Party Leaders of the Time Character Studies of Public Men At Washington
Party Leaders of the Time Character Studies of Public Men At Washington
Charles Willis Thompson
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The Democratic party in the House was smitten and frozen with a torpidity like that of the Sleeping Beauty's court, as if Hearst had been a political fairy godmother weaving a spell of lethargy ; and on their motionless ranks there sat a silence so ostentatious that it was fairly blatant. The whole side seemed to wear a sign saying, '' This does not concern us. Be- hold us as spectators. " When the fight was over, and Hearst and 2:^^ SEEN IN THE HOUSE his cohorts retired, the old-line Democrats... would wake to life, and the never-ending bat- tle of regular Democrats and regular Repub- licans was resumed in the same old way. Hearst's methods in conducting one of these fights were as peculiar and unprecedented as were all the other features of his novel boom. Before describing them it should be premised that he is a congressman who is very seldom in his seat. For the first half of his first session he was almost as unknown by sight to the fre- quenters of the galleries as '' Tim " Sullivan ; and that, let it be explained to the uninitiated, is a phrase which represents the uttermost limit.
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