The age-herald., 1902-02-22
Washington Day by Day

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 Outside of the business interests of the country which constitute its material salvation, this is a period of small men and great issues.
 There is a greater proportion of weak and incompetent men in Congress who are dealing with or lodging great issues than there was ever before, and outside of Congress there is not one man of the first rank who is concerning himself with great national questions of the politico- social significance.
 There are powerful men of both parties in both houses of Congress, but, .numeri- cally considered, they are relatively some what as Falstaff's bread was to Falstaff's sack-a few strong men against a mob of melodies. To borrow and paraphrase fa- miliar speech of Falstaff's creator.
 What a world of vile, ill-favored faults looks handsome on five thousand dollars a year!
 The three, the politically immoral three, born to die as soon as the American voters come to their proper senses-next INONtI1Dtfy DC IL noptu-a SiiiCiAJ oNAA vested with the present power of gov ernng this nation, which Is vastly great CT than was Rome when the triumvirate exercised autocracy there; and what pitiable pigmy Is each triumvirate of ours compared with the weakest one who ruled on the Tiber in the days that followed the period when, as Macaulay tells us, none was for party and all were for the state.
 Lord Chief Triumvir David Bremner Henderson, speaker and iil-conditioned person, ought to know better at sixty two. But what are we to expect of a man who prints the advertisement of his prt- vate law firm at the expense of the Amer ican taxpayers, while drawing salary of $S000 a year and a pension of $75 a month? He shall not have the profit of free law advertisement in this place, but zealous persons seeking such lawyer are respectfully referred to page 90 of the Congressional Directory wherein they may discover some amusing information Lieutenant Hendersons autobiography written by himself" The lieutenant speaker who helped Grant to suppress the Great Rebellion of honest men against what they believed to be unlawful trans gresson, and who is now helping King Dingleyism in the warfare against all the people, is a fat man with large belly, white mustache and loud mouth.
 Triumvir No. g. Serene Elisha Payne (Phoebus, what a nameD Is three score, less one year, during eighteen years of which he has represented the Aubrn, New York district in Congress. He studied law instead of going to war, thereby differing from Triumvir Tender son. but following the Speakers noble example by printing his private firms ad- yertisement at the cost of the taxpayers. He wears white beard, and is almost shad- bellied
 Trumvir No. B. John Dalzell = which surname he mispronounces Dall-zell, it being Da-al-is three years under three score, and sixteen years of his valuable time he has spent in helping his party in Congress work incalculable wrong to the American people. He used to wear a full beard parted in the middle and hair like wise, but he thought better of beard parting, and to avoid that most graceful eccentricity he cut his beard off, leaving mustache that bristles on his thin faced thin person. Triumvir Dall-zell is a lawyer, too, but he refrains from ad- vertising his law card in his autobiog- raphy printed at the expense of the American government.
 In the House, as in the Senate, there are many feeble fellows whose only pos sible methods of getting their names in the newspapers is by saying something wild and foolish. The newspapers are now calling this kind of folly Wheeler ism," but it was "Tilmanism" in the Senate long years before that young Kentuckian in Congress got himself in print by being rude to a man who Is about to be the guest of the nation and by similar rudeness to millions of Ameri- can citizens, chief of whom are tho President and his youthful daughter and the Secretary of State. Foolism has heretofore been calamitous to the only political party In this country which of | fers the people their inherited rights in government, and every man within | that party who by his folly or otherwise gives comfort to the Republican party ooes therein hurt the cause of the 1 people.
 | The Democratic party is not the sole l organized force that is opposing the forces of revolution and destruction in our government. and when even one man breaks the line of defense there is disorder and demoralization. Even as the speed of a fleet Of warships is the speed strength of political party the strength of its least strong point.
 That great question which divided the union of states and caused the greatest and most terrible of all wars, and which | has ever since caused contention be- tween men who were both wise and good. has been finally settled off-hand and l jointly by a Washington ass named Stone-Israel w. Stone, commander of the Grand Army of the Republic in the i Department of the Potomac" what ever that may mean. The national en- campment of the G. A. R. has been fixed to take place in this town next autumn, | and local committees are making des- l perate efforts to raise the money that will | be needed to pay the expenses of en- tertainment but seeing that only s2S,- 900 of the necessary s6o,o00 or $S0,0o0 has been raised. two railroads paying s1o,-