PLA0.T6MOUTI1 HERALD, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1S87. 7 fthiknwiith IVcslhj TprM. Pul!!:,h?rs Proprietors. PARN ELL'S TWO ACtNTS. Arthur O'Connor, tho Ablest Man of Affairs In tho IrisJi Party at Present. Clr Thoma3 Crattan Esmondo -A Thorough Logician and a Por- foct Spoakor. Tie two null whom Mr. Parnell lin S' l: :kd t ) vinit tin; Unit 1 States thn yi-;ir, A: tlmr O'Connor and Sir Thonian Henry (ir.'.tt.'in EMiionde, Baronet, arc l( -oonally l.:.s.i Known among their coun trymen than inLiiy liiemhuiH of tho nat ionalist party, inferor in ability and per. r.onal interest. They are of totally dif ferent diHrne.teri-.tie. Tho interest at taching to their mission arisen not mere ly from the positions they respectively hold in tin) house of commons, but from tho public future which id believed ta be waiting for both when Ireland once again cin boast of a parliment. In the case of the younger of tlu two, the talis man of the great Grattan'M ininio will doul'tles.s act as a charm to bring audi ences to see and hear him. Arthur O'Con nor is, by confession of all his colleagues, tli2 ablest man of affairs" in the Irish par ty. Likes a very celebrated but not long-lived ministry in the pnrlimentary interesta of England, the Irish nationa list party is a party of "all the talents." Tn porportion to the totality ot its num bers it contains more notables men than were ever grouped together behind any other leader. It contains orators, poets, lawyers, doctors, engineers, literary men, journal i,-ts, farmers, tradesmen, s-.vcral of each; yet in Arthur O'Connor it pos sesses its prominent man of affairs. lie id not an orator like Sexton, nor a writer lili" Justin McCarthy. He is a capital spe-ikci 1111 '-1 an iccumteand concise mas ter of the ,)Cn- Neither Sexton nor Mc Cartv ror a' "v '-'zon f 'heir associates, should thevcons'oliaatethcir knowledge, could furnish thi. solidity of attain ments, tht minute Hcquriintanec with public bir iiirs-i, that roau. :ncss of resource in promv-cous matters, th. tlZ fund of preeis;; and comprhr.ns've f'" tail of infu ination with which -Tthur O'Connor is equipped. lie is the least sensational man of the party. Perhaps that j? tho chief reason why he remains so littJo known up to thu hour in America. lie has never had a quarrel in tie- house, lie has never :Vid'! a scene, lie has never defied any body, and "nobody has ev r ins;dted him. He is. neycrtheles?, the most eva-9Icl'at ing man in the house of commons, not even excepting J:ig:car; and his exceptional distinction in this respect is due to the ingenuity and depth of the mental mo by which he has always warred upon hi1 enimies. I lo has never broken the rules j of the house; and tlierc is not u man of j temper in either party, when combined against the Paruellites, who would not have gladly broken Ins head a hundred times. He has not only broken no rules himself, but he is so apt in their intrica cies that he ha3 rendered tli3 official life of two of tiio ablest speakers the com mons has ever known, miserable by his inexorable fidelity to them. Lord Har rington on a famous occasion drew at tention to the fact that Arthur O'Con nor had made twenty-rive spocches and asked only two questions' while- pro longing the debates. It is this delicacy and breadth which have made him the reputation of being the first man of affairs in the Irisli party. "When he rises to speak on his perch in the Parnellite row nearest the wall, the lazy, the rude, and the impatient leave the house as stealthily as possible; the lazy, because they know he will compel their attention; the rude, beeaTjss they know he will elude their insole: ace, and the impatient, because they In kve been taught to feel that thoy cannc t hasten lus pace. But tho studiou3 lis ten with eagerness, tor tne- nro sure U acquire new knowedgo; the courteous., because he is a pattern of courtesy; tho belliger cnt, because they are certain he: -is going to discharge a park of small artillery with slight resonance . but with, deadly leffect, and the sharply partisan, because experience has taught them th at when Arthur O'Connor has taken up a subject he will inevitably damage tho tide to which he is opposed. His manner in speaking is precisely liKe nis mma cairn, simple, "Janquu firm and forcible. He is of medilam fig ure, slender and trim; dresses wi',h unos tentatious propriety, and bears himself with the gentle unaggressiveness of a scholar and a v-ll-brcd mr.n. Ilia head is growing bald, but what hair ho "has is dark; his face is pal.?, his features are