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CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1889.
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118 Bouth 10th street, - Lincoln
(1KO. N. rOHKHMAN, Agent.
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Safes, Merchandise, Heavy Machinery
etc., Is the best in the city. Special men
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THEY AttE MADE GREAT.
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HOW THE CHARACTERISTICS OF
8TATE8MEN ARE ADVERTISED.
Itie Tendency or Newspapers to Dilate on
Lllllo Tilings Congressman Mnrtlii, of
Texas, Hays "Mow Out the On and IH
mmo Famous."
(Special Corrospondeoco.1
Washington, ny 0. Whnt is fotno?
It hna neither limitations nor definition,
standard nor mlo. It thrives on Any
thing nnd everything, from ambrosia to
dirt, from gonlus to cccontrlolty. It dif
fers in races and among peoples. Tho
Slav's poison may bo tho Saxon's food.
and tho American may grow famous on
that which would but bind tho Britisher
still moro securely in tho chains of ob
scurity. America teems with famous
men. Railway trains, steamers, hotels,
streets nro full of thorn. In no other
country nro thoro so mnny "well known"
men men whoso names, spoken or
printed, nro recognized ns fnmllinr by n
majority of hearers or readers as in this
blessed republic Perhaps It would bo
shoor conceit to say wo hnvo so many
moro really great men thnn England,
Franco or Germany. In point of fact I
don't bcllovo wo hnvo half as many, but
wo become better acquainted with our
notablo men, nnd wo noto men for
8iunller rctiRon. Tills is n fratorunl, com
pnnlotmblo pcoplo. Fow arbitrary bar
rlors nro erected between classes.
Our great statesmen, great law
yers, gient railroaders, great pugi
lists, great inventors, groat journal
ists, great gamblers, great wits, great
orators, great basoball players, groat
millionaires, great nctors, great poli
ticians, great horso trainers, grent mer
chants hobnob together liko brothers.
And wo nro, too, such travelers that tho
Callforninn Is almost as well known in
Now York ns tho Now Yorker. Men
from nil tho nook.i nnd crannies of tho
Jnnd nro constantly mooting nnd com
mingling in business, politics, oftlco seek
ing, summer resorting, conventions of 11
thousand kinds, anniversary gatherings
such as tho presidential innugmntlon nnd
tho Washington centennial.
Out moro than nil wo nro n nation of
gossips. Wo tnlk moro about men than
things. And tho secret of it all out
nowspajwrs nro greater gossips than wo
nro. They so deftly mix their iiowh nnd
their gossip that you can't tell ono from
tho other. You don't wish to. Only, if
you stop to think about it at nil, you nro
likely to rcallzo that tho gosRlp is tho
best pnrt of tho feast. Without tho gos
sip, news is liko pudding unsauccd. If
really hungry for substantiate you could
cat your bread minus butter, but you
prefer tho butter, and plenty of it.
It is tho nowspapor that makes our
great men. It is tho newspaper that
scans hotel registers, sots Argus eyed ob
servers iu hotel rotundas; it is'tho nows
papor that makes tho namo of CoL Slap
dash, of Texas, well known in Boston,
and tho namo of Judgo Goodboy, of Now
York, liko unto n household word in tho
states of tho Mississippi valloy or tho
Pacific coast. Tho English newspaper
docs not gossip, except in tho most lim
ited and frozen fashion. Tho French
nowspapor does not gossip, oxcopt about
actresses, Boulangor, and tho thrco or
four conspicuous figures momentarily
before tho publio oyo. Tho German
newspapers novcr heard of such a thing
as gossip, and I doubt if their languago
contains n synonym for tho word.
In this country tho man who docs or
becomes anything a littlo out of tho
common run Is introduced to tho publio
In detail as lxy, collegiate, early strug
glor for distinction, winner of famo or
success. Wo aro told how many girls
ho courted boforo ho married, what
clothes ho wears, what ho cats, what
sort of neckties ho likes. Ills wifo and
children aro introduced along with him,
and a good many of his other relatives.
