The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-01-12
About Men and Measures.

dull man since came here. He may be a
little foolish. but even in folly he as a ge-
MUS. 1 met several Oklahomans yester-
day and every man of them was a hot to-
mala. Colonel Delaney of the Santa Fe
road invited me to his house last night and
there met Major Crozier of Gushing, Otto
Beckmeyer. the governors private secre-
tary, and Mr.. Kane, the Irish orator of
Kingfsher. We were afterwards joined
by Colonel Leslie N.black OF the Guthrie
Leader, Marion Blair of Kingfsher and a
great many others whose names cannot
remember. We talked politics, literature.
business and everything else until O'Clock
| in the morning. Major Cozier, believe.
| Is one of the most interesting men, would
say gentlemen. in the territory. He is
finely educated, a born gentleman, and one
who has seen great deal of the world
He received letter few days ago from
Mr.. Laurier. the prime minister of Canada.
and it is very interesting. 1 am tempted
to give some extracts from it, but it would
| be a violation of confidence. He went
through the military academy and gradual
ed with Captain FILTER, who lived great
many months at the Carey hotel at Wichi-
| IA, and who was, in the better days of the
Runnymeade coioney in Harper county, one
| of its most experienced and intelligent mem
bers. Il would sooner lose one of my min
isters," said Sir John Mcdonald of Ca
| NADIA, than lose you," when Major Cro-
/ zier left the command Of the army in
western province of Canada. This same
/ Major Crozier, who is now merchant al
| Gushing, was the British officer who CO.
operated with General Terry of the United
States army in bringing Mr.. Sitting Bull,
| distinguished American red skin, to the
guard house, to his senses, the Christianity
q M n -ix- N a y
| the northwestern province mentioned, Ma
| tor Crozier had in his command the son of
| Charles Dickens, the great novelist of Eng
| land, author of "Davy Copperfield,' THE
Tales of Two Cites and other mighty
| good books. He told men good story
about the young man. The major was
very strict about the use of intoxicating
| liquors, but young Mr.. Dickens would per-
s:st in indulging in them.
Dickens" said he one day, why do you
drink?'
"Ah, I'll tell you Major Crozier," said
he, my father drank. my grandfather
drank. my uncles drank. my cousins drank
and my friends drank and, I declare, it
would be a scurry trick on my part If
did not drink"
Major Crozier never said word but took
a cigar and studied ocer the family trait
of great people. (
Major Crozer was in command Of the
first Canadian troops that made war on
the half-breeds under that beautiful patriot
Louis Reel, who, in after years. was hung
for sedition. While the major, accord
ing to the ethics of military rule. made a
vigorous war On the rebels. He knew
that they were right in presenting physi-
cal protest against the government that
abused them. He told me tonight, and /
do not betray any confidence when l say
so, that the government did not do its duty
when the first executed poor Louis Reel
and inquired into the grievances of his
people afterwards. The reason he is so
infatuated with Prime Minister Laurier is
that the latter. ir parliament. stood up for
the cause of the half-breeds. He thinks
Laurier is the greatest statesman living,
but ranks Richard Olney with him. In
private he told me the reason why Laurier
refused the honor of Knighthood recently,
from Queen Victoria.
I met Pat Cassidy Of Shawnee today for
the first time and I saw a real character
He is called Judge Cassidy here, but he
informed he that II did not call him plain
Pat Cassidy, he would refuse to talk with |
me. The rascal tried to sell me out on |
first acquaintance with joke of his about |
the refinement of snuff. He said he was |
here with a bill. which he wanted passed |
by the legislature, the object of which was |
to encourage the manufacture and refine |
ment of snuff in Guthrie. A Kansas friend |
of mine winked just in time to save me |
the expense of several whistles which an |
Oklahoma judge afterwards had to pay for |
for biting too previously az the joke. Pat |
told me the circumstances of Sly Overland |
er's accommodation from the Populist 1
party of Oklahoma.
The man who ran for congress in this |
territory before Callahan forget his name |
and so does everybody else-was Prohibit |
ZIONIST, and he hated a man who drank |
whisky. One morning during that cam
paign Arthur Percy Daniels and Mr. Ober-
lander went into the bar-room of "Old |
Nose" Weinbarger and each of them took
pretty stiff drink. AS they left the saloon 4
they met this Prohibitionist candidate for
delegate TO congress and sooner than meet
and talk with him, with a perfumed breath,
they looked up at the store signs and never
saw him. When he went among the high |
priests of Populism he charged them with |
treachery. In a public meeting of Popu-
lists one day one man arose and introduced |
a resolution reading Arthur Percy Daniels
and Mr.. Sly Oberlander out of the party
for treachery. Pat Cassidy was at that
meeting and when the resolution was intro
ouced he stood up and amended it in these
words: Il move to amend the motion by
striking out the name of Arthur Percy |
Daniels. The object Of the motion, as /
take II, IS to drive smart men out of the |
party. II this is the case the name OF
Arthur Percy Daniels does not belong in
the resolution The motion as amended |
was carried unanimously and, strange 10
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and has not spoken TO Judge Cassidy from
that day till this. Mr.. Oberlander met me
enroute to church Sunday evening and he
tcld me. in absolute confidence, that Judge
Cassidy told the truth.
Why do they call you Sly?" I asked
TO hurt my feelings. / guess he said.
THE Eagle was the first paper that called
me Sly and 1 have a big notion 10 sue il
for damages. Sly means a great many
things II might mean a rascal. or a
horse-thief, or a cheat, or a train robber |
always consult my young wife about
and when the Eagle commenced
calling me Sly 1 went home ore day and
said TO her:
Mrs. Oherlander. you know me better
than anybody and you ought TO know
whether I am guilty of that odium or not"
You are guilty" she said. IT you were
not mighty sly you could never make me !
the wife OF your bosom when twenty good |
looking young men were suitors for my
hand"
I said in the last Communication that |
there would be no railroad legislation ii
still say so although i am informed by the |
best authority that fellow servant" bill
sil be introduced and pushed for all II is I.
worth. IL viii be the same az The Mis-
souri, bin that has been talked about 80