The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-11-29
WOLCOTT HARD LOSER.
Washington Star Explains How the
Colorado Senator Took His Defeat.

Washington, Nov. 29.-The Washing
ton Star, which is a StanCh supporter
of Mckinley and the gold standard, pub
1 lished Saturday evening an account by
its London correspondent of the man
ner in which WOlcott took the defeat
of his International bimetallic mission.
The Colorado senator's modification is
described as follows:
1t should be glory enough for an
American citizen to have rocked the
Bank of England on it's foundations and
British government, the cabinet, but
Senator WOlcOtt bears defeat with a
poor grace. The world has been sur
priSed that the Colorado senator made
so good a fight as he did in behalf of
hopeless cause, for no one expected to
see him succeed when he started to win
Europe to bimetallism, and much more
experienced diplomats would have been
turned back by the size of the job. Sen
ator WOlcOtt, however, had been san
guine from the start, and now that his
scheme has been formally entOmbed, he
has taken to brOOding over the corpse
and sees conspiracies and other bOgies
in the air, instead of being satisfied
with the laurelS he had won. The SEN
atOr apparently would not make a good
poker player, because his manner has
been a perfect index to the cards he
held throughout this game of finance.
No man in London was more willing to
meet the newspaper men and discuss
his plans with them, so far as dlpIo-
matte service would permit, when
things were coming his way, but when
the tide turned against him. he became
utterly invisible and he spent q fort
nightn lodging the London reporters.
When success of his mission seemed
promising, as it was before The Thun-
derer and the bankers became aroused,
! the American correspondents in London
said so, and when the wind Veered to
another quarter they wrote the facts
with equal candOr, as duty compelled
them to do. The senator met the cor
respondent of a New York paper who
hi hnf I he
English cabinet gave its verdict.
L see you have turned against me,
also" he said mournnfully, with an 'et
tn, Brute" air, but" he added, L sup
pose you were ordered to write that
way"
on the day the blow fell, Senator VOL
colts course from his hotel to the
American Embassy was like that of a
/ half-back down the field through the
whole opposing eleven.He strutted out
from his lodgings chewing the cud of
melancholy early in the morning. Half
way down the block he spied an ap-
preaching reporter, and then he lodged
into a cab like a fox driven to its bur
/ row. The reporter waved his umbrella
and the innocent cabby, thinking his
| fare was hailed by a dear friend, pulled
up the horse on it's launches.
L can't tell you anything! I can't tell
/ you anything!" the senator shouted
! franticalIy, meantime humping the roof
/ with his stick for the vehicle to move
/ on.
/ BuL L want 10 tell you SOIl1GlAAAAASB lAAC
| reporter attempted to explain.
| Haven't a minute Must be at the
| embassy at noon. Not a minute to lOse!'
| yelled the statesman; and, though the
| embassy was a five-minute drive and it
! lacked a half hour of noon, he gallOped
! off.
When he emerged from his conference
| with Colonel Hay, an hour later, rush
| line of reporters was massed in the
/ waiting room, but Senator WOlcOtt
! broke through the line literally on the
run and reached his cab without being
| tackled before the team could. catch its
| breath. They would call him on the
| turf a hard loser"