Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-04-20
TALKING TON.
Mr.. 0ohiltree Discusses Cleveland and
His Course.
A Man Who Was in Hurry interviewed
According to His Own Fashion.
Sd. LonIs Roe .lIsraleh. Anrllli.

st~Lonis rost.nlspatch, April II.
A medium-sizeu. heavy set gentle
man, with protruding, rotund. bay
window front, fiorld complexion, small
light-blue eyes, sandy mustache, VIC
lent auburn-colored hair, and a straight,
well.shaped nose, with lust the faint
est suspicion of close acquaintance
with the most potent ingredient OF the
late campaign still lingering around
it's blunt end, sailed up to the counter
of the Southern yesterday with a
breezy, free-born American manner,
threw his satchel at the porter and
grasped the hand OF The clerk, Walter
Keith, in vigorous, hearty manner.
To Post-Dispatch reporter, who
was standing near by, he was
introduced as "Col. Tom. Ochiltree
OF Texas, the Eli Perkins Of the Re-
publican party .rhe reporter &C.
knowledged the greeting in q BETTING
manner and Col. Tom, true to HIS
| Southern instincts, carried him OIL to
the mahogany counter, decorated with
a rosewood railing and white towels
| pendant, which ornaments the
Southern end of the hotel rotunda.
| Col Ochiltree's conversation was
sprlnkled literally with the great big
III Scarcely n prominent man In
the country could be mentioned but
what the Texan would spring an
"Now, know him well, intimately,
in TACT ! was the first man, etc., by
some strange fatality Col. Ochiltree
enjoys the distinction of being the
"nrst man" in almost every enter-
prise undertaken since the war, and
there Is no couutiug the number OF
great men OF lust hefo' the wahn his.
tory who are not irredeemably indebt-
ed to him In more ways than one.
II have just come up from II Xas,
my boy, y said he, "where | have been
nection with John Mackay's Central
Texas railroad. You've heard OF John
Mackay, of course?
sTAVIN' GOOD FELLOW, is John.
I'm his attorney, and keep the run of
his legal matters for him. We want
to extend that road of his fron; Vic
toria to San Antonio. = distance OF
come hundred miles or so, and connect
the latter place with Galveston, which
would be great benefit in CONNER
clal sense to both places and also to
the road. / obtained the consent of
and completed the necessary arrange
ments with all Of the Texas parties
concerned, ana the extension may
now be considered as fixeo.n
"Ilave you been in Washington
lately, Colonel? How does society
drag along there without your
NOW, see here, my dear boy, of
course I'm society man, but you
needn't say anything about that. The
ladies are all friends of mine and re-
ciprocate with all my heart. | have
been very intimate with the society
leaders of the past four administra-
lions, and, although Pm Republican,
don't intend to lean up against the
wall and gaze on during Cleveland,s
term by any means. I'll be In the
midst OF the 'giddy whirp and take
my chances with the best cavaliers of
the day. / predict that the present
regime will be as brilliant, socially, II
not more so, than any of its predeces-
sors. Society will not rule Cleveland,
however, ny long stretch. He is a
bachelor and strong-minded one at
that, and there will be some difficulty
In barring his neck to the
yoke. BY the way. what first
class old fellow Cleveland Is, take him
all around, Ell? He has made splen-
did record go far, and his appointees
are all from the very best element, and
all very excellent men. / know he
has broken through the barriers OF
political usage and given Office to
number Of men who could not by any
means be termed 'old-time Democrats
but in every case the individual 1T
ness Of the person has made ample
amends for the departure from party
precedent. He went down into
Georgia and selected Jackson and
Lawton from out of the same law
Office for important missions, and
he couldn't have done better IL
he'd searched the entire South over.n
"How about the disabilities OF the
un'reconstructedi rebels
Nothing In IL, sir; not thing.
think that
PRESIDENT JoHNsoN's PARDON
is sufficient In all cases save where the
person was tried and convicted as a