The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-02-17
TAT1ERSON'S IDEAS
p0IiticaI Views Of the Blue
Grass Sage.
n. Wilson Bill Reminds Him Of a Poker
Story Some Candid Talk.

San Antonio Express: w nen COl.
Henry Watterson, the distinguished
Uontucky statesman editor, lights
m New York with the effulgence of
his personality he usually makes his
Stopping place in hotel overlooking
Union Square. From this conven-
;snt evrie he can look down with
rhilosophic interest on the busy city
bbelow on Broadway with its cable
csrs. swelItquil ages and fashionable
crowds, and on the quleter scene III
the Park Square, where the birds
tvi,,er pleasantly in the tree
ranches overhead while the "ldle
million" crowd the benches below.
These things, however they might
iY the attention of other minds,
have no attraction for the great
Keptuckian whose brain is ever
busy revolving matters of national
import. lie was found in his eyrie
when the writer sent up his card a
few days ago and requested the favor
Of an interview.
81 don't want to be interviewed, }"
,sld MIR Watterson. 81 am a
reporter myself, and you ought not
10 wish or seek to deprive me Of
ny living 1t is not fair, as among
friends and brothers.
The scribe interje ,ted a question
IS to the Wilson bill
The Wilson BILL said the man
ircm the blue grass country, re
minds me of an accident that once
happened IN Louisville. A we'll
known local gambler thought he
had good thing in stranger who
appeared upon the scene loaded
With money. He was induced to
Isy game think they call it
inw poker--and when the oppor-
nne moment arrived the Louisville
man dealt the stranger four ] 'cks
and himself four queens The bet
ting began and when all their
money was up and it came TO a
showdown the stranger displayed
four kings. Take the money,
stranger grasped the astonished
native, as he fell in fit. Take
the money. But that wasn't the
hand dealt youN So, with the
Wilson bill 1t was not the hand
Inc Chica 90 convention dealt the
Democratic party and which the
people Of the L nitei States backed
with thei votes
NOT DEALING GRATIS.
Very g, cd, very good, indeed, >
lald the scfioe, laughing heartily te
Keep In favor, and then he asked
l.nslnuatlngly, Don't you tbink
mr. Watlefson, the Democratic
party Is IN something of hole IS
apresent2"
There you are again. replied
Tue journalist, "You persist IL
Jour wicked attempt to get IN!
copy Tor nothing. Go to somebody
VINO wants TO see his name in print
only like to see mine there when
geta che k for it,. But hold on
Wv. AS the man in the play says
iee better now. What was i
you asked about the Democra. ii
party All, yes, remember. Well
"canhot be dealed that the Demo
.ia'lc party, both in the admin stra
''on and IN congress, is burning
sooa deal OF black smoke Just now
nut," he added, "all OF this is no
uue 70 the clumsy way our D4mo
.'aIlc stokers hive of feeding tn
furnace Some of it is due 10 tn
eololtion Of the country, for whic
oaa Republican administration is a
s auch respon'ible as Democratic il
t seSlsion aud lax of purpose an
what about Mr.. Cleveland!"
MT Cleveland" the Kentuckia
lspned, sis IA her a master than
ts one who turns his MALE
.s auu even to / is friends-and, cor
h;auShtiy he often fails to brins I
10 n goo good works the force they ougt
h. H. 'ommand and would command
m,a we're less self.restraained an
body" cause WIN 'o~
ssu,
Hoy do you mean?"