All tho nowspapcrs gossip, and then
swap gossip, nnd thus tho now man bo
foro tho publio eye, or tho now woman,
becomes as well known to tho whole
American pooplo as if our country wero
a suburban neighborhood and wo had u
now sottlcr with his washing out on tho
lino and tho first calls mado by all our
good but inquisitive and observing
wives.
Nor is this all. Wo havo developed an
amazing fondness for printing men's
pictures, and for calling men by thoir
baptismal appellations or their nick
names. Thus wo havo "Jim" Blaine,
"Bob" Ingereoll, "Ttcump" Sherman,
"Mat" Quay, "Charloy" Farwoll, "Tom"
Bowcn, "Sam" Cox, "Joo" Cannon,
"Tom" Reed, "Chanco" Dopow, "Undo
John" Sherman, "Grandfather" Payno
and many others, just as wo used to
havo "Andy" Johnson, "Chet" Arthur,
"Jack" Logan and "Abo" Lincoln. All
theso aro aids to tho memory and pro
moters of familiarity. Going still further
wo aro prono to mako men great for lit
tlo things. In making its famous persons
gossip uses a wonderful variety of ma
terials. This man is known tho country
over for his old hat, another for his cra
vat, a third becauso ho is in loro with an
actress, a fourth becauso ho killed
another man, a fifth for his funny
stories, and a man may gain famo at ono
fell swoop by a singlo remark, liko Flan
nagan's "What arn wo horo for?"
Thero aro centers of commeico, manu
facturing, learning, railroads, culture,
horso breeding, natural gas, literaturo
and other material and immaterial things,
but Washington is tho center of gossip.
In other places gossip is an amusement;
hcro.lt is a business. And it is hcio tho
methods, trends and influenco of tho
national characteristic of gossiping aro
best studied. Hero is it seen as on a
housetop how gossip makes a publio man
moro widely known for his personal
traits or eccentricities than for his genius
or statesmanship, how gossip gives fume,
or at least Its common equivalent, noto
riety, to men who havo no other claim
thereto, how reputations aro manufact
ured out of trivial Incidents and names
are sent thundering down thu4igcs with
nothing but Inconsequential idiosyncra
sies to propel them.
There is Kentucky's fawnic urn, Sin-
ntor Blackburn, surely a famous man.
Yet ho is better known for his bonhomio,
his brcczlncRS nnd as "Joo" than for his
oloquenco or statesmanship, great as
theso aro. If ox-Senator Bowcn had not
been a poker player It is doubtful if his
namo would havo been spread familiarly
to nil parts of tho country, nnd his for
mer colleague, Tabor, is to this day bet
ter known for his two hundred dollar
night shirt than for his millions nnd his
business ublllty. Ex-Senator Chaco, of
Rhodo Island, becamo quickly known
for his Quakerish origin und nppenrancc.
Senator Davis, of Minnesota, though n
brilliant man, has been helped to a gen
oral reputation by tho beauty of his wife,
Evon ns great and learned a man as Sen
ator Evarts would novcr havo becomo as
familiar to tho common people ns ho has
but for tho joko nbout his interminably
long sentences nnd tho popular notion
that his hat was loft in tho ark by Noah.
A good deal of a statesman is Senator
Hlscock, but his personal beauty has
carried his namo further than ills ability
could havo douo, had it been twico as
great. Tho fact that Senator Gorman
was onco a pago in tho sennto and after
ward a ball player has contributed much
to tho oaso and rapidity with which his
liamo has becomo as familiar as a house
hold word. Senator Ingalls is moro fa
mous for his Invective than for his states
manshlp and eloquence.
Senator Morgan is not well known tho
country ovor, but In many places that
ho is known, 'tjs for his long, continued-in-our-next
speeches nnd not for his
general worth as u senator. Minister
Palmer is kndwn as tho man who gives
such onjovnblo dinners and tells so many
good stories. Ex-Senator Riddlobcrgcr
has becomo famous for his eccentricities.
Senator Sawyer is noted for his cor
pulency and good humor. Even in a
really great statesman liko John Sher
man, lilsnllegcdcharacterlatioof frigidity
of manner is tho first thing that comes
to mind when his namo is spoken. Who
has not heard of Martin, of Texas? His
namo is known from Mniuo to Oregon
becauso tho newspapers havo told Btories
of his peculiarities, botno of them npoc
ryjihnl. When asked, recently, how to
win fame, Martin icplled: "Blow out
tho gas."
