Show orators in tho the senate when who mr conkling cou ling kling k left the till senate il one of tho tile really great orators of the republic passed from the arena into quasi retirement he was a most formidable cebator deb de bator because of his eminent attainments and experience peri ence enec lie he had no superior as an orator because of many gifts of person and intellect many of his speeches were impromptu and it was non wonderful gerful what there nas in hi hii selection of words nords and with what dexterous art lie marshaled his arguments his set speeches barrin barring a dramatic surrounding surrounding were models of their kind A brodig prodigious LOUS memory which calls the treasury of eloquence stood tood him bim in good stead and most intricate statistics were rolled as gly from his tongue aa the flowers of poetry or tho the gladiatorial Flir phrases ases of rhetoric his voice was wis deep beep resonant full throated and under perfect control the least whisper as well as the tile most strident ejaculation penetrated every nook of tho the chamber chamb er there was at times a monotony af pf of what may bo be called a statuesque in in his deli delivery Tery and sometimes a stately verbosity that made us regret the crisp fier fierceness cenes and candor of zachariah chandler but as judge ju dge davis said lieras the best equipped orator in public life and all comparison the most ren remarkable larka ble of republican senators his retirement from tho the chamber left an unfilled gap on that side and there is no ono one to fill his place next to mr I conkling in readiness but not in eloquence is the gran vermonter judge edmunds the speeches speeches of mr edmunds arc are more like ike plain talk than anything else but they read admirably and ani aro ire delivered without manuscript aids even mr blaine toward the last resorted to reading from written or printed slips and conkling and d nd edmunds were about tho the only republicans who dad not tint follow that plan now mr E edmunds d stands tho the solitary orator of f the republican senators an orator without eloquence what the new men may do we cannot say but the ech chances ances are that they will follow the fashion of the majority yi on the democratic side the two georgia senators are extemporaneous speakers nothing cluid bo b finer in old days t than lian mr hills speeches whether on the spur s ur of trie the moment or prepared we he was alongside mr conkling Conkli ug as the great orator of the senate and superior to the new yorker on ordinary occasions ca they had deservedly great respect for each others liers ot intellectual strength and thou though tiler i their encounters were many neither nei transcended the courtesy of f debate sharp hard bard blows were given and taken but always with parliamentary limits leaving no sting behind what effect eff off f act the wound round upon mr hills tongue may have upon his eloquence we can only coli conjecture jecture it will for some time to come conic impair i impair the rotundity and symmetry of his articulation but some of his more recent utterances have from corn com men report been in no sense inferior bior to the tile splendid exhibitions of the past senator ael lator brown has made many speeches a beches and none nofio from manuscript his his series of addresses in the extra session of last spring were the most blo ble of that t i terrible arraignment of mallone Malio nc out of that contest the junior georgia senator came as the conquering hero the champions of met him and were sorry for it logan illustrated the state of feelings feeling when having been asked why ho be did not pitch into joe brow replied that he had been in and was not going again during that extraordinary term our senator deprecated making so many speeches speeches ches and so stated to senator swee butler I tier of south carolina but B butler saw that he lie was just the man to make dajcs and hoar and hawley and logan sick of tha encounter and so encouraged him to keep keel up the which he lie did an old officer of the senate who had been in place for fifty years told the writer that of all tho tile senators he had known gov bron brown in in an intellectual combat on tho tile chamber floor carried awa away leoro of his opponents cuticle voorhees bees reads his so 50 docs does pendleton Pendle so doss does david davis vis so docs does hampton mr lamar hardly trusts himself without manuscript even when it i would not take five min lites to aver deliver what he lias has composed even vance the wonder of the hustings sticks ticks to his is essay emay before him and and sacrifices the tile flavor of his oratorical fluency mr beck is in the same category the rising orator of the senate is geo vest of missouri ho ile is a genius his figure is as short and as that of edmund acan was said to be but like the famous tragedian ho he has that within which than thap makes amend for some soine defects of person mr vest may be fairly classed as one of tho few consummate orators odthe of the senate senit it t e he HO has nearly cv every deiy endowment for Useful usefulness nes and brilliancy as a sP speaker and no man is is more admired for f or his oratory and feared for his powers of retort augusta ga a chronicle |