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THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IK ALABAMA
Adoption of the Burleigh Bill.
The Burleigh plan which the House
has accepted admits of no paradoxes be
cause it does not assume any given
number as the total membership of the
House. A ratio is selected that will not
reduce any State's representation, and
then a member is added for every ma
jor fraction, letting the total member
ship go where it will. The ratio was
put at 194,279. It was put at this figure
to let Nebraska have five members on
full ratios, and a sixth member on a
major fraction of 97,289, or 164 mors
than one-half of a ratio.
This plan adds 29 members to a
House already too large for the transac
tion of business and for freedom of de
bate and personal influence. The House
1* governed by its officers and party
chiefs, and the average member is but
a spoils distributor and convenience.
The bill that the House has adopted
carries, not only the House to 386 mem
bers, from 357, but it makes the elect
oral college consist of 476 members, in
stead of 447. In these increased bodies
Alabama has no greater representation,
because she has an unrepresented frac
tion of 79,186. Under the Hopkins bill
this State would have had a represented
fraction. She must take instead an un
represented fraction, which is a distinct
loss In political power.
Of the 29 members added by the Bur
leigh bill, Texas gets 3, Arkansas 1,
Florida 1, Mississippi 1 and North Caro
lina 1—total 8. The other 21 members
go to Northern States. The bill was
really passed in part because of its sec
tional unfairness, and in part on account
of weak-kneed States. It is a bill that
should be defeated in the Senate, but
it will go through the sectional Senate
for the same reasons that put it through
the sectional House.
Mr. Crumpacker’s Amendment.
Mr. Crumpacker of Indiana succeeded
in lining up a good part of the Repub
lican party in the House in favor of
reducing Southern representation, but
the majority and the Burleigh bill was
sectional enough without a Crumpacker
annex, and so it went through without
one.
Mr. Crumpaeker's audacity in attack
ing the representation of four Southern
States is shown by a glance at tne suf
frage restrictions of the various States.
He did not attack the representation of
California, and yet no one in that State
can vote who is unable to read the
State constitution and to write his
name. He did not attack the represent
ation of Connecticut, and yet no one
can vote in that State who cannot read
the State constitution and statutes.
Delaware's voters must also be able to
read and write. Utah’s voters must
let go of their religion as to piural
wives. Maine’s voters must be able to
read the State constitution, or to write
their own names. Likewise in Massa
chuetts. In Michigan duelists and ac
cessories cannot vote. In New Hamp
shire paupers and non-taxpayers are
shut out. Non-taxpayers are also shut
out in Pennsylvania. In Vermont only
those can vote who have obtained the
approbation of the board of civil author
ity of the town in-wbich they reside. In
Wyoming a voter must be able to read
tne State constitution.
The Crumpacker resolution is broad
enough in its terms, but its author did
not fire it at any of these States. It
was directed against four Southern
States, no one of which has a more
stringent restriction than a half a dozen
Northern States have. The Massachu
setts restriction, for example, would ex
clude from the ballot boxes three-fourths
of the negroes of Mississippi, Louisiana,
South Carolina and North Carolina, be
sides a large number of whites.
Care of Insane in the State.
The biennial report of the trustees
of the Bryce Hospital recalls attention
to the fact that the number of patients
is increasing at the rate of about one
hundred a year, especially among wo
men, and that the wards at Tuscaloosa
are greatly overcrowded. The trustees
urge the use of the Mt. Vernon military
reservation, near Mobile, as a branch
hospital. They urge this both for hu
manity’s sake and for reasons of pub
lic economy.
The Bryce Hospital, now forty years
old, Is full, very full. It contains 17G
more patients than it did two years ago,
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Grade Crossings and Watchmen.
The accident in First avenue, at Twelfth street, is but what may be ex
pected from time to time at other grade crossings in this city where no flag
men are kept, or gates maintained. A train of lumbering cars was pushed
into a trolley car filled with people, and no precautions had been taken
against such an accident.
