CAPITAL CITY COURIER, SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1897
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WALTER WELLMAN WRITES OF WALK.
INQ ENCYCLOPEDIAS.
aw lh Washington Correspondent (Intli
era itml IMaitii Information f Cm
' real KvliU Hit All Kmbraelng, lllnli
' ey VI cut of legislation.
Hwlil Ltrrromlnce.
Washington, April ?. In tliln capital
city of tho Unltod States of Ainuricti
there in 110 profession mi interesting nt
tho profession of joitnmll-in. Uoro wc
havo protiMliml M)lltleliiim, profession
III statesmen, professional lobbyintn, pro
feeeiunal fanner, proftmsionnl ovory
thing) bnt of them all notio form such a
compact, picturesque, litllo understood
ad withal so useful n corjw of workers
M tho nowspniHT cortvsttontlcnta. Doing
member of thin corjw, I liopo I alinll
ot bo Accused of blowing my horn
when 1 say th'it I nm often anmxctl nt
Um intelligence, tho industry, tho wid'i
range of information, tho nouinon ami
shrewdness of tho men who represent
here the great nowspajtors of tho land.
I would sooner tako tho judgiuont of
the correspondent on tho probablo out
coino of an nttompt to pass a cortaln
bill, on tho nominations to bo mado by
the great political parties, or anything
of that sort In which information and j
discernment aro requisite to tho making
of m good estimate, than tho judgment
of all tho senators or all tho inomtwrs of
koase, or both combined. I will toll
jrou why. When a senator or a repre
sentative want to inquire about some
thing he hunt up a nowspapor corre
spondent. Experience has taught him
where to go for trustworthy informa
tion. Of course tho correspondent! are
v OMtaatly uking the statesmen for
f stows, too, and thus we have hero an ad
Arable system of reciprocity in the
spread of intelligence. But there is a
awkable difference between what the
iateane know and what the scribes
kaow.
The Irst kuow tome things the legis
lrtfcm ia which they are directly inter
I, the politics of their particular sec
of the country and so on batter
the other follows: but their gen
ral information is much more limited
than that of the correspondent. Tho
Utter know about all that all of tho
statesmen know. Thoir information ia
cyclopedic They know tho senate as
well at the house of representatives, who
wrote Congressman Blank's speech, what
wm done in the last executive session,
what this or that leader of his party U
working for and how he intends to ac
complish it, the political drift by statos,
coteries, sections of country, tho country
aa a whole, v;ho are in favor of a given
bill and who are not, and a thousand
other things. These men make it tho
boftinesa of their lives to know things;
they spend all their time hunting for
facta. They are trained to the work,
their eoent is sharpened by necessity,
they have splendid opportunities and
they help one another. Why shouldn't
they be the beat informed men in Wash
tattoo?
(Newspaper men know better what fa
likely to happen in the senate or house
thaa the statesmen themselves. The
latter have a narrow view, confined tc
their particular friends, tho line of log
iaUtion emanating from thoir commit
tees. The view of the scribe is as from
a; bird's eye, He sees it all, and ho ia
gifted with the power of generalisation.
carious incident of this was afforded
ia thereceut struggle over tho Bland
silver bill. The leaders on the opposing
Me did not have as accurate an idea of
tho situation and their own strength as
tho newspaper men had. While tho
attsilver loaders were giving up tho
If htaad acknowledging that they would
be beaten by thirty or forty majority, the
eerressoadents saw that the vote was
going to bo very close, perhaps not ten
majority either way. Yon will remem
ber that the first or test vote came out a
oadtie.
Paring this roll call, which was one
of j tho moot sensational ballots we have
over had in the house, 1 was much inter-
is) watching a certain newspaper
who sat beside me with a tally
sheet ia his haad. When a man voted
yea he made a mark at the left of hit
Basse, and those who voted nay were
checked at the right Aa the roll call
proceeded, the pencil. ot my friend pre
eodod.the repo)s&of the members on
tho fioor below. He checked the names
before tho responses were ottered, and
iacaly ivo instances was he compelled
to change hia marks. In other words,
ho knew how all those 800 men, saving
ivo, woald vote; aad ho could have sat
down before the roll call was begun aad
made op a tally sheet with this remark
able accuracy. There wasn't a member
a tho" floor, not even a leader for or
against tho bill, who had anything liko
so clear an idea as this of what the re
alt was going to be.
