New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1894-03-21

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/ tive Mansion he met COT. InSrrscll.
''Hello Mat what are you looking so
blue about? One would think. you had
just come out Of an indigo factory in
stead ofthis whitewashed mansion.:'
The Senator mournful1y related the
grievance, not emitting the Presidents
ingratitude in attributing;his success to
the Almighty. =: * /, 4. a.. G4
"Whatu' exclaimed Col. Ingerscn.
The President says the Lord elected
him to Office? Well! I have, said some,
pretty rough things, but never charged
the Lord with doing such an act as that,
Among my papers I had a copy Of
Colonel Ingersoll's powerful and elo-
quent speech when he nominated Blaine
in 1896, and applied to him the name of
.'Plumed Knight" which stuck and sub
sequently became the rallying cry of the
Republican party, and a fertile theme for.
cartoons and caricature. Subsequently,
as they say over in Jersey, Blaine ''soured
on'' his champion, and he gave the first
intimation of it IN the, following way.
The story is in the main correct. .
1t so happened that shortly after
installation as secretary of state; Colonel
Inecrsoll was induced by:a friend to ac-
company him to the state department
and intercede with the premier to facili-
tate a pending matter Of public business
Arm in arm they entered the edihce, and
full of confidence Col. Bob proceeded
with seven league boots to enter Mr.,
Blaine's official sanctum: A sable-hued
messenger halted the gallant Colonel,
and, with bows and scrapes, informed
linn that the rules required that he
should first send in his card,
Call right" heartily replied Colonel
Ingersoll. ''You must do your duty as
you are ordered. Here's. my card. and
tell the secretary that I am somewhat in
a hurry. -
Scipio Africanus took the pasteboard
and disappeared, while meantime Colonel
Ingersoll paced patiently up and down
the marble floors of the corridor. Min
utes long as hours passed when finally
the messenger emerged and communicat-
ed the fact that ''1he secretary begged
to be excused as he was engaged.'
"Very well,' said Colonel Ingersoll,
Il will call again. and he suggested to
his friend that possibly Mr. Blame was
busy with some of the foreign ministers,
whose privacy could not be intruded up
ON. But" he continued, "we will come
back at 2 o'clock, when the secretary is
about signing his mail, and then we shall
see him and fix matters" Promptly at
& o'clock the twain returned to the de-
partment and the process of sending in a
card was repeated, but with no changed
effect. 1.-The secretary, exclaimed Sci
pio 'was busy and could not be scen.''
Away went the two gentlemen, Colon
ell Ingersoll feeling somewhat annoyed
at his failure to reach the 'plumed kpi ght.'
A consultation was held and the next
day Colonel Ingersoll wentto the depart
ment, and failing to obtain an audience
through the same excuse, sent card on
which was penciled the following:
sNNill the secretary Of state indicate a
time when he can see Ingersoll?'
Colonel Bob was red in the face when
he handed this card to the messenger,
but he turned livid when, after an alb
sence of several minutes, the man return
eel and handed him a card on which was
| legi;,ly written: MIR. Blaine cannot see
Colonel Ingersoll."
"Hell!" exclaimed Colonel Bob. 49,
| "But you say there is no hell,'' inter
jected his friend, who felt badly because
| he had been the innocent cause of this
contretemps. ...
"Ain't there?" re1orted the agnostic
Robert. "This is hell and 10 mistaken
and the smell of sulphur could have been
strongly detected in that atmosphere.
sure enough.
! It is well-known that Henry Ward
Beecher, to whom Colonel Ingersoll
bears a striking resemblance, WIS greet
admirer of the famous agnostic. To one
of his Pensioners who was denouncing
Ingersoll, Mr.. Beecher said:
'sBlother,the foundations of your faith
must be knock-kneed and you ought 10
be obliged to Ingersoll or any man who
would sweep them away. True faith
and true love cannot be disturbed by log
ician,. lnfdel or ,iconoclast. That which
is not true ought to go, and If there is
anything | do enjoy it is to see a brave
and able man pitch into the superstition
of the age. He can't whack 'em too
hard to suit me- IL. Il.
AT another time a gentleman was re-
lating astory.of IngeFsoll Is egotism. N
admirers of this gentleman desired him
to visit his mother, an old lady :af, f,sevenz
fty, who was an ardent aPresby byterian.. sMr.
Ingelaoll declined .@Eon the plea Of s not
wishing to unsettle the belief of the ven.
erablesmatrDn. 81, .
.The arrogance OF supp himself
able to show an5old Christian like that
| the error Of her Ways, said the critic