The responsibility for this accident rests in part upon the city authori
ties that have not properly safeguarded the lives of the people of the city,
and in part upon the railroad company that wrecked the trolley car. The
penalty for this distressing accident should be heavy. It should be heavy '
enough to make similar accidents impossible hereafter.
The truth is, grade crossings in the city should be abolished, and until
they are abolished gates should be placed on each side of eac. and every
crossing in the city. The action of the city authorities cannot be too sud
den or too severe. The manner in which grade crossings have been kept
in this town has been a constant menace to life, and the accident in First
avenue may bo duplicated any day at a score of unguarded and ungated cross
ings in this city.
The people look to the city authorities for a sharp and positive remedy
in this matter'. Until the crossings now made at grade can be carried under
or over the tracks gates should be maintained. Lives are more precious
than money, and any railroad that crosses the streets of this city should he
compelled to render life at such crossings secure.
when it was considered crowded. Dr.
Searcy says in his report: “I have en
deavored as far as possible, within
bounds of humanity, to decline to re
ceive patients, ant}, have been very lib
eral in sending patients to their homes,
still our population rapidly increases.
One of our most trying duties is to de
cline the appeals of the friends of de
serving and pitiable persons applying
for admission. Our women's wards are
the most crowded and the most incon
venienced, because the women remain
indoors most. To be so crowded is dan
gerous, unpleasant, unsanitary and
harmful.” On September 30 there were
60S white men, 656 white women, 194
colored men and 228 colored women in
the hospital—a total of 1486 persons.
Dr. Searcy has tasen charge of the
Mt. Vernon military reservation, and he
has about 20 negro patients there at
present. He shows at length the ad
vantages of remodelling tne buildings
at Mt. Vernon, so that they would ac
commodate 400 to 500 patients. He
thinks this could be done at an expense
not exceeding $25,000, and that equal
room and accommodations would cost
at Tuscaloosa four or five times as
much money.
Mt. Vernon is in Mobile County, and
that county has 135 patients at Tusca
loosa. Jefferson with twice the popula
tion of Mobile County has 128 patients
there, Montgomery County has 73, Tus
caloosa County 63, and Madison County
53. No other county has 5U patients in
the hospital. Covington County has but
2, being the smallest number in the list.
Paradoxes in Apportionment.
“The Alabama paradox” was much in
evidence during the House debate over
the apportionment bill. It arose in con
nection with the census of 1890. Under
the manner of calculation this State was
allotted 8 Representatives out of a total
of 299, and 7 Representatives -when ths
total became 300. This seemed absurd,
but it was really the result of calcula
tions. This plan of calculation was
adopted in the Hopkins bill, which the
House has rejected.
The calculation is of this nature: The
total population, 74,565,906, is first di
vided by the assumed number of the
House, 357, giving as a ratio 208,868.
Applying this ratio to the several States
a membership of 335 is provided for,
with various fractions aggregating 4,
595,126. The States of Delaware, Idaho,
Nevada and Wyoming are each below
the ratio, but each must have a mem
ber, and the total number outside of the
fractions thus becomes 339, leaving 18
members to be apportioned to the frac
tions.
The apportionment of the 18 members
to the fractions is what creates para
doxes. There are not enough to sat
isfy the major fractions. Some States
must have majority fractions that are
unrepresented, and at times there are
not enough majority fractions, and then
minority fractions gain representation.
Paradoxes thus creep in. To show how
this plan works, take the State of Maine.
She would lose a member on any total
from 350 to 382. With a membership of
383, 384 or 385 Maine would hold her
present membership, four in number.
With a total of 386 she would lose one;
at 387 and 388, she would hold her own
again, but at 389 and 390 she would
again lose a member, while at 391 to
400 she would again hold her present
representation. It all comes about
through the distribution of seats to frac
tions, and especially when there are not
enough major fractions to take up the
seats to be allotted to fractions.