regular and tine, his eyes the deep blue which, as in so many Irish faces, seem black, and a dark beard, carefully but rot foppisjjty barbercd, lends a liint of age greater than his own to Arthur O'Connor, who is -43. He stands erect and composed before the house, some times letting his head droop slightly to ward his breast as memory wanders off forborne distant argosy of facts and speedily brings her craft into harbor, her?! arrival being signalled in the rifling f his head and the llasing of the clear day light m his eyes. Generally ho has a handful of notep in the closed left banc; ho rarely U:;cs them except to read col umns of fctatislics cr to calculate perenn aires or to touch off nomo new fuse thfit will lead to a concealed mine of dat with which a minister's upcech aud a di partmcnt's c-timatcs will be blown out of de bate. Menronsidcr him a perfect pattern of the parliamentary speaker. The standard therefore, is tho one rigidity and compos ure, excluding gesture, elocution, im agery, fire. It is true that the great par liamentary speakers have cast this stand ard to the wind. Pitt gesticulated. Orattun was theatrical, like Pitt. Dis raeli was given to wild clocutionarj orgies, Gladstone is as dramatic as Gar rick would have been with the same sub ject matter, Sexton indulges in poetic conceits, and John Redmond flashes like i moving planet when the house is in his oratorical orbit. Storey, the radical, and Joe Cowcn, the most delightful period turner in the house when he is in the mood for it, are all exceptions to the standard of perfect parliamentary speak ers. Perhaps the fame of Arthur O'Connor is duo to his ability to hold the house without'any of the graces of the forum. His power lies wholly in the grasp of his sudject and the clearness, the precision, the thoroughness, and tho completeness with which he expounds it. His voice is not remarkable for any quality. But it always carries distinctly every word ho utters. His face is not trained to antics. But his fine clear eye holds liko a spell. His arms arc generally crooked at the el bow, but his single gesture, made with the fingers of his right hand, is all ho needs to point a sentence or to clinch a fact. Interruption never disconcerts; howls never ruCle him. Questions de signed to perplex servo to turn a laugh upon an inquirer. His manner is suave, but serious: his temper is perfectly unr control; but in his heart he is a man of passion which would be ns dangerous in secret e...i ,i. .. ' ':! i hj the long and bitter struggle which h been fought against formidable obstacles with tho weapons of peace. It is doubtful " if he ever employed a figure of speech. It is certain that he never wearied an audi ence. Unlike most of the Irish party, he has u voted his lime and. intellectual unpar tisiu'ship to all subjects of human inter est upi.'u which legislation is had. It is this which in large part has made him the object of admiration among his own party and of dread among his enemies. It is due, 'no doubt, considerably to the circumstances of his youth, as well as the cast of miiul required from a distinguish ed father. Di'. O'Connor, for many years head surgeon of the London Free hospi tal, was reasonably hure to bring up a clever son with a bent for science and a Pj inpathy with suffering. The education of ti,e college at Ushaw, from which Arthur as?J with honor, is deeply classical, and in logic, as severe as inai oi any oiu- fashioncu scnooi in wnscu nuiuiaeuia combated Aristotle with dialectic foils. The fat.her w."V3 too humane to die rich, and the s on cat ried on at a public com. petitive examination a valuable post in the war offi'ce. where ho learned ouicai routine with a thoroughness of which Ire land will have the benefit in her first home rule government, for Arthur O'Con nor is accepted without question as the man upon whom w:U devolve the heavi est detail duties in Mr. Parnell's cabinet. His years in the war office gave him leisure for general study of public affairs. Xo man in the house is better posted than he, and few so well on the applica tions of public moneys, on the official transactions of ministers, on the manage ment of great public institutions. lie is an authority on prisons and charities, as well as upon the orders sent to generals in the Soudan and the discretion given to emissaries m South Africa. He is the deadly foe of official slovenliness. He can explore with microscopic closeness the conjectures of departement heads, and dissipate the illusions of which from time to time motions are pressed for ap propriating