New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
WATTERSON IS REMINISCENT
Recalls the Early Days and His
Old Friends.
Rebuked Carl Schurtz and Pleased
General Grant.
Great Editor Gave Lecture in New
Ulm Wednesday.


Serious, yet genial, stocked with
"reminiscences of bygone days and
great men, yet keenly alive to every
thing modern, such is the Henry Wat
terson of today, the last of the old
school of editors, who have made
journalism a great profession.
Shaggy gray brows overhang his
eyes, and with his gray moustache
and imperial give him some resem-
blance to Mark Twain. In fact he has
been mistaken for the noted humorist
on more than one occasion. He is
getting old, is Mr.. Watterson, but his
mind is as alert as ever and his speech
as trenchant.
The great Kentuckian was in a socia-
BILE mood when seen by the Review at
the Dakota House Wednesday even
ing. He would talk about himself and
the people he had met, but politics
were barred.
';You will have to excuse me" he
said, II am not doing any work in
this campaign, am not mixing up in it
at all, as is shown by the fact that am
away from home during the very heat
of the campaign
Mr.. Watterson's trip to Minnesota
was purely one Of business and recre-
alton. He spends about a month each
year on the platform giving his two
great lectures, Lincoln and "Money
Morals and Society," and this year he
has included this state in his itinerary.
VAN SAINT SAYS "IT's JOHNSON"
This is not his first trip to Minneso-
ia by any means and he has long been
fast friends with Governor Van SAINT,
George Thompson, editor of the ST.
Paul Dispatch and others. While in
st. Paul just before coming here, Mr..
Watterson had long visits with these
gentlemen and discussed state politics
with them some. They both predict
the election of Johnson sas governor
of Minnesota, said the Kentucky
editor.
cit was forty-eight years ago that I
first started in the newspaper bust
ness,'' remarked Mr.. Watterson remi-
niscently. I was only about Is years
old, but my father bought me a weekly
in a little town in Tennessee. The pa
per was called the Chew Era" had
as help one printer, who was supposed
to be the fastest compositor in the
state and he is running the paper yet,
that is his sons are. l stayed there
for about two years.
"Do I do any work on the Courier
Journal still? Well I guess I do. I
do more work on it than any other
one man.
Mr.. w atterson was soldier in the
Confederate army during the Civil war
and now enjoys the distinction of be-
ing the only honorary member of the
G. A. r., to which he was elected in
1895.
This was largely in recognition Of
the great work he has done in further
ing friendly feelings between the two
sections. Mr.. w atterson said that al
though in the southern army he knew
how things must turn out and was a
very easily reconstructed rebel.
GRANTS INTIMATE FRIEND.
| Generals Grant and Sherman he
counted among his most intimate
friends. Grant, he says, although a
silent man politically, was most
genial companion and was rare con-
versationalist, and he tells of many
visits he has had with him.
The last time I ever saw Grant
alive" he said, twas alta banquet given
by a group of railroad presidents,
where General Grant and were seated
side by side. I had not intended to
speak, but one of the speakers was
Carl Schurtz, who was one of the few
men whom Grant hated and who hated
him.
'During his remarks Schurtz re-
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