The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-11-18
DENNIS AND GROVER.
They Have Met Before. But VIII Meet Again
Under Different Circumstances.

Dennis Flynn is the newly elected con-
gresham from the territory of Oklahoma.
To be sure, he will have no vote in the
national house of representatives, but he
will have the satisfaction of knowing that
he will have a friend at court whe will
doubtless give him his ear in matters per-
tanning to the interests of Oklahoma This
| friend will be no less petsonage than
Grover Cieaeland, who will go into the
White House on the very day that Dennis
goes into congress. And Dennis will not
be long in Washington when he will 70 to
the White House too to see Grover
Fifteen years or SO ago. when Flynn was
boy, he started out in the world to carve
his own destiny. Buffalo being the largest
adjacent city he bent his steps in that di-
rection and proceeded to look for employ
ment. He turned around the corner of tho
street one day and his eye rested on a tin
| sign hanging from an iron bar and swing
| ing and squeaking beford the winds. On
| it was painted the legend Grover Glove
| land attorney at law" Now then if the
edifice had b.en an imposing one and the
sign more artistic Dennis might have been
afraid to enter it. but the surroundings
were modest and Dennis WAS not afraid to
enter When he ushered himself into the
Office he was saluted by the future two
times president of the United States and
| asked what he wanted. Dennis made a
clean breast of it and told him all about
| his past aud his future desires, needs and
ambition Grover became interested and
satisfactory arrangements were made
whereby Dennis became an attache of the
Office with unrestricted access to all the
books, etc. That was at a time when
Grover Cleveland was not known out
side his own ward and when Dennis
wasn't known outside the law office.
Dennis remained in the Office a few
years and learned considerable law.
He would have remained longer
but the political bee began to buzz in Mr.
Cleveland's bonnet and he virtually went
out of the law practice at which time Mr..
Flyno went to the metropolis and engaged
in business there until about ten years
ago, when he went to Iowa and afterwards
established a law office and a small news
paper in old kiowa, in Barber county,
this state. He has not seen Cleveland
since he left his law Office, but will renew
the old acquaintance with him as soon
after March as possible. Cleveland, no
doubt, will be surprised to find his old
office boy in the big capitol building at the
other end of the avenue representing the
people of territory, the opening of which
to settlement was among the lest docu-
ments he signed during his former presi-
dental term of office
There is something strikingly American
about this incident. Dennis will also
meet another old acquaintance in congress
IN the person of Hon. jeremiah Simpson.
who is also, like Dennis, a product of Bar
Der county.
II Cleveland hasn't got too high toned
to remem Der his little law Office comrade
in the days of their obscurity, and people
SAY he is not that kind of a man, Dennis
will not get the worst OF it in congress be-
cause he is "A Republican in big nest of
Democrats.