Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1896-04-09

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itol, he met the German minister who
wished him a good morning and hoped
he was well. Senator Conkling replied:
Il am feeling very well, thank you, con-
| sidering the fact that / was kept from
sleeping by that miserable game cock
you keep under my window The Ger
man minister apologized, and that aft
ernoon killed his rooster.
81 have seen the senator often when
he came down to breakfast besieged by
callers who wanted to tell him some
thing before he went into the dining
room. He always pointed to the par
lor with one hand, saying: You go in
there and then, pointing with the
other hand to the dining-room, he
would say: 4 am going in there He
would not waste any time with them,
but went right on in to his breakfast,
I have heard men swearing at him, when
he left them in that way; and then,
when he would come out and go to
the parlor to see them, they would
greet him with bows and smiles, as
though they were coming into the pres
ence of king.
senator Blaine used to stop occa-
sionally at Wormley's, and maybe you
don't know how those men hated each
other Sometimes they would meet
in the halls, in the parlor, on the stairs
or on the elevator; but they never no.
ticed each other. / think that Senator
Blaine used to like to go out of his way
to meet Senator Conl<ling in the pres
ence of other prominent people. Mr..
Blaine was always smiling and talking
to people. Mr.. Conkling would always
wear severely dignified look, and
would not speak to Mr.. Blaine, or to any
of the people with Mr.. Blaine. Then,
after Mr.. Conkling had gone away, Mr..
Blaine would smile and say: 1T is a
pity Conkling is SO rude and ungentle-
manly and the people would agree
with Mr.. Blaine. In that way, by pur-
posely meeting Mr.. Conkling, and maxi
ing him appear to be rude, think that
Mr.. Blaine managed to increase the
number of Mr.. Conkling's enemies.
There is one thing, however, that al
ways struck me as singular. Although
Senator Conkling was always dignified
and severe with public men, he was
polite to servants, if they treated him
with proper consideration. On the
other hand, Mr.. Blaine would smile and
bow to public men, but he never paid
any attention to servants, and did not
put himself out to be kind to us. Con-
sequently, the servants all stood in awe
of Senator Conkling, but they liked him,
too. But, while everybody talked of
what great man Senator Blaine was,
the servants did not praise him very
much.
"There was one man that always stood
on good terms with Senator Conkling,
and that was Senator Morton, of Indi
ana. Those men were almost like
brothers. Senator Conkling was never
dignfied nor repellant with Senator
Morton. 1 think that he was the only
man with whom Senator Conkling ever
walked arm in arm about the halls or in
the parlor. When he was with SEN
ator Morton and no one else was about,
Senator Conkling was different man.
He would talk to Senator Morton, tell
stories, and act as other men usually act
when in the company of friends. He
would laugh out loud when talking to
Senator Morton; but he never showed
any more animation than to occasional
ly smile when others were talking to
him. He was the most dignified man
l have ever known.
There was another man whom Sem
ator Conkling seemed to like very well,
and that was Senator Edmunds, of Ver-
mont. But their ways were very much
alike Both of them were very dipni-