Los Angeles herald., 1905-02-19

man more successfully than he so sue
oessfully demonstrated the vicissitudes
of American life. He has gone through
stratling changes of fortune and is a
fine exemplar of the never say die
and mil desperandum" Of men who
are superior to fate.
last saw him in Washington in
tall and athletic, with the vigor and
alertness Of man Of affairs Of fifty.
He and Jones together gave Nevada
a significance and force in official life
that made her the equal of the inn
perial state of New York. No two men
could have been more disslmilar than
he and jones' and yet the representa-
tion of no state of the Union could
have exercised more influence in long
periods of our political history than
pity that men like John P. Jones who,
like Thomas II. Benton, served thirty
years in the senate of the United
States did not, like the illustrious Mis-
sourian, write his memoirs Of his SER
vices in that body. Perhaps he has
reserved such a surprise for his host
of admirers.
Great Senator and Extraordinary Man
l first met Senator John P. Jones in
the summer of 1872. / was introduced
to him by Hugh McKenna, a Com
stock miner and the brother of Mayor
Barney McKenna of Pittsburg and of
Hon. Charles F. McKenna, whom Pres
ident Roosevelt the other day APP
pointed to diplomatic post. He was
a great henchnan of Jones and shared
the frontier miners vicissitudes by be-
ing killed few years later in min
ing difficulty. The great Nevadan had
just been elected senator by the Me-
vada legislature. He was strikingly
handsome man, magnetic and captivat-
ing, being one of the best conversa-
tionalists 1t has ever been by my good
fortune to encounter He was in the
enjoyment of every kind of good for
tune, having unearthed the Crown
Point bonanza.
My second meeting with him, import
ant enough to recall, was in the winter
of 1874. One day d. o. Mccarthy, at
present resident of this city and the
father of J. Harvey Mccarthy, one
of our enterprising real estate pro-
moters, and myself were invited by
Senator Jones to breakfast with him
at the Occidental hotel 1t may be
proper to say that Mr.. Mccarthy him
self is one of the earlier notabilities of
California, having been editor of the
American Flag, and having partici-
pated in some exciting episodes during
the war, in which blood letting was
not an infrequent occurrence.
That breakfast was a most delight
full one, and on several grounds. SEN
ator Jones, in his wonderful career has
been backwoodsman, gourmand, gour-
net and man of the world. He knew
how to order a breakfast and to play
the host with inimitable grace. In the
first two years of the thirty years in
which he sat in the senate of the
United States the whole country was
ringing with his fame. His speech on
specie resumption, in which he advo-
Gated return to sound fnance-his
gold speech of that day-had attracted
the attention of the whole country. 1t
was the success of the hour, just as,
many years later, mis- silver speech at
the Brussels convention was the chef
d'oeuvre of that celebrated conference
of the brightest financial spirits of the
day. AS Mr.. Mccarthy and myself
were both full of it, the conversation
naturally revolved around topics to
which it was germane. The hour was
enlivened by copious libations of Dry
Monopole, which had just been intro
duced and which, as it was a brand
then seeking favor, was good. At 11:30
our host drew his watch and excused
himself for absenting himself, on the
ground that he had very urgent en-
gagement and regretting the enforced
breaking up of what he was pleased
to say had been a very agreeable SYM
postum.
1 had personal and purely accidental
occasion to know that Senator Jones
had very urgent engagement for the
remainder of that day.
l had myself an engagement for that
night Henry E. Haighton, the distin-
guished lawyer of San Francisco, hav-
ing invited me to go over and stay
with his wife and himself at Tubbs'
hotel, in Oakland. l had accepted the
invitation on the agreement, as l had
an appointment to keep early next day.
that Mr.. Haighton was to arrange that
l should De able to carry it out. AS
he wished to get over to San Francisco
early himself everything was in keep
ing When we entered. at an early
hour in the dining room of Tubbs' hotel
the next horning-I think 1t was New
Years day, although my memory is
not exact-we saw a bridal party sit
ting at a table. 1t was that of Senator
John p. Jones, who, when he left Me-
Carthy and myself at the Occidental