The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-10-18

found him thoroughly versed in all the
issues relating to this country. He dis
cussed other matters with equal facility
After the dinner was over it was proposed
| by our hostess that we all go to the opera
and Mr.. Gladstone consented. During the
| opera MIR. Gladstone was absorbed. He
did not speak nor take his eyes off the
| stage. Between the acts he talked oil
music. He showed an inexhaustive and
critical knowledge of all the great compos
ers. He entertained US with lecture, as
1t were, on the present opera and its rank
| among the other great operas of the world
and he left me SURPRISED at his wonderful
knowledge OF music. IL is the same in art
and doubt whether there is as versatile q
man in the world to-day as he.'
APICTURE OF LORD SALISBURY.
Can you tell me anything of the
premier, Lord Salisbury2n
LORD Salisbury is undoubtedly very
able man" replied Mr.. Depew. GAS to his
foreign policy. both the English people and
the statesmen of other countries consider
1t the ablest England has had for years
AS to his Ideas of home rule and other mat
tiers there is of course great difference OF
opinion, but no one disputes his ability II
foreign affairs. | met Lord Salisbury
while was in England and 1 found him .
very pleasant talker and a man of ideas
He is over six feet tall and he is man OF
great independence of thought and action
This gives you tho impression at nrst
meeting that he is an egotist, but this
wears oil upon acquaintance He is, yo4
know, man of q history. He was foI
years writer on the London press, anG
his father gav3 him a small allowance
when he went through college aud allowed
MIN to make large part of his own living
thereafter. He was doing very well ir
newspaper work, when his father died anC
ne succeeded to the title and the estate"
GERMANY's YOUNG EMPEROR.
did you ever meet the young Emperor
| Of GermanyG' | asked.
Yes" replied Mr.. Depew. 81 met him
four years before be became emperor. Al
this time his father was living and his
grandfather, Kaiser Wilhelm, was the En-.
peror. l met him with them and l was theu
| very much impressed with his strength OF
7 character. l regard him as great man and
a strong one. No one but a strong man
would have acted as he has done since he
| mas come to the throne. The policy of his
grandfather's and his fathers administra-
tlon had been dictated and controlled by
one man, Prince Bismarck He was in fact
the emperor and his ability and statesman
| snip were looked upon as the greatest in
Europe. AS soon as the young Emperor was
Il.
criticized the policy Of Bismarck in that
the working man was oppressed and kept
down as national foe. He want ted to give
him chance to see what he could do for
himself. He wanted to give him more
| liberty, but Bismarck told him it would
never do and that if he acted so he would
lose his throne. Bismarck insisted upon
this but the young Emperor thought differ.
emily and told Bismarck that he intended
| to try it.''
In that case" replied Bismarck, 81
hand you my resignation"
"All right" replied the Emperor, 81
accept it,"
This, in plain every day language. u
continued Mr.. Depew, lis the story of the
trouble between Bismarck and the EN-
peror. A weak man would have submitted.
Only strong one would have refused, and
believe that strength here was allied to
| greatness
NEW STORIES OF LINCOLN By OUR GREATEST
sToRT-TELLER.
| | asked Mr.. Depew something as to his
connection with President Lincoln. He
replied:
II became well acquainted with Presi-
dent Lincoln during the war. ! was sec
rotary OF state for New York and went to
! Washington to take the vote of our sol
3
FORK for Lincoln at his second election.
heard number OF stories Of him at this
! time, some of which have never been pub
lished. One | remember related to john
Ganson, a Democratic Congressman from
western New York Ganson was a war
Democrat, and when he came here to Wash
! ington, he rather felt that the Republican
President was under Obligations to him for
supporting him. Lincoln was anxious 10
ttNla ntn of fLn,-v 49,
relations of the two men became quite init
mate. AS the war went on, however.
disasters continued to come, and in the
darkest days of the struggle when
calamity followed calamity and when
Congress was asked to vote money and
men, only to see the first apparently lost
and the latter destroyed, many of the mem
herS became anxious to know what the
Presidents policy was. Gauson was AMONG
them and he called at the White House and
had an interview with President Lincoln.
Now Ganson was peculiar in that he had
not hair on his head. His pate was as
bald as an ostrich egg and mis- face, whether
from shaving or from nature, showed
neither hair nor a bristle. He came In 10
President Linooln's room, was received
cordially. and made a most earnest plea for
information. After saying what he had
given up for the cause of the Republican
party and for President Lincoln, he con
tinued
Now, Mr. President, you know what
I've done for you and for the union. |
don't want you to do anything for me. but
I do want you to take me into your comb
dence. You're lawyer and Pm lawyer,
and you know you can trust any secret to
me. Now won't you tell me your plaus?r'
As Ganson said this, his bare, sober face
became more sober than ever and the SER
ious LOOK in his eyes seem to crawl up over
the front of his forehead until his whole
bald Uranium became the personifcation
of anxious inquiry. The President looked
at him half minute and then his homely
mouth twitched, a laughing look crept into
his eyes and he leaned over, and putting
his hand on Ganson's knee, said in the most
quiZzical tones, these words:
"Gans, why don't you shaver,
This was all Ganson could get out of him,
and there was in fact, no more cautious
President in our history than Abraham
Lincoln.
HOW LINCOLN WON A CASE.
president Lincoln" continued Mr.. De-
pew, was one of the greatest men 1 have
ever met, and he was the best story-teller
l have ever listened to. He knew how to
frame story and he located his anecdotes
so they seemed to be made for the very oc-
casion upon which he uttered them, and