Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1894-10-29
How These Democratic Leaders Love Each
Other.
From the New York Sun
CpoVER,S COLD SHOULDER.

ING TO REGIsTER.--HE SAID THAT THERE
WAS No TRUTH IN REPORT THAT He
HAD WRITTEN A LETTER TO HELP HILL
IN THE CASvAss--SEEs NoBoDY-SCARCE-
LY ANYBODY CALLS TO SEE HIM.
Private Secretary Thurber says, as an
instance of the Presidents physical vigor,
that about q week ago he laid out road
between his house and the railway station.
With Mr.. Thurber's assistance the line was
selected through a piece of woodland be-
longing to the President. Both men were
armed with axes, and they cut down the
trees that had to be sacrificed, the President
heartily enjoying the heavy manual labor
required. Washington despatch to The
Sun.
They heard the sound of he axeman
In far off Buzzard's Bay,
And Democr ats who had faltered
Said every one that day:
ale is coming at lat to help US.
He is working with might and main,
He is cutting his way to the station,
God grant he may catch the trsin.'
He comes. he goes nor utters
single word of cheer;
But as this axeman passes
Another is drawing near,
And the heartened thousands echo:
I'VE are in it any way,
The road TO victory opens
Let Adlai blaze the way"
From "Ihe Axemen."
President Cleveland took the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Colonial express to WASH
ington at All o'clock yesterday afternoon.
1t is hardly possible that he will return to
this city today or tomorrow, and they are
the last registration days. So, apparently,
he won't vote for Hill. While his carriage
was standing in the Jersey City depot of
the Pennsylvania road reporter approach
ed it to ask the President about report
which was going around the city to the eff
feet that he had written letter in support of
Senator Hill, and that the letter was to be
read at the Cooper Union meeting in the
evening. The reporter had got within ten
feet of the carriage when two special ser
vice detectives grabbed him. The reporter
explained how innocent his mission was,
but to no avail. They had their orders, and
no one was going to get near the carriage.
So the reporter wrote down upon sheet
of paper the following words:
"It has been rumored that you have
written letter endorsing Senator Hill,
which letter will be read at the Cooper
Union meeting tonight. Will you deny or
affirm this rumor?"
One of the detectives took the note, care
fully examined it on both sides, "hefted"
it in his hand, and called his partner. His
partner went through the same careful ex-
animation of the note. Then the two
talked together for a minute or more, and
then, to the surprise of the reporter, they
handed the note in to the President.
In about five minutes the President
passed the note back to the detective with
the answer:
"There is absolutely no truth in the
story. | thank you very much"
Thus Hills soft, soothing words to his
bitter rival 20 for nothing. Tammany Cleve
land and Hill pulled together in 1892, but the
Buffalo statesman has forgotten all that.
The present antagonism between the three
parties in the remarkable New York trio,
of about equal merits-Tammany, Cleve-
land and Hill, bids fair to help in the great
political renovation which the better citi-
zens of the Empire state are about to
achieve.