The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-25
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Rx-GOV. HoADLY'S SIDE PART
NER TALKING IN DELMONICo's.

the Harrison Family-The Corpse in
the Medical Conege-An Inside View
of the Chicago Club-The Story
About Senator Brics and the Nickel
Plate Railroad.
Gath, in Net5 York Sun.
Sitting down at Delmouico's with two
United States senators, one of them q dem
ocrat and the other republican, and with
Edgar johnson, a well-known lawyer Of
she firm Of ex-Gov. Hoadly, the two having
removed in company from Cincinnati to
New York, MIR. johnson said:
81 take az little interest in the pending
election for President as I ever did in any
election in my life; but do not understand
what people mean by calling Ben Harrison
q cold man. On the contrary, he is a high
spirited, warm, mettlesome and afectiOnate
man. / am a democrat, but l know Ben
Harrison. l was brought up with him,
from the time he entered the bar; we were
In the nature of fellow students. He was in
his youth what / have descrlbed-s man Of
will, a smart fellow. but reciprocal, with
good fellowship, true, kind aud cordial That
was the reputation he had in Cincinnati,
where we knew him before he went 10 In
diana. he was born in our state, was
brought up below Cincinnati. at North
Bend, mingled with our young fellows,
went to school in Ohio, married there, and
! know his brothers as well as himself
After be entered the bar, and he had to
make his own living, for he was without
means and young wife on his hands, he
went TO Indiana. Though he has been the
only republican, or, indeed. the only citi-
zen OF Indiana to reach the presidency, l
have no idea that he can carry the state
this year. Indiana is just as sure demo-
cratic state as Ohio is a republican state.
This statement was Queried by some pres-
ent upon the plea that Indiana was not liza
BILE to have another candidate from either
party for President unless she showed her
state PRIDE of which there was believed to
be plenty in the state. One pers N sug-
gested that Harrison had appeared in Min
neapolis this year with a number Of persons
who had been his harsh critics, such as
Judge Gresham, who ran against him in
1888 and that these, from state fellowship
and without Ctlice, had voluntarily become
Harrison men. Another said that Gresham
himself had refused to be made the instru-
ment TO defeat Harrison by running on the
farmers ticket.
Mr., johnson offered 60 bec money that
Harrison would lose Indiana but he said
There never was a nicer man than Har-
rison's father. He was as gentle as a woman.
be did not pay any money to his lawyers
nor probably TO anybody else, for he hadn't
any. The Incorporating instinct does not
seem to belong to that family. What means
they had in land for they were very land
poor In early days came from William
Henry Harrlson's father-in-lAw, John Cloves
Simms. All that Harrison got out Of that
property was lot in Cincinnati, and he
took his education from an academy founded
by his great-grandfather which educated
Whitelaw Reid aud a good many of our
young men. The Harrisons, however, are |
Mo- wa.NF
HamiltOns OF other localities The first sec
Rotary Of the territory Of Ohio was Will
lam Henry Harrison. The first territorial
governor of Indiana, which comprised also
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, was the
same Lieut.. Harrison of the regular army.
The election Of Harrison to the presidency
is natures own concession 60 the military
father, original secretary, territorial cover
nor, etc, Of the Whols region, at different
times from the vicinity or Pittsburg to the
Mississippi river, covering Chicago, In
diAnapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland and all |
that country. But that has got nothing to |
do with Ben Harrison"
THE CORPSE IN A MEDICAL COLLEGE.
"Hss Harrison living brothers" asked |
one
why, yes; he has brother who went |
off to Tennessee and there married "a widow |
elder than himself with several children |
y
place under his brother Ben.
II had most extraordinary relation |
with Ben Harrison good many years ago"
continued Mr. Johnson II don't suppose
a case OF that kind ever happened before, or
ever VIII happen again. affecting a family
81 such distinction aud involving : NO Prei-
dents Of the United States We have In
Cincinnati medical colleges which utilize
dead bodies for subjects for the use Of
medical classes. At North Bend or Gloves
had died young woman, and soon after
her decease it was found that her grave had
been rlhed OF her remains, Making further
search, it was found that the body of
benjamin Harrison'S father was also
missing. President Harrison's brother
came down to Cincinnati suspeoting that
these bodies had been sold to the medi-
cal college, and he got authority to examine
the places of deposit of fresh subjects. At
one Of these colleges they had certain bodies
put in well and there picked, you may
say, 80 as TO have them in state Of pre-
servation for the dissectiDg tables The
president OF the college was a we'll meaning
man, and he had not the least suspicion
that anything would be found in the DOS
session of his institution rejecting upon a
historical and respectable family. But
when they ran down a hook TO bring I'D the
successive oorpses, the very first one that
came up was the venerable Dr. Harrison.
father of Benjamin Harrison, our Presi-
dent, and son Of William Henry Harrison
also our President. IL was certainly a
dreadful sight for son to see his father
appear suddenly in that state"
what happened thenP
"Well, gentlemen, Ben Harrison came
down from Indianapolis TO Cincinnati az
mad as hell believe that be would have
killed the president of that institution il he
could have found him at that time. He
was tnhamed, as he well might be. at the
indignlty visited upon his beloved parent.
one OF the most inoffensive men in all that
country, and man of fair distinction. too
who had been offered the lieutenant gov,
ernorship of Ohio and sent TO congress. He
turned about, and came to our firm and
employed me and my partner to prosecute
the college"
what was done7"
well, what could be done? In all re-
spects of outrage it would look as IL a crime
had been committed, but IN point of fact.
nobody but the obscure perpetrator of the
grave robbing could be prosecuted. The
body was returned TO the tomb and the
family were left to let time heal their
wounded feelings"
A NEWSPAPER STORY.
In the course of some ensuing conversa-
zion Mr.. johnson said: There is one thing
that honor Ben Harrison for as President,
enough liz.