New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1898-05-25
INTERVIEWED.
Admiral Dewey Talks Interestingly to Re-
view Reporter of Various Things.
Special Cable Service. -
By q Staff Correspondent.


By Staff Correspondent.
Hong Kong, May 24.-Admiral Dew
ey is as much stranger to vanity as he
is to fear. The fact that the whole world,
outside of Spain, has sought 10 honor
his name in connection wifi, tie signal
victory at Manila has not served to
change him in the least. He is the same
Dewey today as he was when he led the
way into the Spanish harbor, there to
meet he knew not what. Last Sunday
I chatted with him for an half hour or so
on board the Olympia. It was pleas
| ant interview, absolutely devoid of stiff
| ness and in marked contrast to what I
might have expected had talked to a
Spanish victor instead. OF course Mr..
Dewey knows that his name is on every
body's tongue, but he does not show it.
Even the thought, he said, of having the
magazines of the future filled with por-
traits of himself, taken from the time of
his youth, was distasteful to HIN. That
honor, he thought should be reserved ex-
clusivelY for actors and women. Be.
sides, he had not had any taken
in recent years, and it was wrong,
he said, to mislead the public with
pictures taken in the days when he
had some reason to lay claim to good
looks. Then again it would be cheat.
ing Napoleon, Grant and others out Of a
good deal of magazine space, and to this,
inasmuch as he had the kindliest feel
ings for all of them, he was very much
opposed.
Asked as to whether he had heard of
the talk of making him presidential can
didate two years hence, he admitted that
he had, but said that even that was con-
tIary to his wishes. He realized the re-
sponsibilities that such a position placed
upon a man and the necessity also of
supplying all of his friends and rela-
tives with Offices, and as the latter had
cropped out IN such numbers since the
incldent at Manila he felt that, rather
than disappoint any of them, he would
decline all solicitations in the direction
ola nomination and give the matter no
further consideration whatsoever.
Anxious to learn something of the fa-
Imous school house in which Dewey re-
ceived his early training, your cores
pondent questioned the admiral as to its
size, and he simply remarked that it
wasn't as big and didn't have as many
scholars as some people had made be-
Ilieve.
Senator Teller, leader of the silver
forces, says that the silver ssmen will not
lconcede one inch Of ground in their fight
against bonds.
There is no necessity for bonds,' 2
said he. ssThe proposition to issue $780,
900, 200 in coin bonds lis preposterous
when it is we'll known that with the rev
lenue that will De raised ..by the war tax
there is no necessity for saddling debt
on future generation. don't care what
the administration and house Of repre-
Isentatiyes say about the effort to defeat
the bond issue, we will defeat tiff we
have sufficient numerical strength, and |
hope we have. There.win be no fill
bustering against bonds in the strict
sense Of The word, but there are several
silver senators who vii: have something
70 say about the proposed issuance ot
interest bearing boads:: =