Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1899-09-07

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'Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark
Bay deep mouthed welcome as he draws near
home.
| doubt if a neater bit of rcpartee or
more fitting quotation ever got into
The Congressional Record
Time and again | have seen the
house in such an unruly and obstreper-
GUS frame Of mind that t would listen
to nobody with any sort of patience or
decofum.
Once when Democratic leader Of IL
years service undertook to quote the
wise but familiar words Of Lincoln,
You can fool part of the people all the
time, you can fool all the people -rt
OF the time, but you can fool al the
people all Of the time divers and
sundry members forgetting their own
dignity and what was due the illus
trious statesman, unceremoniouslY and
voeiferously shouted, Rats Rats
Rats very much to his vexation and
humiliation. The truth is that some
times they seem teenjoy worrying each
other above all things else.
Lemuel Eli Quigg of New York city,
who came into congress at a special
election to succeed that brilliant orator,
successful soldier and scintillating bon
vivant. Colonel John r. Fellows, was a
very frequent speaker He was a young
newspaper man Of admirable parts and
decidedly long on gall
His special hobby was to larrup the
Cleveland admins tration and everybody
connected with it. Personally he is a
genial gentleman, but politically he is
one of the most bitter partisans since
old Thad Stevens shuffied off this NOR
tai coil
After he had worn his welcome quite
threadbare he was up one day inveigh-
ing against Democrats in general and
the Democratic majority in the house
in particular. Among many things that
he intended to be especially severe he,
unfortunately for himself, said, "This
is a day of small things and of small
men. The reception which this remark
met with must have astounded him be-
yond measure Before the words were
fairly out Uf his llouth one quick wit
ted member yelled. Eyes. that sou
Another beloved You hit the bulls
eye that crael-i@ The Democrats
''caught on in family and turned
Quigg's sarcasm against himself by
laughing loudly and long and thump-
ing their desks till it 3emed that PAN
demonium had broken loose for keeps,
many Republicans joining in the mer-
riment. But Lemuel still survives and
rose to be one of the leading members
of the committee on foreign affairs
Hot Tempered Member.
shall believe to my dying day that
Hon. Joseph Fl. Walker of Massachu-
setts was the worst tempered man who
has served in recent congresses, which
is saying a good deal By the way, he
is not in the house elected last fall He
is a man Of wealth, learning and capac-
ity and in private circles is said to be
quite companionable, but buzzsaw
revolving under full head of steam is
not circumstance to him when he has
his war paint on-his normal condition
Evidently he has never read Solomon s
saying, "A soft answer turneth away
wrath. for he never gives one. All his
answers Were hard as flint, sharp as
razor and het as cayenne pepper His
self confidence is uAbounded, and he
would have no hesitancy III contradict
ing the seven wise men of Greece all at
once. His ideas Of politeness are nil
Manifestly he had taken few lessons out
of the famous book of Philip Dormer
Stanhope. earl of Chesterfield.
One day after | had served about
three months in congress he was max
ing furious tariff speech. Among 9TH
er fallacies he argued that the farmers
ought to thank God daily and fervently
for high protective tariff as heavens
greatest boon to them. beeause it had
so stimulated New England industry
that the reaper mower. self binder and
other laboz saving farm machinery had
bsen invented and had made agricul
ture merely a pleasant recreation.
Without any qualification he gave the
high protective tariff all the glory.
In the full tide of his oratory l inter
rupted him to ask, rs it not true that
the first reaper was invented during the
Walker free trade tariff BY Cyrus Nc
Cormick, VirgiRiaA1
Not being abe TO answer it truthful
ly without knocking the speech he was
delivering into s1nithereens, he got mad
and bawletl at the top of his voice,
What do you knew about it anyway -
OF course everybody roared at my
expense,
William j. Bryan was one of the
Feadiest and most eloquent men who
ever served in the congress of the Unit
ed States, and yet l saw this same Jo-
seph Fl. Walker come near knocking
Bryan clear out bY an Ill natured but
ingenious QUESTION 1t happened in this
wise: Along in February. 1885 Bryan
was delivering his great speech against
the Carlisle bill. the greatest speech in
my Judgment, shat he ever delivered.
Few stronger or more impassioned
speeches have ever been delivered in
that historic hal During its progress
Bryan sent to the clerk $ desk to be
read the stock quotation from Shyleck
about the pound of flesh. AS soon as
the reading concluded Walker sang cut
in his most rasping voice. e'Who wrote
that?" The question: was 50 ridiculous
that the house Toared for five minutes.
Tive CT three, times Bryan tried to start
Sns hnt he. conldn't be heard for the
laughter. At last when the members
had exhausted themselves in cachinna
tieA he proceeded to give the admins.
Hation lamhasting which sent shiv-
en- up aud down the spinal column Of
every golebug in the land.
Hon. George p Wise of Virginia
was the most irascihAe of men, but he
was splendid gentleman, with heart
IS tender ~ a little child's. He was one
Of my best friends He had in charge
the famous revenue cutter bill One
day had to kill time for "a minutes 10
keep it from being voted OA. ] had the
right to talk about anything pleased,
and talked about several Among 9TH
er things, I pounded shat monumental
fraud. civil service reform few mo-
ments. / gave samples Of the idiotic
questions which they had IN their ex-
Nnainations. Inter ala. said the com
mission asked glass of applicants for
positions IN the railway mail service
how far it is from the earth to the sun,
and that one man answered, II don t
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