The weekly true Democrat. (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1905-1912, 1907-10-04
WORTH A JOURNEY
TO SIZE AND HEAR.
The Senate John SHARPE Williams
Proper Place.

The Senate yohn SHARPE Williams
Proper Place.
"Savoyard, I" the most entertaining
of all the Washington correspondents,
talks in this Interesting way about
John Sharpe VILLAINS, the new Senator
elect from Mississlppi
''The senate is this man's place
There he will remind of Davis and
Walker. Of Lamar and George Wal
thai.
"If live, shall look down from the
gallery on the Senate of the Sixty-first
Congress something less than twenty
months in the future. hope to see
Theodore Roosevelt sworn in as a men,
Der on that occasion. ! would like TO
see William j. Bryan a Senator Give
these gentlemen two years service and
then reinforce the Senate with John
Sharpe Williams and Edward Ward
Carmack, and the layout would be inn
proved.
A debate on general politics partici-
pated in by Roosevelt, Bryan, Carmack,
Foraker, Lodge, Tillman, Bailey and
Beveridge, and lasting a week would be
worth Journey around the world to
see and hear. What power of good Il
would do Roosevelt And Bryan, too,
would learn a deal he does not now
know. Mind would clash with mind,
wit with wit, knowledge with knowl-
edge The list Of killed and crippled
would be frightful on this theater,
where none but hard knocks count. j
would like to see Roosevelt give Bailey
or Carmack lesson on constitution by
construction. ! would like to hear Will
liams and Beveridge on opposing sides
of the scope and force of the Is amend
ment / would like to be present when
Tillman and Foraker clash on the con-
stitutional right of the South to vote
the Democratic ticket
"Of that list John Sharpe Williams Is
second to none in debate. Bailey is a
greater lawyer. Carmack more bril-
liant debater, Lodge a more studious
scholar, Beverage a more indefatiga-
BILE worker, but as an all-round man in
political debate John Sharpe Will
liams is the equal of the best of them.
"John Sharpe Williams was elected
to the Fifty-third Congress and has
been a membero of the House or Repre-
sentatives since March 4th, 1893, the
day Grover Cleveland was the second
time inauguE I'd President cSfSe Unit
ed States. This young Mississlppian,
who sustains TO the statesmHnship Of
this generation OF his State and his sec
ton the relation Robert j. Walker sus-
tanned to former generations, was un-
heralded upon his entrance 20 the Capt.
tai City, and attracted small attention.
He was an extensive, an intelligent and
successful planter from state whose
agricultural interests were MANIFOLD
all its other interests, and in conse-
quence it was but natural that he should
be assigned to the committee of agri-
culture in the organization Of the House.
He attended strictly to his duties in
that capacity, and lent to the delibera-
tions Of that council board a vast
amount of practical common sense, that
was the result &c his personal exper-
fence as a platter AND = husbandman.
when he rose the first time TO adj
dress the House at any considerable
length he war accorded a respectful
hearing, and that day he won his spurs.
The speech was no tervid defamation,
not an appeal to passion, not an grafton,
nor not an essay Ke Is a scholarly
man. but has no pretense to the graces
of the orator, and he Is not an Apollo
in physical presence, and not an Adonis
in physical beauty His is not dulcet
voice, but on this occasion there was
something in the speech and in the man
that challenged attention and command
ed respect. Congress picked up its ears,
and before he had spoken q quarter OF
an hour it was the opinion of Congress
that this little man would make his
mark, and he did In argument he is
sound from--his political standpoint, and
his language is precise and ample-no
lack of words and no superfluous words.
He u an able and accomplished debat-
er. He is fluent, and his self-posessiOn
evidences the man Of thought, the man
of culture, and the man Of mental,
moral and physical courage.
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