Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1886 — Humor in Congress. [ARTICLE]

Humor in Congress.

The supply of Congressional humor* ists is ratherishort at peesent. Horr, of Michigan, failed of re-election, and so did others of lesser pretensions. Humorists, somehow,' do not flourish in Congress, which, whatever may be its capacity, likes to assume an air of wisdom. Of course an exception must be made in the case of Sunset Cox, who held his district until he threw it away of his own accord; but he was a favorite of Tammany without being a real Tam* manyite, and, besides, he was not funny all the time. The humorists, as a rule, fail in politics.; and yet they ought to succeed. They must have tact and a keen sense of the absurd; and they doubtless have sense as well. They do not get credit for the real ability in them, because they make jokes. The solid man has the same contempt for them that a savage has for a mathenmatician. He despises because he does not comprehend; and solid men, or at least stolid men, are awfully in the majority in any community. —Chicago Tribune.