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Show 00 'l&i DRESSING A POLITICAL PART. ; & ,br A middle stato newspaper, resent- s K8. Ing somo criticism of the personal Cd appearance of a local member of the - fc House, declares that he dresses well 'fe and is not "to be put lu a class with Senator Jeff Davis and other derna- (jU? gogues." j ()tl Evidently the writer of that parA- ' lS graph has never seen Mr. Davis, who I -5 is ono of the best dressed men in the '. fe Senate, His apparel is of the finest : IK quality and cut In the fashion. His t linen would pass muster In the most J 4 exacting quarter. He has a small foot j and covers it with a neat shoe, kept Ig'i well polished. His hair, parted near & the middle, 1b always In order. The ' rf1 suggestion that the Arkansas Senator . fiff Is frowsy and unkempt Is absurd. 5p Whllo not clasaablo as a dude, he I3 igi decidedly good to seo and keeps him- i? self In trim. ; fl An opinion uncomplimentary to Mr. ' tfC Tillman's appearance for a time pre- ' jjft vailed. Readers nt a distance from fjgj this town saw in their mind's eye a ,. , rough and ill-dressed man from South ', jjgf Carolina In a prominent seat in the JJi Senate. He Is not Adonic In shape, Kfe nor a student of style in dress, but ' hi neither is ho a sloven His (allor . B-may B-may not find It easy to fit him, but ;; W1 has often a chance to try'. The South Carolina Senator dresses comfortably , g and well. . y? And soon Mr. Vardaman of Missis- Kf elppl is to Join the Senatorial band . R He Is another man whose opinions are ; rlfi so extreme and have been expressed ,; (fe with such plcturesquo energy a flfc rough and tough figure has been exeat- VM ed In the popular fancy. But he Is ,jjkj the very opposite of that, being almost ilf an exquisite In dress. He selects the fe latest patterns, has them prepared In ' tj the latest sartorial "thoughts," and . Jf when on view on tho hustings or In p the drawing-room ho Is "a thing of : jj beauty" and a joy while he lingers. ' -j Indeed, the "dressy" pien in tho Sen- . m ate have received an informal warn- lng to look tq their toggery; that tho ; & "white chief" will put them to their IITr trumps, not to say trunks, when ho ' ( arrives. , 5e Twenty years ago the PopUlJstB suf- 1 fered In this way They were all de- fjp scribed as very wild and woolly, and Kj an offense to the eye. When one of 15 their leaders camo to Congress ho !T boro the sobriquet pf "tbo sockless statesman." What appearance at jgj home Jerry Simpson may havo made gj that gavo him auch a titlo was not Iw repeated here. SocklesB ho may havo , been In rural Kapsas while drumming MH for votes. Sockless he may have Jfe been at a still earlier day, while sail- . orlng on the Groat Lakes. But BockJ ftg less he never was in Washlpgton. So m neatlv groomed was ho, indeed, ho fjji might have passed for a merchant or p a banker, prosperous In business and on good terms with his tailor. r In tho case of politicians tho ap- parel does not always proclaim tho man The play does not go that far. A cheap wardrqbe does not ve-onforco a reddieaded vocabulary and an expressed ex-pressed purpose to turn things upsldo down and reconstruct the universe. Washington Post. 00 |