The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-06-13
Tiiden's Chateau-Surprlsed at the
Sage's Sagacity.
The Presidential Bee Is BuxzIng In the
Bombazine Bonnet,
Although the Politician Is Scarcely
Seen, and
ihe Barrel Is Bravely Kept In the
Background.
Raising Poultry but not Pandering for
the Presidency,
Some GOssipy and Gossamer Gush

New YORK, June IL Hon. Henry Wat.
terson has allowed Hon. William Henry
smith, general manager of the Western
Associated Press the use of the following
matter, which will be published in the
Courier-Journal tomorrow.
have been spending few days at Grew.
stone with Governor Tilden, and not
merely because his old friends IN
the west and south have an ever
personal interest in him but because his
name is on the lips OF the politicians of the
country or every class, | propose to give
the readers OF the Conrier-Journal some
particular account of him. When parted
from him year ago | never expected
TO see him again. Indeed, | was
so skeptical Of the stories concerninv
his restoration to health as to feel uneasS
about going He was good enough To send
Tor me, and went to Grammarcy park In \
somewhat sorrowful state of mind. NV
surprise almost exceeded my qualification.
Ihe Old home is undergoing reconstruction
on magnificent scale, but the old library
sun heid the same being from the hand OF
uespoiler, l take 1t as tribute of affection
and old books. There i found
the governor. If an apparition on
had stood before could not been more as.
ttonished. The days l775.76-77 seemed to
have come back. His lost voice was
found again, his eyes bright and
cheeks rosy, his intellect sinewy and cIear
ana his wits as incisive as they were when
he made nothing Of riding from Black.
stone to Harlem or driving the Kentucky
bays from Gramercy park to Greystone
he took me all over the new house, point.
ing out changes, explaining the general
uesign ana discussing, the architecture
intelligence, He quite tired me out-a
iayorite and malevolent way he has of pun
ishing his friends. Climbing the long stairs,
meandering through the labryinths of ART
and the frescoed mazes of the corridors and
chambers, conversing on current affairs. he
TAXED with his usual pungency and
candor. When endurance had ceased To
be a virtue. said, "Goyernor.
don't you think we have had enonrb N
thisf" lie smiled and in his dry. halt pity.
ing, hall sarcastic way, replied an Won ara
tirei We will go down stairs.n
Az Greyst0ne his life is of the SIMPLEST and
busiest: lie has farm hard by and no end
o, OIL, PIGS; poultry and blooded
this farm and the devices which The old
gentleman put silly forth to tran
me TO some unguarded treason to
the butter and eggs of my blue grass county
were many and ingenious. stood nv
ground like hero, but 1t must be owned
that the governors farming is like
everything he undertakes thoroughly we'll
done. l asked him II he tried to make anv
money ofit. ",Oh no" he said, "It's easier
made some other way"
While l was at Greystone not so much
as the shadow or the ghost of
crossed the threshold or
appeared on the ounds. Surrounded bv
his nieccs and his ooks, the old gentleman
and philosopher was as unre.
served in his conversation as he
was and always is-simple and cordial In |
his hospitality. One Of the young ladies
told me the little household
got through over 200 volumes the last
winter; Inc governor Is a voracious and
Versatile reader, no less than an attentive
and wise observer OF affairs, and we talked
Of everything from Thomas A. Kempis To
Thomas A. Hendricks. w
Tit. public is most curious TO learn what
are Mr.. Tildens view of political
affairs. have little doubt If had
e.dting him, making Inv mvself yt ~
once entertaining and instructive, but the
opinions OF every man are his
own and his house is sacred
never knew man more entireiv
rank In his intercourse with his
friends than. this sage of Greystone
am not his mouth piece, and II In
not for me to come from kentucky TO New
York to do that which he Ia so
much better able To do far
himself. can say, however, for INV.
'elf, that nothing passed which. leads
ne to modify the opinion
nave 80 often expressed, that no power on
iency. (Signedl n. w