The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-01-07

publican bird has plumed it's wings and
scared aloft and taken a view of this little
world, and then lit, with one foot on the
Asiatc shore, the other on the golden
walls of California; has Topped its tail
in the Arctic ocean and pecked Fllipino5
off of the Island of Luzon.'
"Mr. Chairman, bird with such stride
must split somewhere or lose it's footing
on the one snore or the other My genial
friend, for l esteem him highly, is not GER
tain where he is at, has been, Or whittier
he is going, and he answers queries like a
man at the County Court starting to leave.
He brdled his horse and put on the saddle.
He put the saddle on hind part before. A
bystander said Mister. you've got that
saddle on wrong end foremost He looked
at the medder and said to him. How do
you know which way I'm going?"
Mr.. Otey wes the only speaker whose
poetry was original. He dropped into verse
as follows:
My country It's of thee,
Land of plutocracy,
OF thee I moan.
He made up for this by liberal quota
ton, such as this epitaph for the Fifty
sixth Congress:
Here lies old Thirty-three per cent
The more he got the more he lent;
The more he lent the more he craved
God Lord, can such soul be saved?
Dragging Napoleon into the discussion
in somewhat unexpected manner, Mr..
Otey thus described him:
A desolator desolate
victor overthrown
The arbiter Of others fate,
A suppliant for his own
The following was also aimed at Ma
poleon by Otey:
But where is he, the modern, mightier
far,
Who. born no King, made monarchs draw
his car;
Whose game was empires, and whose
stakes were thrones;
Whose table earth-whose dice were hui
man bones?
Joseph c. Sibley's explanation of his
change of front on the currency question
was bolstered up by support from the
poets. He said he knew his opinions did
not represent the sentiment of either party
but
Let Wing and Tory stir their blood,
Th re must be stormy weather;
But for some true result Of good
All parties work together
AS for his apparent inconsistency. he
believed, with Lowell:
Now occasions teach new duties:
Time makes ancient good uncouth:
III.
Who would keep abreast of Truth.
After him came Terry OF Arkansas. with
a sledge-hammer address to "vou fellows"
who. have more brass than brains" and
have the habit of thinking what Patter-
son dreamt" explaining that Patterson
dreamed a lie. He then, without a mo-
ments warning, became poetical and. re-
ferring to the election of 1896, exclaimed:
Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again
The eternal years OF God are hers;
But Error, smitten, writhes in pain.
And dies amid her worshippers.
Snodgrass of Tennessee also summoned
poetry to the aid of the Democrats. and
said, in discussing the persistence with
which the people allow themselves 10 he
guided by 'bondholders and money brok-
ers."
Distrust the look that steals his heart
away;
The child may cease to think it can play
With heavens rainbow; alchemists NAV
douSt
The shining gold their crucible gives out O..
But faith fanatic faith once welded fast,
Hugs the delusive falsehood to the last.
Despair in Arkansas.
Mr.. Brundidge OF Arkansas closed his
speech with remarkable quotation. He
seemed to think that IL the currency bin
passed there woull be nothing for the neo-
pie Of Arkansas to look forward TO. He
said they would continue to fight the
great battle OF life as best they can. ana
breathe the ennobling spirit of these beau
tiful lines:
So live that when thy summons comes to
ioin
The innumerable caravan which moves
To that mysterious realm where each
shall take
His chamber in the silent halls of death.