Newspaper correspondents in Wash
lagtoa have nothing to do but watch
what is going on, study the men who
aro making laws and controlling poll
' tics, converse with senators, representa
tives and all sorts and conditions of men
who aro likely to be possessed of infor
mation, and give to their papers the re
salt of their observations and inquiries,
A good deal is said about the unreli
ability of the press. A largo class of
persona appear to think it smart to say
to themselves and to one another, "If
yoa boo it in a newspaper it isn't, so."
Bat lot mo tell them that I do now know
a correspondent for the press iu Wash
iagtoa, aad I know them all, who isn't
asparlicnlar to bo accurate and trust
worthy in what bo writes that is, as
accurate as possible, for the ideal is
Bovorattainable-aabo would be were he
a lawyer naking ap his evidence or writ
iafjMtaU'brlof. Tho one straggle ia which we are all
oagagod is to get facia, and to report
sheas 'pleasantly, eoaofaely, faithfully.
The representative of the press at this
sopttal -are aotoeasatioa mongers! they
an not even partisans, except in a mild
r, aaa aaaor oampalaioa from their
row,. lUvswaBlythe correspond
smt of apartv paper it broader than hi
paper, and would mako his news and hi
writings savor less of political bias If he
thought hi managing editor won. I
stand it It is a romarkablo fact Unit
groit majority of tho men who come to
Wathltuton to servo as correspondents
for nowMAHr Iwcomo absolute Inde
pendents in politics. They give up the
allegiance which tlioy onco owned to
this party or that, nud !ocomo more
studonta and analysts.
Naturally, thoy aro n kcoti,nuplcloui.,
cynical, critical lot, thono men who sit
in tho galleries and tnnko or unmake
stalcnmou with mora twists of tho wrist.
There is so much hyiocrlay among the
professional statesmen, no much jiosln.j
and insincerity, no much protestation
and rhetoric for tho benefit of "tho dis
trict" at homo, that tho scribes noon lose
iiutionco with that sort of thing and
learn to judge tho men on tho floor Iw
low at thoir true value. 1 do not mean
to say that nil ntatenmen aro Insincere,
nothing but nctom, striving for popular
ity. But many of them are, and 1 state
without fear of contradiction that n ma
jority of them aro moral cowards iu the
face of public opinion. Day after day
wo nco men voting on questions present
ed for their consideration, acting nut
upon thoir judgmont or thoir conviction
of what is right, hut with solo reference
to what tho popular opinion is in thoir
districts. It is almost pitiful to soo n
man of sense and expotionco, of good
judgmont and wido knowlodgo, sitting
hero a moro nlavo to tho caprico or no
tions of his constituents.
Tako tho silver bill which 1 have men
tioned, for example 1 personally know
of at leant twenty men who voted on
that bill, somo for it and some against
it, who would have rovorsod 'thoir votes
had thoy dared to express their honest
convictions. Of courso their excuse is
that thoy aro representatives and not
free agonts; that it is thoir duty to act
aa a majority of their constituents would
havo them and not to express their own
beliefs. Thoy argue that the house of
representatives was created and organ
ised with this in view; that it was in
tended to bo a reflex of tho opinions and
desires of the people rather than a place
for men to exorcise their judgmont
Tliis view of tiro duty of a congressman
is hold, 1 think, by a majority of the
members of tho house, and this is ono of
the many reasons why I should infinite
ly prefor a scat in tho press gallery to
ono ou tho floor. A Republican may,
represent a Democratic nowspapor, or a
Democrat a Republican paper, with
much less sacrifice of self respect and
wrenching of his conscience than is re
quired to represent a congressional dis
trict in the house.
Onco in awhile some statesman be
comes off ended at tho whole corps of cor
respondents and starts out to "got oven"
with tho press gallery. A number of
bold men havo tried this little thing,
and thoy havo always failed. In u con
test between statesmen and scribes tho
latter invariably stand together, and in
variably got the boat of thoir adversary.
Colonel Hterett, of Toxas, the best story
toller in the presa gallery, has hia unique
way of describing tho fato of tho states
man who Btnrta out to got ahead of tho
correspondent.
