The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1901-07-24
I;FINP CLARK STORIES
(1athered In and About the
Halls Of Congress.

SENATOR Delivers Power as an Ora
"A Beautiful Peroration That
Was Never Finished - caruth of
kentucky and His Pertinent Que
aloe When Quigg Was Taken
hh.ck-WiIson and DoIliver Cross
e.ords-A Miss as Good as Mile.
downright, 1901, by Champ Clark
regarded Senator J. P. Dolliver of
,.no os the crack orator of the house
hon he was a member Of the popular
bodv 1 use the much abused term
norator" in it's proper chronological
so He was not so logical as
policy or Littlefeld or so humor-
ans AZ Private John Allen or so
'ri+tv as Otey or so learned as Van
siror or Mccall. l doubt if he could
ho1d his own in a catch-as-catch-can-
tho-dnviI-take-the-h indmost debate with
General Grosvenor or Carmack of
tennessee, but as an orator, pure and
eimnlp in my judgment, he exceeds
tbom ALL He Is a large, handsome man,
~ the brunette style of beauty, in the
Aowpr of his years and in the prime of
his snlendid powers. He is liberal in
his views, possessed of much bon
homie and a delightful companion, as
tnow by both observation and expert
eDce. He enjoys life with the keen
zpst of a scho0lboy. Not the smallest
nf his many accomplishments is that
Of being a capital story teller.
Asher CaWlth, who for many years
rppresented the Louisville district in
congress, is a jolly good fellow who
sees the ridiculous side of things and
who delights to put his oratorical
friends in hole.
caruth's UntimeIy Question.
On one occasion members were relat-
Ing their speechmaking and debating
ayperences in the cloakroom. Dol
liver said: among the first elaborate
set speeches which l made in the house
vas one on the tariff. AS | was new at
lie business, | had taken particular
pains to fix it up in the best manner
possible / had written and rewritten
billed it down, polished it up and
Nnmitted it to memory. There was
one passage with which l was particu-
arly pleased. AS an argument in ia
Vor of the tariff as a generator of
prosperity l drew as graphic a picture
as | could of how foreign born citizens
Of Iowa would come into my law office
at Fort Dodge, employ me to write
letters to the old folks across the sea,
lnclosing money to promote their COM
fort and happiness, and how, while
engaged in this kindly duty, tears
would roll down their cheeks. Just as
was in the midst of what / deemed
my most eloquent, thrilling and pa
thetic passage Caruth arose and said:
Mr., Speaker, what did ! understand
the gentleman from Iowa to say those
people were crying about?
The house caught on instantly and
spoiled my peroration entirely. 1t has
not been delivered until this day."
Caruth and Qugg.
Doliyer is not the only man whose
oratory was knocked to pieces by the
genial Kentuckian. There are others,
among them Lemuel Eli Quigg Of New
York.
One day, when the WilsOn-Gorman
'arl1 bill was under discussion, Quigg
was lauding the Republicans to the
SKIES, Inter ALA, he said:
The Republicans rode into the lists
all booted and spurred, like the Roman
sldulators." What else he had in his
uiiLu to say in that particular vein
VIII never be known. Whatever it was
ne dld not say it, for Caruth arose
sIdVeiy to a question of information
and said:
=, would like for my friend from
.,eW York to state when and where
Ivy homan gladiator ever appeared
"oO'eu and spurred. If such a thing
tention."
ne mousse reared till it was red in
-. .1e lace, and Quigg mustered his boot
Service. W.
polilver has, in common with all
S,o' orators, considerable poetry in
,,a u March, 1900, he and l gave joint
y''GFe on imperialism at Dunkirk,
t,.. l. We went via Pittsburg and
ro p,eied large part of day up the
ns, isy OF the Mononghahela river, his
tr,.e meath. His conversation illus
anew the truth of the 5tanza:
mere no place like the I'D place,
W. ine place where we wer. born,
"neTe we lifted first our eyelids
~, 10 the glores Of the MORN
hi sight of the familiar stream
raooT snt upon him a flood of pleasant
s raid. Among other things he