Monc, of Massachusetts, was In con
gress a number of years nnd enjoyed but
n local reputation till Molvinlcy illus
trated his tariff speech with a suit of
clothes Ixnight for S10 In Morso's Boston
store. An nblo und admirable man is
William Walter Phelps, but his bang
and red necktio nro better known than
unythlng Phelps over did or said. Allen,
of Mississippi, hns won famo as n story
teller and not usn statesman, nnd his
namesake of Massachusetts will go dowu
in history, not as tho brilliant young
member from tho Old Bay stato (though
this distinction ho may bo fairly entitled
to), but as tho man who carried a camera
under his vest and took snap shots at his
fellow members of tho iiouso in all their
various and undignified attitudes.
A witty, brilliant, eloquent, useful
and industrious man is tho Hon. S. S.
Cox, but his famo is twico as broad with
tho nicknatiio "Sunset" as it would have
been without it. So great is his reputa
tion us a wag that ono of tho trials of his
llfo is to convinco pcoplo that ho is sin
cere. Springer, of Illinois, is known to
famo as tho man who always wears a
pink boutonnicrc, though ho, too, is a
hard working und useful legislator. Con
gressmen Bayno and Adams nro known
as tho men who sit sido by sido in tho
houso and look liko a pair of twins.
Frank Lawler, of Chicago, a very clover'
Irishman, has had Ills namo sent to tho
four corners of tho country on account
of his peculiar uso of tho president's
English. Bacon, of Now York, camo
down to congress and becamo known
almost instantly and very widely ns the
man who looked liko Shakcspeuro. "Soino
men aro great, soino achiovo greatness
and somo havo greatness thrust upon
thorn."
Gibson, of Maryland, is well known
as tho Adonis of congress, Spinola as
tho man with tho wido collar, Jehu Ba
ker as tho statesman with a suit of
clothes of tho pattern of Henry Clay's
day. Blund, of Missouri, will llvo in
history us "Silver Dollar Bland." Sow
den, of Pennsylvania, becamo a national
flguro becauso President Cleveland vo
tocd his bill to build a government post
office In Allcntown. Forun, of Ohio,
won moro famo as tho reputed author of
"Tho Breadwinners," which ho didn't
write, than as a moldcr of his country's
laws in tho hulls of congress. Holman,
of Indiana, will bo celebrated through
all timo us tho great objector. John
Wanamaker's strides toward famo aro
much accelerated by his Sunday school
superintendency and his manufacture of
trousers. Congressman Mason, of Chi
cago, is becoming famous as a story teller
and wit, rather than as a great publio
servant, and tho fact that all his friendi
call him "Billy" helps his progress
amazingly, Weaver, of Iowa, won
much notoriety as a filibuster. Kil
goro, of Toxas, had his namo printed in
every American nowspapor becauso of
his stubborn rcslstanco to tho bill to
mako Sheridan general of tho army
whllo that popular hero was lying on his
death bed.
Thus it goes through a long list of men
whoso names aro familiar in tho cars of
tho people. You can count on your
fingers tho publio men now living who
havo n fume us wido as tho country Itself
and who havo not been helped thereto by
ono or other of theso littlo things on
which the popular oyo or ear seizes with
kuch avidity and tho popular memory
holds so tenaciously. Two conspicuous
instances, and only two, conio to mind
as I write. Ono of these, and tho most
notable one, is Senator Allison, who has
been a quarter of a century in congress,
whoso fume is us broad as tho domain of
his country, and who has no peculiarity
or characteristic of common notoriety,
Tho other is Congressman MoKinley; but
oven ho has been helped by his some
what theatrical nnd clover display of a
pair of trousers as cmpluulsto his speech
on tho tnrilf.
Thero is an old saying that it is tho
littlo things that mako the man. Surely
it is the littlo things in this country nnd
era of gossip that make tho man's repu
tation. Waltek Wellman.
1870
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1889
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