Show mcconnell CRATES tie the newly made aade senator races the floor and nd fours dottl tips flood of eloquence jan inn 8 A republican caucus was held at the houfe houto of senator JS brill pc where the best part of the evenings performance wax mai rc reserved served for the list last when the he lion ilon mcconnell who bail bad been a senator just eight and a half hours stood ot on the beautiful turkish h rii of michigan 0 senator and d delivered eli vered with most telling effect a typical atypical lV western estern republican oration No thiu da daunted ly by the fart fact that lie had never seen of nf liia his colleagues before und that liis his facka 1 aco was unfamiliar to more than one of them this senator to from the newest state of all walked up tip anti and down the parlor of lie his colleague hinging right and left liis lie defiance of pvn acors prye frye i loll hoar aarts edmund ri din linds s sanders banders and others who dared to luecion lue tion his loyalty to the people at large and the republican party in particular mr mccoa I cConnell I 1 nell said that lie abo above all men had the ri to speak tit at a republican caucus because lie was nas present prent at tile the birth of the republican party and had been ft a true and consistent conti conn stent member of it ever sinic lie ile was not opposed to tile the elections election bill lie raid nid but the people of nf liia lie section of the country thought the much less important aret lian thaia a bill providing inc for the free coina coinage c of that bill came directly to the licarte and homes of the lectern people lie said and a the republican party in the future must look to the western states to give it its big majority it mut first give giac 0 the people of that part of the country the it they demand or r the majori majorities would woula not be forthcoming stich a speech at a this coining front from a senator who had taken tin tilt oath ot of office ice but a fow hours bourn lie 1 fore a decided innovation upon senatorial custom custo inq find and senator iio aloar ir who helped to ruh the idaho senators forward in order to take the oath of ollice in time to support the force bill looked at him reproachfully as a ho he took his hia meat leal after his hii speech and sadly said to his neighbor ingratitude thy name is mcconnell |