The rejected Hopkins bill left Colo
rado, Florida and N. Dakota with unrep
resented major fractions, although Mr.
Hopkins finally agreed to waive the so
called " ’eciple of this bill by increas
1 ! membership to 360, there
1 the three States named a
mt .. :■ ;cli. The opposition would not
accept the compromise, and the Hop
kins bill was voted down.
Tesla should have Joined the faculty of
Chicago University before he began to
wigwag to Mars. He and Trigg would
make a fine pair to draw to.
Governor Nash is supporting Foraker for
Senator in Ohio, ami Senator Foraker is
supporting Nash for Governor. Nash hopes
to succeed Hanna, retired, in the Senate.
These are the best-laid plans of today.
Rockefeller's fortune, like Shakespeare’s
genius, will, it is now held in the Chicago
University, not be fully appreciated and
measured by contemporaries. They still
hold 'that Shakespeare Is No. 2.
Congress does not keep Senator Morgan
busy, so he has agreed to be the principal
speaker at the annual dinner of the New
ark, New Jersey, Board of Trade, on. Jan
uary 17.
P. Crowe is laughing at the detectives
who never detect He takes all the papers
no doubt, for ho is a well-to-do man who
desires to keep well informed.
Ex-Mayor Hewitt is to stay with us
twenty years longer as a salt cater, but
the sill tier he becomes the less cranky he
should be.
Professor Loeb’s s*alt formula should be
wigwagged to Mars, with a request that
they contrive a way to take the professor
also.
Bank clearings and prosperity are not
watching Wail street, which has no rela
tion to the general condition of the coun
try.
When we get a big army then we will
want a big war in order to keep the former
employed. This is what imperialism is.
Eagles and wolves are now found within
'the city limits of Chicago, and Roosevelt
need not go farther West.
Senator Hawley's temper and Mr. Little
field's sarcasm are relieving the session 01
some of its tediousness.
Battleships are becoming bigger every
year. England is building one of IS,000
tons displacement.
Ambassador Choate is neglecting his
duties when he lets Stead inflict himself
on this country.
The canteen issue seems to outrank in
Congress everything except the subsidy
steal.
Tesla’s messages to and from Mars are
received subject to delays in transmission.
Atlanta got in on the kidnapping line of
business rather late, but In good shape.
James J. Hill may look like a methodist
preacher, but he does not act like one.
It begins to look as if Mr. Crowe had
kidnapped himself.
Denmark is trying to sell us a gold
brick.
Brine’s the thing now. Ask Professor
Loeb.
HEATED.
From the Omaha World-Herald.
John Hell and Peter Devil are near neigh
bors in Oklahoma. The climate in that vi
cinity is quite tropical.
A DAILY THOUGHT.
Colton.
There is this difference between happi
ness and wisdom: He that thinks himself
the happiest man is really so; but he that
thinks himself tile wisest is generally the
greatest fool.
UNANSWERABLE HARRISON LOGIC.
From the Indianapolis News.
A large majority of the Republican pa
pers do not seem to know what to do with
General Harrison's remarks, and they do
the next best thing—they keep silent.
A GOVERNOR ON CHILD LABOR
From the Atlanta News.
Governor McSweeney of South Carolina
makes a plea for legislation against child
labor. He admits It is dangerous to interfere
with family government by legislation, but
declares that the situation becomes alarm
ing when little children are not protected
from "vampire parents who spend their
time in idleness and live off the labor of
their children, who are required to work in
mills without the advantages of school.”
That is the case in a nutshell and sooner
or later the Georgia Legislature will see it
in that light.
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
t"rom the New York Press.
The first week a man is married he aot»
'most as proud as he did the day he first
wore suspenders.
No man can listen ‘to a woman talking
baby-talk for five minutes and believe in
letting women vote.
