Show r Illustrious Constituencies BY SAVOYARD Walk into the first newspaper office you ou come to and ask the editor who succeeded Roscoe Conkling C as senator in congress congre s and the chances are as I twenty to one that he will vill answer Search me mel But every everyone one of ot them will tell teil you who succeeded Allen G Thurman who was succeeded by two to tomen men In fact James A Garfield and John Sherman It was In the month of or May Maya glorious In her effulgent ef efflorescence efflorescence efflorescence florescence the good year 1680 1880 that Tom Young then a member of ot con congress congress congress gress from one of the tue Hamilton county count districts linked his arm ann in that of Garfield at the south end of the capi capitol capitol tol edifice and said Walk Valk with me They proceeded to the north end cud en entered entered entered the senate chamber Garfield all wonder Yonder Young all solemnity Young escorted him to the seat of Thurman and an l asked asted Can you till fill It Gar Garfield GarfIeld field had been chosen to the succession Giant mind that it was the fullest of f acquired Information since Caleb Cush Gush Gushing CushIng CushIng ing left the District of Columbia boy that he was in his dally daily dall walk and in his buoyant spirit a serious expression came on his countenance and he gave reply Ill try He knew what a big job it was But he was saved from It Of at all places the senate was Gar fields place and of ot all places the White House was not his place On his feet in forensic discussion he was the subtle mind of Nestor and the heavy hand of Ajax As an executive he was a thing of wax to melt In the fervent heat of ot faction Lincoln was Ule less fortunate in his cruel and violent death than was Garfield in his Well an old fellow tellow of ot the name of or Lapham succeeded Conkling in the sen senate senate senate ate and answered yea or nay na on or roll toll call It was said that he was a good lawyer but for his work in the senate he might as well have haNe been a good shoemaker Conkling was nearly as s mean as he was great It was his plan to enfranchise the negro at the South and withhold the suffrage from him at the North and that was one of or those Innumerable conceptions known in politics as Ohio ideas In Intellectually Intellectually Intellectually Conkling was perhaps the greatest senator the Republican party ever e r produced above Sumner aboe above Blame Blaine above Carpenter above aboe Morton Morto above Fessenden even een and it Is Ismy a mystery my tery of the mysteries that such uch i t giant mind could delude itself with the Idea that the proudest people that ever er trod this earth could be held in subjection to their former slaves laes fit f the most inferior of all the races of the human family Official station never neer made statesman illustrious Could that be a shyster ii la lathe the robes of Marshall l might have the fame tame of Marshall A great writer of English letters expressed t thus Cato lost the election of or praetor and that of ot consul but is any anyone one blind to truth to imagine th it these repulses pulses r reflected any disgrace on him hini h Jn The dignity of ot those two magistrates would have hae been Increased d by his wear wearing wearIng wearing ing hm Pope said something of not alien Im tm Import Import port when he rhymed of ot Marcellus Marcelius ex exiled exiled lied and Caesar with a senate ose ohse obsequious But what I started to write about was illustrious constituencies and the civic duty of every electorate to choose its best and ablest man Send him to congress and keep him there Legis Legislation Legislation lation is a trade so recognized In Eng England England England land and It is ho less so eo here Glad Gladstone Gladstone stone atone the youth was a splendid ora orator tor tr Gladstone at threescore and ten was yas a sage You cant buy bu statesman statesmanship statesmanship statesmanship ship like you can cord wood or lime limestone limestone limestone stone or cotton or tobacco It Is much mucha I a matter of or inspiration it itIs ItIs Itis Is the child of genius always it is I Ithe the child of common sense It Is a matter of thought too frequently a athing athing athing thing of lungs Here are our Illustrious constituencies cies Quincy of or Massachusetts Lan Lancaster Lancaster Lancaster caster of ot Pennsylvania Penns Nineteenth Ohio the Burnt district of ot Indiana the Ashland of or Kentucky Kentuck and Craw Crawfordsville fordsville Ga John Quincy Adams made the first of these the first Amer American AmerIcan American ican constituency for eighteen years ears He was the greatest of his name and andone andone andone one of or the most accomplished states statesmen statesmen statesmen men of t any age or country The old man man eloquent