Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-09
earth around, and they have got the people
so excited through the whole country that it
will be impossi BILE for them to stay away.
BILL DUKE.


BILL DUKE.
Ho,c the Cabbage Head of the 44dstnistra-
ton Runs the Presidential Party.
(St. Paul (Sept. 81 Correspondence Chicago
Times.
Although this has been the hottest day of
the year, it has been an iceberg compared
with Hon. William Henry Smith and Gen.
LIE Due. And that the reader may start
right, it may be remarked right here that the
name of the sprawling granger who holds
fourth-rate clerkship, emitting him to dub
himself commissioner of agriculture is
pronounced as though it were spelled D luke,
probably for reasons explained satisfactorily
by Gen. Sherman hereafter. And yet, not
as he is, Gen. LIE Due is no hotter to-day
than he was the day before, or even the day
before that When Gen. LIE Due started
from Washington in charge tf the Presiden-
tial excursion party, he was under the i'm
preston that it was his menagerie. II will
show the Northwest what kind of Presi-
dent we have" he remarked, 'and will also
show the President what great country the
Northwest is.'' The President and his
party had the directors car of the Balti-
more g. Ohio railroad. Gen. LIE Due
secured the Pullman car Idaho for his own
private use, slowed away all the members of
his own family therein, and, having few
vacant births, he filled them with guests of
his own choosing, SO that the LIE Due party
numerically outranked the Hayes party.
The LIE Duo car was placed ahead of the
Hayes car, and the two excursion parties
bowled along smoothly enough into Chicago
William Henry Smith lives in or near
Chicago, and being a personal friend of the
President, and, moreover, the receiver of
the honors and emoluments of the highest
office in that city within the gift of the
President, he felt under dual obligations
to
RELIEVE GEN. LIE DUO OF ALL RESPONSIBILITY
FOR THE HAYES PARTY
during its stay there, and proceeded to do
SO. Accordingly, on his arrival there, Gen
LIE Due saw with dismay all the mos attrac-
tive animals in his collection taken care of
by another, and, as he though, rival show
man. He did not charge around aud swear,
nor did he appeal to the President, but he
went Oft in corner and sulked by himself
and staked his opinion on the sorghum ques-
ton against pint of home made Oolong
that he could be meaner than anybody.
HIS first move was to attempt to prevent
the reporters from obtaining list of the
members of his individual party. To that
end he refused to register their names at the
Grand Pacific. and only did so upon receiv-
ing notification from the clerk that he could
not possibly assign them rooms until his
books showed complete roster. Mean
while his party had been loafing impatiently
around the hotel for an hour or more with
out accommodations. When appealed to by
Mr.. Smith and others for list his reply
was that he had always found it to his ad-
vantage to
KEEP HIS BUSINESS TO HIMSELF.
The truth is that the granger had suddenly
discovered that the President "drew better
than he did,
At length his great soul acquiesced in the
inevitable to the extent that he reluctantly
gave up his attempt to boss things in Chi
cago. His time would come when he had
the animals in their cars once more and
| they were rafting away to the Northwest.
Now, by previous arrangement with the
President, William Henry Smith had per-
mission to add carload of his own guests
to the train at Chicago, and in the makeup
it was SO arranged that the Smithsonian car
was sandwiched in between the LIE Due and
IL,
between sorghum and Oolong and conclud-
ed that it meant something. Furthermore,
he could not practice the show business sue
cessfully at the various stations without pass
ing through Mr.. Smiths car.
However, the train pulled out, and eveutu.
ally reached Beloit, where crowd more
eager than polite was gathered. The ar
| rangement was that the train was to stop
there an hour and half to allow the party
| to visit the fair grounds. The Hayes party
and the Smith party disembarked and wer
hustled into waiting carriages before it wa s
discovered that portion Of che LIE Due par
| ty was missing. A messenger was dis
| patched to the train to hurry them up. The
train, meanwhile, had been pulled up across
the street, distance perhaps of $50 feet, to
| allow train to pass. II was not invited to
get off, said LIE Due, bitterly. 81 have my
| wife along and don't care about making her
walk to the depot. Furthermore, it's
ONLY THE PRESIDENT THAT THE PEOPLE WISH
TO SEE,
| and not me. I don't care to go. Let them
see the President. / can stay here. No
body cares about me-" On learning of the
desert of Sahara on which the noble Duke
Oolong was perishing, Superintendent
| Wheeler ordered the cars backed down to
| the depot to allow him and his party to sted
| directly into the carriages. Thus the great
gulf was temporarily bridged.
At the fair grounds the President delivered
an epitome of his st. Paul speech. William
Henry Smith asked LIE Dues secretary, a
shorthand man, who had taken it down, to
furnish him with copy for the Associated
Press report, which he cheerfulv consented
to do. When the copy was ready, LIE Due
peremptorily ordered his secretary not to
give it to Mr.. Smith. The executive was ap-
| pealed to, and the document was ordered to
be turned over to Mr.. Smith. It was not
complied with, however, until the station
designated at the point from which it was to
be sent had been left far behind.
| And thus the triangular menagerie skipped
across Wisconsin and made it's triumphaI
| entry into st. Paul, the former home of the
| LIE Dues.
EDO you know
HOW LIE DUG GOT HIS APPoINTMENT?'
asked prominent Minnesota federal official
of the Times representative at the MetropoI-
itan.
'Not exactly. How was it?''
why, he used to be in partnership with
| Rogers, the Presidents private secretary, in
the mining business here at Hudson. When
his business went TO pieces, Rogers took pity
on him, because of their former associations,
| and persuaded the President to appoint
him. ALI Minnesota laughed in it's
sleeve and regarded it as the best
joke of the season. You remember
what Gen. Sherman said when he heard of
it? No? Well, he musingly remarked,
lie Due? LIE Due? Why, that must be Bill
Duke, whom I used to know in Lancaster,
Ohio And SO it was, am assured. When
he came to Minnesota he Frenchifed his
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