Show CONGRESSIONAL ORATORY Statesmen Who Are Distinguished for Prowess in Debate Philadelphia Ledger There was a great geat event evet in the senate sc te not long ago A senator Bailey J delivered a speech which interested interested and even ven thrilled his hearers and ad brought forth applause from the galleries Some persons seem to imagine that the senate enate Is a good field for oratory where whereas as it Is the te worst in the world worl The house is not nt r t much better for an entire entirely entre ly different nt reason but when an era ora orator or tor does doe triumph over oye the tho to house it o I ne necomes comes come tie tte t e best field on earth The glacial chiI chil of the senate is what paralyzes oratory The rules forbid nn an and nd the te air nir of sombre dignity J which h broods over the te place lace 5 the rashest orator before be Cre 1 begins begin The hurried hurle tumultuous feverIsh houi hOL is rot subject to that Lat n the th trouble with wih tho th house is that tha it is i deadly dead sick of ot v all al with a suspicious c r nia i t eye oye ye i 1 why it is i that a a n in the house ouse te is i a tt indeed id d Some senators to keep up u m in the th senate ente the habits habl of or the n aid JI the result is pathetic It I used to be ant a sad thing to see Senator Mason ason making malt stump speeches eloquent and full fuh of wit tg which on the stump would have haY won wIt him thunders of applause while the sen n atonal audience sat st chill chin and numb with icicles visibly forming foring on their beards b ards Effectiveness of Bailey This is why Baileys speech was a tri tn even een though tough the te applause was necessarily restricted to the galleries Bailey Baley is one of the most effective speak spek ers era In the te senate It I Is i but rarely that he essays eloquence his speeches arc ae gen storehouses of logic And in this speech which an eulogy of the State of Texas Teas he did not tear passion pasion to tatters he barely gestured The effect he won was by modulations of the voice voI e and not by waving of the hands hads Bend Jugs ings ing slightly forward with finger tips on his desk he swept the gamut with his voice and the flow ot of o perfectly chosen words had its is perfect ment ment He Be le has one extraordinarily ef trick of voice he raises it as he h approaches a climax clma till tn it touches the accustomed tone and then at the last phrase suddenly drops it to the conversational style style In an eloquent peroration the effect is so thrilling as to send a shiver through the nerves Spooner Is regarded as the ablest talk talker er in the senate He is i too old a sena aena tor ever to drop into his style like that of Bail Baj IB lS of ot close dose ar at argument and strength of logic Lut ut he is isa isa isa a most enthralling speaker and tile the t e sen son senate senate ate pays pa s him the tribute of o strict at tenton He delights to tn wring tons from antagonists and when some time has ha gone by without an ton Con Spooner will wil focus fo us his gaze upon some opponent and fire off sentences that sound like personal insults in uIt though what he is saying has ha nothing whatever to todo do with the man he is looking it at The effect is Invariable the th victim resists as a l ng as he h can antI ami then rises and nn begins an interruption which down brings a re tort like a pile DUe driver Squelching of Beveridge It I may be thought that Beveridge and an I Depew are exceptions to what has ha been beer beens I Isid sid said s ld of senatorial oratory But nobody takes Beveridge B seriously in the senate His somewhat sophomoric eloquence jars jan the senate and ad has ha no other effect in the th world The Te senate still remembers with L glee the way in which old Senator Pettus the oldest man in the chamber extin extinguished Beveridge for a whole session Beveridge had tried three wondrously elo do eloquent eloquent quent speeches peeches on the senate without L visible result result and the old man from Ala bama thought it was wa time to trounce the th i young youns man from Indiana Indiana So he rose am anc and L delivered an impressive imitation of Dev Bev Be Deveridge wih with his hand between the third I te and fourth buttons of ot his frock coat anc an and L the senate screamed with laughter and anc F pounded its it desks It I t did ld not cure Beveridge permanently He recovered and speeches from him are ati I frequent events event H dashes up and down 1 the aisles turns and twists his body anc ad I slams adjacent desks with his fists It II L looks oddly out of place in that dignified and chilly chamber tat Two young oung senators Dolliver and ear Car Carmack Cr mack mack are ae least of ot all al affected by the tho sen sea senate senate ate chill chi Dolliver Is a man ma with