"When 1 see a plain, ordinary senator
or representative go on tho rampage try
ing to do up tho press gallory," Bays
Colonel Hterett, "1 am reminded of the
manner in which a friond of mino in
Texas whipped John L. Sullivan. His
name was Marks Al Marks, a cot
ton scrowor in Galveston ono of the
strongest men and gatnost fighters in
Texas. Sullivan canto down there ou a
tour and offered $300 to any man who
would stand in front of him with gloves
three rounds. Marks accepted tho chal
lenge. Aftor tho contest, two weeks
after it, 1 interviewed Marks, and this
ia the way he told his story: 'As I walked
up to tho stago pcoplo cheered mo, and
I felt pretty proud, I was going to put
my bands up against the great Sullivan.
1 felt aure I could whip him. But when
1 got into the ring and John L. stood in
front of me he appeared to be a heap
bigger than he had looked from my seat.
Bnt the people cheered me and I deter
mined to astonish him right from tho
jump. So after we had shaken hands I
let him have a good one right in tho
jaw. Sullivan looked at me in a sur
prised sort of way, and 1 saw that I had
his heart broken. Said 1 to myself, this
man has met his match at last, and he
knows it. He is afraid of me. So 1
gave him some more hard knocks; John
L. looked at me almost appeulingly.
He tried to stop my blows, but ho
was slow and clumsy. Said 1 to
myself: "Marks, you are a made
man. You'll whip this fellow easy.
He ia so slow with his paws that
yon can batter him all to pieces."
But 1 made up my mind I wouldn't
knock him out till near the end of tho
third round 1 didn't want to rob tho
peoplo of thoir sport. At the end of tho
round 1 asked Sullivan how he was get
ting along, and he looked kind o' scared
and said only tolerable. In tho second
round I gave him several more hard ones
and ho continued tq look scared. 1
said to myself it was ridiculous for
thie man to be posing as tho cham
pion of tho world, and determined
that in the next round I'd put an end to
bis absurd pretensions. About tho mid
dle of tho third round, just aa I was get
ting ready to do Sullivan up, 1 saw an
other sort of look come into his eyes.
He looked like some wild animal. In
the next second ho caught me under the
left jaw with his right and lifted me up
from the floor till my toes barely
touched. At this instant his terriblo
left caught we ou the other side of my
face, and' I'll have to finish tho
story," continued Sterett, "for Marks
didn't know much about the subse
quent proceedings. When he had raised
hia man clear of the floor, just as a foot
ball player lifts the ball preparatory to
a kick, he hit poor Marks a crack which
knocked him over tho ropes and down
into the orchestra, where two chairs and
three violias were broken and whero.
Marks was picked up unconscious. Sul
livan thought be had killed the man
aad west aad hid himself ia the wiagn
Walter Wkluum.
WHITMAN ABROAD.
WHAT LEADING LITERARY
RITAIN THOUGHT OF
MEN
HIM.
Olf
'Tli Mermr.li! Club" In Dublin Utilvcr
ally "oelrty of "The Wr.ltwliltnir.nl
" Professor Dnwileti'a Views on tin
Chi.ri.etar ml Influence of Whitman.
IHrwclnl Corrcuponilonce.l
Nrw YoitK, April 7. Somo eighteen
yearn ago, when 1 wan an undergraduate
of Trinity college, Dublin university,
ono of tho most agreeable literary soci
otlcn to which it was then considered
fonhlonablo to belong, was known as th
Mermaid club, tho titlo of which was
borrowed from tho famous gatheriiii
which included nuch wits as Shake
poaro, Ben Jouson, Beaumont, Fletcher
and other world renowned worthies of
tho Elizalmthan era.
Foremost among tho scholars and
thinkers, not only of tho society, but ot
tho university, stood Edward Dowdon,
university professor of English litera
ture, a man with mind of tho strongest
and finest fiber and a character of nuch
force and elevation as to challongo tho
reverence of tho wildest undergraduates
and tho most sincere respect of his col
leagues among t'.io follows and profess
ors. Tho Mermaid club mot onco in two
weeks at tho college rooms or privnto
rosldenco of nomo member in rotation,
and during term wo held ono or two
meotiiigs at tho houno of Mr. Dowdon.
Uon ono of tho latter occasions 1 hap
pened to see upon tho library tnblo a
paper .covered volume of Walt Whit
man's "Leaves of Grass," a book which
for some timo had been attracting con
siderable attention among university
mon and in literary circles of tho Irish
capital.
Mr. Dowdon, whoso word was law
upon such matters, had recently deliv
ered a lecture upon Walt Whitman, and
i'oungmon who remembered Longfel
ow's advice about "ever seeking some
thing now" professed enthusiasm on the
subject of this now evangel. Disciples
of the western teacher were known as
"Waltwhltmaniacs," and on the well
established princlplothat martyrs' blood
ia the need of tho church, our organiza
tion prospered through suffering. We
met contempt with scorn and greeted
criticism with tho retort that "Fathor
Walt" was above criticism.