Probably no butterfly thinks any of the
other worms will ever be smart enough to
turn the way be did.
You can always tickle a homely woman
‘by telling her how overestlmaled you
think some other pretty girl is.
Tit’s easy enough to get the men to go to
church until they get married. After that
they get preaching at home.
The average woman would die perfectly
happy if she couM only know that a cer
tain man would come to the funeral and
crjt.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this
day. Thursday, January 10, 1801:
"Sell In the morning."
"Beware of losses and speculation. If this
be thy birthday. Keep thy money save and
run no risk. In thy family expect sickness.
Those in employ will be more fortunate.”
"A child born on this day will be prodigal,
careless, and spend its money on pleasure
and company. It will be clever, and should
keep in employ.” —
Here’s a Letter For You.
“Everybody who receives a letter this
morning will be interested in knowing that
this day, January 10th, Is the sixtieth an
niversary of the establishment of the tirst
cheap postage-that was the penny postage
of England, which went into effect under
an act of Parliament January 10, 1S40, and
which was the real beginning of the world-'
wide postal systems which all the peoples
of enlightenment enjoy on this midwinter
morning In the lirst fortnight ot the first
year of the twentieth century," said a man
who receives letters.
"To that act of the British Parliament is
every inhabitant of America largely indebt
ed for cheap and quick delivery of letters
anil all things sent through the mails, for
England set the example which all the na
tions have followed; though it was not until
seventeen years ago, October, 1SS3, that we
Americans were favored with as cheap a
letter-rate of postage, two cents, as was
given to the inhabitants of the British
islands forty-three years earlier. The leader
of the successful movement for cheap and
uniform postage in England was Sir Row
land Hill, whose name is for ever linked
with that convenience most cherished by
mankind.
• The history of the postal servic».is large
ly the history of mankind since Cyrus the
Elder, King of Persia, established his pos
tal system 559 years before Christ down to
the present time. The postal system of
China is very ancient. Marco Polo tells us
he discovered at the close of the thirteenth
century, seven hundred years ago, that the
'Great Khan,' ruler of China, then kept 10,
000 postal stations, and 300,000 horses for the
use of his carriers; and the mails often cov
ered 'a good 2'<0 or 250 miles a day and as
much in the night,' so excellent was the
Chinese system two hundred years before
the discovery of America, when China then
had about one-seventh ,ps many post offices
as the United States has now.
“Down to 1863 postage in the United States
was charged according to distance, but in
that year the distance feature was abolished
by act of Congress and the uniform letter
rate within the United Sates fixed at three
cents, at which it remained until 1883, or
Just twenty years, when the present two
cent rate was adopted, and which is pre
cisely the penny-rate of England. It is in
teresting to note that while the 1 nited
States post office is conduced at an annual
loss to the treasury of several million dol
lars, the British post office department pays
a clear x>roflt of about fifteen million dol
lars. In Great Britain the telegraph lines
all belong to the government and are a part
of the post office system. For the uniform
payment of sixpence, twelve cents, anybody
'in the British islands can send a ten-word
telegram to any part of the islands.’’
Carrie Bridwell'6 Portrait.
A large and exquisitely drawn portrait
of Miss Carrie Bridewell makes attractive
the musical page of the New York Tribune
of Sunday. The picture is the width of
two of the Tribune's wide columns, is in
half-tone and is very true to life. It is from
u new copyrighted photograph, and under
it is the inscription, “Carrie Bridewell,
Contralto, Metropolitan Opera Company.”
Coal at Three Dollars.
“We are selling all the coal we can dig
and receiving three dollars a ton for it at
the mines," said Captain McConnaughy,
the noted superintendent of the Montevallo
Coal and Transportation Company of Mon
tevallo.
