The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1899-04-29
A WASHINGTON OPINION ON JNO.
Nj. ALLEN.

Nj. ALLEN.
In Washington today there Is
not a representative man, not
holding office and who Is not pol
itician, more versed and capable
of judging merits and demerits
of our public servants from an
outside source than the noted at
torney, &. II. Armes. In the
course of a business letter to
Bay St. LOUIS gentleman, Mr..
Armes writes the following IN re-
CARDS to Congressman John NJ.
Allen, candidate for the Senate,
which The Echo has been privi-
legged to print, viz:
| want to say a word concern
ing one of the Mississippi candi-
dates for tho L. S. Senate, not
that he needs any certificate of
merit from lie or from anybody
else, but my appreciation of his
high character and my admiration
of his unusual ability and etficien-
cy as a representative are sutfi-
cient to induce me to work for his
election, unsolicited, and il will
be source of no little pleasure for
me if | can add even so much as
the weight of a feather. in bring
inc to the National Senate such a
man as "Private" John Allen.
He has not been the most noisy
man in the House, nor the man
most frequently in evidence, but
what he has said and done, has
counted.
You gentlemen who reside in
the States compare your citizens
with each other, and pick out a
man for representative: but we,
in Washington, see these repre-
Sentatives in comparison with the
representatives of the whole ma
ton assembled in Congress, and it
often turns out that man who
may appear very big at home is
very little in a body of Congress-
men. He may talk loud and Oft
en- for a while after he comes here,
but if the real metal is not in hIm
| he is seldom listened to IN the halls
| of Congress, no matter how loud
| his voice, and he has no influence,
and he soon drops wholly out Of
sight.
Is that the case with John Allen?
| What in the House commands
more attention when he speaks?
| What man has ever been there
| who was more effective in priching
! bubbles of sham than he Is? Who
! has more influence today in either
| branch of Congress in the einterest
of his State than he? There are
men in the House who cannot
even secure recognition from the
chair; but when did John Allen
rise from his seat to address the
House and fail to catch the eye Of
the presiding officer? He not only
| has the respect that secures him
recognition, but he is listened to;
ana it is known in advance that
| he will say something that Is
worthy of a Congressman, or they
would not listen to him. 1t is al
ways so in Congress. Men drop
out of hearing in the House when
they are not worth hearing. But
when men have been thus meas
ured side by side in the House
and have developed superior tim
Der, the States have never made a
| mistake by sending them to the
| Senate. 1t was so with Mississip-
| pi when they sent Lamar, and it
has invariably been so in other
instances. Occasionally money
and sharp practice get man into
the Senate, but the old fashioned
way was to send a man who bad
demonstrated his worth by his
works. The record of John Allen
in the House, as man of the
people is, to my mind, guarantee
that he would be an effective
worker in the Senate in the inter-
est of the people. He has demon
strated that he is of superior
weight and mettle among repreSen-
tative men of the Nation, and can
be of great service to his State.
| write this wholly unsolicited, and
II hope Mr.. ALLEN will come to
the Senate.