The fact of the matter is that many
of us did not understand what Whit
man wan "driving nt," and tho small
movement with which wo were asso
ciated may havo been merely a revolt
against tho satiety of super-refinement
in a literature which was being domi
nated by Tennyson and debauched by
Bwinburne. Aa wo had vaguo idoas
that Victor Hugo's romanticism had
broken through tho traditions of French
classical drama, so wo belioved that
Whitman's reali.z furnished a now
link iu tho chain of worldwido poetic
development. At all events the unin
telligible is always magnificent to youth
ful and aspiring "souls," and according
ly wo had faith iu Whitman for tho
sarno reason that other good Christians
believe in tiio thirty-nine articles.
Anxious then for Mr. Dowdeu's opin
ion, I ventured to say, upon tho occasion
mentioned, "Mr. Dowdon, do you tegard
Walt Whitman as an educated man'?'
"Well," ho Baid, "Walt has probably
not had what is called 'tho advantage of
a university education.' His father did
not spend as much monoy in having him
taught to write bad Latin and worso
Greek verses as our fathers have spent
upon us, but there nre a great many im
portant things in the world bes:do clas
sical languages and the higher mathe
matics, and Walt Whitman knows more
about such things than you or 1 do. Iu
the largest, widest sense he is a thor
oughly well educated man, and, as the
exponent of a world embracing democ
racy, ho opens our hearts and minds t
greater possibilities for the whole hu
man .race than any writer is capable of
doing who works within the prescribed
literary formulas.
"The ideas upon which much of our
poetry rests have been fow in number,
practically exclusive and now wont
almost threadbare. Whitman adds enor
mously to the number and magnitude of
poetical subjects. He baa gone into the
coal mine, the canal boat, miserable
dens in tenement houses and on the back
streets of groat cities; into jails, alma
houses, churches, hospitals and work
shops, and moving freely among all
classes of tho world's toilers he has ob
served the dignity and worth and noble
possibilities of human character, even
under sordid and frequently tragio con
ditions. "He has felt keenly this misery of the
human race, and to tho best of hia ability
has offered remedies, but his most ef
fective one is his constant and strong
expression of hopefulness in the destiny
of the race, as indicated by confidence
in the progress of America, in the power
of human reason and effort to remove
prevailing distress, aud implicit belief in
tho wisdom of tho scheme upon which
tills universe was conceived and devel
oped. "In other words, ho Is a democrat In
the old sense. Ho believes that the sup
pression of the peoplo must give place
to freedom for their fullest dovelop
inont; and he is an optimist who trnstu
to natural forces tor a millennium winch
has been conceived in America, and
which can only bo realized ou the linea
laid down under tho favorable condi
tions which havo prevailed in that conn
try for the first time in tho world's his
tory. Bach opinions are of the gravest
import to a community whoso best
poetry is penetrated with tho sadness of
existence and the futility of human
aims, and whose general literature fci
one long glorification of wealth, social
position or military power."
Shortly after this meeting of tho
"Mermaid club" Mr. Dowdon was chal
lenged by certain people prominent -in
literary and art circles to defend In n
public discussion Whitman's literary,
methods and social views. The pro
feasor, although n very modest aad re
tiring man, felt it his duty to dp battle
for an alwont friend. A great meeting
won ni ranged ni.d largely attondod by
those who regarded Whitman as a lit
erary scavenger, and who were anxious
to relievo tho university and pollto soci
ety from all complicity with Mr. Dow
den iu the expression of respect for ono
who was said to havo had nothing but
contempt shown him in his own country.
Siteakers representing various colleges
and nearly all tho learned professions
rono in turn, and with disconnected pan
sages for texts proceeded to overwhelm
Whitmans Imkik with ridicule. 'I here
were a fow timid speakers for tho do
feline, but Dowdeu, who had opened tho
discussion, enjoyed tho privilege of re
plying iu full to all that was suld during
the entire evening. Accordingly he
girded himself for tho conflict. lie took
notes of tho various speeches and waj
kept busily employed arranging book
markers in certain volumes before him
on tho table. His spirited reply con
sisted of (1) a brief general review of
poetry, (2) sketch of modem democ
racy, (!i) series of ad hoinlnom arguments
which fairly "knocked tho bottom" out
of attacks based upon detached sen
tences and mado by mon whoso critical
faculty seemed to havo been guided by
pruriency rather than principle in their
reading of Whitman.
