The Washington times., 1902-06-22

-NaNOSdOtnESs I1t very
speech on the tariff. and did a great
many odd things in Congress. but was
a faithful member And mcst of the
stories told of him were newspaper
fakes" He did not blow out the gas
at the Willard Hotel. nor try to set his
turnip watch by the street car annunci-
ator. His personal appearance was
strikingly peculiar, and quite like Gun
ter's hero. You can almost see Martin
in the following description OF Mr. Pot
ter of Texas:
THE Hcn. Sampson Potter. Of Texas,
would have been regarded and worshiped
as the acme OF wild Western elegance
and refinement by The British public.
for he Is an almost perfect picture of
Texas frontier ranger and cattleman.
His face, which is clean shaven save q
mustache. is scanned with the wrinkles
of hardship and the scars of encounters
of both wild beasts and savage men. ard
has the peculiar rcd rcughaess produced
by habitual exposure to the burning sun
and chilling ncrthrrs CT Texas His
forehead would be that CT q xustlrg,
gocd-natured hey were it nct balanced
by nose OF size, power. ard decision.
and contradcted by lips of 2lrcst stern
irmness and pair OF eyes which have
that clear steel-gray tint common to
kindly men of deadly dispositions-eyes
that are sometimes mistaken for a little
of color until the time of danger and
death. His suit of black broadcloth,
fashioned in Southwestern style, seems
too large for his thin. wiry frame-for
Potter is not Z large man. though Brick
Garvey, one of his cid companions in
pioneer days. once said: Potter never
was big man until he was ightin, and
then he was a giant new necktie,
white. old-fashicncd turn-down collar.
and high cowhide boots. elaborately pol
ished from tees to top. into which his
trousers are tucked. proclaim an elabo-
rate toilet"
right in the long run. hnd 50 did Mr.
Martin. of the same State
Speaking OF Texas, 1t may be pertinent
perhaps also impertinent.-to say that
1t is only in recent years, that Is to say,
within fifteen. that the great Texas pa
pers began 10 have correspondents all
their own here. The first vas the inn
mortal William G. Street.-The "Bill"
of so many newspaper fables. The pen
would go broke. and fail of ink, that at
tempted to tell the true tale of bill"
Sterett, or to describe that remarkable
character or his equally remarkable
work. bill" Sterett was very much sui
generis. although it is an open question
whether "Bill' knew what s. y. meant.
Whether he knew or not, he knew such
a-plenty of other things essential to a
Washington newspaper mans success
that his name was written high among
them. He may have been an aurora bo-
realis or n rainbow-and he used to at
tempt heavenly fiushes of many colora-
but he is best recalled here as an ex-
cellent correspondent, with great de-
scriptive powers. He is now the prin-
cipal editorial writer of the greatest pa
per of the Texan empire-in fact, one
of the greatest of all the South, or all
the country-the "Galveston-Dallas
News" 1t requires good man for that
job, and he is good man for it.
Sterett was succeeded here by George
NJ Bailey, who had for years been an
editorial writer on the &C D. News"
mot so profane a name as the dashes
Mr.. Bailey is man OF indf
ierent physical and mental calibre from
he celebrated Colonel Sterett. But he
hes claims OF his own to fame, and thoy
Ire sufficiently awe-inspiring and tooth
,hattering without appealing to the