The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-06-05
MAYOR nUDsoNs ramon Sur.
Gooa Clothes Kept HIN Out er the United
States Senate, but he Bs View = B~rinadier

GoOa Clothes Kept HIN Out er the Waited
States Senate, but He Bs View = BFinadier.
!" Isee.'' said q Kansas man who has como
East, that some one Of my State has induced
the President to commission Major 7. r. Hud-
son q BriRadier-General. 1 reckon the Major
had something to do with IL himself. There is
no discount on Hudson's grit. But he is tho last
man you would pick out for q soldier IL you
went on appearances alone. Hudson looks
moro like o Methodist preacher who expects to
DO a Bishop than he looks like a soldier. You
would never take him to be from Kansas. !
reckon Joe has several tailor-made suits, but l
have never seon him. in the eighteen years l
have known him, in anything but a black broad
cloth suit Of clothes. tho coat double breasted
and cut long. and 1t always looked as IL he had
1t on for tho first time.
when Hudson was editor Of tho Topeka
Capital, and he owned It, too, he had his odi-
torial rooms furnished in q way that would have
made you think you wore In the Orient. They
were draped. and tho walls looked like an art
gallery, and there were armor and pixies and
battleaxes in every corner. And when you
stepped on the floor It took your breath for q
minute, and some folks used to throw up their
hands when they went in because the rugs were
etepper had that sinking sensation. Imagine a
Kansas farmer whose crop had been destroyed
by the graSshSppers going into a place like that
to ask the editor to send him the paper six
months on credit Is 1t any wonder that we
had Populists in that STATED
Tor art and his reputation for literature and
his appetite for good things to eat that kept
him In the backyard, politically. He was not a
bad mixer when you met him.. He was q good
story teller and could swear gracefully, but he
always acted as II he was afraid somebody was
After the death of Senator Plumb Gov. Hum.
phrey had 70 appoint a man to I'LL the vacancy.
nQ IantalnfnFa yV0a n In TEAa,
were candidates all over the State, of course.
One Of hem was Major Hudson. He had been
opened his Headquarters in the editorial rooms
OF the Capital, And that is what knocked him
erS. l liked him personally and politically.
knew he was not appreciated by what you call
the masses; After ! had done a good deaI
wa wall as p IN the open, s SSSHs OUT Ut the eG rsai obie &C.
and told him that Gov. Humphrey had told me
he would appoint him to fill the vacancy IL he
S TGs the the G s1Teaa S5 that 1hS 3 3oSPais ads nheS Sr esd t0 az
day. and that they were afraid to go into his Of
Il told Hudson what the Governor said. but
had heard 1t from the people myself. Hudson
but l told him, and 30 did tho Governor, thai
one Ingall. In the Senate was as much as Kan
$50 the Governor wants me to quit wearing
good clothes. does hef Hudson asked in a very
emphatic manner.
II told him the people wanted him to take of
his broadcloth coat occasionally, and not wear 5
linen duster when he drove out in tho country
And there was another thing. After he becam,
a candidate. he got In tho habit of wearing
necktie. and / told him the people had noticed
that.
81 am willing to compromise on the neck
tie he said. for it's an Internal nuisance, bur
you can tell the Governor and the people that
don't propose to change my broadcloth coat TO
any old Senatorial toga that was ever made up.
And / knew he meant it. Wonder IL he will
change it for a Brigadier's uniform ."