The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-04-27
MIR. NYE ON CURRENT TOPICS.

MIR. NYE ON CURRENT TOPICS.
He Nominates Lydia Pinkhan, for President
and Talks About the Women Voters of
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/ Chicago Inter Ocean. = '' :H-H .'@
Mr.. Edgar Nye, more widely and familiarly
| known as 'tBill Nye." of the Laramie Boom
erang, is spending the week with relatives in
| Englewoodlo A representative OF the Inter
| Ocean paid visit to Mr.. Nye last evening,
and found him engaged in q game Of whist
with his cousins. - t..,.,. ... 81,
4 should like to interview you, Mr.. Eye,"
said the reporter
| The funny man of the Boomerang pulled
| his long blonde mustache gently and ten
derby, curled one of its ends up around his
nose, and remarked, with quiet CLEAN in
his hazel eye "rm sorry didn't
had my teeth filed, and would have written
you out an interview, questions and all cor
| rect
"What is your opinion of Interviewing"
THAT depends upon the interviewed" I
| like and respect newspaper men. L am a
newspaper man myself. Joseph Cook says
we ought to be hung and Freddie Gebhardt
says we are 'scaawags.' Now l think Joe
and Freddie are great horrid things, do"
Again that characteristic twirl of the mus
tache, as the interviewer asked:
! How do you like Chicago?"
| Yes"
"How long have you been here?'
! GA week. l came visiting for my health.
| fell ill in February. The Boomerang went
back on me, kicked, recoiled you might say.
! The Laramie doctors are peculiar set. One
! of them doctored me for malaria and an
other for intiammatory rheumatism; then
! they shipped what was left of me to Greeley,
Col, and they have sent the rest of me on
| here. But I'm getting better, and after a
| Northern trip shall go home"
who is running the Boomerang in your
absence?" .'"
80 it's running" ..t-...
/ Seriously, who is taking your work?'
Nobody is taking it very seriously, but it
is a good deal more serious than when 1 was
| there
| VINO is your candidate for the presi-
dency?'
well if you won't give it away will tell
you. l should like to see Lydia Pinkham at
the head of the government"
| Lydia PinkhamY'
Eyes; Lydia, the same. She and used to
be engaged. but broke it off because she
was such giddy young thing. Still l feel
| that she lost good deal in losing me, and
should like to see her have something to
make up for it
What is the rest of your slate2'
"You may make that out. I'm only par
| ticular about Lydia"
ut isrumored that you thought of running
YOURSELF"
81 did, but was only fooling"
''What is your opinion of Mrs. Langtry?'
| "She died easy"
"How do you regard Carter Harrison?
I Garter doesn't know me. He haint had
| the pleasure of meeting ME, and won't COM
nit myself just yet"
How do you class the dude?'
Il don't class him.. just call him 'dudy'
with two sylables, and let him go. Call him
pet names; call him dudy."
What do you think of the Cars corona
tion2
l. Now, my friend, feel stupid interval
coming on. Remember am an invalid, and
| go easy with your questions | know the
trying situation in which you are placed
There is my cousin and his wife gazing at
you as If you were an escaped curiosity. 1
know how it is myself. The general
public looks on newspaper folks as pc
| cuiar specimens | have had people before
now look at me as if they wondered how
got away. 1t is q painful, shuddering curl
| osity, similar to that with which a smalpox
doctor is generally regarded. Don't stare at
my bald head 1t won't do You any good to
ask me where lost my hair, for won't tell
you. and / won't tell, either, what is making
! il grow in again. You don't take me for a
patent medicine advertisement, hope?"
mo. Is it true that Wyoming women like
to vote?''
condition of my Uranium"
How do they generally vote?'
"In ballot-boxes."
"No, but with which party?'
Depends on whether the party is sweet
heart or husband They often vote against
the latter party if he doesn't go all right on
| temperance questions. There used to be
woman justice of the peace out there, and
she fined her husband for getting drunk
Women are eligible as jurymen in Wyoming
| They ride to election i'll carriages, and seem
to enjoy it."
What sort of weather do you have in Lar
| ame2' ...,..t
1T SHOWS pretty muchly. Electric blue is
my favorite color. don't know,how old
| am. Transatlantic travel is looking up.
| haven't seen the Bartholdi statue Oscar
| Wilde is an easy man to interview. If he
| hasn't anything more to say he looks over
| your head and doesn't say anything. in
| terviewed Oscar" .r4i4
| Would you intimate, sir, that you have
no more to say2 l wished to ask your opin-
| ion of the presidential succession if anything
| had happened in consequence of the shrimp
salad Mr.. Arthur took at Savannah the other
| day." ~.
|.Took? He didn't take it, A slow smile
overspread the face of Bill Nye. His kindly
eyes cleaned He pulled his niustache ends
| up around the corner of his nose. He didn't
| take that salad. He only borrowed it. Co
| ing? Don't hurry. Stay and beat me at
whist You can do it easy enough. Any
body can. Good by; sorry to have seen You
IN such an unpleasant capacity. Good night.
| Sweet dreams" - ~ "
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