The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-04

sir, none OF them were ever hanged be-
fore-not on either side, sirI' But the
poor fellow didn't have to die after all.
Another weeks respite came at the
eleventh hour, and after that the COM
mutation to Imprisonment for life, be-
cause Flanagan. it was shown, had
harbored no resentment against his vic
tim and wa. hopelessly drunk when he
did the killing.
81 never saw Grover Cleveland so
pleased as when he heard the news.
He couldn't have been happier if he had
made Sic, 900. and $4,000 was pot of
money to him in those days.
HE christened the rescue party The
Flanagan Guards Row peculiar fact
and am done: The first time he was
ever in the executive chamber was in
the Flanagan case. The second time,
and think within a year, he entered it
ina magisterial capacity as governor OF
the state of New York and its lawful
occupant"
George Gorham is another man who
used to know Cleveland wei. but rather
as brother lawyer than as bosom
friend
81 remember the time the Evening
News was booming Cleveland for gov
ernor," said he; 1.-The nomination was
to be made, but Cleveland was out of
town, up country visiting his mother.
who was very i'll. She had been sick
long time and Cleveland spent six weeks
by her side. was in my Office opposite
his here in the Weed block one Sunday
morning when Cleveland came in. a
grip in each hand, and passing through
the hall went into his Office. ! saw him
through the open door. Little did
think then / saw future president of
the United States. / hadn't any great
faith in his election as governor. I
went across the hall to see him in few
minutes He was sitting at his window
looking out on Main street.
'''Hello. Grove. I said: glad to see
you back He turned and shook hands
and then we chatted on trivial subjects
a little while and then / went back to
my office-the same one we're sitting in
now.
''In few minutes Cleveland came in
and took chair. 'Gorham,' said he,
what do you think of this nomina ton
hear they are contemplating? The
News will have it that l must be the
nominee and what the News says goes,
I suppose. Don't you think it might
be better if should state a preference
for the post of lieutenant governor?'
emo, don't said l. 4 don't be-
1ieve my friend, Grover Cleveland,
wants to pose as the tail to any mans
kite
''He thought minute and then said:
4 guess you are right; it must be the
gubernatorial nomination or nothing.
and you know don't much care for it,
either
II don't believe there was a man
alive in those old days who had so little
desire for public Office as Cleveland. He
not only did not want it, he vertically
Stunned it, and / think he had very
little respect for men who coveted such
positions / used to often think of
that when / would hear of the reports
of rudeness shown by President Cieve-
land to men who went. to him to ask for
positions.
81 knew him many years in many
phases. l remember one day during
the time he was mayor his coming into
my Office in his shirt sleeves and asking
my advice as to a measure before him
to give five hundred dollars to the Grand
Army of the Republic for Fourth of
July parade purposes. He said he could
find no law by which such grant
would be permissible, and yet said
he, 4 suppose they'd never forgive me
if vetoed it. What would you do?'
"'Veto it, answered, and the veto
was duly made. believe Cleveland
then headed a subscription to raise the
money.
He used to come in here very often
IN his shirt sleeves and chat and think
it was N this very room ne conceived
the determination to iooarpose the veto
to the street cleaning contract steal.
which might very we'll be said TO have
been the making Of him politically.
81 know he was great Sunday work.
err and a very thrifty man with money.
1 know he was poor when he became
mayor. poor when he became governor
and poor when he became president.
presume he saved something while in
Washington, but not as much rs Presi-
dent Hayes. who gave no entertain
ments at all and was distinctly parsi-
monious. Cleveland had stern sense
of the value of money and it ran
through all his official life He had to
10 and he
kept up the habit in mature years.
"Why, it was through Grover Ceve-
land that occupy. this Office we are in.
had the middle room in the suite on
Main street when Bissel1 and Cleveland
came over here to join in partnership
with Sicard. They wanted my room
and the room beyond it SO as to have q
range Of connected rooms They dep
uted> Mr.. Cleveland to breach the sub
ject of their desires to me- He was too
delicate to strike me with such a prop
ositlon, so he went at it in this way:
George. if you weren't occupying
that middle Office we could take that
and run right through If you should
ever want to swap with Sicard and take
his Office across the hall let us know
and we'll be glad to helpyou move. just
to be neighborly, you know
well. he got his center Office and he
sat in it for years Ex-Judge Brundage.
who came into the firm when Grover
went to be president of the United
States, occupies it now"
Fram Algeria
The best corks come from Algeria,
where there are 900. 600 acres OF cork