New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-30

It only after hard fight. He said that
he stumped his district on foot horseback, and
in a prairie wagon His majority was seven
thousand Finally he said:
Well, I'll tell you the secret of my winning
my election. fell back on my rebel record, and
told them that if they elected me 1 would not
bother them by sending them garden seeds. 1
said / would send them bullets instead"
He was called the .Red-headed Ranger from
Texas because Of his hair complexion and
ways wasn't he?" asked another member of the
group, who so heavy that he had now for
the first time recovered his breath from his walk
into the hotel from his automobile.
IF they did they didn't call it to his face
continued the small man. He treated a remark
about the color of his hair as joke the first
time ii was uttered, but after that he considered
it as i-bred Here's an illustration. You know
he lost about everything he had in the way OF
personal property at the time of the Windsor
fire I remember once. in talking about 1t, he
also made the remark that he was glad he did
not lose his life in the flames.
But your hair must have been singed.' said
a young college man. who had only made the
CoIoners acquaintance a few weeks previously
Good! good" replied the other. with laugh.
You might think SO
And yet it is not a disagreeabIe color, per-
sisted the college man.
No was the response, mot so much so as
some people who talk about it "
Il suppose you have heard of his famous
Lasker resolutions" pped in the small man.
"Lasker, you may remember a great Ger
man Socialist and inveterate enemy of Bis
marck. The Socialist had brother who lived
in Texas and who was friend of Ochiltree.
The German Lasker came to this country to see
his brother and just he about to return
TO his fatherland he died here from heart dis
ease. The Lone Star Congressman wanted TO
please his Texas constituent. and so he intro
duced a set of resolutions of coincidence on the
death of the great Socialist He waited until
Senator Blackburn was the Speaker pro tenn. of
the House. in place of Speaker John G. Carlisle,
and 10 make sure Blackburn would not suspect
anything he entertained him the night before at
dinner. The resolutions went through without
a ripple, but when they were printed in the
German newspapers the howl could almost be
heard on this side of the Atlantic. As you may
recall. our Minister Immediately got his walking
papArs, and the German Ambassador left Wash
ineton Then it that Roscoe Conkling,
think it was happened to say to Ochiltree:
How do you feel about those Lasker
resolutions Of yours?
well was the answer, I am sorry for the
prominence it has given Bismarck"
a.FJe WAS q great friend of General Grant"
said the small man.
Indeed he was said the fourth member Of
the party. who up to that time had kept per
fectIy silent The last speaker wore clothes of
large pattern and a huge chain. which looked
almost as ponderous the cables of the new
East River bridge before the fire. His hair was
brushed fat and he often twirled heavy black
mustache.
Tom was one of the boys-a sportsman
and dead game. There was no quitting about
him." continued the with the mustache
when YOU were talking about General Grant it
made me think of the time that Grant appointed
him United States Marshal of Texas. short
time after this appointment Grant began getting
complaints that Ochiltree was going to races all
over the country and not attending to his new
post Some weeks later, when Grant met the
Colonel in front of the West End Hotel at Long
Branch. he said:
d" See here, Ochiltree, hear you are not at
tending to business
'How's that?'' asked Ochiltree.
- You must admit that you not in Texas
much replied General Grant. Why was read
ing about you the other day at a racetrack at
Chicago, and then again at Cleveland and only
a little while ago at Lexington What does this
mean?
That's not me you have been reading about,
tree is horse which John Chamberlain named
after me-.
That explains then was General Grants
reply. why all those articles were headed
"Ochiltree wins"