The New York herald., 1872-10-04
The TALKING TRIANGLE
TenneSsee's Stumping Trio Sketched
and Interviewed.
JOHNSON--MAYNARD--CHEATHAM
The Great Commoner and the
Narragansett in Antithesis---
A Comparison.
Andy'S Terrible Wrestle with Twenty
One-Year-0ld Chicken.
A Termagant TRADE Against
Grant.
What He Thinks Of His Opponents,
the Issues and His Prospects.
Maynard's Metaphysics
and 1EthnOlOEy.
A Radical Prophet of Negro
Extinction.
Chickamauga CheafilaM OH
His Chances.
A Congressional Sandwich, with
tho Moot On thn Hutcidn
A Radical Prophet of Negro
Extinction.
ChickalMauga ClleafllaM OH
His Chances.
A Congressional Sandwich, with
the Meat on the Outside.
JOHNSON, THE PERSONAL CANDIDATE

Not "oyer the walnuts and the wine,r for In such
luxures Mr.. Johnson never INDUCES, and In this
particular latitude hotels frown upon the ener-
waiting practice Of supplementing dinner with
dessert, but over tough old chicken, that must
have lodged hundred tMeving darkies for a full
generation, we discussed the political situation.
The proprietor of the hotel gave the head OF the
table, Andy at one side, holding on to chicken
wing with the same tenacity he held on to that
fugitive parchment, the constitution and your cor
respondent at the other, wondering If it worth
Andy's while to make such trial Of his teeth and
digestion at every wayside inn for the sake Of being
elected Congressman at Large. The more
looked at Andy-and had to look at
him over my chicken bone, while l "wrastled''
with 1t for ten minutes at a stretch-the more he
won upon my best regards, not because of the
stubborn energy with which he worked. his way
through the dinner, regardless OF such terrible
obstacles as fossiliZed chicken meat and ancient
pig liver disguised as tenderlon steak-but for the
thorough democracy and the honest frankness OF
his "style."
HAPPY ANDY.
"You look better than when you were in the
White House, l remarked, 'and presume you
feel much happier :"
"Happierl" he exclaimed. '.You cannot conceive
It, Happier thousand times. l wouldn't ex-
change my freedom now to be ten times President.
never KNEW WnaL IreeuOm was untlI nOW."
Mr.. Johnson spoke rapidly and energeticaly and
evidently meant what he said. His face has filled
out since his White House days, and indicates full
health and careful living. If eX-Sherir James
O'Brien were about twenty years older his resem-
blance to the Andy johnson of the present day and
hour would be very close. Both have the
same funess OF feature and the same small gray,
slightly leering partly sinister and inexpensive
eyes in which you are sometimes puzzled to tell
whether the light Of honest intelligence that OF
the instinct OF cunning resides. should have hest
tated to make comparison between two such
men but for the near resemblance in the size and
color OF their optics. In repose the windows OF
Andy Johnson's soul seem framed in the same de-
sign and transucency Misther o Briens but there
the resemblance begins and ends. When the Old
dismounted veteran OF Tennessee
GETS AsTRIDE OF THE CONSTITUTION
and rides 1t as OF yore those eyes OF his send forth
q fire like the concentrated luminosity OF all
Golconda's diamonds aud our City Hall calcium
lights on Fourth of July night brought to focus
the size OF two dminutive whortleberries. john
son cannot help having few of the traits of the
demagogue, but doubt If there be on the political
boards to-day man OF greater moral courage and
greater force OF character. II designed taking
my hero ANDY for what he never is; II should
like to conclude that he is the greatest success as
politician in all this broad Republic would stay
away from these triangular discussions and cherish
the fond deluslon all alone. sat lately under the
waving shadow OF his stalwart right arm and heard
him harangue an audience so dun and undemon-
stratlve that doubt ifthey knew whether they
Idid not expect any great variety in the matter or
manner OF the speakers, but was little aston
speech of yesterday and the one OF to-day, Leaning
back and listening to our former Chief Excel.
lency-listening to the Pi0dttm et hnerdtffn APP
peals, familiar In our mouths as household words,
appeals TO the dag, the constitution and the coun-
try-I felt irresistiby reminded OF the cockney
Snowman "Step up, ladies and gentlemen, and wit
ness the greatest moral exhibition OF the age.
This yere animal is the royal hippopotamus, which,
@ s ms ep
That Snowman was fraud but this speech grew
into habit of his life, and he dreamed not what
beggarly impostor he was making VI himself Just
so with my friend Andy. He means all right, but it
never occurs to him that too much constitution
disgust. However, where d man has a dinerent
audience daily this is not SO much noticed May
uard and Cheatham have
SPOKEN THE SAME SPEECHES ALL ALONG
through East Tennessee, and why not Johnson9
But now we are TO have change. We are pene-
trating rebel territory, where the man Of the peo
pie viii be General Frank Cheatham, where John.
son Will have to talk less about planting himself
against the heresy OF secession, and Maynard Will
have to sing small about negro rights and rebel mis-
doings. But to my subject, which is an interview
with Andy, while over that aforesaid antique fowl
OF the barnyard species. might premise that to
strangers Mr.. Johnson Is very observation-disclosures
tal by reason OF his early training as tailor. He
bows and smiles with the same lofty appreciation
OF your hign mightiness and the same lowiy con. con,
sideraton OF his own utter unw0rthness as might
become the sartorial artist to the Prince OF Wales
CHICKAMAUGA CTiEArHAM.
"What strength Mr. Johnson" asked ''do you
consider General Cheatham hasr
"Cheatham, sir" he replied. ''has no strength II
all nctltous. lie was rebel General and his name
tspopuar with some OF those who fought under him,
but not with all Of them. Lots OF enthusiastic
rebels In Nashville declared their preference for
me. Some OF those thoughtless young fellows that
were In the rebellion shout, 'Cheathamr sHurrah
zor ChickamauRar and all that; but walt till 1t
comes to voting and even these will think twice
before sending q rebel General TO Congress. What
could Cheatham do there He'd be mere stick
with one vote and no more capacity to influence
another vote than to discover the philosophers
stone. Il presume to know Congress, parliamentary
law the constitution and the statute laws.
Cheatham knows none OF these, and the
people must know he knows none Of
them. Now, where Is the use OF such
D man in Congress2 What voice can he have
on the great questions OF the day What votes
can he influence What national measure can he