Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-11-23
INTERVIEWING EXTRAORDINARY -!
SENATOR SUMMERS TRUNKS ARRIVE
IN WASHINGTON.
THEY ARE INTERVIEWED BY THE
INTERPRETING REPORTERS!
He f. Declared per Trunks) 20 be sin
Excellent Health and Spirits.
He Repudiates per Trunks) the
Mack" Chicago Republican
Interview.
He Is Not.

Senator sumner arrived here last night. lie
denies that interview with the reporter OF the
Chicago Republican. Says he didn't 60 in for
the new party movement, and that he still be-
heyes in the old republican organizatIon-Rs
publican.
Hon. Charles sumner, Senator in Congress
from Massachusetts, arrived last evening. Mr..
Sumner is in excellent health and spirits, and
comes fully prepared for the work OF the ap-
preaching session. BE pronounces the alleged
the democratic papers have been making merry
highly colOred fiction. We supposed as much
when We saw it.-ChrORiele.
On the strength of the above positive and
particular announcements in the morning pa
pers named, there was a rush to-day of a
COUPLE OF HUNDRED RsPoRTERs-
more or less-to the house of Senator sumner
corner Of Vermont avenue and III streets, all
with sharpened pencils and ample note books,
ready tor a three column interview at the very
least. The Senator's colored major domo in
charge OF the house in his absence was in turn
PERrLExED, SURPRISED AND AsroSIsHrD
by the Eruption Of the newspaper gang, and BY
their persistent refusal TO believe him when he
solemnly declared that SIR. Sumner had not
only not arrived in town, but was
NOT EXPECTED.
Could they be mistaken? No. Il was affirmed
positively, authoritatively, and in the same
identical terms in two morning papers. No,
there could be no mistake. The Senator was
there. He was
PLAYING PossUN
to keep out OF the way of the terrible inter
viewers. But ii was no 20. He must come
down, he must diyulge, he must proclaim him
self on the AI0tley question, he must turn him
self inside out on the new-party business, he
must state whether "Mack" did not embroider
THAT INTERVIEW
in the conscienceless style of Chicago news
paper men. And 50 they made a fresh raid On
the
SWEATING pooR-KRRPER,
but without results, and the most of them left,
though a few OF the incredulous and indomit-
able knights of the pencil have planted them
selves as sentries in front and rear and on the
side alleys of the Senatorial residence so that, if
he is tryiag to conceal himself on the premises
with the idea Of escaping the interviewers, he
will find himself mistaken. Three or four have
seated themselves, at the risk Of influenza on
the cold steps, and some adventurous ones have
MOUNTED TO THE WINDOW sILLs,
and are trying to ferret out the Senatorial
hiding-rlace by peeping through the closed
blinds.
SENATOR SUMNER IN IN CHICAGO
10 save these gentlemen from maintaining
their painful vigil we may state that we have
seen letter written by Mr.. Sumner to a gen
ueman here, under date of Chicago, Nov. Goth,
in which he says: ''Thus far have I come in
my laborious pereginations. / am TO sneak
here second time on Monday and then L lee
ture BACK to Washington, passing next Sunday
AT the home OF senator Fenton, and reaching
mencement OF the session."
SO it seems the Senator is not here, and Is not
TO be here uutil the meeting of Congress But
two trunks labelled
"cHARLEs SUMNER"
did arrive here last night, and it would seem
that the keer- scented reporters of our morning
contemporaries not only followed the baggage
wagon to the house, but were able, bv some
wonderful exercise OF clairvoyance to ascertain
from these trunks his views in regard to leading
questions of the day, and also the condition of
his health.
sUCH TRUNKS
are worth having Bltz and the other wizards
have wonderful trunks, but no such trunks as
these. But for ali that Mr.. Sumner didn't come
with his trunks. When the
TRUNK OF AN ELEPHANT
arrives in town you may he pretty sure that the
elephant is with il; but with Senator it is diff
ferent. Mr.. Summers trunks are in Washing
ton-Mr Sumner is in Chicago. And though
that "Macks" interview was made ont of
whole cloth, like the circumstantial "ister-
views OF our city contemporaries with him
LAST MIGHT,
yet az he Is not in town of course he couldn't
have said anything of the kind. Likewise. he
could not have informed the interyiewers that
he was here Sin excellent health and spirits.~
and that he "had come here fully prepared for
the work OF the approaching session." because,
You see, he hadn't come.
Another extraordinary feature of this extra
ordinary interviewing business is, that not only
do our morning contemporaries give full partcu-
lars Of what
SENATOR SUMNER SAID AND DID
on his arrival; but we hear that the wires were
busy last night, up to a late hour, bearing OF
the details Of the
GRAND SUMNER INTERVIEW
to the Northern papers.
There are parties in town who are certain
they saw Mr.. Sumner in his carriage yesterday,
and one venerable scribe processes to have had
talk Of an hour and . half last night with the
Senator from Massachusetts,. Unfortunately,
however, this authority Is not quite reliable, ss
he is the same chap who once palmsd OF an
article from . cyclopedia on the Na,iona, In
tenigencer As his own handiwork.