Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-04-26
.CI THEN TRAIN
He Comes to Washington and Tells
of His Work.
A GREAT REVOLUTION is COMING
It Can't Be Stopped, but It Viii
Do Good.
HIS REM ABLE TALK

1t is all right; the danger that has been
| menacing the land is over. The revolution
that is impending will come and cannot
be stopped except by the hand Of one
man. and he thinks that it Is best it should
come. 1t will be all for good. He knows
it. He has the Force back of him, the
Force that might avert the revolution, but
the revolution will be for the best interests
of mankind. He is going to see that the
people get their rights; that the doom Of
| the monopolists shall be firmly sealed,
and that the people shall issue from 1t
cleansed and purified, as did The people Of
France after the horrors of the French rev.
| olution.
In other words, Citizen George Francis
Train Is here.
Yes, the veritable George Francis Train,
the man who keeps a generation ahead
| of the people by associating with little chill
dren. the man who has circled the globe
| many times, who had to visit Paris a
hundred times and scour the farthermost
parts of the globe to realize what a vast
| institution is humanity and what mere
| trife Is the one human being. He appear
| ed this morning, coming over from New
| York on O. night train, full of enthusiasm,
| Ego, physics, bloated monopolists. Coxey,
little children and a thousand and one other
subjects touched upon rapidly In his
| conversation that 1t was difficult even to
HIS Personality Described.
When two Star reporters dropped in on
Citizen Train at the National Hotel this
morning. this man, who has back Of him a
| force so stupendous as to surpass COM
| prehension" was all ready to talk. And
how he did talk! For an hour and a half
a perfect stream Of oratory poured out
| from beneath his silvery mustache, and II
1t be true that he has wheels In his head. "
| as many people aver, 1t cannot be denied
that he is interesting fascinating. and
| chock full of ideas. He has explored the
| earth, believes in the brotherhood of man.
kind. has lived such simple life that he
has gone back to the first principles Of
| nature, has learned twenty languages
made the worlds fair a success. and has
| spent a small fortune buying peanuts for
little children in Union Square. New York.
AS he talked 1t was seen that he is a hand
some man, of fine figure, with snow-white
| hair that stands like bush on his head,
and complexion so tanned by exposure to
/ the elements that he is positively swarthy.
| He was handsomely dressed, and had the
general bearing of a gentleman of polish
and education. He was courteous to a
| degree AS he ratified away never giving
a chance for reporter to put in a ques-
ton, he sat "a la Turque" on disordered
| bed, with the bed and floor Uttered up with
papers, extracts from newspapers and all
| sorts Of little incidentals that man OF
his character would carry about him. For
| a smoking jacket he wore the coat of a
| suit of pajamas.
He did not smoke, though he had no OBJ
| jections to his visitors smoking, and he in
| formed them that he had spent more mon
ey than any other man alive for chibouks
nargilehs and other smoking implements
He had had more men drunk under his ta-
| BILE than any other host on record, but he
never drinks drop. He has known more
| dissolute people the world over than any
| other traveller, but has lived life of mo-
rality and rectitude.
| Il am the only Train that has never been
| held up he said. When one of the visit
ors suggested. after he had been talking an
| hour or so most delightfully."-, that a Train
| OF thought was phrase that might apply,
| ne was immensely pleased and declared
| that Ii was good idea.
The Greatest Man Alive.
Il am the greatest man alive" he said.
Il am the best known man in the world and
at the same time am completely unknown
L am the greatest mystery of the age; no
one understands me except little children
For years they were my only associates,
and, learning from them, / have passed all
other men. When the children grew to be
thirteen or fourteen years of age 1 cut
| them off and so have been able to keep a
| generation or two ahead of the rest of hu-
manity. l built the town of Omaha and my
private secretary Is the mayor of that city
now. My Ego Is grand. immense, incompre-
|
By the way, have you noticed that none Of
| these Industrial armies that are heading for
| Washington have started from the south ?
| No; they all come from the west-from the
mining and the manufacturing regions
Greatest conspiracy of the age. jeff Davis
was as nothing to it. Cleveland's in it,
Carnegie. Whitney. Flagler, lots of others,
| all in 1t.
They've bought the coal fields of New
Brunswick, and now We are going to have
free coal, see If we don't. But the money
Is all gone there isn't any of it in the
country. The milllonaires haven't got any
money, it is all gone away. Mr.. Stanford
died and left no money, and now Mrs Stan
| ford has had to ask for 5000 to buy-pea-
nuts. And now they are going to try to
stop the people of the country from coming
on to Washington. They can't do ii. / am
the only man in the world who can 10 it,
l have force back of me that is irresist-
ible. For twenty years | have not eaten
meat, and now cup of coffee makes
| hearty meal for me. The result is that this
| force has grown until all men recognize me
as the greatest genius of the world. The
best advertised man, the most talked about
man and withal the man least understood
i could organize an army or / could stand
up in the face of it and defy them like dogs
No man has ever shot me or would shoot
me.
He is Mystery.
| You may remember the Chicago riots !?
Well, 1 was there and everybody thought 1
|
me. No matter what 1t is, If there is mys-
terry about 1t l am supposed to be the
leader. am supposed to be the head of
| the anarchists and nihiists socialists and
all the other lists in the world from India
to Oshkosh. Why, not long ago 1 was
charged with being the head of the Jesuits
Now If there is anything 1 hate more than
a Catholic 1t Is a Protestant. If there's
anything l hate more than a democrat 1t
Is republican or populist. And the popu-
lists are the worst of all. By the way, old
Stewart and PETER have taken hold of the
populists and now they are shouting for
silver and have forgotten all about green
backs. Funny idea. isn't it, that a million
or so of people should dictate to the other
seventy millions of this great land when a
hen crop is more valuable than all the sill
yer? Again tell you that the eggs laid In
this country in a year are worth all the
silver ever mined.
These people up at the Capitol are all
| AFRAID of me. What are they afraid of?
| Are they afraid L am going to tell some
| thing? L guess that must be 1t. Well 1
| guess 1 could If L tried. l know a whole
! lot of things. / remember when / was at
| the head of the credit mobiler that l gave
| $6O,OOO to one member of Congress lust to
| pay his poker debts. What was that? Why
| We had just lots of money. Millions Great
| est thing in the world. The great Ego
| The vastness of my intellect. 1 am the
| only man in the world who invariably
| makes a success of whatever he puts his
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