| Show THE MASTER OF OP COMPLIMENT There have been days when The Her has felt it could survive even if Senator Chauncey M I Depew should lose himself and never be found And then then there are times when the old courtier rises with an example of grace graceful graceful graceful ful speech so compelling that we are glad he Is alive no matter what New NewYork NewYork NewYork York may think t bout it And one of or the times when he wins was recorded when old General Gordon the Senator from Louisiana made his farewell talk to Senators at atthe atthe atthe the close of a busy session on February twentY fourth First let us repeat a afew afew afew few of the many unusual things the old southerner said Here is but a taste of them Now gentlemen of the th Senate I have made these few remarks I hope you will vIII take them in and I hope you rou will give consideration to them I hope hopa you OU will believe I am telling nothing but the truth and I want to say ay in kindness and with regard for th the Senator from Idaho Mr Heyburn Heburn that I want him to come down south and toms JOrI f to my cottage on the prairie and I will show him a little little li tle of southern life When we get through we will come back here and we wo will walk Into Statuary Hall Halland Halland Halland and what will I say to him I will say sa Help me persuade the Senator from Indiana Mr Mf Beveridge to take the theLe theLen Len Lew Le Wallace statue out of here and hide it away in some river or pond where it never can be seen any more and build him a high statue worthy worth of ot so great a man as Lew Wallace Vallace Laughter I have admired him ever since I read r ad Ben Hur and ever eer since I heard of his getting a little out of o 0 tem tern temper temper per at the battle of Shiloh I reckon he e emust must have had a good deal of human nature in him He is a man that I was 19 V cry ry fond of and I am fond of his memory I want to see him have a grand statue and I will come up here herc and nd see them set it up After they do that with the Senator from Idaho after he has seen the south through my spectacles and I will lend them to him himon himon him himon on that occasion I want to come pack back I here and stand before Grants statue anti and before Lees statue and I will wilf off my hat and hurrah for Gram Grant and andI I think he will holler Lee was wag a pret pretty pretty pretty ty good fellow and he will say sa Hur Hurrah Hurrah Hurrah rah for Lee That is the kind of rf reeling reel feel feeling eel eeling ing I want to cultivate with him Laughter I want you ou all to understand that what I say to the Senator from Idaho I say with no feeling in my ray heart against him No 1 I love him hint I love everybody I am a happy happ man I never let hate get into my my heart so as to make me unhappy That is he to reason I have lived and kept youn yUn and retained my youth and beauty while you vou have got gotten gotten gotten ten old and ugly some of ot you ou Laugh Laughter ter I have not lost last my m hair yet but It is falling failing out and I am going goin to leave e here to keep from front losing it altogether I am going to leave lea here for foJ many of you ou have got all the hair off o your heads and I think I had better EG JG home lume i Laughter The experience was an entirely novel one to the time Senators It was out of or the usual And when they had applauded and sat there still bound by the spell of a voice olee from an age that is past and gone gorie Senator Depew rose and delivered de himself of the following Mr President resident J I J have heard hoard a great grent many man farewell addresses in my life I read the most mot famous of theta them on Wash Wasi In tons birthday the of this month but ut this is the most mo t unique contribution to literature of or this character which any of us has hal ever ver heard It will live IP in the records of the HII Semite as probably the tilE most remarkable add s either of ot ofa ota ofa a new new Senator coming oming in or of ot an old one ne Ile going out cut that t has ever aver ben bean bF n Ce e livered Its patriotism m and goodfellow gOl ship f broad charity and humor will w l remain among the th best rec of or those th s who wh heard hc rt it if I be believe believe believe lieve I express the sentiment of every o of If f the colleagues If f r ur departing friend when I say that we deeply re regret regret regret gret his going and that no matter how wonderful a genius or creat a states statesman statesman statesman man succeeds him he can never be Sen Senator Senator Senator ator Gordon of or Mississippi Applause it perfect one warm to the old fellow for his quick recognition recognition recognition tion of the worth of or the vanishing char character acter and the perfectly p charming mar man manner mallner ner nor In which he expressed appreciation Just a little Incident in a abig big day But it helps |
