The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-08-26
OUR OWN MONEY.
Judge Caldwell Says If the
United States
Can Not Coin It's Silver Without
British Permission
We May as Well Be Annexed to
Canada.
TALKS TO A REPORTER.
Judge Caldwell COnverSes on
Silver and Other Matters.
Is Not Candidate for the
Presidency.
THE JUDGE is MODEST.
Will Not Regard the Presidency
Talk, Seriously.
Makes Some Clear Statements
About Santa Fe Matters.

Judge Henry Clay Caldwell, who the
eastern papers have come to realize
would be an available man for the free
silver advocates to support for the presi-
dency, arrived in Topeka from Colorado
Springs last evening,
The distinguished jurist was accom-
panied by Mrs. Caldwell, Miss Cornelia
Caldwell, his daughter, Miss Bird Nc
Clellan of ST. Paul and Miss Julia Tyree
of ST. Louis. Miss Mcclellan is grand
daughter of General Mcclellan.
The party has been in Colorado Springs
for the past two months, and the young
ladies have the bands of their sailor hats
filed with trout flies, indicating how
they have occupied their time in the
mountains.
Judge Caldwell could be called moth
ing else than very pleasant gentleman.
His manner is atfable, though dignitied,
and he speaks with a precision which is
the result of his long experience on the
bench. He is one of the oldest of the
judges on the federal bench. He was
appointed United States district judge
by President Lincoln, June 90 1854,
and was made a circuit judge
in 1899. He is native of Virginia
and was a colonel in the Union army
and resigned his commission to accept
President Lincoln. Judge Caldwell has
been United States judge for 81 years
Judge Caldwell is sixty years old, but
he does not look over fifty. He wears a
full beard which shows only a slight
tinge of gray. The judge wears his
hair, which might almost be called
blonde, combed rather low over a
very broad high forehead. His eyes
are of a kindly gray and indicate his
pleasant disposition. The hat which
Judge Caldwell wears is not like any
other hat. 1t is black with high crown
and very wide brim. He wears the
crown crushed. down rather low. He
says that he never wears any other and
that he never lost a hat in his life be-
cause no one would have his. His Prince
Albert coat he keeps carefully buttoned
and on the lapel is the G. A r. button
which he always wears. Judge Cald-
well and his party are at the ThroOp and
he says that they expect to leave Topeka
tomorrow evening for St. Paul where he
will hold court.
The first man to see Judge Caldwell
this morning was DR.. HOgeboom. The
{ judge is suffering with a troublesome
carbuncle on his right leg, which causes
! him considerable inconvenience but little
pain.
A JOURNAL reporter found Judge Cald-
well in his room at the Throop this
morning and talked with him at some
length. He says that he seldom allows
| himself to be interviewed, and he was
10th to talk of anything which concerns
| him personally.
81 suppose you know you have been
mentioned in connection with the presi-
Dental nomination." asked the reporter.
''Yes,' he answered with some show of
difidence," have heard something about
it. Il is matter about which l do not
| care 10 talk. 1t is a question of individu-
al preference with the millions of voters.
As far as l am concerned, the mention
of my name in that connection is out OF
the question. l do not regard it as at all
serious, and l think that no one else
| does"
Would you accept if you were nomi-
mated"
81 would prefer not to talk about the
matter and l have had nothing to do with
whatever talk has been going the
rounds" replied Judge Caldwell. but in a
manner which indicated that he would
not be averse to become the candidate
of his party.
"The people in the west understand
that you are for free silver. That is
| yON ob0ANAS 40 ~ uOb! QuOSbAOAOO
the reporter, changing the subject.
The face of the veteran judge lighted
up as he answered, eyes, sir, that is cor
rect l am for free silver without re-
| servatlOn or any reference to an inter
national agreement It is plain to me
that there can be no International agree
ment favorable to silver because Eng
land will not agree to accept free all
yer. What is the use of paying any at
tention to the foreign countries any
how. Are we not capable of managing
our own afairs? 1 think we are, and
if not l am in favor of annexing the
United States to Canada or soma othel
convenient territory"
Then some one entered the room anC
the Judge dropped the subject. What h,
preferred to talk about was the reorgani
zation of the Santa Fe railroad II,
takes a. great deal of pride in the dispatch
with which the affairs of the road have
been adjusted since it has been in thu
charge of his court
81 am here" said he. "for the purpos,