The Washington times., 1913-10-01
STANLEY GETSPALM
SHEPPARD ONCE HAD

For pure lyric beauty for sonorous
sublimity of sound and for multitudin-
Gus melody of language. you have got
10 hand it to Congressman Augustus
Owsley Stanley of Kentucky
Senator Sheppard of Texas used to be
the real singer of the House; used to
have the most gorgeous metaphors and
the most astonishing smiles. When he
smote the lyric and whanged off toward
empyrean heights, a la Pegasus be-
lieve us. il was some speech Then
Sheppard went and got himself elect
ed to the Senate, where the speech is
mostly soPorific and saponaceous and
nobody ever thinks of tumbling around
in oratoricaI acrobatics because of the
shroud o. dignity that enVelops the
sacred Senatorial atmosphere. When
Sheppard used TO put on the tremulo
stop and immortalize-well. it was some
occasion in the House and the laughter
and tears swept the audience and the
galleries.
II was a sad occasion when Sheppard
departed from the somber dignity of
the Senate. He had a monopoly of the
language stuff in the House. Nobody
dared 10 dispute his sovereignty. he
was THERE. Congressman John
Wesley Gaines. who retired to dear old
Tennessee in 1909. tried il for a while,
but failed iamentably, making an at
tempt to have his voice cover up the
holes III vocabulary. After John
Wesley fell down. nobody had the heart
to oppose Sheppard. And when he left,
the House found itself without any
champion word picture artist-or at
!east il thought there wasn't no sich
animal in its midst.
Before Stanley Got Busy.
That wes before Augustus Owsley
Stanley got busy there the ether day
debating currency. Stanle- wears the
rrown Of the late departed Sheppard
now. He'll probably continue to tilt il
over his ears tor sCne time He came
darn near beating Sneppard's best litt!c
tr2@ments.
lie started out to tell the Republicans
what he thought OF Congressman MoE-
dell, u Republican. for having the nerve
To CT!tise the Democratic secret cau-
Gus methods. Then he pulled out that
wavy-voiced stuff and proceeded thus
ly.
1t would be better To have some
crimson courteaa- lead modest ma:dens
II paths of purity: better some escaped
convict pose as the aT5iter and censor
for honest n"n-than to learn of free
drm from this. the most abb, CT apostle
Ird most subScrvien: slave 'CncIe Joe
Cannon ever had
Mondeli Hunched Up.
MondeiI sat kinda nUnched up in his
chair and feeling not so darn comfort
able as STANLEY wer: on. soaring away:
BY his prompt obedience TO any COIN
mand, by hrs silence under the lash.
b. his quick defense Of any kind of
;sag, the gentle man has attained an en-
EiEb.c eminenc.-and h.Ic, with marks
Of his servitude upon him before the
hair has grown enough to cover the
marks Of the collar upon his neck,
and before tho imprint Of the shackle q
ef1accG from mis- wrists and his anki.
aHd before the echoes Ct his voice nave
did In this hall. where but lately he de-
tended every Republican outrage, he
aT1ses here to lecture Democrats. for
sOoth, about independence. The Dem
ocrat in this program answered to a
call; you oheysd the goad driven into
your qUiyeTng flesh
There was a whole lot more of it-but
, the sample sufices. Stanley gets the
palm. =.