The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1900-05-02
CHIMP CLARK 5 LETTER
Congressman Grosvenor
Talked Too Much.
FATAL GIFT OF SARCASM.

Poking Fun at the Beers May
Prove Costly Amusement.
IN MELANCHOLY NOVEMBER DAYS.
Senator Hoar Sends Cold Chi1is Down
the Spines of the JinGoes-P.edict-
ed Downfall of Republican Party.
Quotes Some 1sIlIustrious Traitors"
Defines Powers of Congress Under
the Constitution.
Especial Washington Letter.
The signs Of the times indicate that
General Charles Henry Grosvenor Of
Ohio, who is generally supposed to
speak for the McHanna administration
on the floor Of the. house, made great
mistake when he delivered q speech
pokins fun at the friends Of the Beers.
AS a piece Of sarcasm the speech was
a rare success, but the venerable
statesman from Athens has lived
in vain almost to the psalmists
allotment Of threescore years and
ten if he has not yet learned
that sarcasm is a fatal gift-as fatal
to man as beauty is said to be to
woman. The Republican warhorse
reyeled in sarcasm that day. Every
body enjoyed the artistic manner in
which he performed, but subsequent
events seem TO demonstrate that The
American woods are full Of sympa-
thizers, and the general and his chief
are liable to regret that speech once,
and only once, which will be as long
as they live.
In the days to cone-the melancholy
days of November-when the Repub-
lican chieftains are quarreling among
themselves as to who defeated William
Mckinley for a second term, if Gener:
al Grosyenor does not keep his optic
peeled, his confreres will saddle the
whole responsibility on to him. He
will find that, like the parrot whose
neck was twisted nearly out of joint
by his irate master, "he talked too
much
Joseph Weldon Bailey has already
won his fight for Texas United States
senatorship, his rival, Hon. Horace
Chiffon, having withdrawn from the
contest. repeat here and now delib-
erately what said some time ago-that
within two years from the DAY that
Bailey is sworn in as member OF the
less numerous branch Of the national
legislature he will be recognized as the
foremost debater in the senate. He is
now headed for the field of his glory.
God speed the lion hearted young
statesman in the great career which is
opening before him. Of course We re-
gret that be leaves the-house. My own
feeling toward him, is not so much ad-
miration as deep personal affection or,
more properly speaking, mixture OF
the two. He is nan to trust and
love. l am not disparaging Senator
Chiffon. He is able, capable, cour-
ageous, honest. but Bailey is ny close
personal friend l have helped him
fight many battles, and to men who
fight side by side in the house there
comes feeling akin to that which
comrades in arms entertain for each
other,
senator Hosr's Great Speech.
Senator George Frisbie Hoar of Mas
sachusetts. successor to Charles Sum-
ner, delivered q speech in the senate
recently which must have made the
cold chills chase each other up and
down the spinal columns of the Philip
pine jingoes. Truly he laid on and
spared not. He smote them hip and
thigh. He broke them on the wheel,
drew and quartered them. roasted
them on redhot Goals. gibbeted them
before high heaven, brayed them in
mortar, stretched them on the rack,
whipped them at the carts tail and
otherwise despitefully used them. 1t
was most remarkable speech-re-
markable in many ways and for many
things-remarkable for it's fire. for its
historic learning. for its legal lore, for
its eloquence, for its personalities and
for its length He-wa three hours in
delivering it. II he had actually spo-
ken every word he printed. it would
have consumed five or six hours ID ITS
delivery. BY reason of its great length
no one paper will ever print all OF 1t.
and for the same reason it will not be
generally circulated in pamphlet form,
as that would be too expensive, for
be it remembered that congressional
speeches are not printed free and in
quantities, as most people
seem to think, but are paid for in very
hard cash by the author or by some
body else. This great speech by Sen
ator Ho.r-for q great speech it IS be-
yond al cavil-win cost somewhere
from $50 to S25 per thousand But 1t
is too good campaign document for
tho Democrats to be lost. Consequent