The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1901-04-05
DIDN'T KNOW GOV. DIETRICH
An Incident Of Lee. Reception by Kansas
Oily CONNIE rciaI Clmh.

An Incident Of Lee. Reception by Kansas
ely Commercial club.
Now that Governor Dietrich of Ne.
braska has peer elected to the United
States senate, some Kansas City people
who passed him mp two months ago are
wondering if this is not the time to send
him q letter and explain things. 1t was
the occasion of the visit Of General
Fitzhugh Lee. The generals party did
not arrive until late in the afternoon
and an early public dinner was planned
for him, with n semi-state street parade
sandwiched in, all of which made the
local committee quite busy. In and
about the Baltimore hotel, where the
general was stopping, there were great
guns and popguns, and generals and
judges and colonies gnlore, with an oc-
%casional governor, with Crittenden rs
the dean. The consequence of all this
was that when a mild looking gentle.
man with a slightly German cast of
c%ountenance and a soldierly bearing re.
MA htu W u HltUlut vi thV iNtNBtioh
committee that he was anxious to get
an early word with General Lee, adding
that he was Governor DIETRICH no
further attention was paid to the AN.
nouncement than to assure the gentle.
man the interview would be arranged.
And it was. Governor Dietrich
stood about and occasionally took part
in some little anecdotal conversation re.
garding the expected visitor, the general
not having arrived, aud while the recep.
ton committeeman could remember he
had said he was Governor somebody
or other, he could not recall the name.
Therefore no trouble was taken to intro
duce him, the inference being that he
wore the title in the honorary way some
colonies and judges do.
But by ginger said President G. j.
SCHNEIDER yesterday, ait was the gov
ernor of Nebraska all right enough. |
saw him at the Baltimore and had a
little talk with him, but never did it
occur to me that he was the newly
elected governor Of Nebraska. l knew
all about Dockery and Flory and Stan
ley and Breid, nthal and l managed to
recall the name of Barnes of Oklahoma,
but Dietrich was the new one to me.
The man who brought him to me did not
lay any stress on the word governor,
so we all let it 60 at that. Hundreds if
not thousands of Kansas Cityans saw
him sitting in the lobby of the Balti-
more, but not a man, Missourian, Kan.
sasan or Nebraskan, could point him out
to us, and he was so darned modest he
did not give us a tip. He might have
known the state motto, We have to be
shown and let us in on his secret. But
there he sat, a bowling majority in his
pocket and a governors commission at
home and let us pass him up. We did
not even invite him to dinner.
"Smoke, but you could have knocked
me down with a feather, when at the
presidents inaugural l next saw this
man Dietrich. The name is not com.
mon, so l remembered it. When l
looked on my program and saw the next
person to pass was Governor Dietrich
and that same face came along at the
head of the Nebraska contingent, that
was the time I felt like sitting down and
drinking a glass of cool water. There,
to think of it, in Kansas City we had
not a single man of Us shaken hands
with him, and yet around me were tens
of thousands Of people yelling their
throats hoarse, calling his name. He
on a magnificent horse, bowed right
and left, was as big a man as any of the
governors and looked the part"
Ibid you yell for him."
II did when ! got my breath. Iyelled
like the very devil. gave a yell for
every blamed man on that reception
and two for the chairman.
will have to get him down here for
a dinner before he goes to Washington.
Maybe he will help us get the army
here"
And the president of the Commercial
club looked faint.-Kansas City Journal.
Fresh Baltimore oysters al Glissman's Is.