corpse. In relating that iLci
dent in his life he naively remarks, /
1.-The country came near losing the in
valuable services of a great statesman
on that occasion
AHabfe In Private Life.
In private Mr.. Reed is affable and
Jolly. When was introduced to him,
for loss of something better to say
I remarked, ''Mr Reed l have FREE
uuently mentioned you in my speeches .
eyes, no doubt. be drawled, while he
regarded me quizzically out Of the cor
ner of his eye. "But how %
When Colonel Bob White, editor of
the Mexico Mo. Ledger. was in Wash
ington, took several of the big guns
out into the corridor to introduce them. |
l told Mr. Reed that / had a Demo- |
cratic editor out there whom / wished /
him to meet Looking at me intently, /
while smile played over his eounte
nance, he said. "Will you vouch for his |
good moral character as a Democrat9''
vouched and Bob enjoyed short |
dialogue with the gentleman from
Maine.
Once in awhile it happens that a well |
directed shot in congress not only Places |
the victim hors du combat temporarily, |
but knocks him ont politically for all /
time.
In the Fiftieth congress there was
lightweight representative from Ohio |
who wanted to impress his constituents
with the idea that he was constant in /
his attendance at all the sessions of the |
house, but also desired to spend most of |
his time down town sampling the pleas |
ures Of .'the finest capital in the !
world. So ne devised the following |
ingenious plan for accomplishing his
two somewhat incongruous purposes. |
or to kill two birds with one stone: As |
soon as business began of morning he
would interrupt the member who had |
the floor and. rising to question of in. |
formation. would inquire of the speak
er what bill was under discussion. Be /
ing informed and having thus got him
self into The Record for that day, so he /
JOdita SSlld A1dAhS0 SVpfCc tHCACCA ~ MS
admiring friends at home. he would I
hasten to participate in the revelries of
the city. This performance he repeated /
diurnally until il came to be a standing /
joke and perpetual bore. Like Major |
Joe Bagstock. che was sly. sir, devilish
slyl" But, like most sly people. he
finally overdid it and came to grief.
Mr.. Reed has no patience with fools,
and detests shams most heartily. One I
morning he was addressing the house
when in came the Ohio man aforesaid, /
prancing down the big aisle and asked I
the speaker his usual matutinal ques-
tion. Reed did not wait for the speaker
to respond. but answered it himself /
The Ohio statesman started ont. when
Mr.. Reed drawled. Now, Mr.. Speaker
having imbedded that fly in the amber
of my eloquence, viii proceed. /"
Somehow the tale reached Ohio. and !
when the member came mp for renonii-
nation an old delegate from the rural /
districts. who knew more about tobacco
than about the dictionary, addressed
the chairman of the convention in these
sensible but deadly words. Mr.. Chair
man, we don't want any man TO repre-