The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-29
'NAIBAok TALES IN MADISON SQUARE
Confession at Stewards Statue of One As
signed to Egg Him n Boy.

signed to Egg Him as Boy.
Two men, one from the West the other from
tho South. were In Madison square. They stood
before tho Seward statue
4 never SEQ that statue" said the Western
man, that l do not think Of tho time whom, a.
boy, l was selected to regale the gentleman
with a stock Of eggs that had deprecated in the
market II was on the occasion Of Mr. Stewards
FIRST trip beyond the Mississippi, his first cam
paigning trip.
He went to my town, St Joe, Mo-, on the as
surance Of the Wide Awakes that he would not
be insulted, for at that time Republican speaker
In any part OF Missouri not hilariously popu-
lar Up TO tho time Of Lincoln's Presidential
nomination his adherents about my town were
not aggressive. But they organized u club and
finally become sufficiently bold to parade The
Seward meeting was extensively advertised by
handbills There were some old Secesh chaps liv-
Ing In st. Joe then: they were the Same who after
ward refused 10 to the front and nght who hated
d Yankee, or anybody who came from the North,
and whenever there any devilment to be done
they fell back on tho boys Of the town who had
peculiar talent for anything that came under
the head of cussedness
The balcony from which Mr.. Seward was
to speak that Of the Patee House. a build
ing some distance from tho business centre. 1t
was built by very rich old man who owned all
the land Whereabouts, and he thought hotel would
draw business. Opposite the hotel was h vacant
hill road divided the hotel from the hill The
place WAS bully one from which to make an at
tack. ! was selected TO go there with my basket
and do the hurting act about the time Mr.. Seward
got under Roadway.
"Mr. Seward and his party arrived by the Han
nibal and St Joseph train In the evening. The
Wide Awakes met the party at the old station on
the platean eli had thair hi pi,or.
brass band had been hired, probably under
protest No Union music had penetrated into
northwest Missouri at that time, and l remember
that Mr. Seward was taken TO his hotel behind
and Pop Goes the Weasel The Wide Awakes
formed company front before the hotel. re-
town called in their broods early that evening,
for there was grave apprehension, emphasized
Would ie be int bs ep Wde eH
when Mt Seward stepped out on the balcony
the better OF me. cant explain how II was III at
| his first utterance unnerved me, nor have ever
forgotten il II was quiet night, and his voice
Fellow citizens of ST. Joseph and buchanan
| county, he said. we come TO you tonight as
"Then the Wide Awakrs gave the holler That
novel to me and | looked on. When the hoer
ing was over, Seward, evidently encouraged.
| followed tne nrSt words with these, BlaCk Repub
| licans. IL you please. That was said dehantly.
| and from that on until he quit talking he ham
! mered our side until got tired and leaving the
| basket and its contents untouched, l sneaked
! home and went 10 bed"
The two, men walked across the square and
| stopped before the Arthur statue. which reminded
| the man from the South Of a story:
IF the Republicans had nominated Arthur in
| 1884, believe he would have been elected he
said DO you remember. Arthurs trip TO Ken
! lucky when he was President? 1t was To open
| tho Cotton Exposition AT Louisville. Most Of
| the Citizens Committee on Entertainment were
rated homes and business houses were those OF
| southern people. The people Of the South were
| Just opening their eyes TO their interests II
there ever was time when it's solidiy as n poiit
| THE. women Of the South at .'rthur's
| Louisville entertainment Every representative
| citizen was present Southern women always
| had a good deal to say in big politics in Dixie
at CITIZENS house in Louisville the day nftc,
| they had met the President old GOV. l}ucknel
was informed that the women had rather sec
| Arthur continued President than any Northern
than some Northern Democrats. The inciden
passed as a, complimcnt. But at the reception
| 10 the President at the Pcndenns Club the bust
ness men Of Louisville, most Of them Southerners
informed Secretary Folger, who was as one Of tn
| mated Arthur for President the South would yqt'
| for him quietly. rather than for Cleveland. Yol
| know Cleveland was unknown then and III,
nocracy; besides it didn't believe Clevelan,
| could be elected
Twas one Of the committee from the commercial
South that went TO Chicago in 1884 10 lay tn
But they pooh -poohed our intentions and SAT-
| Arthur couldn't be elected We were ioted -
| hard and so unceremoniously In the matter tha
We went home Disguised"