Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-11-06
MEN OF MARK.
Notable People to He Me- With In New
York Streets.

Notable People to He Me- With in New
York Streets.
It is singular how men who have hele
high places in life fall by the roadside. J
saw Gen. Tom Brady to-day at the Aston
House. A friend of his tells me that he has
been poor ever since the star route trials
in which he Was a prominent figure. He
has been at the downtown hotel, where l
saw him ever since last July, hanging on by
| the eyelids. waiting for something to turn
up. 1t has been a. marvel to many Of his
friends how he has lived. Yet. in this
metropolis, it is easier for a man to get
enough to eat and drink than in any other
| place ever knew. For nearly a veal
Brady has stayed at this hotel, and got
loaded with rum in a genteel way
every day, until people have begun to won
| der whether or no he has entirely lost his
grip on business life. His friends tell me
that he is upon his feet again, and has just
sold his interest in a railroad franchise rum
nlng from GAINESVILLE to the Ohio river. The
same people, who areinterested in him. say
that he is now going to leave New York and
90 down to Westmoreland county, Vir-
giuia, where he has q 5OO-acre farm
stretched along the east coast.
Coming up from downtown to-day on
the elevated railroad 1 saw ex-Secretary
Bristow. He is growing older and better
looking. Like all men who think much he
does not pay great attention to his dress,
and his clothes are not new or to the
freshest pattern. But Brlstow is q natu-
fral lawyer. and, like all men OF origi-
naiity, is commanding men who have money
and less brains than himself. He is the
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ulator, and other men OF high financial
standine. There are few men like Bristow.
He is 80 full of forcefulness that it takes a
man of distinction to reach his ear and
arouse his belt pulse. He is fond of money,
and it is said OF him that a friend can do
him no higher service than to tell him
where he can save q dollar. Yet, with all
Bristow's talents and his leading position
as an attorney here, almost everyone looks
upon him with suspicion. He can never
get rid of the prejudice that he did not do
the fair thing while Secretary Of the Treas
ury in Grants Cabinet. Twas talking with
Wayne McVesgh the other night Of this
phase of Bristow' q life. Hesaid: THE world
is unjust. Public opinion is too often
formed outside OF the fact. 1t is not true
that Bristow was unfaitbsul to Grant and
used his position as Secretary OF the
Treasury to boom his candidacy for the
presidency. He dealt in good faith with
his chief. and every day kept him advised
of the steps he was taking in the prosecu-
ton of the whisky ring. Yet it will be i'm
possible to make a large mass Of the Amer
lean people believe this fact. The Ameri-
can hates an migrate and an unfaith1ul
friend worse than any other people in the
world. The newspapers placarded Bristow
as holding a position in Grants political
I-..I~1l .w1s1o hn coorof1v mn
dermining his chief. Though this
is untrue, yet a large share Of the
public believe it, and Bristow will be
obliged to suffer in the mist OF m~isrepresen-
tation the same as many other men have
had to do before him. 1t is not right, but
public opinion is loaded with caprice"
Mr.. McVeagh's judgment is worthy OF con-
sideraeion, for he had exceptional means
of knowing the facts, but it will be hard to
convince the American people that'his po-
sition is right, and Mr.. Bristow will doubt
less get over the impression that people
formed of him while he was Secre-
reminds me that this envious citizen, who
has been so capricious in politics, was one
of the very few men who criticised Gen.
Grant severely, and yet who always en-
ioyed the old hero's friendship. MIR. Nc
Veagh always amused Gen. Grant. When
he said severe things about him, and he
frequently did, the old warrior would smile
and say: "McVeagh has so much brains
and honesty that he is amusing. He
is SO sincere that he is convinced OF the
truth OF his own IDEAS" 1t will not try
to settle the controversy between Gen.
Grant and Mr.. McVeagh. l only stopped
long enough to sight the fact that they
never quarrelled, despite their differences.
Few men but McVeagh ever succeeded in
abusing Gen. Grant without mourning his
hostility, but when he appointed McVeagh
Minister to Turkey, and this distinguished
lawyer got tired of the Orient and wanted
the balance of the earth, the old warrior
expected his criticism, and never really got
tired of it.-Boston Herald Cor.