The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-04

ment, to his dressing room ana array ed himself for breakfast and at the table met his secretary for the first time in the morning. From him he learned all there was to be learned. Af- ter breakfast he went to his library. or working room. looked over the mem- oranda made by his secretary during the night and the telegrams of con- graduation that began to pour in.
 There was little as yet to inform him as to the platform. There were inti- nations of the sixteen hours session of the committee, of contest and 1t ap- peared on the financial question. but nothing conclusive or definite or in- forming. Thus the time passed until and the morning newspapers were brought To these he devoted himself, absorbed in them, obtaining compre- hensiye view of the events at St. Louis. Then, without a word to anybody. with ou. comment or exhibiting in any way his thoughts, he called for his horse and set out on a solitary ride. During that ride he digested his information and determined on his action. He made history As he was returning from that solitary ride a dispatch from New York gave him further information. Arriving at his home he went straight to his library and with lead pencil wrote on a white pad of paper. which tho writer saw and read that day, the now famous dispatch, handing 1t to his secretary, with instructions to forward 1t immediately. This was done forth with, by committing 1t to the hands of one of his assistant secretaries, MT. Newcomb who carried 1t to the office at Esopus and stood over the operator as if was being sent in order that ha ahanlnfa assurance that 1t was transmitted and that there was no leakage in the transmission to MT. Sheehan.
 At that time he had seen no one but the members of his family and the newspapers of the day. There were no persons near him with whom he could consult: he had seen no one with whC m he could consult. He had no communi- cation by word of mouth, by letter, by telephone or by telegraph with any one person outside of the narrow circle of his immediate family Involved in this assertion Is the fact that on Friday, Friday night and Saturday morning up to II o'clock when the dispatch had been sent, he had no communication from or with any one in St. Louis or with any one outside of St. Louis on the subject of politics or convention events.
 By his associates and all who have known him from the earliest time his essential truthfulness has been rec ognized characteristic--not the truth fulness that is exact in words alone, but in that frank. non-evasive and earn est truthfulness that makes even the suggestion of meaning oth- CT than his words exactly imply seem in the minds of his acquaintarces like a sacrilege. So. when he says that in the sending of that dispatch he con suited with nobody-with not a single soul, and that his action was taken on his own initiative and after realizing the situation at St. Louis, no one who ever knew the Judge or realized the es" teem in which he Is held by those who do know him entertain any doubts, while the falsity of the charge of ore arrangement" or of "foreknowledge" on the part of his friends In St. Louis, becomes apparent
 As a matter of fact, 1t was not until 3 o'clock on the afternoon of Saturday that any one made an appearance at Rosemount, or came into personal reld- ton to the Judge to whom he could be induced to communicate knowledge of the dispatch or its subject matter and that was four hours after the dispatch had been sent This person, who is the writer of this, arrived in absolute ig- norance of the action taken by the Judge, on missoon which. since the dispatch had been prepared and sent. had a bearing on 1t. It was because of that fact that the communication of his act was made by the Judge, and 1t was the first time that it was made to anybody. Unless that dispatch was at that moment in the hands of MT. Shee- nan tn St. Louis. this writer was the first person to see and read it, apart