Telegram-herald., 1890-09-19

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sszy important sasmbsr ef ths Ssnsts
whess fame hsd - aesPly impressed
ms thss / shFaRA fro2 cailtag es aim,
fearing tsAt ] "a gas sons.is .sz.s fatal
hrs4eh of the stiqassts ef szeh
visis. At last, alter havtAg assd
uD : great 6sai Of tine sAd gray y-aa.ttsr
In terra alating ~ iztrod daetioa Sc aim.
I ssns ny card fnt0 the Ssasts chan
Der. Word cane b4ek that he woald sss
ne a. oacs IN the Msr0ls Boon l vas
half sorry thst I lad had 80 aaeh sue
esss Away dosa ia Hs / vas hopsfui
that be migat bs basy and that hs
woald pat ne of for day or tgo Bat
/ ssnt - the Marble Room resolved that
"a shoald net see nay enoarrassmsnt-
In . moment hs cams ia snd we sat
down together on . sofa The hFst
thing he did was % give ne . cigar and
the neIt thing, after we lad lighted up
and before had spoken of nay business,
he asked me who ny ancestors were,
because he said he bad some relatives
of nay nAms sad always liked 20 trace
such matters We failed % make any
very close connection In aneestory aud
I got in my little business question.
Then | Was ready 20 20. l didn't want
70 consume the time Of = man whose
minutes must be very valusble. But
he came 10 no period in his converse
tion-no place where IL seemed proper
for me to break away. From one sab
jeet he veersd of into another nntH
nnally be became reminiscent and for
two mortal hours RECALLED ms with con-
fesslons of his political career. some
times | wondered whether / was dream
ing IL all, sometimes whether DO was
praeticing al inserutably deep-lsid
trick upon me, sometimes whether
the whole thing was not his
ironical way of censnring me for call
ing so busy man out of The Senate
chamber 10 ask SO silly a qasstion as
mine probably was. | wss bewildered
By the confessions he was making. L
almost ,sed it in my mind that over
work had broken him ldown. But no
was delightfully."- entertaining and all |
had 10 do was 10 sit and smoke and
i 4. /
lating some experience ne would become
go deeply interested in ID that ne would
slap my leg until II really hurt, and
~ hen he came TO the very secret parts
he would come close and barely whisper
them in my ear. For two hours ne
sat and poured out to me, perfect
stranger, things which | would not ex-
pect an astute politician to trust even
to his wife. He delivered in detail the
inside situation in his State, passed
opinions of men without reserve, said
hundred things each one of which
would, If published, set him into a
fight with some prominent man or
political factor in his State. In short,
he gave me two hours of solid truth as
he saw it and covered nothing When
had two or three times lost respect
for him and gained 1t again he came to
an end of his story. AS was about to
depart l thanked him for the entertain
ment and information he had given to
me aud asked him how no knew I
wouldn't publish 1t.
81 never had but one newspaper man
serve me such trick, said he, "snd he
did il because be was q dunderhead
who didn't know the difference between
private conversation and an interview
| for publication. | forgsve the ninny,
but never spoke again save in man
ner in which l was willing to see my
self in print"
went away feeling that had been
exceptionally highly complimsnted by
great mans implicit confidence, but
| It didn't take me long to find out that
nearly every correspondent In Wash
/ ington had been treated with rs much
/ trust. Moreover, | learned that this
was by no means the only Senator who
oOurted the newspaper men among
their confdents.
Il