The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-04-29

and an introduction at the fourth as
SistantS Office was cOmpaSsad on that
very day Naturally Mr.. Allen con1pli-
mented Mr.. Clarkson in the course of
their conversation, WheTeat the latter
smiled expanSively. As Mr.. Alien arose
TO depart, he said, earnestly:
I'm mighty glad, Mr. Executioner,
that You believe the victors ought to
have'uhe sPOils, for that IS good Demo-
cratic doctrine. Maybe wouldn't be So
sad, though. if there We're any Repub-
hoans in my district. If there We're I'm
afraid my good Democratic friend who
holds the TupelO pOstoffice would lose
his job pretty soon; as 1t is, I'm sure he
is safe. even from you
That made ClarksOn smile again.
After Mr.. I Hen had gone the fourth as
5lSoant made a little investigation.
/ which Showed Allen TO be correct-aC
least there were no Republican apDli-
c2nts for the TUpel0 office After think
ing a moment, Afr- Garrison sent a tel
esram. 1t was addressed to an ae-
qualntance of his then living in 8IiSsiS-
sippi, fifty or loo miles from TupelO--a.
northern Republican, who had gone
south TO make a fortune, but failing.
had asked for help from the aGminies-
tratiOn, which had not been forthcom-
ing This telegram read: Move TO Tu--
| pelo at once. When you have lived
THERE lIllIlE Gays WIRE me.
Thereupon the fourth assistant for
| got all about the matter Two days
more than month afterward he was
reminded of it, however, by a telegram
! dated TupelO, which read: Have lived
| here thirty days. What shall Go
| now?"
! The next mail carried a commission
I as postmaster for TupeIO TO the fourth
assistants friend, and Private John N.
1
ne had expressed himself so freely 70
the headsman."
Though Mr. Allen has been a mem
/ Der OF the house for nearly sixteen
! years, first serving in the F'orty-ninth
congress, he is not old, as congressman
go, being only SO. He was born in Mis-
! sissippi, and his education prior to the
civil war was confined to the. public
schools. After the war, in which he
/ served as a confederate, of course. he
.. studied at the Cumberland university
[ IN Tennessee, and at the University of
| Mississippi. After his admittance to
| The bar he puacticed law, serving as
district attorney for four years before
being elected to congress. So far as he
| is concerned, at least, there are no Re
pubhcans in his district TO this day
for his election TO the present eorsress
was by an unanimous vote.
Personally, Mr.. Allen is a Jolly good
fellow, conIDaniOnable alike with DO
! lftical friends and foes, and as loyaI
at heart to the south as ever he was.
| Being nran of tact, however, this 10y
atty never is allowed 10 lead him to
speak III of the north, thoush he does
occasionally indulge in a sly dig at GER
tain northern peculiarities. Thus. in a
recent talk with a resident of Admiral
Dewey's native state, Mr.. Allen ad-
United freely that the north had more
business push than the south, and was
entitled to due credit therefor. But. he
added, that after all. the North did not
have all the desirable attributes
1T lacks the inspiring qualities that
make for poetic feeling" ne said
There is not a southern state whosS
children have not written songs in
memory of its attractions. but songs
celebrating northern states are rare
Memories of the south will be perpetu-
ated as long as songs are sung in fba
English tongue, by MARYLAND NJ,
Maryland, Ny Ola Kentucky Ho-,s
Garry Me Back TO Old Virginia. and
the like. But who ever heard any ono
sing Garry Me Back to Old Vermont ;
or New York or Pennsylvania. or anv
other northern state %