The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-01-19
WASHINGTON GOSSIP

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What a ring some names have In
the ear Of an old Washingtonian.
There was, for instance, John M.
Glover, who has figured so prominent
~ as IAN ex-congressman" in the dis
patches from Colorado, which told Of
his being SPOT for resistance to a
posse and the subsequent develop
ments Those who used to, see Glover
when he represented the ninth district
of Missouri in the forty-ninth congress,
recall him as a small person, with a
face that might have been either a
boys or an old mans, SO little had ma
ture done to stamp It's age upon it.
sional directory for his age was
doomed to disappointment; he wrote
such a hand that both compiler and
printer were unable to make out the
year of his birth as furnished in his
photographic data, and he went into
the directory as born "June 23, 1875"
The figure next to the last might have
been either 1, which would have
made him 20 years old, or Z, which
would have made him 10. AS mat
ter of fact, when the mystery was
cleared up later, the uncertain figure
proved to be a 4, and he took his
proper place as a 40-year- older.
Glover was Enthusiastically bright,
and was pushing fellow withal; the
common rule against active participa-
ton by new members had no terrors
for him, and he plunged in whenever
there was anything to say. His best
remembered speech, however, was his
retort to his colleague, John j. O'Neill,
who had questioned the constitutional
1ty OF some measure Glover was cham
pioning.
'.The doubt expressed by the gem
tleman," said he, sis entirely charac-
ter1stic of his standing in the COM
munity, where he is regarded among
baseballists as a constitutional law
yer, and among constitutional law
yers as a baseballist!".
The news that Samuel ]. Randall
Of Philadelphia has been nominated
by the democrats for representative of
the same district for which his father
sat in the house for many years, brings
seems only yesterday that this young
man was playing about the streets Of
Washington, a schoolboy in round
abouts, and varying the monotony of
kite-fying and marbles by taking his
mates to the capitol and Showing
them around" He had all his fathers
taste for politics, and was a great be-
lever in influence" He looked so
much like his father, especially in the
'spectacles which he was doomed to
wear almost from infancy, that it was
a. favorite jest to call him "Mr.
Speaker"
!. In the Cleveland campaign of 1884,
young Randall used to hold mass
meetings of boys-most of his COM
panions, by the way, being staunch
supporters of Blaine-and address
them on the vicious career of the re-
publican party and the country's need
of the return. Of the democracy if. its
cherished institutions were to be pre-
served. 1t is on record that he made
one convert, who seems to have
yielded less on the ground of the coun-
try's dire need than in response to the
reminder that there was something
good waiting for the faithful when the
democratic party should be restored
to its own. The election went Sans
way in November, and early the next
month the forty-eighth congress re-
assembled for its short session. Sam
took his young friend to the capitol
the Saturday before the opening, and
hunted up the doorkeeper of the
house, to whom he introduced his
companion.
Colonel said he, "I promised Joe,
here that if Cleveland was elected it
would mean something good for him.
want you now to appoint him a
page
The doorkeeper was taken some
what aback at first by the suddsnness
Of this proposal. Then, thinking it
was a pretty good juvenile joke, he