“Outside Alabama our largest smpmeius
are to Georgia, and we also have many
good customers in South Carolina and
New Orleans. The quality of our coal makes
it comparatively high-priced and in strong
demand, and that is why we receive for
our product so much more at the mines
than some other coal companies get. In
other words, we work the Montevallo
seam, and coal men understand what that
means. The demand for coal generally Is
very strong, I understand, and I shouldn’t
be surprised at increased prices. At our
mines, which are two miles from Monte
vallo, all hands are very busy and every
thing is in most satisfactory condition."
Lee and Some Democrats.
Somebody yesterday asked State Chair
man Lowe if »r.he calling of the State Dem
ocratic Comm.;tee to meet in Montgomery
on General Lee’s birthday was accidental
or by design. Mr. Lowe said it was acci
dental.
“It is a happy accident,’* remarked a by
stander. “General Lee, in a famous letter
to one of his sons, said: ‘Duty is the no
blest word in our language.’ Ami certain
ly many members of the State Democratic
Committee need to be reminded of their
duty, for by rteglecting their obligations
they' have greatly retarded the business of
the party which they were chosen to rep
resent. It would be well lor the absentees
of the past to remember that they are call
ed to meet tor the transaction of public
business on the anniversary of Lee’s birth,
and they should be reminded of what that
illustrious man said respecting duty. In
this case, maybe there would be a quoruriiv
of the committee present a: Montgomery
on the 19th of January, which will be the |
ninety-third anniversary of the birth of the
great captaiu—of the Confederacy, who
had he lived until that time would have
lived so long without neglecting any real
duty.”
Losing Money.
“There WQjre hundreds of people who at
tended the theatre tonight and thousands
who passed along the streets for other
reasons or causes—lovely women in their
best clothes, and men and women in their
workday wear—and all breasted seas of the
filthiest of all imaginable dust, since it was
blown form the filthiest of all imaginable
streets,” said John Wheeler of South Caro
lina last night.
“These Birmingham streets are simply
horrible in their uncleanliness; I never saw
any streets like them in filth, never heard
of any others so bad. I don’t believe that
•the acUial surface of the paving stones in
the Birmingham streets has been seen in
years. The paving blocks may be of any
material except stone, so far as air onlook
i
k
er can tell; and I don’t suppose the pave
ments have been really clean since they
were laid.
“These foul streets must Impress all visi
tors alike most unfavorably, for it is im
possible for a town to be fully healthy
when absolutely no regard Is paid to com
mon sanitary decency! Birmingham is
prosperous, busy, rapidly growing; but the
tilth everywhere offending must keep a
great number of well-to-do and even
wealthy visitors from settling. Why will
Birmingham stand in the way and keep
away good money when money Is what
everybody is after?”
D’ain't No News.
The Hon. Robert J. I-owe, chairman of
the State Democratic Committee, met on
the street yesterday 'the lion. Alexander
Troy, the eminent lawyer of Montgomery
and lifetime secretary of the Alabama Bar
Association. Mr. Lowe asked Mr. Troy for.
news, in the usual way. That reminded
Mr. Troy of one of dozens of excellent
stories.
Sam Johnson and Jake Smith, two sub
slant ial colored citizens, inet each other in
the morning:
“Sam?” ^
“Jake?”
“How’s you?”
“ ’M well. How's you?”
“ M well. How’s your family?”
“Da’s well. How’s yourn?”
“Da’s well. How’s all?”
“Well. How’s all wld you?”
“Well. What’s de news.”
“D’alnt none— thout you knows some!”
The Caldwells.
Hon. John M. Caldwell of Anniston—not
the Birmingham Jcfiin M. Caldwell, who
hadjust entered Into the bond-brokerage
business—is in Birmingham. The names of
these two notable men being identical,
some confusion appears to have arisen In
the State regarding the business matter,
Mr. Caldwell of Anniston, son of former
Congressman Caldwell, being widely known
in public life; whereas Mr. Caldwell of
Birmingham, son of the late Dr. Henry
Martyn Caldwell, is a young business man
wCt© has never had to do with public life.
