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Hawke being doubly the enemy for that he was become an open supporter of Governor Obstinate and made no secret that his candidacy for the Speakership was meant to be a step towards making that gentleman President would still rise victorious in caucus by full forty votes. Senator Hanway's anxious wits were driven hard. He had drawn to Mr.
It is a significant fact in this connection, however, that notwithstanding the brilliant array of ambitious statesmen who have held the Speakership for more than a century, only one, Mr. Polk, has ever reached the Presidency. The forty-fourth Congress was the last of which the Hon. William A. Wheeler of New York was a member.
By the way, I presume, sir, you will recall your resignation?" The bewildered Perkins was about to stammer out a speech, when his uncle, cutting it short, pushed him gently out of the door. At the period when the important events occurred which have been recorded here, parties ran very high, and a mighty struggle for the vacant Speakership was about to come on.
No adherent of the official party not even the Attorney-General, John Beverley Robinson was a match for Rolph or Bidwell, to say nothing of Perry, whose oratory was of an altogether different complexion, though scarcely less effective. Upon the meeting of the Houses the numerical strength of the respective parties was fairly tested by the vote on the Speakership.
It is a common experience of the instability of promises and hopes which come from gratified and happy enthusiasts, and how soon they are dissipated like a dream! I have seen many such instances, and from this early experience deeply sympathize with the disillusionized hero. The Democrats of the assembly and also of the State were determined that Mr. Callicot should not enjoy the speakership.
In the choice of members of the lower branch of Congress there was a still greater revolution; the new House would contain 228 Democrats, 161 Republicans and one Socialist, while Cannon would be retired from the speakership. In eastern as well as western states, Democratic governors were elected in surprising numbers.
It was Mr. Hawke, among the adherents of Governor Obstinate, who saw the weapon that might be fashioned against Senator Hanway from the Canadian suggestion. Mr. Hawke had long been aware of Senator Hanway's interference against himself in the Speakership fight, and in favor of Mr. Frost.
Papineau retained the speakership, with but one brief period of intermission, until the outbreak of rebellion twenty-two years later; and it was from the speaker's chair that he guided throughout this period the counsels of the Patriote party. When Papineau entered public life the political situation in Lower Canada was beginning to be complicated.
The Whig party made him their candidate for the speakership and he came within one vote of being elected. He was again a member of the Finance Committee; but financiering by those wise lawgivers was no longer so lightsome and exuberant a task as it had been.
Goschen was an extremely agreeable talker, and I seem still to hear his husky voice, with the curious deep notes in it, and to be looking into the large but short-sighted and spectacled eyes he refused the Speakership mainly on the grounds of his sight of which the veiled look often made what he said the more racy and unexpected.
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