Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-07-21
HUGH j. NOLAN.
A Pathetic story About the Eso.
quent Young Orator.

A Pathetic story About n Eco
quent Young Orator.
Some years ago Hugh J. NOLAN cam
paigned in Nevada for the Democratic
ticket. He has a fund of ready wit and i
usually quite entertaining. Last year HI
drifted East and made q great many
speeches in New York. On his return tc
this Coast he brought an autograph letter
from President Cleveland, thanking him
for his services, and assumed that he wsi
to be bigger man han anybody with the
new administration. The annexed Press
dispatch from Washington, under date Of
the Goth instant, tells the story OF how ht
reckoned without his host:
The case OF Hugh J. Mohan, who camt
from San Francisco last Fall, made l5s
speeches in New York State for Cleve-
land, and pswned his household effects
to raise money enough to get through
the campaign, is still on. Mohan has been
one of Cleveland's vociferous admirers
Recently the latter told him quietly ths'
he shonld give the position in the Sar
Francisco Custom House, Tor which Mohan
was an applicant, to a business man. MO
han grew red in the face and managed te
say that the President did not stop to in
quire whether he was q business man OF
not when he asked him to stump New
York State. Cleveland advised him to &c
back to San Francisco and use his infiu-
ence with the Collector there, who might
possibly find something for him to do.
Mohan is still here. His opinion of Glove.
land has undergone q radical change.
Commenting on the above telegram the
Stock Report prints this pathetic scrap OF
history: "The case of Mr.. NOLAN is quite
pathetic. When we remember Mr.. Mo.
hans arrival in this city a few months ago,
shortly after Inauguration, and the con-
fdence with which he expected the COL
lectorship Of the Port, or some such Office.
at the hands of the President, and then
picture him as he now Is in Washington,
we are sad.
"Mr. NOLAN, upon his aforementioned,
jubilant arrival in San Francisco, wrote q
personal sketch Of Mr.. Cleveland. If
there is anything Mr.. Mohan specially
prides himself upon, besides his power of
enthralling a vast audience, Ii is his
faculty OF reading character. He had read
Mr.. Cleyeland's character and il had
charmed him. He had placed q few of
his impressions on paper and would the
Report publish them? Everybody wanted
to know what kind of q man Cleveland
was and that would tell them. Well.
the Report said it would look over
the manuscript and let Mr.. NOLAN
know tomorrow. It looked over the man.
uscript and 1t found that, in ~electing
Cleveland, the nation had been entertain
ing an archangel unawares. Though well
knowing Mr.. Mohan's fame as q Young
Orator." or "Young Irish Orator" at
that, the Report was wholly unprepared
for the wealth of Mandatory adjectives be
was capable of heaping, at short notice,
upon the altar of admiration. Still Mr..
Mohan, after ten legal-cap pages OF sheer
admiration, did finally settle down to an
apparently calm and scientific analysis Of
Mr.. Cleveland's character. He found thai
gratitude was the Presidents strong point
1t was the pivot upon which, after all, hii
grand and massive character turned. He
never forgot Q friend or broke q promise
Upon this feature of the Presidential
makeup Mr.. NOLAN dwelt long and low
ingly. He had also been greatly i'm
pressed aud pleased by the Presidency
irmness, q trait which probably nov
affords him less delight than formerly.
"The Report declined to publish thu
manuscript, much to Mr.. Mohan's sur
prise. He offered TO sign his name to it
il that would make any difference. Tit
Report hardly thought it would. 'You
make a great mistake said Mr.. Mohan, 81
he rolled up his manuscript and retired
shaking it aloft; "a great mistake. Sucl
an opportunity Of showing the people whs
kind of a man Cleveland is should not b.
lost The Report. however, concluded &
lose it, and remarked that he hoped Mr.
Mohan had made no mistake. himself ani
the Young Orator withdrew"
"He subsequently passed in this city
few days of momentarily increasing sur
prise over the u-naccountable silenceof thu
President, and then departed for Washing
ton to see about it. As the telegraph sen
tentiously says, he is still there"