The late Dr. Caldwell was survived by
two sons, and two daughters as well, and
the elder son, Mr. Charles H. Caldwell, is
the principal proprietor in the Flint River
Lumber Company, Bainbridge. Ga., which
is understood to be enjoying remarkable
prosperity. This lumber company, by the
way, is sending out one of the most beau
tiful and exquisitely tasteful of all the
New’ Year calendars. A large atnd artistic
picture, "Business Friends in Wall Street,”
represents a pretty little flower girl pin
ning a white chrysanthemum on the coat
of a ruddy-faced newsboy, and the ex
pression on his face is wonderfully sugges
tive. Maybe he’ll be President some day!
Syl Daly Desperately III
The illness of Alderman Sylvester Daly
of the Ninth ward has assumed an ex
tremely critical form, and it is feared the
end may come at any time. Mr. Daly is
fully informed as to his own condition and
has made such preparations as wrere need
ful, though he is wonderfully stout of
heart and insists that he will recover. He
is courageous in the face of his doctor’s
warning of the worst. There are number
less callers at his house, and great sympa
thy is manifested in the city.
About Persons.
Hon. Alexander Troy of Montgomery
was in Birmingham yesterday attending
the annual meeting of the Biimingnam
Realty Company.
* * *
Lawyer S. D. Logan and E. IT. CrawTord
of Centreville were in Birmingham yester
day.
* * «
Dr. H. Kutnow' of London. England, is at
•the Morris.
Rev. Mr. Green of Montgomery, a v
era.,... ..blister, former
ly widely known Methodists of Ala
bama, was in Birmingham yesterday.
THE ALABAMA.
From the New York Press.
Great crowds are visiting the new battle
ship Alabama, lying aft the navy yard, and
the officers of the vessel are working over
time exhibiting her wonders. While her
papor tonnage Is about 1000 more than that
of 'the celebrated Oregon and her alleged
draught is 23 feet, she Is in reality a ship
of 12,000 tons and draws between 25 and
26 feet, when her coal bunkers are full. In
every feature we find improvement upon
older vessels of the navy. An able sea
man, pointing to the semaphores, which
look like railroad signals,, remarked: “We
•thought we were experts in signaling, but
this British fad has been Introduced, and
now we’ve get to learn it and forget what
we have been trained with.” In a few
days the Alabama starts on her Southern
cruise, which will take her to Pensacola,
Havana. Galveston, etc. She is still in the
hands of the navy yard authorities, which
is very trying to her officers. They be
lieve that, when they can get bold of h^jd
and put her in -trim, they will have t^B
orack man-of-war of all fleets. jB
HOT WATER FOR SLEEPLESSNESS^
Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette. 1
A most wretched victim of insomnia of ■
•twci ' y-five years’ standing says:
“l took hot wrater—a pint, comfortably
hot, one good hour before each of my
meals and one the last thing it night—nat
urally unmixed with anything else. The
very fir^-t night I slept for threc hours on
end. turned round and slept again till
morning. I have faithfully and regularly
continued the hot water, and have never
had one bad night since. Pain gradually
lessened and went, the shattered ncirves
became calm and strong, and instead of
each nigb. being one long misery spent in
wearying for the morning they are all too
short for the sweet, refreshing Meep I now
enjoy.”
PARIS A CITY OF NEWSPAPERS
From the Cosmopolitan.
At the moment of writing there are flfty
ct\e papers published in Paris. The precise
time and the exact number are set down
designedly, for the business of journalism
in France predicates bewildering mutability.
Newspapers are born and die after the man
ner of the proverbial flea. If a current pub
lication is not feasible for the matter
In hand a paper is issued to advocate a
cause, to exploit a scheme; Is used as an
instrument of reprisal, a medium for priv
ate promulgation, and it is snuffed directly
the matter for which it was brought into
being is requited or propitiated.
Death of Old Freemason.