public money for improper or fraudulent purposes. It is this facul ty which renders him so universally ob noxious in the disscussions on the esti mates; and this, coupled with hi3 alert ness and smiling patience when showing that he was in order, drove two speakers into insomnia in fruitless efforts to 6hut him off. Biggar, when he obstructed, would leeringly show that " his object , "as to obstruct. Other Irish speakers tli;. cover by carelessness or inaccuracy, by t edious iteration or heedless fights of rancc rhetoric that they are only ob structs ig. But the best informed men in the hou ie cannot stop Arthur O.Connor as lon-asb'c chooses to talk, because his discourse M so germain to the topic. He is unquestionably the be?t man Mr. Parnell has , w&r sent to the United States to giyc general and exact information upon every pnvctictil phase f the home rule question. He will not set audiences w ild with flashi ng generalities. But he will givereasoni.ig tn&nfood for thought and everv honest omid weu-aiebsea ar gumcnts for home .rule. His young companion will seem a miu iature of old Henry Grattan to those ft miliar with the great patriot's faca There U the same genial, nmiling, boyhh mouth; tho same lop forehead, with tho hair falling carelessly down upon it. Sir. Thomas is of slight figure, rather handsome, extremely polite and deferen tial among his elders and ladies, is tho product of a Catholic college, and, there fore, after their manner in the old coun tries, well up in old learning. He U frank and cordial, gay but manly; would never be charged with arrogance, but has' that something which, like it as men may, distinguishes the lucky born heir of breeding and culture from the ordina ry youth who acquires both in spite of hard fortune. "We has some slight mu sical accomplishments, is a fair athlete, a a genial rather than an entertaining man in conversation, and is anexquisite danc er. If there were nothing more to 6ap of him Parnell would not send Sir Thomas to the United States. Invitations poured in for him from all over ths states from the time of his first election to parliment; for there was eclat in the reappearance of the old name in tho lists of Irish patriots; and there was a touch of revolutionary pathos in tho voluntary cntranco of laud lord baronet into the party whose funda meuual principle is opposition to the traditions of landlordism. Nor will the youth for he is only 25 disappoint his countrymen in the United States. Not being a genius like Pitt, ho will not have to plead the crime of being a young man in extenuation of political audacity, lie has been very modest in the house, and spoken only when in accordance with Parnell, s dis cipline, helias been authorized or request ed by his chief. Whether he will develop into an effective extemporaneous orator is for time to tell. Thus far he has found memory a safer friend than invention. Like the great Grattan, he can practice on written paragraphs until he knows every line by heart. He will make good tlies that will delight popular assem blies. His voice is light, clear and mu sical; his manner timid, but not faltering; his matter sound his logic lively, ne is at a disadvantage in parliment among men of more robust type and more ripe experience. But he has held his own from the start, His mother wsa the fourth daughter of Henry Grattan. It is from his father he gets his title from Col. Sir John Es monde, the tenth baronet of a title coined away back in 1(528. Sir Thomas is a bachelor, and has a rent roll of $10,000 a year on paper. But his tenants are land leaguers, and he is content not to be very exacting. Telegraphic in the Oma ha Herald. tTheScene at Lincoln's Nomination. The following is from tho September installment of The Centuary's Life on Lincoln: "Though it was not expected to be decisive, the very ballot foreshad owed accurately the final result. The 'complimentary' candidates received the tribute of admiration from their respec tive states. Vermont voted for Colla mer, and New Jersey for Dayton, each solid. Pennsylvania's compliment to Cameron was shorn of six votes, four of which went at once for Lincoln. Ohio divided her compliment, 34 for Chase, 4 for McLean, and at onco gave Lincoln her S remaining votes. Missouri voted solid for her candidate, Bates, who also received a scattering tribute from other delegations. But all of these compli ments were of little avail to their recipi ents, for far above each towered the ag gregates of the leading candidates: Se ward, 173$; Lincoln, 102. "In the ground-swell of suppressed