New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-11-07
MRs FASSETT NOT DOWNCAST.
HE DISCUSSES THE RECENT ELECTION.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS SUPPORTED HIM LoYALL
HE Prophecies VICTORY IN 1897.


J. sloat Fassett came from his home In Elmira on
Thursday evening and will go back there today
When n reporter for The Tribune him In his room
nm the tim floor OF the Plaza Hotel from which there Is
good view Of the lake in Central Park. he was smhs
and buoyant lie did not 10 be one BIT troupleo
| Nobody who saw him would have Thought that Tor
more than six weeks day and night he had passed
| through physical and intellectual strain 80 sewers
| that a more robust man would have shown signs OF
exhanstion He declared in tones Of the utmost good
humor that he was ready crafty to the fullest the
curiosity OF any and all reporters on any and all so
jects taking care however to insert the saving Clause
that his talk would have to be limited. as he did not
| have much time to spare.
81 expected" said the reporter. that should now
| he shaking hands with and congratulatng Governor
| Fnssctt'
al believe you indeed" said he. ms he pressed the
reporter's hand heartily "The kindness Of the news
| paper boys shall never forget. All of them took
quito IN interest In my and whether they were
with me or not politically, the general relationship
| between always continued the same"
| For a defeated candidate the ex-Colector OF the
Port OF NewY York is among the liveliet and cheeest
of that class who have been seen around any OF the
big uptown hotels In long time. While Tie Tribune
reporter was talking him he might have been taken
for tho successful candldate Judged by the hall boys
almost constant knocking at the door to announce the
arrival OF political friends coming to congratulate tho
|
| splendid battle which he had made.
| Il perfectly happy continued Mr.. Fassett,
and for the ambition to be called Governor Fassctt
| / repose sercnely In the possession of higher
title OF honor for / American sovereign"
"what truth Is there In the report Of words alleged
by newspaper to have been uttered by you, to the
effect that II Warner Miller didn't cut desert you
Warner Mller's friends did p
Mr.. Fassett bridled up at flushed and brought
down bis closed hand with more than average force
| on the table as he answered
| THAT / ever said so or anything like IL to any
newspaper in this city or outside OF II Is
eQuvoca double backed copperbotomed fasehood for
| which there Is not shadow Of foundation. know
| good deal OF the ways Of newspaper men, which In
| all my public experience have found In the main
| to be honorable ways; but this is fabrication of the
most bascless kind apparent to one who knows
anything about the subject that 1t Is only for those
who do not know anything about the subject that am
anxious to be put record as making this sweeping
denial.'
| You are further quoted as saying that the Demo
Gratis used an enormous amount of money In all parts
| OF the State, particularly in Chemung County, and
more particularly In and around Eimia, your home 7"
| suggested the reporter.
every word of which," answered Mr.. Fassett, "may
be put upon record and very properly so, as coming
| from me. What else7"
"And that in a little whlle,' continued the reporter,
"your party would get chance to initiate the methods
Of your opponents in this regard and be thereby GER
tain to carry dlreful and damaging results into their
| ranks
| Dear meiD exclaimed Mr. Fassett with air Of
| patient endurance, much as TO say, Il wonder
| what's coming next!" "Didnt Hume say:
| "'Naught was everything and everything naught,
| But thinking was an ideal waste Of thought
words to that effect, at least? All these charges
and reports Of alleged statements made by me during
the last couple of days about false as the stun
that my friend Amos Cummings has been feeding the
public with from the start to the finish in this great
race for political honors. l present my compliments
| to Amos'-and Mr.. Fassett laughed no spoke
| "and beg to assure him that the next time he
| comes to IIornellsvllle to make speech at an
| agricultural fair 1 will not his return enter
| tain him at Elmira,' and again the fighting
Young candidate from Chemung laughed he dwelt
| upon this novel and humorous plan OF getting
eveno with the expert statistical manipulation and
| we'll known Congressman Still / would rather have
the friendship and esteem of my newspaper friends
| ard brethren than the Governorship ITSELF"
| "IIow about the support You received in this
| city,"
! "splendidn said Mr.. Fassett, with enthusiasm.
| Hive l been misrepresented this point, too
| The most strained and fantastic efforts TO evolve
imaginary statements reduce them to writing, commit
them I'm print TO paper, and then send them broad
cast among the vast multitude OF Intelligent persons
who make up the great Republican party, with the
|
| made this time ON a larger scale than any that
ever remember in a series OF holly contested cam
| paigns. Many OF these persons who write in THIS
way ought be poets; for in them the bump of con-
strucye Imagination has been abnormally developed
| A person who tells lies may be called a poet may
| be nots asked Mr.. Fassett with a guleless ana
| nquiring look, "without doing any great violence
m the details of things which analogousl Don't
| vou remember he went on, the cae OF that poet
who wrote a piece entitled Why do Live" and sent
II I'm for publication This note from the editor ana
not the poem was inserted in the next days issue
OF the paper: The reason that you live Is because
Won sent your poem by mail, and didn't hand 1t In
| nersonalIy, For tho same reason, maybe and Mr.
| Fossett again laughed, the people who are
| telling lies about me, and putting words III
nv mouth which are the direct opposite
| u what think arc all alive, ana
hone. notwithstanding their Interpretations likely
| to live for a long time
| ain your Judgment Mr.. Fassett, was the campaign
conducted on the main Of the subsidiary
| issues on the best possible lines I"
"On the best possible lines" he replied, without
| moments hesitation. Had to be once more the
central figure in that trying and most exciting con-
| test I see no reason why l should dcvate in any
substantial particular from the course pursued in the
last six weeks 1t becomes quite easy for people
In assert that would have carried the State if had
made the fight all Of the great questions OF
National policy which divide tho two great political
parties iu the United States not certain but
had that course been pursued defeat would have re
| suited Just the What then would these kindly
critics have said In ell probability they would have
| asserted vehemently that II the campaign had been
confined to State issues only with the corrupt DONNA
ton of Tammany Hall the leading one ard with the
discussion OF these issues forced with eloquence and
| with energy party would have succeeded. Did
| you ever have a pain In your head! Yes. Wen.
haven't you thought that II that pain happened to have
lodged in any other part Of your body the suffering
| would not be half so intensei Don't you remember
about that on his way home late one night who
lad become somewhat confused TO the right road
| The bright, and he crossed the street 10
where he saw the shadow Of man going In the