Chicago, January 9.—John B. Laing, be
lieved to have been the oldest Free Mason
In the United States, died here today, aged
100 years. Laing joined the order in Scot
land in 1820.
SKETCHES FROM
EVERYDAY LIFE
“Oratory is not the power that 4t once
was,” said ex-Governor Oates in speaking
of the influence which former orators have
had on the history of the country. “This
is due to the fact that people as a whole
are better educated than they have ever
been and are more inclind to do a little
thinking on their own account. An orator
may sway**hi8 audience for the time being,
but when they have a little time to think
over what he said unless it Is something
sensible and forceful 'they will not be In
fluenced by it long. Formerly people were
influenced more by emotion tftan cold rea
son and the speaker who could arouse
their emotion and inspire them with his
oratory was a man of great influence.
Such a man was Patrick Henry. He was
so eloquent and so full of Are that he ig
nited his audience, so 'to speak, and they
agreed to what he said without paying
much thought to what he did say. When
Madison was President he paid a visit to
Jefferson, who was then at his home
Monticello. Jeffcrso-n told him in. speak
ing of Patrick Henry that he had some
times differed from what Henry said in
some of !his speeches and on one or two
occasions had risen to reply and found
himself after he had gotten on his feet
mentally inquiring what he did say. Onco
he could not remember what it was ho
wished to reply to and had to sit down,
Ho mentioned this as going to show that
with an orator it is often not so much
what he says that .impresses you as the
wray in w'hich he says it.
“Two of the greatest orators of the
south, and perhaps of the whole country,”
continued the Governor, “were Wan. L.
Yancey and Alpheus Baker. They were
entirely different in 'their manner of speak
ing. Yancey was cool, calm and collected
in making a speech. He dild not gesticu
late and seldom moved out of his tracks.
His gestures were usually confined to a
quiet waive of the hand. Most oratori
have some peculiar gesture or trick of
manner, and the characteristic movement
of Yancey was a motion of his head. Ho
had long, fine hair which would fall down
over his forehead while speaking, and he
wound toss it back with a motion of hds
head without touching it with his hand.
Baker, on the contrary, was full of action
and very dramatic. He had long arms and
hards which were constantly moving In
striking gestures. He would stoop down
and slap both knees with his hands, then
straighten up and extend W4s arms in the
air. Few if any of the speeches of these
men have been preserved. As a rule onily
extracts fro-m different speeches can be
found.
* * *
“The most effective orator as a rule, that
Is to say, the man whose thoughts are
most apt to stick in the minds of his hear
ers, is the slow plodding speaker who has
something to say that Is worth saying. As
I said, people now-a-days pay more atten
tion to what a man says than the way he
says -it. This Is more true at the norllh
than In the south, for the love of oratory
still exists to a considerable degree in the
south, though we are gradually getting
more like the people of the north in this
respect.
“One of the most monotonous orators I
know is W. C. P. Breckinridge.” "In what
way is he monotonous, Governor?" asked
a listener. “Is It his manner of tome of
voice?” “No," said the Governor, “it is
his eloquence. He is always eloquent, so
much so that It becomes monotonous.
Breckinridge Is naturally a fluent talker.
He told me one day that he was never at
a loss for a word; that on the contrary so
many words presented themselves to his
mind that he had difficulty in making a
choice as to which was the best.
“Judge John Cochran of Alabama, was
one of the best speakers I ever heard. He
understood Uhe art of oratory and knew
just when to let down his audience for a
rest. It will not do to keep them at high
tension all the time; they must be relaxed
and quieted after some brilliant flight. A
good orator understands this just as a good
musician knows that a climax must . be
followed by something restful. Judge
Cochran understood this better than most
speakers and just as the audience was
aroused to the ‘highest pitch and almost un
the point of breaking into cheers he would
gradually and easily let them Jowii^u|h
quit fly and effectively talk to^^rfMjjjHHj
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