Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-10-06
plug hat and aSpair of spectacles--I tell
You it was swell affair, was one of

plug hat and agpair of spectacles-I tell
You it was swell affair, was one OF
Governor Nyes early.day receptions.
Many and many's the time have been
TO them, and seen him stand np and
beam and smile on his children, as he called
them 10 his motherly way-beam 81 them
| by the hour out of his splendid eyes, and
ascinate them with his handsome face, and
comfort them with his persuasive tongue
seen him stand up there and tell them
anecdotes and lies, and quote Watts hymns
to them, until he just took the war spirit
all out Of them-and grim chiefs that came
two hundred miles to tax the whites for
whole wagon loads of blankets and things
or make eternal war if they didn't get
them, he has sent away bewildered with
his inspired mendacity and perfectly salts
fed and enriched with an old hoop. skirt
or two, lot OF Patent Office reports, and q
few sides OF Condemned army bacon that
they would have to chain mp to tree when
they camped, or theskippers would walk off
with them, | tell you he is rafting
talker Talk It's no name for it. He
well, he is bound to launch straight into
close quarters and heap Of trouble here
after, Of course--we all know that--but
you can rest satisfied that he will take of
his hat and put out his hand and introduce
himself to the King of Darkness perfectly
easy and comfortable, and let on that he
has seen him somewhere before; and he will
remind him OF parties ne used to know
aud things that slipped out of his memory
and he'll tell linn thousand things that
he can't help taking an interest in, and
every now aad then he will just gently mix
in an anecdote that will fetch Linn
if there's any laugh in him
he will, indeed, and Jim Nye will chip in
and help cross-question the candidates,
and he will just hang around and hang
around getting more and more sociable all
the time, and doing this, that and the 9TH
Ell thing in the handiest sort of way, till he
has made himself perfectly indispensable
and then the very first thing you know
! wheeled and said;
My FRIEND, your conduct grieves me to
the heart. 4 dozen times, at least, your
uuseemly crowding has seriously interfsred
with the conversation I am holding with
the President, and if the thing occur:
again I will take my hat and leave the
premises,
- wish to the mischief you would -
Where aid you come from, anyway, that
you've got the unutterable cheek to spread
yourself mere and keep fifteen hundred
people standing waiting half an hour to
shake hands with the Presiden. z"
An officer touched me on the shoulder
and said:
Move along, please; you're ANNOYING
the President beyond all patience, You
have blocked the procession, and tie PEG.
pie behind are getting furious, Come,
move along, please"
Rather than have trouble I moved along.
So had no time TO do more than look
back over my shoulder, and say, Eyes, sir,
and the first thing they would know, Jim
Sye would have mat place. and the salary
doubled do reckon he is the hendiest
creature about making the most of his
chances that ever found an all.sutfCient
substitute Tor mothers milk in politics and
sin Now that is the kind of man old
Nye is and in less than two months he
would talk every ---. But | cant make
you hear the rest, General without boiler
ing too loud. The October GALAXY