The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1890-04-30
TWO MAGNATES AT OUTS.
San Francisco Gossip About the
Quarrel Between Huntington
and Stanford.
An Explanation that Leaves Mat
ters Much as They We're
Before.
Stanford's Intellectual Accom-
plishments.

Stanford's Intellectual Accom-
plishments.
The quarrel between Huntington and
Stanford, although references to 1t are
scant in the local press, is the subject OF
conversation everywhere in the city and
throughout the state with those who are in
terested in politics, says San Francisco
letter to the Salt Lake Tribune. Mr.. Hunt
ington's letter to Mr.. Stanford has been
published. As l predicted would be the
case, it is merely an ''explanation'' which
leaves matters much as they were. There
can be no reconciliation between men
whose dislike of each other is of such long
growth, and which rests on foundations so
deep. Huntington's attack was shock to
the senator. He is not a well man, and be-
fore the row happened it was 81 given .e out
t Saa be h eud vate2s' What to his o' a
% nsa 'G is L have not learned with
positiveness. It is variously stated
to be incipient paresis, Bright'dise ca
and nervous prostration. His nerves. l
know, are far from strong. Three years
ago saw him when he was under examlna-
ton before the Pacific Railroad Investigat-
ing commission, which sought to learn the
cost of building the Central Pacific, what
had become of the lost books OF the Con-
tract and Finance company. and how GER
tain large sums of money had been spent
at Washington. His hands trembled SO
that one would have thought he had the
palsy. This quivering of the hands was
not due to the occasion, though that was
sufficiently distressing. Doubtless it dis
turbed Senator Stanford to be treated like
an ordinary person. Commissioner Ander-
son. particularly clear-headed and
alert New York lawyer. with gift for
perfectly polite manner, but he was
cruelty persistent and the differences which
we're inevitably to be deduced from his
inquiries would harass any honest man and
bring the blood to his cheeks. But the
senator's manner was noteworthy exhi-
bitlon of deliberate GOODNESS. When w. w.
Stow was put,upon like rack, he sprang
from his chair and shouted in fury at
Mr.. Anderson, who although. much smaller
man than the witness, was not bit scared.
He simply looked up in grave surprise for a
moment, then calmly asked Mr.. Stow to re-
nation with an undisturbed interest in the
subject in hand, which made that insulted
statesman look foolish. have seen Mr..
Stanford several times since, both here and
in Washington, under circumstances which
left no doubt that he was perfectly at
ease Yet those poo. s,a HANDS Of ms Is
pitiful to see them, too, for he is man OF
immense physique. and of great constitu-
tional strength. He is suffering now for
the tremendous strain he underwent in the
years when he was gathering in his fortune
It is said that for months at time he
would work from eighteen to twenty
hours out of the twenty -four. That was in
the days when the Central Pacific was
building and later when congress and state
legislatures had to be managed. For dis
traction and recreation he used to read
much, and thus acquired an ability to put
aside the weight of his affairs when even
the briefest leisure was vouchsafed him.
That he was able to do this, and that he is
BY nature slow and ponderOus in his men,
tai processes, accounts for his being alive
to-day. :,
Governor Stanford is a wonderful man."
Mr.. Stephen L. Gage said to me some years
ago when describing the characteristics of
the man whose chief helper and intimate
friend he has been for nearly quarter OF
century. "Often at Sacramento" Mr..
Gage went on, II would go up to the gov.
ernor's house late at night to report to and
confer with him. I would be all excite
ment with the work of the day and night,
for matters were before the legislature
which involved, perhaps, the welfare or
ruin of great property. No matter how
late it was knew that should find him in
the library. There he would be, seated in
his easy chair, absorbed in some profound
work Of philosophy or political economy.
Laying down his book, he would turn to
me- and listen with the keenest interest to
everything had to tell him. When l de-
scribed to him what had been done, or at
tempted, and laid the situation before him,
thought would be the beneficial or disas-
trous consequences Of this or that move or
combination which would probably be made
next day. He would interrupt me with his
grave smile and ask:
"'Have you done all that can be done this
one day?'
".Can you think Of anything more that
can be done?'
"'No,'
Then let as rest from our labors.'
''And he would resume his tome and be-
come lost again in the thoughts of abstract
thinkers. Or perhaps he would entertain
me with his views on the subject of which
he had been reading. 1t WAS then that the
riches of his intellect became apparent. and
could listen to him for hours and hours
without saying word"
Mr.. Stanford's powers Of Thought and
conversation, however, do not NIL every
body with the same admiration as Mr.
Gage. A Washington gentleman whom
questioned on the matter and who is in {
position to hear the senator talk whenever
he wishes to enjoy that privilege said to me
Stamford? Well, l suppose it's refiec
ton on the intellect of the senate to say so
but when he shows up in cloakroom the rest
of the statesmen leave 1t as soon as they
conveniently can. I wish,' one Of the SEN
ators said to me lately, that Stanford
wouldn't come about pressing endlessly, as
he always does: and he'd be pleasanter
company if besides keeping still, he would
try to forget once in a while that he is
worth s5O,OOO,Oo0.' But" added the Wash
ingtonian, "it's but fair to tell you that the
senator who said this is a southerner and q
democrat, who has only his salary between
him end poverty, and who was elected by a
constituency who think he has brains"
So we see how opinions may differ about
the greatest and best of men.
But sick or we'll, deep or dull, Mr.. Stan
ford will be reelected to the United State
senate, unless Mr.. Huntington devise
means to defeat him.
Old Shoes.
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