The San Francisco call., 1899-10-13

underclothes-heavy wooden undercloth
ing that he wore during the day and
perspired through during hours of speech
making. He was pretty well satisfied
that one good washing a week sufficed; /;
he had no Idea of the luxury of the bath.
My tendency to take cold water outward
y amused him immensely, and the. peel,
my wearing of night garments he re-
garded as personal invention and to a
great extent personal affectation. One
night, when our bed was small and our
accommodations very limited indeed, and
he was tired and nervous and could not
sleep, l suggested to him that he might
try my plan of rubbing cold wet towel
over himself and putting on a nightshirt.
He tried 1t and soon went to sleep. Since
then he has been devoted to the night
shirt and has hardly ever met me that
ne cb did not express his gratitude for my
might be said that the nightshirt struck
Wilson as the game of poker struck the
kentuckian-like the dawn of a new
revelation.
Wilson campaigned in very light march
ing order. When he left home his wife
habitually put a clean handkerchief in the
stern-wheel pocket of his trousers. He
made this do duty until he again got
home-sometimes perhaps for two or three
weeks. He hated to bother with a Valise,
and he regarded pocketful of papers and
data and a tooth brush as about all that
clVlllzat1on and emergency demanded of
Illln 10 carry. "A nall DruSn tDdt was q
part of my. equipage and that I made
work for a living attracted him. He had
never known the use of this article be-
fore. He became delighted with it.
Wilson was very much in the dumps at
the time that Cleveland called him to the
Cabinet. A couple of weeks before Ike
Grey of Indiana had died and thereby
created vacancy in the embassy to
Mexico, Wilson was a candidate for the
post He expected to get it and wanted
Of North Carolina, who had been in the
Senate twenty-four years, had been
knocked out by the Republicans and Pop
ulists of his State and he succeeded in
getting all the Senators to sign a petition
to the President asking for his appoint
ment. He got it, and Wilson was very
epoch about the "ingratitude of Cleve-
land" A few weeks later Bissell resigned
from the Cabinet and left the postoffice
portfolio vacant. 1t was after midnight
me that the President had appointed him
Postmaster General; that he had gone to
bed, but his wife reminded him that he
owed me a, favor, and so ne got up to
come to tell me about 1t and give me
scoop" l had performed a whole lot Of
favors for Wilson, and this was the only
me. Even that time he admitted that his
wife reminded him of 1t. His mind was
not constituted to think of little things
like that himself.
have not seen Wilson since the 9th
of September, 1896 He returned from
Europe the day before, and for week
preceding my office was crowded with
West Virginians urging me to use my in
fiuence with Wilson mot to destroy him
SELF by boiling the Chicago ticket. I
went to see the Postmaster General at
his Office. He candidly told me that he
would not support the Democratic ticket.
He said that he regarded himself as in
honor bound to stand with Mr.. Cleveland.
1 asked him If he felt under more obli-
cations to Cleveland than to the Demo-
Gratis of his State and he, without saying
so, plainly intimated yes"
A week later he was heartbroken. The
West Virginians made life a torture to
him. He went up to Charlestown to make
a speech for Palmer and Buckner. He was
met at the depot by three white men and
about 300 negroes. 1t subsequently de-
yeloped that his old friends had hired
delivered a mastery address at a public
hall but only fourteen white tie, men heard ard
of his old friends would speak to him
Even at the little fourth-rate tavern of