Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-10-14

the crowd behind you are growing
somewhat impatientp the President
DO you hear that ," I said to the
fellow behind me. -. Iguppose you will
| take that hint, anyhow. tell you he ls
milder than Iwould be- If ] was .Presi-
dent, would waltz you people out of the
back door. if you came crowding gen.
tleman this way, that II was holding a
private conversation With All .aoaIii
And then I resumed with the Pres.
ident:a .d9TBd8 .9SD0n i0o8fs III
81 think, that hint Of yours will start
them. never saw people act so. q 1t ia
really about all l can do to hold my
ground with that mob showing upbehind.
But don't you worry on my account, Cen
eral-don't give yourself any uneasiness
about mel can stand it as long as trey
can. I've been through this kind of mill
before. Why, as, I was just saying to
llyou, many end many tire out In the
iwilds Of Nevada, have been at Governor
Nye's yInjun receptions--and q between
you and noe that old man was a good deal
of "a Governor, take him all round. don't
know what for Senator he makes, though
I think you'll admit that him and Bill
Stewart and Tom Fitch take bigger
average of brains into, that Capitol up
yonder, by q hundred and fifty fold, than
any other State in America, according to
population. Now that is 80. Those three
men represent only twenty or twenty-five
thousand people-biess you, the least little
bit of a trifling ward in the city of New
York casts two votes two Nevada's one
and yet these three men haven't their
superiors in Congress for straight ont
simon pure brains and ability. AndGif
you could just have been at one Of old
Nye's Injun receptions, and seen those
savages--not high.fiers like these,
you know, but frowsy cid bum
mers, with nothing in the world on in the
summer time, but an old battered plug
hat and pair OF spectacles-I tell you it
was swell affair, was oae of Governor
Nye's early day receptionsy Many and
1many's the time / have been to them,
and seen him stand up and beam and
smile on his children, as ne called them
in his motherly way-beam one them by
the hour out of his splendid eyes, and
fascinate them with his handsome face,
and comfort them with his persuasive
tongue--seen himSstand 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 Sbewl-
dered with his inspired mendacity and
perfectly satisfied and enriched with an
Old hoopskirt or two, lot of Patent Of.
flee reports, and few sides Of condemn
ed army bacon that they would have to
chain up to a tree when they camped, or
the shippers would walk off with them
T'tell you he is q rafting talkaI.1 Talk I
It's no name for it. He--well, he is bound
to launch straight into close quarters
and q heap of trouble hereafter,
of course-we all know that -
but you can rest satisfied that he will
take off his hat and put out his hand and
introduce himself to the King of Dark
ness perfectly easy and comfortable, and
I.let on that he has seen him somewhere
before and he will remind him of par
|.ties he used to know, and things that's
slipped out of his memory-and he'll tell
him q thousand things that he can't help
taking an interest in, and every now and
then he will just gently mix in an anec-
dote that will fetch him if there's any
laugh in him--he will, indeed-and Jim
Nye will chip in and help cross-queetion
the candidates, and he will just hang
around and hang around, and hang
around, getting more and more
sociabls / al the time, and doing
this, that, and the other 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. A dozen times, at least,
your unseemly crowding has seriously in
terfered with the conversation am-hold-
ing with the President, and if the thing
occurs again shall take my hat and leave
the premises" :,
| II wish to the mischief you would.
Where did you come from, anyway, that
you've got the unutterable cheek to spread
yourself here and keep fifteen hundred
people standing waiting half an hourto
shake hands with the President?"
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 the peo-
pie behind are getting furious. Come,
move along, please"
Rather than have trouble, I moved
along. So had no time to do more than
to look back over my shoulder and say
eyes, sir,p and. the first thing they would
know, Jim Nye would have that place, and
the salary doubled / do reckon he is the
handiest creature about making the most
of his chances that ever found an ail-suf1-
cient substitute for nother's milk in pol
itics and sin. Now that is the kind of man
old Nye is-and in less than two months
he would talk every can't make
you hear the rest, Genera, . without hol-
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