Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1907-03-20
The ORATORS WERE susY OUR
ING THE RECENT SHORT
SESSION or CONGRESS.
REMARKABLE BULLS
Judge Gray's Name Fasorably Con.
sadered BY Many Democrats as the
Nominee Of Party for President.

were held today:
Applicants for vacancies In the
position Of triangulation aid In the
geological survey. at salaries from
500 20 1920 a year.
Blaeksmith's helpers for the quar-
termaster's department az large, 70
be- stationed al the Preside. San
Francisco. at a salary Of 5000 a year
and rations.
stenographers for the department
al. Philippine and Panama cana
services. at salaries from 5000 &c
5000 a year.
Marine fireman for the steamer
Batehelder. stationed at Fort Nor
gan. Ala. at a salary of $500 a year
Scientific assistant In veterinary
zoology. In the agricultural depart
ment. al a salary OF $1,000 a year.
Words Words, Words.
4 statistician OF Washington grave
ly announces that during the short
session Of congress recently closed
the orators Of the senate and house
aided and abetted by tho president
and the heads OF departments, In
flicted 9,2i7 .3S6 words upon a l0ng
suffering publican average output
OF more than $4,000 words an hour
This estimate Is based on the Con
gressional Record. and a considera
| Bile portion of the total consists o.
messages from the president and re
ports from the departments,
However. some OF the best exam
pies of modern American oratory d.
not appear In the voluminous and
gearisome pages of the Record, hav
Ing been stricken out at the person
al request of the speakers. One
looks In vain for this Illuminating ut
terance OF a middle west congress
man: The American eagle, whether
floating in the blue empyrean OF
! Maine or sweeping d~efiantly ovel
the Pacific main. will not draw In
It's spurs or retire into It's shell" Il
was an eastern senator. speaking In
favor of a ship subsidy. who declar
ed. THE foreign steamship lines arr
cutting the ground from under the
American steamers feet"
As example of mixed metaphor
these remarkable statements are al
most equal to that Of attributed to
southern statesman: Il am up &
tree. but my back Is to the wall ant
IN die In the last ditch and. going
down with the banners flying and
hurting defiance at my foes. viii
| soar on the wings of triumph, des
pite the party lash that Is barking al
my heels"
Perhaps the greatest bull" of all
was perpetrated by Anthony Com
stock. Denouncing dealers in OBJ
scene literature before a congress
sional committee, he referred tc
them as "howling hyenas and raven
Gus tigers who put cancers In tho
hands of innocent children" Des
plotting cancels as things to be hand
ed around among children, like ap
pies or sticks of striped candy, is an
odd ~conceit, but when the distribu'
ton Is performed by wild beasts, it
becomes truly remarkable.
Judge Gray for President.
Democratic nominee for president
In 1908: Judge George Gray of Della
ware. That is the latest presidential
boom in Washington. Judge Gray's
name Is already being ~favorably con
sidered by many prominent demo
Gratis. The Gray boom was launched
by Senator Morgan Of Alabama, and
is now being advocated by many
southern statesmen and politicians,
who believe that the Delaware jurist
should he decide to seek the nomina'
ton, would receive the almost unit
ed support of the south. Western
democrats who have been interview
ed on the subject are less enthus'
iastic In their support of Gray, and
look upon the nomination of Bryan
as a foregone conclusion. Judge Gray
Is an ALBANIAN and has had a dis.
tinguished career in the senate as
we'll as on the bench. While in
tensely devoted to democratic ideals,
he is far more conservative than the
Nebraska statesman and would I'm.
doubtedly prove far more acceptable
to the less radical wing of the par
ty, However, signs are not lacking