The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-05-25
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sew York SIM man in whom the govern

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| or had confidence. : : - :A. :. ~.
| The governors house was three miles
from the village Of Oyster Bay, where the
| newspaper men had gathered Our news
| came TO us by telephone from our offices
J IN New York We had hoped great things
|: of the, telegraph, but they did not materi-
alice An operator looked too long upon
something or other when it was red-or
| brown-and the result was teleeraDhic
chaos, and. 1 think, the calaboose-for
MIN. AT any rate we could neither send
nor receive news by telegraph.
When we were told, at ten minutes
aIter IL O'Clock, that the result was as
sured, that there was no doubt of the
election Of the Republican ticket and that
the Democratic managers had given ,up
the nght, we drove to the governors
mousse. 1t was a long drive in the dark.
and remember that it was much colder
than l had expected 1T to be, T
! q mad taken no overcoat with me. I bor-
roWed a coachman's coat from the livery
stable. -,
Every window in the house was brill.
llantly lighted when we arrived. din
ner party had just risen from the table.
! and all were in evening dress. The gov
ernor met US at the door, and we 1o;t;
! rim the CAD news in the hallway. A
! newspaper correspondent must be nom
| partisan, but think that he, as well as
the other Republican managers, had been
muca nearer to worry over the result of
! TIE election than they had been willing
| t. acknowledge. ..
RE was greatly delighted. Under the
ABBREVIATED tail Of his dinner coat bis
liahos Workea convulsively as he marched
around the room, and said:
| = am glad! [ am very glad!'
! i-aeh word was chopped off as all his
:, words are, and the smile on his face was
peasant to our sight, He then took ia
| al INTO the parlor.@ and asked us 4or
le"ef. details than We had expected. We
| hao really made an effort to get all the
news We could, but he did not Seem
10 care: about knowing other than the
result in general. LIZ. -....... -
I ifen came the occurrence which noada
] me think of that Inauguration day oc
caslon, when the small sons cheer had
! seemed to mean more to him than the
1act mat he was about to be inaupu-
rated governor Of New York He sudden
| ~ turhed to the Sun man, while we were
/ DOLL R1Jlng to get our election figures
ready Tor him, and demanded:
W nat was the score OF the football
gamer -.
Inc matter of his election to the vice
presidency was over. He knew that be
! mad been elected and that settled it. He
was no longer interested in that He.
! wanted TO know how the football game
| rad turned out ID.
A curious thing happened earlier in the
| dsy Wien he went to vote. He was dis.
! t:nctly worried and nervous as he had
/ been before the battle in Cuba began
! lie forgot that it was necessary to take
| e blank ballot into the booth with him
after ne had reached the polling pace.
ana 80 when he got inside he could not
vote The reason for this did not coma
to his excited mind. He simply knew
that there was something wrong. and
asked Tor help A kind hearted citizen
OF oyster Bay came along and showed
rim how to prepare and cast his bal.
lot-a. thing which he certainly knew
rs well as any one could but he was rat
tied -,
And that is the man He is nervous
and eXcitable. The little things of life
re thinks not very much about. The bir
things are the things on which he con-
centrates his mind And he does them
Edward Marshall. in ATLANTA Constitu-
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