| Show nicknames of prominent men st jerome is senator edmunds nickname john sherman is known as honest john shermain Sher maiL massachusetts boasts of grandfather hoar and grandmother hawes judge belly by the name of protection kelly senator voorhees of indiana is known as the tall sycamore of the wabash uncle dick will be recognized by every illinoisan as meaning governor oglesby 1 oar as the affectionate way in which new yorkers refer to their senior senator coal oil payne will be recognized as an appropriate name for the ohio senator utica N Y bad a congressman who was known as go and binish conr ticket spriggs or spriggs of the late vice president wheeler was known as tio bjone pis herman title is now applied to senator tho prefix or name oar seems in we have our carter our prank lawler and Our Dave latuer the old roman is the way ex senator thurman of ohio is referred tt he has also been spoken of as old bandanna Welle iowa got the name of calamity weller in congress because he saw in every measure which ruin and disaster thomas F grady the eloquent irishman who ran against tim campbell in the congressional race in new york is often called the silver tongued whispering jimmie is the name given general katchem Kot chem of new york because of his habit of whispering into oar what he has to say perpetual motion burleigh was the name given to the representative from the whitehall district new york because of his restless and energetic manner the hon william H morrison acquired the title of horizontal bill in being the author of the horizontal tariff reduction bill which he introduced into the toniy eighth congress the hon S S cox the accomplished rp from new york and late minister to turkey was given the name sunset because of the glowing description of a sunset which he wrote for an ohio paper I 1 which he was editing |
