Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1870-10-06

take that hint, anyhow. / tell you he is
milder than would be. IT Was Presi-
dent, would waltz you people out OF the
back door, if you came crowding gen.
tleman this way, that was holding
nriyate conversat. on with"
And then I resumed with the Pres-
idert:
al think that hint of yours viii start
them. never saw people act 30. 1t IS
really about ali l can do 10 hold my
ground with that mob showing up behind.
But don't You worry On my account, .seu
ersl--don't give yourself any uneasiness
about mel can stand it as long as they
can. I've been through this KIND OF a mill
before. Why, as / was Just saying TO
you, many snd many time out In the
wilds of Nevada, hsvebeen at Governor
Nye's Iniun receptions-and between
you and me that old man WIS good oeai
of Governor, take him ali round idont
know whist for Senator he MAKES, tnongn
think you'll admit that him ana bil
Stewar. and Tom Fitch take bigger
| average of brains into inst Capi.oi up
wonder, by q hundred aud fifty foid, than
any other State In America, accornng 10
| populstion, Now that is SO. Those three
men represent only twenty or twenty nye
| Thousand people-bless you, the least little
hit Of trinine ward in the city OF New
York casts two votes two Nevsdas one
and vat these three men haven't their
super;ors in Congress for straight out,
simon pure brains and ability. And II
YOU could lust have been Ut one or o.d
| Nye's Iniun receptions, and seen those
sayages high-fiiers like these,
YOU know, but frowsy old bum
mers, with nothing in the world on In the
summer time, but an old battered plug
hat and psir of spectacles--I tell you it
was a swell affair, was one OF Governor
Nye's early.day receptions. Many and
many's the time l hsve been to them,
and seen him stand up and beam and
smile on his children, as he called them
in his motherly way--beam on them by
the hour out of his splendid eyes, and
fascinate them with his handsome face,
and comfort them with his persuasive
tonpue-seen him stand up there and tell
them anecdotes and lies, and quote Watts
HYMNS TO them, until he just took the war
spirit ail ont Of thepo--.nd grim ch!efs
that came two hundred miles to tax the
whites for whole wagon.lo OF blankets
end things, or make eternal war II they
didn't pet them, he has sent sway bewil-
dered with his inspired mendacity and
perfectly satisfied and enriched with an
old hoopskirt or two. a lot Of Pstent Of
fee reports, and few sides of condemn
ed army bacon that they would have TO
chain up to a tree when thew csmped, or
the shippers would walk off with them.
tell You he is a rafting talker. Talk !
It's no name for il. Howell, he is bound
to launch straight into close quarters
and heap of trouble hereafter,
of course-we oil know that -
but you can rest satisfied that he will
take off his hat and put out his hard and
introduce himself to the King Of DARK
ness perfectly easy and comfortabie, and
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 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-question
the candidates, and he will just hang
around and hang around, and hang
socisble all the time, and doing
this, that, and the other thing in the
hsndiest 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, ard if the thing
occurs again ] shall take my hat and leave
the premises"
al 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 hour TO
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, l moved
along. So had no time to do more than
10 look back over my shoulder and say
Eyes, sir" and the first thing they would
know, Jim Nye would have that place, and
the saiary doubled do reckon he is the
handiest creature about making the most
| of his chances that ever found an all-suffi.
cieDt substitute for mothers milk in pol
itics and sin. Now that Ia the kind Of man
| old Nyc is-and in less than two months
he would talk every But can't make
you hear the rest, General, without hol-
lering too loud GGary.