Dowdcn took each important quota
tion mado by his adversaries, showed it's
relation to tho context and explained tho
bearing of tho entire passage or poem
upon Whitman's leading ideas of de
mocracy and optimism. With great en
thusiasm ho brushed away tho cobweb
fancies of mere prottlncss and jinglo
which mako up a great part of no called
poetry to tho detriment of wido views
and sound Houtimout.
Ho had much to say of magazine
poetry, of what Professor Huxley calls
tho "sensual caterwauling school," and
of tho long dallying with nastiness iu
fine phrases and classical allusions. Ho
then spoke of the "mortal race of men"
and of the mighty perturbations of
society, which seem necessary for the
establishment of humanity's claims; of
the crusades, tho reformation, th?
French revolution and the civil war in
the United States. Reviowlng the re
sults of the last great commotion ho
traced the growth of new desires, now
domands, new tendencies and now atti
tudes toward life and death, and all per
manent subjects of human thought or in
terest. He regarded Walt Whitman as
the most profitable and original 'inter
proter of tho now ago, and declared that
tho groat western republic will not rest
satisfied with the tags and rags of
Europe any moro in poetry than in
politics; that the jinglings of Aloxandor
Pope s moral platitudes are as much out
of dato under existing conditions in tho
United States us tho successful interfer
ence of a Vatican popo with tho estab
lished principles of American institu
tions. When his remarks upon Whitmans
own methods were concluded, Dowdeu
called attention to the critics who had
just spoken in something like tho follow
ing terms:
"In estimating tho valuo of a criti
cism, particularly upon such important
subjects as thvo with which Wnlt Whit
man d'-als, it ts not unnatural to mako
some Inquiries Into the character und
capacity of each different critic. Somo
of tho gentlemen who havo spoken to
night tiavo been my acquaintances or
friends for many years. They are all
honorablo men, and in thoir own special
callings speak with authority. They
understand the technicalities of com
mon law, equity, horses, billiards, choice
wines, foreign cigars and 'good society.'
They aro capable of discussing with in
telligence the nicoties of ancient and
modern literature, including French
novels and dramas adapted from the
same.
"They can sit at the windows of the
University or Kildaro Street clubs, aud
with mathematical accuracy point out
the merits and defects of a wouiau or n
horse. In private life 1 have no doubt
that they are the best of good fellows.
They are the fortunates of the earth aud
have fairly 'touched the Happy isles.'
But we have not heard that thoy havo
ever raised a voice on behalf of any
movement which tends to the ameliora
tion of that large portion of the humau
race which is bo profoundly unfortunate
and so far away from any happy prospect
in this world.
"They have done nothing to mitigato
the misery of the hungry, the houseless,
the depraved and abandoned of tho
world. These gentlemen live, and their
predecessors of the same temperament
have lived and died, apparently uncon
scious of, or indifferent to, tho hard lot
of the poor and the oppressed. We do
not blamo thorn for this callous indiffer
ence. Thoy are bo constituted and prob
ably would not visit to be otherwise.
Bnt wo do blame them when they
insult u gre.t writer and thinker who
views life with clearer vision than they
possess, and who dares to hold out
brighter prospects for the millions.
"These excellent judges of good wine3
and fast horses, then, aro tho gentlemen
who tonight accuse Whitman of igno
rance, indecency, obscenity and tho rest
of it. They denounce him for a plain,
healthy statement of facts which, when
thoroughly understood, will do much to
establish truo deconoy and morality in
place of tho sham articles which now bo
frequently prevail. We have seen tho
men who aro aguinst Whitman, now lot
us see those who are for him." Dowden
then read the names of poets, literary
men, journalists and critics whom he
considered competent to judgo tho valuo
of Whitman's work. , Coupled with each
name ho read a sentence or paragraph of
praise for tho American poet, und in con
clusion ho said:
"Among those who aro for us in be
half of Walt Whitman aro Emersou,
Longfellow, Tennyson, Browning and
the Rosottis among poets, along with n
whole host of those whose names are
synonyms for all that Is great aud hon
ored, pure, dignified and of good repute
ia contemporary literature."
Dowden'a speech utterly discomfited
the local critics and won over many re
cruit to t .e little baud of "Waltwhlt
maniacs." H. L.
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