ex citement which pervaded the convention there was no time to annalyzo this vote; nevertheless, delegates and spectators felt the full force of its premontien; to all who desired the defeat of Seward it pointed out the winning man with uner ring ertainty, Another little wranglo over some disputed and protesting del egate made tho audience almost furious at the delay, and 'Call the roll!' sounded from a thousand throats. "A second ballot was begun at last, and, obeying a force as Euro as the law of graviiation, the former complimentary votes cime rushing to Lincoln. The whole 10 votes of Collamer, 44 from Cameron, 6 from Chase and McLean, were now cast for him, followed by a scatter of additions along the roll-calL In this ballot Lincoln gained 79 votes, Seward only 11. The faces of the New York delegation whitened as the ballot progressed and as the torrent of Lin coln's popularity became a river. The result of the second ballot was: Seward, 184J; . Lincoln, 181; scattering, 09. When the vote of Lincoln was announced, there was a tremendous burst of applause, which the chairman prudently but with difficulty controlled and silenced. "The third ballot was begun amid a breathless suspense; hundreds of pencils kept pace with the roll-calL and ner vously marked the changes on their tally-sheets. The Lincoln figures Bteadily swelled and grew. Votes came to him from all the other candidates, 4 from Seward, 2 from Cameron, 13 from Bates, 18 from Chase, 9 from Dayton, 8 from McLean, 1 from Clay. Lincoln, had gained 50$, Seward had lost 4$. Long beforo tho official tellers had footed up their columns, spectators and dolegntcs rapidly made tho reckoning and knew the result: Lincoln, 231$, Seward, 180. Counting-tho scattering votes, 405 bal lots had been ca6t, and 233 were necessa ry to a choice; only 1$ votes mere woro needed to make a nomination. "A profound stillness fell upon tho wigwam; the men ceased to talk and the ladies to flutter their fans; ono could distinctly hear the scratching of pencils and the clicking of telegraph instruments on the reporter's table. No announce ment had bcon made by the chair; changes were in order and it was only a ques tion f seconds who should speak tirst. Whilo everyone was leaning forward with intenso expectancy, Mr. Carter sprang upon his chair and reported a change of four Ohio votes from Chase to Lincoln. There was a moment's pause, a teller waved his tally-sheet toward the skylight and shouted a name, and thon the boom of a cannon on the roof of the wigwam announced the nom ination to the crowds in the street, whore shouts and salutes took up and spread the news. In tho convention tho Lin coln river now became an inundation. Amid tho wildest hurrahs, delegation after delegation changed its vote to the victor. "A graceful custom prevails in order ly American conventions, that the chair man of the vanquished delegation is first to greet the nominee with a short address of party fealty and promise of party support. Mr. Evarts, the spokesman for New York, essayed promptly to perform this courteous office, but was delayed awhilo by the enthusiasm and confusion. The din at length subsided, and the presid ing officer announced that on tho third ballot Abraham Lincoln, of Illi nois, received S64 votds and 'is selected as your candidate for President of tho United Stnt-s.' Then Mr. Erarts, in a voice of unconcealed emotion, but with admirable dignity and touching elo quence, speaking for Seward and tor Now York, moved to make the nomina tion unannmous, BOB BURDETTE ON THE FLAG. Tho Unfon Soldiers Opposed to Either Suttlors cr Politicians Misusing It. It. J. Bur-letto in the riiiladeli.hla Tress. Sir: It seems to me that the hostility which tho old soldiers exhibit toward the combinotion of President Cleveland and the United States flags is easily explained. It is simply an emadnation of the 8ldi r spirit; it is the soul of a soldier's life and habit obedience to orders. Along sometimes "endurin' the war" the mob of camp-followers and specula tors who followed the Union army for gin and plunder got to using the United States flag as an advertisement. It fio-.t- ed over and in front of every ?hoddy store in Cairo and Memphis, and painted accoss the stars and stripes was tho name of the firm that was making 2 on every bill of fifty cents it sold. Tho flag dis honored by greedy robbers who loved the soldier only for what they could make out of him and wayed the fiaj over his head whilo thoy went through his pockets. I think it was Grant a eol dior naturally thinks that every good