The age-herald., 1900-02-25
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Correspondence of the Courfer-Journal
 Washington. February 19-Charles E. Lit tlefield is the successor of Nelson Dingley. Jr in the Fffty-sfxth congress, and MT. Littlefield has shown that he fills to the bursting point the large pair of shoes he was chosen to occupy. It is the pity of his tory that Macaulay did not live to bring his history down to the battle of Waterloo; it is the pity of fiction that Thackeray and Dick ems did not finish the two novels they were engaged on when death took them hence, and it is the pity of pohtics-American poli- tics-that Garfield did not fill-as he could have filled to bursting-that enormous pair of shoes Allen G. Thurman left in the sen- ate, job MT Garfield was chosen to per form. No other man in our hlstory-not even Webster himself-was so well equipped as was James A. Garfield to enrich the po- lftical literature of the American repuo1c, as that literature is embafmed in the dis cussions of the two houses of congress. As president-in any executive position-he was as Sidney Smith would say, Samson in wig"
 Here are the men the third Maine dis trict has sent to congress the past thirty years: William P. Frye, Nelson Dingley, Jr and Charles E. Littlefeld, and don't YOU be surprised if the last-named proves A greater man than both the others to- gether He astonished congress in his maid en speech, and congress is the best judge of speech, a political speech, you can find on our hemisphere. Stephen A. Douglas made brilliant debut in congress the ses- sion of 1S43-44; MT. Littlefield made bril- liant debut the session 1S99-1900 MT. Blaine. in his book tells us that few men of our race have made great parliamentary repu- tations, who did not enter upon their ca reer before the age of forty. When Douglas spoke to the measure Tefundfng to Andrew Jackson the fine imposed Oh the old hero at New Orleans, he was just past thirty. When Littlefield spoke the other day to the resolution excluding Roberts from member ship in the fifty-sixth congress, he was lit- tie under forty-nine. It is worthy of note that Dingeley was just forty-nine when he first took his seat in congress in 1881.
 For seventy years Maine kept leader in one or the other house of congress; ofttimes she had a leader in each. When Dingley daed, and Reed retired, it was thought the chain was broken but 1t looks now as though the name of Bttlefield is to be linked with Evans and Fessenden and Blaine and Reed If he comes up to the sample he has shown us why, Ittlefield is worthy the rank of any congress in our history. He is what Blaine and Dignaey never w1re-a jurist and a jurist of the highest order. He is what Dingley never was in another respect-an orator and the equal of any congress has on its roll, unless it be Cousins. He is not only an orator, but a formidable debater, and his sarcasm is like the scimitar of Saladin.
 It is a great thing to get off well in the housc of representatives-it is nearly all the battle. The house will not be bored; that's flat. It has no use for dunce; 1t scorns a faker. No matto- what a new members reputaNon, the house. takes his measure the first time he gets 6n his legs. He must talk sense, and, though there are fools in congress, 1t is the last place for fool And yet have seen able men fail in congress. There was Cyclone Jim" Mar shall, who failed just because he did not get . of right. and "Cyclone Jim, was, and Is