a a rapid delivery delver and a fine choice of words which cannot be b detracted from even eyen by his bis rough voice voIce Carmack Carmack too has a a re remarkable remarkable command of English so s much so that his Impromptu retorts to sound like the finished product of a night spent in polishing a speech But when you ou quit the senate chamber chaber travel ravel through the big building and arrive on the house side all al Is changed As you OU open the te gallery gler door a confused and rest less ess hum greets greet your ears on the floor foor are men rushing to and fro ire and confer conferring conferrIng conferring ring wih with each other ether as If they t ey had not nota a minute to live and and somewhere in the te middle of the great eat hall ball hal a man Is making 1 a speech to which nobody pays pas the least i attention though he Is raising his voice i in n a frantic attempt to overcome the te roar of conversation Thus the house presents Its It own ow ob oh obstacles obstacles to the orator different from the senates Yet there are men whose ap appearance appearance on the house floor foor instantly stills stis the noise and brings s swarms of congress congressmen men crowding in through the doors from the cloakrooms eagel to hear hea every ever word Reminiscences of Hepburn One of these thee is Colonel Hepburn of Iowa owa whom Democrats have called caled the te Republican big gun and the Long Tom of the Republican side He is put for forward forward forward ward on all aU occasions when the Republicans cans need a strong speaker and ad is con considered considered considered the ablest debater they have He is a old man alan whose speeches are made up of an irre irresistible irresistible gush of common sense combined with wih flashes of wit and sarcasm sarcasm Once a arash arh arash rash rh Democrat interrupted Hepburn with witha a learned argument designed to confute and overwhelm the veteran Its It weakness was that it i did not have much to do with wih the subject under discussion Mr Chairman retorted Hepburn scornfully that interruption reminds me rae meef meef ef of the old Wisconsin lawyer lawer who did not know kow any Latin and who was confronted by b a young oung lawyer who hurled endless reams rems of it at him When he got up to reply he said Your honor I too under understand understand stand Latin I have hoe roamed with wih old Ro Romulus Romulus I have hae canted with wih old Cantharides ides I have ripped with wih old Euripides Eurpides and ad I have socked wih with old Socrates Socrates but what in hell hel has that to do with the stat statutes statutes statutes utes of Wisconsin The interrupter was wa squelched under a howl of laughter and it was vs lone Iong lo after that before any anyone one interrupted Hepburn again Another of these men who command in instant instant instant stant attention is General Generl Grosvenor of Ohio His slashing wit and peppery pepper tem tern temper temper per make him hm an antagonist to be feared He Is a plainspoken man and when he heet gets et Interested Interest d in a debate the fur flies fies Once he met his match in the person of Vandiver of Missouri who being Inter Interrupted Interrupted interrupted by a question queston as to whom he ho meant by bJ his repeated references to the gen gentleman genteman tieman teman from Ohio replied Being prohibited by the te rules from re referring referring referring ferring to him by b name I will wil designate him as a that gentleman genteman from Ohio who looks tan like Santa Santa Claus Claus and talks tak like Uke Sa Sn Satan Satan Williams and Cockran Another Is John Sharp Williams about abou the best debater in the house He lie is no noso not so effective on the stump he Is at his 1111 best in an argument The whole house t hangs on his words when the Democratic t leader quitting his seat set comes out in the thc t aisle and pointing his whole hand in instead instead instead stead of his finger at the Republican side darts dart some destructive bomb of ot argument at them in that nasal nal and yet singularly attractive voice of his The skepticism and cynicism of the house toward oratory orator makes such a tri triumph tn emph as a Bourke Cockran won in his fo forensic forensic forensic battle batte with Dalzell Dalzel a vastly greater geater triumph than can be won on anywhere else The Congressional Record gives no Idea of or the intensely inte cJ dramatic nature of that scene when IP il li response to Cockrans de tie demand demand mand that Dalzell Dalzel should name the man who accused Cockran to him the whole Democratic Democratic side bounded to Its It feet and shouted Name ame him Name him at Dal DaT Dalzel rell zell zel while Cockran striding down dow the aisle and pointing his finger at Dalzell Dalzel seemed to be riding a storm |