thing that was done during the war was done by Grant possidly while he was commanding the military division of the Mississippi; at any rate it was some Union genlral who issued an order for bidding the desecration'of the flag. It was a symbol of honor; the emblem of our noble and glorious cause; every star was sacred to the soldier, the banner was his hourly inspiration; daily he braved death under its folds an4 he prayed that it might be his winding sheet when he died. To daub upon its azure field the fat face of some civilian who never spoke a warm hearted word for tho Union un til he found there was some profit to be made out of its defenders to scrawl across its silken folds the name of Borne trader whos greedy hand was plunged into the soldsera' pocket; to use the flag as an advertising shoet for a pack of camp fol lowers, was a disgrace, an outrage, a shameful dishonor. And so tho general commanding ordered that all such signs should bo taken down by the provost guard and that no man should ever again dare use the flag ot our country to adver tise himself and his shoddy wares, while daily it was made more 6acred than ever, baptized in the. blood of brave men. The thought, the feeling, that inspire tho order was born in tho heart. of the6oldier and the army applauded it. ! WelL now, the old soldiers have not forgotten that order, and to this day the Grand Army hates to see the flag used as an advertisement for dry goods, for clams, for salt fish, for tar, for gimlets, for trea cle, taffy, popularity, votes, or any thing else. No man's portrait has any right on the United States flag the president's or the post guttler's or even P. T. Barn um's. The flag was never meant for that purpose, it wasn't intended, when it was designed, to be a national picture gallery. And no man who loves it, as do the men who marched and fought and suffered under it, like to see it disfigured. They remember the flag very distinctly as it was when they carried it into battle, and President Cleveland's picture wasn't painted on it then; why should it be there now? It is soldierly in the men of the Grand Army to obey orders "For ever float that standard sheet," bk down with the advertisements. Tho Verdict Unanimous- W. D. Suit, PruggLt, Bippus, Ind., Wtifi' a: "I can recommend Electric Bit ters as tho very best remedy. Every bot- tlo sold has given relief in every cne Ono man took nix bottles, and was cured of Rheumatism of 10 years' ntanding". Abrah .ni If ire, druggist, Bellville, Ohio, affirms: "The best sellin r medicino I have ever handled in my 20 years' experience, I is Flectric Bitters". Thousands of other have added their testimony, so thnt the verdict is unanimous that Electric Bitters do cure all diseases of the Liver, Kidneys or Blood. One half dollar a bottle at F. G. Fricke & Co., drug store. (2) Visual Synchronism. J. Harris Rogers, of Pan Electric fame, has again brought'his nnmo prominently before the public, lie has a new inven tion, and, liko Keelev, of motor fame, he is anxious to get capital ami leako the subscribers to his Ktock company miilirn aires. This new invention he culls visual synchronism, and with it he expects to revolutionize tha woild. According to his statement, it enables one in effect, though not in reality, to see by electricity any number of revolving wheels, or mov ing mechanism, thousands f miles away, so mat absolute liarmonj', orsynchronism H preserved to them all. The new HV.sttan can bo used in many ways, where wheels or moving mechanism may be utilized, in telegraphy, electric locomotion, horol ogy and printing. Rogers thinks that he has solved the problem of electric com munication, and that, when tho system is put into general use, messages wi!l be rendered so cheap, that lettlers will bo sent by electricity, instead of through tho mail; and that photographs, landscapes 1 1- 1 l .... . nnu imi.uwming wui iQ transmitted by wire. Demon'nt's. Excitement In Texas. Great excitement has been caused in tho vicinity of Paris, Texas, by the re markable recovery of Er. J. E. Corlcy, who was so helpless he could not turn in bed. or raise his hend; everybody said he was dying of Consumption. A trial bot tlo of Dr. King's New Discovery was sent him. Finding relief, ho bought a large bottle and a box of Da. King's New Life Pills; by tho time he b-.d taken two boxes of Pills and two bottles of tho Discovery he wr.3 well and had g.'dned in flcbh thirty-six pounds. Trial Bottles of this Great Discovery for Consumption free at F. G. Fricke & Co. 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