Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-01-28

are only few of US left who by merely
walking across a lesel floor can call up pic
lures of broad-browed kindfaced old ele-
plants strolling down shady lanes, with
nothing to do but think and nothing to think
about but thoughts.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hon. Serene
is not always thus. Let some one rise TO
d question of privileged excitement Let
self in the. mazes of a personally conducted
explanation. If it be a republican the Hon.
Serene is shocked. He shifts himself from
his seat to the aoor-again obStructing
traffic for the homeland protests The
conventions are about to be outraged. The
germ-ladena atmosphere of the Holy of Ho-
lies is about to be rudely stirred. Anger
and wrath are about to violate the doors.
But If it be a democrat there is a differ
ence. The Efon. Serene climbs to his feet,
but 1t is for another purpose than protest
Democratic linen is about to be washed and
the Hon. Serene would run the Wringer.
He distributes unanimous consents with a
lavish hand and his pockets are full of
ciotheSpins.
sometimes ladies' and gentlemen the
club and strikes 1t matters not what he
hits Sometimes It is his opponent, occa-
sionaliy s.he pots. "a friend. And now and
then the club slips and fetches up short on
his own ldesotedE head In the olden days
men clad themselves in boiler plate and
beat each. otheromerrily with axes and
things. The Hon. Serene is of that far
a
swat and it lands it knocks his adversary
out of time. But if his enemy is agile
enough to duck, the Hon. Serene is liable
to land on his nose A misplaced center
of gravity. IS an unhandy thing to have
around
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hon. Serene is
about 10 rise. Ladies and gentlemen, he
shifts. he moves, he feels the thrill of life
along his keel. Ladies and gentlemen the
Hon. Serene has returned to the exclusive
seclusion of the republican cloak room.
John Sharp Williams.
Now look-.to The left, ladies and gentle
men, back in the rear of the first demo-
cratic section. for the gentleman with the
pessimistc mustache and the excited hair
is the Hon: John Sharp Williams of Mis-
sisstppi, floor leader of the hopeless minor
ity. Note the +trIe iaver knot in which
the Hon. John has managed to tie his
neither -fegfonS.,ts Note the hand cupped be-
hind his ear. The latter is not an affecta-
ton. ladies and gentlemen but a necessity
for Mr.. Williams is as deaf by misfortune
as Speaker Cannon is b + choice on SOME in
terestlG@ occasions in the House.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Hon. John
studied at Heidelberg. Perhaps we should
say that he completed his education at
Heidelberg. He will tell you all about it If
you speak 10 him kindly and give him
plenty of rope. Mr.. Williams is one of the
agile and elect who has managed to dodge
the swats of-,the Hon. ,Serenos war club.
He is not one of the od-time boiler-pl te
fraternity is the Hon. John. He is an Old
Hedelberger is this leader of the invisible
opposition. and the memory of the code
duello fingers in his recollection He con-
Siders it more artistic to puncture his op-
ponent in the mdriff with a barbed point
than to smite him over the headpiece with
a fence rail. And as ring general he has