The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-10-05


tain the meat that Browns did, and it is
doubtful II he will have as much influence
on the floor - his predecessor. l asked
General Lawton 70 tell me something about
Gordon. He replied: General Gordon is
. man Of more than ordinary ability. Heis
tall and fine looking. and were it not for his
scarred face, made 80 by the wounds
received in battle. he might BE- called
handsome. He was q fine officer during
the war, was rapid in his movements. and
was not afraid of anything. He is q man
Of much moro than ordinary ability. He
has capacity of saying or writing the
right thing ct the right time, and he Is !
nice speaker and has good address. He
viii, doubt not. be the next senator.
did you know Bob Toombs. generalf"I
asked.
Eyes, J" replied General Lawton, II knew
him very we'll He and Brown were at
swords points during the greater part OF
their lives, though they worked together
during the latter part of the war. When
the war was over Toombs refused to take
the oath of allegiance. He was ct his house
when the Union soldiers came to arrest
him, but he was warned in time and slip
ped out the back yard and jumped upon .
fast horse which he had standing rea dy
saddled for such an emergency. He gal
Hoped to the seacoast, took . ship to the
West Indies, and finally got to Europe. It
was some years before he came back, and
when he again arrived in Georgia Senator
Brown had turned Republican. This
caused . renewal of hostilities between him
and Toombs. Toombs was noted for his
bitter witticisms. and in order to draw
him sut one day friend of his asked,
speaking Of Browns change of politics:
We'll, General Toombs. what do you think
of your friend Brown, nowf' Quick as .
fiash came the answer, Il think his charac-
ter casts > mellow shadow over the wicked
ness Of Judas Iscariot
do you know anything" asked, s'of
Joe Browns duel with Toombsf"
"There was no duel" replied General
Lawton, land I think Toombs acted very
foolishiy in that matter. Toombs charged
Brown with bribery in engineering bill
through the legislature. Brown replied
that Toombs' statement was false, and de-
clared that Toombs was an inscriptions
liar. Upon this Toombs discussed the
matter Of sending . challenge with his
friends. Said he: What can do with
this hypocritical old deaconf II 1 chal-
lenge him he win dodge behind the door
of the Baptist church. He then sent note
to Brown, asking him if he would accept
challenge. Brown replied to this note. say
ing that he was responsible for his own
actions, Sand giving Toombs to understand
that it would be time enough to state
whether he would accept the challenge
when the challenge was made. The result
Was that Toombs dropped the matter. l
doubt not but that Brown would have
fought IL he had been challenged. He is .
brave man. and it il by no means safe to
count on his being anything else"
Tom Ochiltree is now in Europe, heb
nebbing with the lords and dukes. He
got his entree to the best society there dur
ing the Grant administration. He then
went abroad with letter from the presi-
dent and he became acquainted with the
Prince of Wales, Gladstone, and number
of other notables. With this foundation
for truth the Texas colonel has related
number of stories about his experience
abroad in which it is hard to tell when the
fact ends and the fiction begins. DR.. Bed
loe, our consul to Annoy, gives me the
latest one It relates to Ochiltree's last
congressional campaign which he made
after his return from Europe. He stumped
his district in top boots reaching to his
waist with his pantaloons inside them. He
was asked why he wore them and
replied that they were all the 20 in Eng
land. and that the Prince of Wales had adj
vised his wearing them. Tom replied that
he did not think that it was proper to wear
them outside of q swamp. whereupon the
prince told him that he was mistaken, and
offered him . pair from his own boot
maker, on condition that he would wear
them when he got to Texas. "Well, said
Colonel Ochiltree. when speaking of the
matter. "what could dor The princes
wish was equivalent to q command, and
accepted the boots. NV dear fellow said
l, as I patted Wales on his knee, /
will start the style in the very best OF our
Texas social circles. Send me the boots.
and promise to wear Them And want
Won to understand, gentlemen" as he
pulled out his red cheeks, and looked
fercely out from under his sandy eye
brows, "that whatever the newspapers
stated to the contrary. I am . man of my
word, and it is for that reason that wear
the boots"
met Tom Ochiltree at the races just
before he left for Europe. and strange to
saw I found him losing. He has good
judgment as to horsedesh and is usually
winner. Upon my condoling him upon
his losses he SAID: Losing don't hurt me.
/ am like Charles James Fox in that be-
lieye next to the fun of winning il the fun
of losing. Fox was, you know. great
English statesman and the rival of Pitt. IL
is told of HIM that he was playing cards
one night in London and lost the enor-
nous amount of 100000, or 100000.
When he had finished the game and had
risen from the table practically bankrupt
he rushed from the room and started to-
wards home in q cab. His friends sup
posed that he might be going to commit
suicide and followed him. They found
him in his room half an hour later living
on his belly on the floor reading the 'Odes
of Horace II is the same with me.
can't say that would care 70 lose so large
an amount, but what little do lose never
injuries my sleep"
Speaking of Tom Ochiltree's racing ne
and Secretary Noble, the head of the in
terror department, were betting m COM
pany at the races q few weeks ago. They
put their money on the same horse and II
was beaten by q finger length by another
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