Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1876-08-08

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books that have evidently been OPEN
ed and studied. Upon the table, also,
is huge album filled with portraits.
THE WORKSHOP.
Upon the other side of the hall Is
another parlor, now transformed into
| the Governors workshop. A library
| desk stands in the centre, at which
! the Governor himself is very probably
| hard at work writing. A book. case
! here Is crammed with calfbound books
of law or reference. Newspaper files
| lie strewn about the floor. Every
chair has an opened newspaper or two
| lying on it, and piles of them encum-
| Der the floor. The trash baskets are
! filled with the yellow wrappers in
which they came. Into this work-a-
day world the arts invade as in the
| parlor. Handsome busts of famous
| men look down upon the presidential
aspirant from the mantel and from
numerous brackets, fine water-colors
and engravings swing upon the walls,
and the furniture here as well as every
| where else in the house includes all
| the later cunning devices of the furni-
! ture man to secure hitherto unknown
comfort among his sofas and rockers.
Beyond this room is smaller one,
and, crossing wide hall, still another
all wOrk-roOms, where Colonel Pelton
and his clerks carry on the business
delegated to them by the Governor.
The dining-room is on the same floor,
and opens OIL an, enchanting green
house.
EXECUTIVE MANSION.
This dwelling belongs to Robert L,
johnson, and is rented to the Gov
ernor at $4,000 q year-a sum exactly
the amount of his salary. The State
allows yearly $4,000 for rent of the
Governors house. So that Governor
Tilden pays out $4,000 to secure
mansion wherein the Inequalities Of
the Chief Magistrate of the Empire
State may be fittingly dispensed. The
charge that he was renting 50" fine a
house at so high 4 rent altogether at
the expense of the State which some
journals haYe made thus falls to the
ground,
Access to the princely home of the
Governor is very easy. A servant
answers your ring at the bell, and in
reply to your inquiry shows you into
the parlOr if the Governor is engaged,
and if not lets you walk right into his
presence in his work.room. The
slight built man at the table usually
rises, and without a word extends his
hand to you. He discerns at once,
probably by study of your features,
whether you have called upon bust
ness or curiosity, and whether that
business is slight or important, and he
disposes of you in an instant. If that |
business is slight he has one formula,
''See FELTON," and he motions you |
possibly towards the inner wOrk-rOom, |
where the Colonel is engaged. If the |
business is something beyond the |
ordinary, he bids you sit down and |
devotes himself strenuously at once to |
your case. In all his talk with YOU |
there are several things noticeable at |
once. He looks you openly and frank |
ly in the eye. There is no lodging
your glance. He listens rather more |
than he talks. He appears anxious to |
hear whatever you may desire to say.
And when you have said your say he |
soon sums up the importance of it |
and gives you an answer. He is able |
to say MOI upon reflection quite as |
readily as Yes If he were not his |
executive business would never have
been kept so well in hand as it,
MADAM, I CANNOT"
Recently one of the most fascinating
and gifted women in the State begged |
him for the one boon for the obtain |
Ing of which her whole life is devoted |
the pardon of loved one from a |
life-sentence. So strong and moving |
was her appeal that the Governors |
private secretary and the Lieutenant |
Governor each Joined their appeals |
with hers. With a tear in his eye,
his hands clasped, and every muscle |
of his face betraying his emotion, the |
Governor said, Madam, l cannot"
This is the Governor during business
hours. Socially, among oompan-
ionable few, he is pleasant and jovial |
as the best bon canlerade, and is not |
incapable of smart and bright things. |
THE LADY OF THE WHITE HOUSE.
AS there is no Mrs. Tilden, the
sister of the Governor, Mrs. Pelton, |
would be the chief lady of the White |
House in case of the Governors pro-
motion. She is few years younger |
than the Governor and has a decided |
resemblance to him, though her face |
is much fuller. There is pink about !
the complexion ana q retreshness in |
the face that tell of youthful beauty |
well preserved. She is afIhble and |
sociable, and is considered among all !
who have been the recipients of her
Inequalities to he q most charming |
hostess. Her daughter-in-law, Mrs. |
William II. PeltOn, would assist her |
in dispensing the Inequalities of the
White House if the Governor should |
win the race. She is also a charming !
woman, with a pleasant face ard |
agreeable manners. A daughter of
Colonel Pelton, twelve years Of age,
completes the feminine list.
COLONEL PELToN,
Colonel Pelton, the chief of all work |
for the Governor, holds the position of
military secretary and the rank of
colonel and aid-de-camp on the Gov
ernOr's staff He is nephew of the
Governor, and is his Dewitt Clinton.
All the great enterprises which the |
brain of Tilden has conceived have |
been pressed to conclusion by Pei |
ton. To his hands have been intrust- |
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