The Helena independent., 1892-04-25

life he insured his life for $4,000. He
said: II never ean save anything, howavor
large the feea are that come into the office,
and this will be tho only way ! can lcave
anything TO my family" lhis proved TO bs
Of $2b, 600 Or $4,000 year he loft an estate
OF less than $4,000.
Under tho advice Of Mr.. Coleman tho
aonAtor vsntnred, however. 10 outline
financial theory. His private conviction
favored gresnbaoks. Ho did not know Why
We should not kssp ON printing money 80
plcnty Of banknotss printed NO ons will be
hard up" But, Of courss, this part OF his
talk was largely fun. Mr.. Coleman assist-
cd him TO prepare rinally an elaborate para
graph harmonizing with the hard Monsv
debt-paying policy Of ths bstter elements
ter insisted uuon sdorning this plain mat
ter of fact business paragraph with such an
ornamental postscript OF fantastic financial
imngininRs. ~ to make tho general effect
absurd. Mr.. Coleman sold nothing. how
ever. He was very diplomatic in all OF his
suRgestlons, and reserved any criticism he
had to make for later on.
The interview extended over \ period of
three days. and at last the senator looked
across the table at me with an air of great
amusement and relief as he tossed back tho
gray wave from his sleepy eyes, seeming to
think that he had finished with the whole
thing and that the work was now to be
begun by tho interviewer. He expressed at
no time the shade of any lack of confidence
III me. He gave me that great mass Of
ridioulously contradictory opinions. m
notated freely in his own handwriting, go
that no one could have doubted their verity
without the slightest shadow Of distrust.
over to my home and worked ON them for
the next three or four days. Mr.. Carpenter
went to New York the next day. Befoie g
going he said, II leave the whole matter in
your hands. You and Coleman can fix ii
vp between yourselves" ..ss While IL, in Nov
view until return" This request was. Of
course, complied with. When Mr.
Carpenter came back within = few
days he took the manuscript ns Mr..
Coleman and l had revised it and again
revised it. Mr.. Carpenters special desire
to stop the interview. as indicated BY hie
telegram. was on account OF the financial
paragraph ia il. He said: "Cut out the
question and the answer" adding, "There
isn't man in Wisconsin but knows that /
know nothing about the management OF
finances, public or private, and l am not
going to try to make fool of myself pre-
tending that do.' And 80 the financial
paragraph was dropped.
The interview produced from the mass Of
notes finally left column and half OF
printed matter. The original conversation
would have required at least six columns.
Az il was finally printed it appeared to be
an easy off-hand talk between the corre-
spondent and tho senator. The senator
WAS depicted as coy and not over willing,
but finally yielded with complaisance to the
demands made upon his courtesy by the ar
dent requests of correspondent ambitious
to publish his first interview. 1t was copied
into every paper in the state of WISCONSIN,
and presented the senator in such favora-
BILE light to his state that he was reelected
to the United States senate with less oppo-
sition than he could have hoped. During
the entire campaign he never went near the
state, and when the election was over and
he was again restored to his proud place ID
the senate, Mr.. Carpenter was very frank
to admit that he owed his election to this
particular newspaper interview.
L. @. CRAWFORD.
Eonyricht.