Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1896-06-06
WASHINGTON LETTER
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

IT WAS JUST LIKE THIS Even in
the midst of his exciting campaign OF
figures general Grosvenor manages to
tiud time for an occasional story. He
was telling the other day about Ben
Butterworth. He was walking with
Bntterworth few years ago in Frank
fort III Germany, whittier the two
Buckeye statesmen had betaken them.
selves for II vacation jaunt. Butter
worth had been silent for long time,
and suddenly he stopped as if some
thing had struck him. Grosvenor
asked what the trouble was. "Noth-
ing replied Butterworth, 81 was
thinking OF Mckinley" 1t was Just
after Mckinley had captured new
Office, but there was nothing especial
ly remarkable about that, and Gros-
venor confessed an inability to see
why the Canton statesman should bob
up just ut that time in that far of part
of the world. 1T is Just like this, !"
said Butterworth. | have been
wondering how it happened that
Mckinley Away. gets the apples while
| do the work III he and | were to
como to tree out in the country on
which just two apples were hanging L
know what would happen. Mckinley
would stay on the ground and send
me up into the tree. Theu | would
throw down one apple and he would
put it into his pocket; that would be
his. Then he would tell me to throw
down the other for myself, and as
soon as he had caught it he would take
bite ont of the juciest part; that
wonld he mine. But just exactly how
much good it would Ito me | should
never be able to tell. That's about
the way it, has been ever since we
started i'll politics together. | don't
know why it's, but Mckinley a ways
seems to get the best Of everything
and get left
TELLER's VrCTORY-Teller has won
great victory; he has copper-f as-
tened his cinch on the state of Col
/ orado in IL way that makes some other
senators anything bnt happy. You
see, eler has been in rather bad
odor on the republican side since he
led that revolt against the party pro-
gram which resulted in the defeat of
revenue legislation, and set four or
five silver senators down rather hard
just outside the party paling. Not
all of these senators have come
ont with brilliant success; Car
ter was badly snubbed in Mon
tana, and his colleague, Mantle,
is now passing through the valley
of humiliation in his company. Dn-
bois, it is true, has won ont in Idaho,
and the republicans OF that state have
announced Enthusiastically that they
think II great deal more of free silver
than OF tariff on wool. But the tri-
umph of triumphs comes to Teller.
HIS position is not only Endorsed, but
he is expressly named in resolutions
as the embodiment of the party prin-
ciplcs of his state Rapublicanism in
Colorado hereafter means Teller.
PRoCTOR SUPERsTITIOUs-Rel field
Proctor is superstitious. You wouldn' t
imagine it TO study the lines OF his
face or the outlines of his hand, but
underneath IL shrewd and solid Green
mountain exterior the Vermont sena-
tor cherishes Just grain of that feel
ing which only comes to men OF Mt
least little imagination. He believes
in horseshoes for luck, and has been
seen trudging through the most fash
ionable streets of this city with II very
disreputabe. looking one in his hand.
! 1t is said, too, that he has a queer
feeling about rabbits foot, and that
he has been lngging one of them in
his pocket ever since the Vermont
convention. Whether it is the horse
shoe or the rabbits foot, there is no
doubt that Proctor has had rather
more than his share Of luck in this
life.
MANLEY's FIGHT Now that this
campaign is near over, want to
shy Just II word about "Joe" Man
ley. Nancy has been the active
manager OF Tom Reeds canvass. He
hasn't made very much noise about it,
and it may be that he isn't going to
land his man; but whether he lands
him or not he will have nothing to look
back on after the shouting is over at
st. Louis which he might have wished
to have been different for the sake of
his own peace of mind. Ii any man
ever conducted clean canvass, Marley
is the one. There will be no unpleas-
mt trails dragging along after him.
All the threads of Reeds campaign have
been gathered in his hands, and such
other assistance as has come to the
speaker has come through him in
some way. Manley modestly dis
claims any recognition as n politician !;
lie says that he is, first OF all, bust
ness man, bank director, and Il
newspaper proprietor. But, as very
few of the people who know him in
his political capacity ever heard of
these other things, he will probably
always have to rest under the suspi-
cion of being n politician more than
anything else. He can hardly find
fault about this, for he has been
mixed up in politics ever since he was
boy, and he inherited his appetite
from father who dabbled in politics
before him. "Joe's" father sickened
of politics when Seward was defeated
by Lincoln in 1860. In the bitter
ness of disappointment he admonished
'Joe" never to have anything to do
with the business. He said that it was
a delusion and II snare. "Joe" lived
up to the admonition by jumping
into politics just as soon as he could