The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-09-05

~S<s ~ A&Ss -4Os
he really finds more pleasure In q loungs
and chat with his former comrades la the
house than in all things else, IL appear
ances may be believed.
Olney In Serious Trouble.
Olney Is in serious trouble. Ho knows
very well tlat tor partisan purposes the
house will yield to tie pressure of cer-
taln ostilities In New York and appoint
sundry co.. mittees OF inves tigation wnich
may bring him face to face with friends.
co-workers and possibly clients. Totally
dissimilar TO Lamont in every line aud
element OF birth, breeding aud habit, he
is noticeably polite aud punctiliously
suave la his treatment Of the one man in
the cabinet who eau be of service TO him
In the hour OF tribulation IL that unfor-
tunate period chances To arrive.
HoAe Smith is an oddity-always was,
always Will be. Pvrh ip, a good idea
may be had Of him II a little story is re-
peated.
A man from Tennessee was very anx-
ious about an appoin .nent 1 Dakota,
aud through trend from Georgia sought
TO interest Smi h aud thus s,cure his
isslre. Win nis Georgia friend the
Tenness can called and was received
pieas,"tly enoug until the object OF his
errand was made known, whereupon,
with an abruptness that WAS positively
extraordinary. Tia secretary rose, inti-
maled that the interview was ended,
told the party to file their p.pers aud
tarned upon hts heel.
A Good Il cart ed s'siob."
AS they left the department the Ten
uesseean looked to his Georgia friend for
an explanation. "It will be all right,"
said he. "Yvu just wait till I see him
alone. Don't make any mistake about
Ho Q Smith; he's the best hearted slob
living, only he didn't want to give him-
self away"
Aud that's just about IT. Smith has
produced in Washington the impression
that he is goo -natured slob. but
whether that is a qualification for tho
ministry is yet opon to debate.
When BissrlPs appointment was an
nounced people who knew IL all imagined
that the president intended to have n
cabinet Of chums, but as weeks rolled
into months they saw that Bissell was
not OF the inner camp. and he. too. found
that so far as The White House orchestra
koes he was very dec dedly cast to play
the second fiddle while Daniel bowed the
first.
All This Means Trouble.
This me ms troubl.. is not even In
timated that personal collisions are pls-
sible or that sour looks are the rule, but
there are harder hits than those given
upon = jugular; there are more signif-
cant indices OF feeling than the expand
ing nostril, the curling lip or the flushed
cheek.
Meanwhile Lamont lies low The
greatest good fortune he ever encount-
cred as the defeat of Cleveland In 1888.
Had the Democratic party succeeded La
mont would have remained private sec
retary-simply that and nothing more.
Circumstances governed his case, Op
portuni y enabled him to show the stuff
that was In him.
Cleveland in retiracy was looked to by
ID mocrats from every sec ion Of the
countrs. of high and low degree. Tam
lay Hail alone excepted. The ex-
president, however. ha s mething else
to think Of than his political future. His
financial present was to him matter OF
great consequences. Whitney lad started
him on he path to wealth, and it's
astonishing how interesting wealth be-
comes to man who holds his first
hundred thousand dollars in the palm Of
his hand.
Was Made Major Domo.
At personal sacrifice Lamont accepted
the war portfolio, but in spite of his
new name, in spite OF his palatial sur
roundinRs ia spite of the responsibilities
placed upon him In his new Office. he felI
nat urally into his oil time place Of guide.
philosopher, friend, bulwark and con-
slant ompaniou-and there he is today.
The White House might be destroyed by
flame, the Capitol be blown to the upper
heavens by dynamite. Gresham might
pull his whiskers in despair, Carlisle die
OF appolexy, Olney dissolve In tears,
Morton be drawn to death by infuri-
ated oxen. Hoke Smith 20 upin a balloon,
himself his own inflationist. Bissell mig
shake the dust OF Washington from his
Buffalo heel and Herbert be sunk forever,
drawn to the bottom Of the ocean by the
hundred pound weight Of a torpedo. and
Cleveland could endure it all IL only Daa
remained.
This is a good wad to put in ones pipe