he set pet et fire to the fuse that spread the conflagration from Bull Run to Appomattox and like Theodore he was half halt Southern to It R Barnwell Rhett He had hall the pugnacity of or the Southern Southerner er was born fighting tI and died fight fighting fightIng fighting ing We might have hae had our yet ret If It it had not been for him with his lis right of ot petition thus baiting Tom Marshall and Henry A Wise to des desperation desperation desperation and forcing slavery to para Perhaps he stands first among Americas Am commoners Thad Stevens made the Lancaster district famous He had the lame leg the he will perhaps the genius for action of ot Tamerlane the scourge or of the tIme East Kast Intellectually he was vas in inferior Inferior tenor to none As a parliamentary gladiator he never neer met his match be between between tween secession and his death His creed would have been and was cant in the throat of l nry Wilson or Timothy O 0 Howe He too tried to enslave the white men women and children of or the South and would have succeeded had it been possible Thad Stevens Steens was a clubfooted man and md nd David Philpott warns us that It was wasa a club foot toot that God gave gae Cain that all aU might ware of f him himAs himAs himAs As for tor the Burnt district that was made Illustrious by George W T Julian the greatest orator Indiana ever pro produced produced produced Could he and O 0 P Morton lave have hac stalled together In one barn no Democrat could have havo got much higher than constable in But you ou could no more mere manage George W Julian than you could stay Niagara He and Morton started Democrats and rivals they entered the Republican R party on the repeal of the Missouri If restriction falsely called compro compromise compromise mise and were together in the earlier stages of reconstruction Morton lorton was wis an opportunist essentially so Julian Juliai was Mas as a doctrinaire radically so Like Chase as soon as Julian got freedom for tor or the negro he went back to the Democratic Demo party What sort of a cam campaign aign document would it make for tor the thea G a 3 O P Oliver P Mortons speech on negro suffrage made In 1866 or 1867 And now I i come to the most illus Ilius illustrious rious of ot them all alith the Ashland Jis dis district Here are some of r the men she has las sent s nt to council with the sages of o 0 othe the he nation George M Bibb William WilliamT T Barry BaITY Henry Clay Cia Robert P PLetcher PLetcher Letcher A G Hawes Richard Rl hard M lf Johnson Garrett Davis Thomas F Marshall Charles Charl s A Morehead John JohnT T Breckenridge A K Marshall James JamesB B Clay James B Beck Joseph C S 5 Blackburn William C P and nd numerous others Where can cani you match them More I rc brains came Jut but ut of or that thit electorate ele to In the councils counci s of ol this capital l I I T 1 than any an other district in all America can show It is s the heart of or the blue bluegrass bluegrass bluegrass grass the home ot Clays Clas Brecken ridges and Marshalls MarshaUs Talk about plumed knights Henry Clay was wal the loftiest of at them all ail Old Throckmorton Throckmorton morton m of or the Gait Galt house painted him when hen In an ecstasy he roared Take him him m in the senate take him at the bar take him at Ghent patching up a peace after afler a disastrous war take him on the stump or In private station draw drawIng drawIng drawing Ing room or in the throng of ot a our cour day street and by b God Go hes fles captain of l every crowd lie he gets in Henry Cay C a among men as Eclipse among I horses first and the rest nowhere Alexander Hamilton Stephens a aV Whig V lg represented the Crawfordsville district sixteen years ears before tha war and ten years ears after the th war He was a remarkable man run to His book The War ar Between the States is j the best conception of ot the moving causes of that mighty struggle yet printed printe He HI made Crawfordsville il II illustrious illustrious He shed luster uster on congress congressI I had nearly neal forgot the Nineteenth Ohio Elisha Ellsha Whittlesey represented that district In the time Eighteenth congress 1823 Henry Clay Cla speaker Ezra B BTaylor BTaylor BTaylor Taylor retired from congress the Fit In 1803 Crisp speaker and between Whittlesey and Taylor were Giddings Gid John Hutchins and James A Garfield Here was a j I of seventy years and only five men came as mem mew bers from the Western Westen Reserve Resene There should not have hac been more than four fOUl Hutchins served only four years Just like shoemakIng is a trade We rarely change our congress congressman man Had either Pitt or either Fox lived In our country he would have hae been sent to the rear as Kentucky sent Carlisle as Tennessee sent Carmack Copyright 1907 by E W Newman Butt But |