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4 Department Cierk Who Succeeded in
"Oueerin0" Himself.

81 guess I'll have To acknowledge I've
been foo" said n clerk in the Internal
r venue Department tn the Washington
,rre spun lem, "becau>e I've 'qIeered my
self wis Il ,plin,el from Ohln on recon-
mendaIions from Senator Sherman and
nearly all the Congressional delegation
rom that State then in Congress When
the Democrat. came in | thought | would
have to 30, and foolishly undertook to get
some endorsement from the other side. An
uncle of mine lives in Kentucky, is DEM
ocrat and "a great friend of Senator Black
burn, and asked him to drop Il request IN
nv hehalf to the Senator. Inside ofa week
he returned me u letter to the :, nator, ask
ing him to do what he could fnr me. Th,n
! | wruie out Il letter to tie Secretary Of u
Treasury, asking that wh,n h. Internal
! Revenue 6 flee was rcoTganizcd | might
hold my prs mt position. and my purpose
was To have Senator Blackburn gn this. !"
The recollection of thi, brought the cold
| sweat 10 the brow of the clerk. and he con-
iinued palhctically:
armed with this prepared req icst went
d wn tn the Senate one morning beio e the
.>sinn began AMI saw Blackburn in one OF ,lc
cloak rooms with half dozen Democratic
) nators around him. handed him my
tier of introduction. and after he read IL
PIT the prepared request in his hand and
asked him u sign IT, lie did not ask my
politics and presume tonS it for granted |
wls Democrat, an illusion dd not care
t, di-pel. He promptly signed ii and then
said
"'B,rk'4 pretty splil up at the depart
ment AMI I'll get him an this paper
"IIe wasn't zone half II minute when c
c me back with some hirrnelyplicS Rdd' d
watch purport,d To be The signature 0l tie
senior Senator from kentucky. Even lh :
didn't seem to satisfy him for he turned
ar Iuud to Senator VOORHEES, and asked him
q sign it. The tall Sycamore glanced ut is
contents and did as requested. Then he
lurn d to Blackburn and sail:
- joe, make Han'om sign it. too at the
same Time handing the pen tp The North
Carolina Senator. Ransom was telling Il
,thry, AMI withoIt stopping the narrative
scratched down his name. German WAS
Il musel at The way Blackburn WAS working
the crowd aud said, iaceti0u>ly: Are you
going TO skip me ]? Its an open game Ie-
piled Blackburn, aud German put down his
-isnature, though he was cautious enough
To read the heading before doing 30 Thee
were Yet too liu.s on the h.et, anl tlirse
were liiled by Kennr aud Waltlall. sup
pI,e would have hId 4 complete directO y
o. The D.mDcrltic Senators IT the paper
held out. went back to the depIrtn,n.
Sicsin! myself because had not applied
l., be m tde Chief OF Il divisipl instead oi
no icstly asking to bc merely retained.
low .ver, it wts with god deal of prplc
that lileI the document win The apPJnt
mrut ctIk.
Alter few months. when found that
all the Republicans. ~ The bur 'au were r.
Gained, aud IL was not intended To- remove
,hrnl, began 10 feel that my clevernr-,
hal peea wasted BIt Imagine nv feelings
Aheh lnu III llLrrl>Oa wa- elrct.d. ] M
,rL those pipcr, oil The file. aud the ARE
j mnng because oi the two SETS nl lndorSe-
u tnts--pnc D,mucralic the uthcr Rcpuhli
ran Dn ! expect Ia get iir,d when the
Repub-' come up? Why, when they zee
th,,e paper, they will take me n on The
roof and droJ me into the big fountain at
,he north mont