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Show STARTS SPEECH WITH PERORATION I;- if ' ( There la only one man in congress who starts to speak with a peroration on his lips. The rest of them all have to take a running start, get up speed, throw in the high gears and with closed eyes and clinched teetb go ripping into the peroration with the flourish of a circus rider jumping through a burning hoop. But not Finley Gray of Indiana. When he speaks the house stands still. He gets more applause than any ten men on either side combined. He knows all the gestures and all the positions. Just listen to the speech he made when Carter Glass gave him one minute just one tittle minute. Could you imagine any one working up a peroration in one minute? min-ute? It would take about eight weeks for most people, and by that time the audience would have been dead. But let Mr. Gray speak. He was referring to the tariff bill: my practice to vote against the previous question where there has been no opportunity for full discussion. But this discussion began in the early Bprlngtime and has continued during the long, weary months of a torrid summer. sum-mer. The birds have nested and ilown with their young; the flowers have bloomed and faded;' the harvests have ripened and been gathered in; the beetles are already singing the dirges of a dying year; the fall has come with the sere and yellow leaf of decay, with wailing winds and naked woods und meadows brown and sere; the first breath of winter is upon our cheek to chill us. "Looking squarely at my platform pledges to the people, I am ready to vote for the previous question." |
