New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-10-07
GOSSIP AT THE CAPITAL.
THE POSTMASTER GENERALS UNFORTUNATELY
QUOTATION FROM PICKWICK.
FIERY KENTUcKIAN-oNE OF THE ThiN''
"BIsHoP" oBERLY WOULD RATHER Noi
HAVE sAID-sENAToR PALMERs
APT REPLY.


Washin oton October g." Dear Dons' great speech
at Detroit excited good deal OF merrimeht mere IN
washington Tho truth IS that Don Manners measure
has been taken-he has been found out" Inc shaip
social and political observers at the Nauonai "p''
discovered some time ago that the wolverine sh' "ai
hid but did not conceal pair OF extremely ions oa'
which must belong to very different SORT Oh qi"u.
rupcd 1t may be that the beautiful anu iusu'ian'
side wlskersn are foil to the aui,ou'A, up
nendaees but they fail distract the attention oi INC
experienced political observer.
q Donn said one of these Don may be success
az a political boss among the rural Democrats III te
most rural part Of Michigan. but when they unuer,ac
10 spread him all the Northwest ana orlns MN
into contact with intelligent, thinking people 'here
WILL be n disaster Fancy Cabinet officer standing
before mixed audience in Dctrolt-an audience "hon
must have included many Intelligent pcoPio-anu
making such an ass of himself as Don ala III MS s-
norant attempt to borrow an illustration from the
spickwick Papers He seemed TO know That sueh
man as Dickens once lived-and probably Don fancles
that he Is living now writing about strange figures
and characters which came to light IN some eAcaNa-
tions, Poor DOM His 'Tom Nokes' speech VIII
follow and plague him for long time TO come lie
would better abandon HIS attempts to revive ancient
stories by dressing them in Zulu garD ana 10 quolo
Dickens until he has read hm-end return to his old
methods which he has found rather successful among
the Democratic gentry whose chief occupation IS 10
SIT ON an empty box before the village grocery on
election day. whiting and meditating-mcditating on
the liquor question:
A friend who witnessed Don when he was In the
throes Of composition OF the Tom Nokes' speech In
forms me that tho Mchganders struggles were severe
and painful in the extreme. They were fellow pas
sengers on a railway train which bore the latter on
his way homeward. My friend said:
For the first time since his appointment, think.
Dickinson was not anxious to have everybody In his
immediate vicinity know that he IS Postmaster-Gen-
eral of the United states-you know how vain he Is
He was very much preoccupled. Either he had for
gotten his piece or else no had not yet completed 10
y am inclined TO think the latter-and there he was,
thrown upon his resources without so much as
a cyclopeda or bool. of poeticd quotations to help
him out. lie would sit and gaze through the window
at the flying landscape for long time as II struggling
to derive aspiration language ideas, or some
thing of that sort from It, Suddenly he would start
SILVER as though thought or Idea
had hit him, and hit him hard; his
eyes would roll In his head and he would begin to
rise from his seat but sink back again, casting urve
glances around 10 whether he had been observed
Several times the ideas were so powerful and the
spasms Of thought that he was compelled TO
rise and pace the aisle and comb his long WHISPERS
with his fingers like n poetic frenzy. really
felt sorry for him.