The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1868-11-27
AN HOUR WITH Nasty.

(Which is Nasty ?" I inquired of the
jolly foreman of the composing room
of the Toledo Blade, looking over about
a dozen smutty printers clicking away
at their desks.
p ''That thick, stout man with his coat
and vest off, standing by the desk near
the door,"
E'Ah! thank you; I wanted to see
him."
Let us have good look at this brill
liant wit and wonderful satifist as he
stands there sticking his type like COM
mon printer. Well, he is a thick, square
built fellow, indeed, firm on his pins, as
those stout legs just little bowed show,
broad of back, square of shoulders, and
on the whole very compact, well put
up man. But do you notice that, unlike
the other printers, he has no ''copy" be
fore him, and yet he is clicking away as
busily as any of them. We must see
how this is.
81 think, sir, have the honor of adj
dressing Mr.. Nasty, the Postmaster OF
the Confedrit X Roads,"
With quick smile, in which pair
of mild, laughing gray eyes fully par
ticipate, he answers that he will be glad
to see us in few moments, as soon as
he finishes the editorial upon which he
is now engaged.
The glance that we have already had
at his pleasant face is sufficient to con-
vince us that the portrait of him by
Mast, as he sits in his famous post office
opposite BascOm's grocery, with his feet
OH the table, almost touching bottle
of whisky and the longed for commits
sion firmly in his hand, does him great
injustice. He really don't look half so
surly and cross. But his trials with A.
johnson about that "post offfis" prob
ably soured him some. After a few
moments waiting in the editorial sane
tum Nasty comes in. He has that qui-
ct, easy, unpretending manner that wins
you over at once. You see in him the
honest, candid, intelligent, thoroughly
posted and most intensely earnest po-
| Utica writer of the day. He has none
of that light, punning, yet droll wit OF
| the Artemus Ward kind, for he is not
at all that kind of a man. He is deep
thoughtful man, with a purpose-with
great work laid ont for him to do and
an infiexible resolution to do it; occa-
Isionally in conversation rich nugget
will fall out from the well known Mas
by vein, but rarely--in fact he says he
cares but little for the reputation the
Nasty papers have brought him If he
were to be known by them only.
! After chatting a while on political
topics and his trip to Boston and Wash
ington, we asked if that story they told
about him and Postmaster General Ran
dali was really true. He laughed heart
| lily as he began to recall how Randall
laughed, and said it was.
SOh," said he, ''Randall is capital
good fellow and likes joke wonder
fully" But to the story. When he was
in Washington he met Randall at din
Iner. AS soon as they were seated Ran
dali turned to him and said: 81 find by
the books of the department that there
is quite balance. due from your Office
at the x Roads, and while you are il
town you had better make it conven
len to cab up and settle it," "Ah," say:
Nasty, 81 don't find any Democrat,
precedent for settling balance when il
stands that way" .sIo4
| But Randall undoubtedly feels fully
even with him now, since he has re
ceived several letters from stupid coun
Try postmasters urgently asking the re:
moval OF Nasty from Office on Thu
ground that he is really hurting thu
! Democratic party. He's good square
Democrat they ali admit, but he talks i
too boldly for the good Of the party.
It was too good an opportunity tc
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