Omaha daily bee., 1883-06-13
Henry WatterSOn Visits the Idol
Of Democracy at His COun-
try Seat.
Where the Sine ey Cipher Cul.
tivates "Pigs, Poultry and
Blooded Stock"
"If An Apparition Had Stood
Before Me 1 Gould not Have
Been More Surprised"
No Power on Earth Gould Induce
Kim TO Aoospt tho Frcsi-
denoy.


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New YORK, June 12.-Hon. Henry
Wstterson, who has been spending
some days with MI. Tilden, 'has writ
ten the following account of his visit
for Tho Louisville Courier. Journal, in
which paper 1t will appear tomorrow
morning:
l have been spending q few days at
Greystone with Governor Tilden, and
not merely because his old friends In
the west and south have an ever.pres-
ent personal interest In him, but be-
cause his nsme Is at this moment upon
the lips of politicians of every class all
over the country, I propose to give
the readers of the Courier Journal
some particular account of him.
When l parted from him a year ago
l did never expect to see him again.
Indeed, l was 80 skeptical concerning
his restoration to health as to feel q
delioacy aboutintruding on his privacy.
He was good enough to send for me
and l went over to Gramercy Park
In q somewhat sorrowful, sympathetic
state of mind. My surprise almost
KICEEDED NY IMAGINATION.
The old house was undergoing recon
%structlon and enlargement on a mag
nifcent scale, but tho old library 10
still the same, being held from the
hand Of despoiling splendor. For the
last, I take 1t as a tribute OF affection
to remorseless old times, old friends,
and old books. There I found the
governor. If an apparition had stood
before me l could not have been more
sstonished. The days CT rs
seemed to have come back. His low
voice was found again. His eyes were
bright and his cheeks rosy; his intel
lect as sinewey and clear, and his wit
as incisive as they were when he made
nothing of
RIDING BLACKSTONE TO HARLEM
and back, or driving Kentucky bays
from Grameroy park to Greystone.
He took me ell over the new house,
pointing out the various changes, ex-
planning his various designs and dis
cussing architecture and architects
with characteristic intelligence. He
quite tired me out, o fsvorite melevo.
lent way he has of Furnishing hii
friends, ....,upils long ~ssA.Tf, Iaa' d.
ing through lsbyrinths of decorative
arte and treading tapestrled -ant
frescoed mazes of corridor and cham
Der. On current af ,irs he talked Will
his usual pungency and candor. Wher
endurance had ceased to be q virtue,
l said, "Governor, don't you thinl
we have had enough of thir." Ii,
smiled In his dry, half pungent, hal
sarcastic way, and replied, "if yo1
are tired we will 60 down stairs" A
Greystone his life is of
THE SIMPLEST AND BUSIEST.
He has q farm hard by, and no enc
of pigs, poultry and blooded stock
OF course l had to be dragged ovel
this farm, and the devices which thu
old gentleman put slyly forth to traf
me Into some unguarded treason to the
butter and eggs of my blue graul
country were many and ingenious. ]
stood my ground like q hero, but II
must be owned that the governor
farming Is, like everything he under
takes, thoroughly we'll done. l asked
him whether he tried to make money
cut of 1t. "Oh, no." he said, at 1,
easier to make it some other way"
While l was at Greystone not &C
much as a shadow or ghost of a poll
ticIan crossed the threshold or ap-
peared on the ground. Surrounded
by his nieces aud his books, the OLD
statesman and philosopher was as un'
reserved In his conversation as no wau,
and always is, simple and
CORDIAL IN HIS HOSPITALITY.
One of the young ladies' told me that
the little household had got through
over 200 volumes last winter. The
governor lie a voracious and versatile
reader, no lees than an attentive and
wise observer Of affairs, and we
talked of everything from Thomas
attempts to Thomas A. Hendricks.
He plsyfully observed that the chiei
objection he had heard TO the election
of MI. Carlisle to the speakershlp wat
that In come recent volumes, pub
lished by one Mr., Froude, there was q
suspicion that he had mistreated hii
wife
Here I must stop. l know that the
public 10 most curious to learn what
are
MR., TILDEN's VIEWS
Of political affairs, current and pros
pective. / have no doubt that IT J
had g right to speak l could, by faith
fully reporting bin, make myself a
once entertaining ndinstructive. Blu
the opinions of every man are all hi
own and HIS house is sacred. l neveI
knew a man more entirely frank In
his intercourse with his friends thar
this sage of Greystone, bat l am NO
his mouthpiece aud 1t is not for me t.
come all the way from Kentucky tC
Now York to do that which he Ia 81
much better able to do for himself.
can say, however, for myself, tina
nothing passed which leads me t.
modify the opinion l have so Otter
expressed, that no power on esrtl
could induce him to accept the presi
doncy.
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