The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-06-09

10 let day after day and week alter
week pass without irrigating the arid
country with the fountains OF his speech
Is very trying to him. Like Hobson
| sympathiZIni, with the people of Ala,
pane Tor not electing him. the Presi-
dent suffers keeniy In behalf of thos.
VINO connot hear him. But the cam
| paiSn Is on and he remembers that for
! saying hve words too much Zacharias
was condemed to forty weeks silence.
Inc Democratic National Committee
under Senator Jones and Repo sent
tative Cowherd. is now completely
organized IN its headquarters at the
Rlggs House, which o, cupics seven
hne rooms on the first floor up. Your
correspondent ascertainrd tins morning
That considerable work will be done
even before the nominating conyen-
tion OF July MIR. Cowherd Will go to
81. Louis in two or three weeks 10 get
reHuy Tor tnat important function.
Mr Cortelyou has tackled the bust
ness oil managing the Republican cam
paign and the Presiueut gives him full
suppost. 1t i said that a fortnight
ago Senatsr Qnay from his sick bed |
seat t3 the President n kindly remon-
Stance against calsng in MIR. Cortcl- |
You aS campaign manager. lie stated !
,h"t ms warning was has ii not mere
y on the youth and ineXpcrIence of
the new ircumbent, but on ihe f,ct
that this was to be the most impor
taht difficult. and trying campaign for
many years, and that its direction
required the services OF he most sa-
gacious and discreet politician,
Augustus G. Buell. is drad-the
last of the brilliant trio who from 1870
10 1859 made the 'Washi; gtun Capltlr
one oil he best known American week
Ilts' his associates beirg Dom Piatt
ana George Butler. They were Bohe-
nian bon vivants, and Butler and
L ia't nave been dead for years Wash
inSton Is full OF "reminiscences and
anecdotes OF their wild capers, espec-
ial'y oil Butler, the most irregular of
! lie thrte. One day after havIng bor-
oWeu all mat iriNndS woult lend him
ana Spcnd it id the usual wa, and
having pa"ned his clothes til he
looked ike tramp, he tiptued into
Chamblalns and in a wheedling voice
struck him for "a quarter The :
prince oi gunrmcts replied ''No, not n
bEt1off2gSr, bEt1off2Sr. ybarara :, dLrriterble loaftr; get
cut of here. Butler side. stepped 10 the !
open door. grabbed beautiful Grmoll
lock from the mantel, and made of
with II down the street on Il full run,
trh nd him ''All right, John: ,
Time Is money
Perhaps the gentle reader will not
be glad ln know that your gentle cCr-
WAS slightly mixed up in
lh;s mess. In 1868 | was reporter on
HE New York Tribune. Amos Cum
mingS WAS city editor and John Rus
sell Young managing editor. One Sat
urday | was greatly surprised uy
y OunS' inviting me To dine with him
next day AT his hotel. While at dinner
ne offered me the position of night
editor, and eagerly accepted the pro-
motion. Next day | found Il stranger
sitting ut the night editors desk.
When Young came n he said To him
- oung man, ] shall have to have his
desk, 1 gurss.' "lIuw's this, Mr. Gree
ley" sand the manager looking through
tn. open door at the big editor sprawl
lrs: on his desk In Il cockedup chair.
Mr.. Greeley came in and SAID Mr..
Young, this is Mr., ButIer's nephew of
the General Tn. General vas In
ho re- last night ard | agreed 10 try hrm
Give Mr.----Some other place" |
was angry, diSgustcd and left the pa
per that day. Butler shortly followed
>nit, for the TrbIne came out one
morning in alarming condition, and
When Young searched Tor the cause,
l u found IL \ -eat handfu! OF the tissue
paper news of the Associated Press
crumbicd up and lying under IN cmty
bottle In the waiste basket Young
tod me afterwards that Benjamin
appealed to Horace ; humane impulses
and represented to him that ii would
he the means OF reforming George. y
< 2od many tried Il haud at hat basil
ness, even 50 generous and talerted Il
woman as Rose Etynsc marrying hrm
in the vain hopk OF making hun res
Ecct bile. She went with Butler when
he WAS appointed consul gcneal 10
Egypt, and her >uirerirgs We're always F,
pathetic.