The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-15
OLD OAvv CROCKETT.


sAsy of thu birth Of Davy Crockett has At
tracted public attention % ONE Of the most
remarkahle men who ever lived ian this
stats. Comparatively few Of the present
teristics OF the famous Indian fighter,
pioneer, hunter and memher OF congress-.
In looking through an old scrap book
today I found severn, Sopies Of the AIis!,
phia. The number OF January "a ls28.
contains the following STORY of Davy
Crockett, which may not prove unintercst-
bavy Crockett. = Tennessee member of
congress. The facetio9. NJ: X. OF Ohio
man from the wild woods Of
figures as the hero. The reader will sup
Res e s. S, X, ' SsSca d fs sss.s sss sa.:; ~, ss.. Sss.
sher. that Dsvy has fallen in With a num-
seiIins them Of his visit 70 the prs.ldsns.
latter I go. 70 Wa.hins.on wa. to GO g
Says j, 'Mr. Adams, / ann MI. Crockett
yoa do af M. rocket = and he shook m NC
by the hand, although he knowed ! went
the whole hog for Jackson. II didn't I
.ent me q printed ticket to dine with him.
I've got IT in my pocket yet. haven't
,,c wish ! may xh bs saSsj FOR e., .hes "s,m sns Sfi%'s Of
she whole company. ~ weht to dinner,"
said Davy, ''and walked around the long
At last j took my seat just beside q fat
goose, and I helped myself 20 as much AS
I WANTED. But l hadn't took three bites
called fash lattache,. He was talking
French To "a woman on tother side OF the
table. He dosiecsi his head and she
wine across the table. If they ,didn't
wish 1 may he shot. But when 1
ssns, ea esse a asnin ali my 20 S,"ef J jiss
cast my eyes down t.other end Of the table
and sure enough l seen n white man walk
mister. bring back my plate.' He fetched
IL back i'm q hurry, as you may suppose,
S aoS VOW %n shin he il se was? 'T licked as clean "G as
shot. Says he. What will you have sir?'
stealing my goose; : and he began to laugh.
II he didn't / wish I may bc shot. Then
says I, mister, laugh IL YOU please, but 1
II I do I wish I may he shot, I then filled
my plate with bacon and green's. and
held my plate with my left hand. ii j
didn't, 1 wish ! may be shot. we
were all done eating they cleared every
thing oil the table and took away the table
cloth, and what do you hink-tLere was
another table cloth under it,. II there
wasn't 1 wish l may he shot. Then I saw
II ma coming along carrying ~ great
glass thing with IA glass handle below, full
of little glass cups with something i'm them
bring that here Thinks 1. let's taste ZEN,
and 50 ssss six Of 'sm: III didn't wish
The AIRED of February Z isss. contains
the following: 1.-THE Hon. David Crockett,
n n,enssr OF m e%SnG ;rs s from ~ fenT ness i,. who
able story by. a waRgish Kentucky editor,
has taken that matter so seriously to
duct ON the occasion alluded to. Mr.:
Clark Of Kentucky and Mr.. vcrplank of
New York have both certified that his
conduct at the presidents house was
marked with the strictcst propriety.'"
We are told that Mr.. Crockett is n SEN
raS.e . m,nm, hin "% " sSe half ii 'f SSrs .an sa III
alligator" i'm his The Middle
sex Gazette noticing him i'm the following
cature and u true picture of Mr.. Crockett
and n large portion of his constituents:
"In some Of the western states great
requisite i'm "a successful candidate for
public favor. h Mr.. Crockctt-or as
in an cxtraor.iinary degree; and, while
his competitor was telling the people of
his Hrcat merits, Davy was giving prac-
stump which two ordinary men would
nave abandoned i'm despair. This strik-
qualities was irresistibIe tn the mi
of Tennessee. and the election of our
worthy Davy was by a~cclamation.
assured his companion that he could wade
the Mississippi with "a steamboat on his
hack, whip his weight in wildcats, and
ride a streak of lightning barc-backed.
Davy is the man who proposed to whip all
the animal I'm u menaReric, consisting of
"a lion, "a parcel of monkeys, and IA zebra
On IN certain occasion hc said he intended
to speak i'm the House of Representatives
for he saw no reason of being difiidcnt, IA
he could fog any man in it,"
The fact that Davy produced evidence
i'm refutation of the charges made againsi
him by the ''good Mr.. X. of Ohio" doe,
not detract from the interest of the story
In the succeeding numbers of the Arie
no mention is made of Mr.. Crockett hav
ing denied the above statements of the
MiCldlescx Gazette: SO the present genera
ton must either accept them as truths al
account for no~n-ienials of them by pre-
= summing that Mr.. Crockett was not long II
discovering that public servants are opeu
to public criticism and that many stories
are told at their expense.
In this connection IL may not he map
propriatc tn relate an anecdotc OF Dav!
which l remember to have read. ans
which has been recently credited to Ton
Corwin, of Ohio.
Crockett was sitting in ~ hotel mt Wash
> ington i'm company with a number a
other congressman. a member from
Massachusetts whose name i do not re-
member. was standing i'm the door. Turn
ing to Davy. me called out: "t'rockett
here come some of your constituents.