New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-02-14
Some Candid Talk Concerning the Presi.
dent, Tie Tariff, the Money Question.

lnlGNGO iIftcr Ocean as 1OllOWS: w Ncn
Colonel Henry Watrcrson, the distin-
y,IiShc,} Kentucky statesman editor, lights
~, New York with the cffulScnce Of his
personality, he usually makes his stor-
ping place in u hotel overlooking | .lloI
Suualv From this convenient eyric he
can look down with philosophlc interest
on the busy city below, Oh broadway
with its cable cars, swell equi pages and
fashionable crowds, and on the quiet CT
scene in the Park Square, where the
birds twistcr pleasantly in the tree
branches overhead while the ''i>llc mil
liun' crowd the benches below. These
things, however they might fix the at
tnntion Of other minds, ,havc no attraction
for the great Kentuckian whose brain is
ever busy revolving matters OF national
import. lie was found in his cyrie when
the writer sent up his card /, few days
ago, and requested the favor of an inter-
view.
Il don't want to bc interviewed" said
Mr.. Wat,crson. II am a reporter myself,
and YOU ought not to wish or seek to de
privc me Of my living. 1t is not fair, as
among friends and brothers,"
The scribe interjjccted a question as to
the Wilson bill.
"The Wilson bill," said the man from
the blue grass country, ''reminds me OF
an accident that once happened in Louis
vile.
\ wcll-known local gambler thought
he had a good thing in stranger who
appeared upon the scene, loaded with
money. lie was induced to play game
i think they called it draw poker
and when the opportune moment arrived
the Louisville man dealt the stranger
four jacks and himself four queens. The
betting began, and when all their money
was up, and it came to a show down,
the stranger displayed four kings. "Take
the money, stranger gasned the aston
i>hcN native as he fell in a fit. Take
the money! But that wasn't the hand I
dealt you' SO, with The Wilson bill. 1t
was not the hand the Chicago convention
dealt the Democratic party, and which
thc people Of the United States backed
with their votes.'
"Very good very good indeed," said
the scribe, laughing heartily to keep in
favor, and then h. asked, insinuatingly.
'.Don't you think, Mr.. Watterson, the
Democratic party is in something Of a
hole just at prcscnt.'
''There you 80 again. replied the
journalist. 'Iou persist in your wicked
attempt to Get my copy for nothing. Go
to somebody who wants to see his name
in print. I only like to see mine there
when get ii check for it. But hold on
bit. AS the man in the play says, 81
feel better now What was it you asked
about the Democratic party! All, yes, ]
remember. Well, if cannot be denied
that the Democratic party, both in the
administration and in Congress, is burn
ING Il good deal Of black smoke just now
"But' he added, call of this is not
due to the clumsy way our Democratic
stokcrs have of feeding the furnace
Some OF it is due to the condition of the
country, forwhich bad Republican legis
lation and wastcful Republican admins
tration are as much responsible as Dem.
ocratic inJccision and lack of purpos,
and foresight
..What about Mr.. Clevelanu"'
MIR. Cleveland" the KentncEian re-
piled, sis rathera master than a leader
one who turns his mailed hand even tt
his frienils-and consequently he Otter
fails to bring to his good works the force
they ought to command and would com.
mand if he were less self-constraineC
and made common cause with some
body.'
'.How Go you mean?'
The President is personally most
simple, unaffected and agreeable man
Officially he is suspicious and unsvm
pathetic to an extraordinary degree
more so than any occupant of the White
House can recall; more so than Mr.
Buchanan. of whom it was said that
when he tried, he had the most winning
way of making himself hateful of any
man of his time. Mr.. Cleveland is {
brave man. But he is not braver thar
all other men. He is an honest man
But he is not more honest than all othel