The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-04-09

ously was-for just two weeks. Then
he gave the head waiter ten dollars to
,eat the pretty women at the other end
of the dining room.
Perhaps the most interesting of our
presidential possibilities is Senator Pal
mer. This remarkable old man, now
past seventy-five, is as lively as a cricket.
He walks to and from the Capitol, and
Is often seen on Newspaper row talking
politics with the correspondents. He is
Il great adlnirer of newspapers and news
paper men. He is the greatest newspa-
per reader in the senate. At home
evenings he spends many hours listening
10 his wife reading from the daily pa
pers. Senator Palmer isn'i frank about
the presidency, H. Hill is. He doesn't
admit that he is a candidate. He merely
thinks it possible things might come his
way, but isn't worrying much whether
they do or not. Senator Palmcr's col
league. Mr.. Cullom, is, on the other
hand. quite as frank us Senator Hill.
He simply says he wants to be nomi-
mated for president. and in a decent,
dignified way is doing what he can to
that end. Cullom is as plain and sim
pie as a pair of old boots, anyway.
A possible president who is now much
talked about is Senator German, of
Maryland. He is as secretive as Hill is
frank. German is a master of the art
of silence. Yet even he sometimes
makes mistakes, as in a recent news
paper interview, when he was reported
rs making statements about men and
affairs which raised the very deuce in
his state. Will the art of newspaper
interviewing ever be so perfected AZ to
satisfy both the man who is interviewed
and the man who does the listening and
writing? fear not.
Gur,nHn is so much addicted to 81
lencc, and does so much without max
ing any more expression about it than
is contained in II smile, that people drop
into the habit of ~attributing TO him the
methods of a Machiavelli.
His reputation for skill and iact i'll
politics and legislation is AS wide AS the
land, and by many he is looked upon as
a master Of finessc: vet those who know
him well know that II large share of his
adroitncss and his 50 called adaptability
to intrigue is. after all, nothing but sin
cerity and politcness. The truth is Sen
ator German is "a natural leader of men,
and to be that he must he honest, he
must keep faith, he must consider the
rights of others, he must be unselfiSh.
Else he could not be Il leader.
Mr.. German was recently asked by a
friend for the secret of his success
how it was that he always managed t.
come ont ut the top Of the heap. 1T is
a very simple matter" replied the sena,
tor. Il keep my promises: | treat every
man with whom | come in contact with
fairness and consideration: ! try to
make my enemies my friends instead OF
charging friends int! enemies 10y fail
ing 10 keep faith with them; | do not
Try to drive people my way. hut hell
them 30 their way.
Senator Gorman has ali his lit b"el
Il leader. re 80 10 the front without
making any fuss about it. 10 influence
men without SECURING to Try IL do 80. i,
direct them while apparently d"lcrrin.
to them, is as natural To- uln ~ breath
ing. He is now the recognized leader .
his party i'll congress. III 10Th cnat'
and house his voice is potent. Within
=, his party he has today greater intlucnc'
= and power, | think. than any other mar
Yet his touch is vrlvcty: the rein
:. which he holds are invisible: he i
y almost deinure III his unohirnsivcness
, He is II true genius,a born leader, VIII
can do this. AS to the presidency, n
!. one can accuse him of self seeking. ii
: is no cyen Il candidate lin the hands q
his friends He is doing nothing. Tn
= delegation from his state III the Chicag
convention will 1T the outset probabl
y vote for another. Yet Mr.. German
friends hope and believe he will be til
nominee.
Senator German i, such a modest an
unohtrusive man that M does ne
y. suspect how much there is III him II
acquaintance has ripencd into tricn'
n ship. Though always polite and aft;
bic. he is not communicative except I
!. those lie has learned to trust. His friend
), love him, and every one who is throw
in contact with him is insensibly $50
,r by ~ power more easily felt than e!
=. planned. He is II strong and c~ifcciiv
a.. tilDlSu ihlINuuNh' Sl'hh'i IA ''''
;, His home life is charming. With h
wife. son and five daughters he is con
W panion and playmate. Here his reser'
~ is thrown off and he laughs, rolnls, play
cards and tells stories till the youngfoli
are in ecstasies of delight.
=, Senator German is rich, having mac
nc u fortune by lucky investments with h
~ cousin. ex-senator Davis, in West vi
y. ginia coal lands and railroads, but I
breath of public or private scandal ev'
touched him. He rents Il ouse
Washington, hut ia: II beautiful far
and country seat at Laurel, betwe'
~ Washington and Baltimore.
~ WALTER WELLNAN.
nd EneIand's Japanese Fad.
IN There is II japanese fad on III En-
land. Everything japanese is Ill fas
,es ion, not even excepting the Japanese I