The National tribune., 1906-05-31
PEOPLE.


group in the White House a shor,
time ago that Mr.. Stranahan was tc
succeed himself as New York's Collec-
tor. affectionately slapped Mr.. Strana-
han on the back and said. ..... .,
Gentlemen, this. Is my New York
Collector for the next four years unless
l am impeached in the meantime"
Il suppose" said a friend to Presi-
dent Roosevelt several evenings after
the Presidents overwhelming victory in
November. 1904, that you are now the
most popular man in the country IL not
in the world"
That's all right" replied the Presi-
dent, but with the things l have in my
noddle at the moment. the things l con-
template doing, I'll probably be the
post unpopular man in the civilized
world within two years.
William j. Bryan, when speaking in
the Democratic National Convention of
1904 to the nomination of Alton Il.
Parker, did not mention Judge Parker S
name. This style OF political oratory
was introduced, it is said, by Conkling
in the Garfield campaign and followed
by Hill in the second Cleveland cam
paign. 1t is preventive of too much
crow-eating in public.
when you must eat crow" Senator
Thomas c. Plat. of New York, used to
say, make ii the most delicious dish
you ever tasted"
The lack of any moral sense or feel
ing of shame is one of the startling
things in criminals. They never seem
to comprehend how cuipable they are
and how much they deserve the con-
demnation of their fellowmen. William
j. Dent. one of the most notorious con-
victs in the South, Is an illustration of
this. He belongs to very good family
in Tennessee. and has had all the ad-
vantages that education could give to his
mind. He has chosen,
however, to go wrong persistently and
during his adult life has spent more
years In prison than out of it. His par
ticular line of offending is forgery, for
which he is we'll qualified by his unusual
talents as penman. He was sentenced
to the penitentiary in Texas come 10
years ago, and while there met, asso-
ciated and became very Intimate with
George Isaacs, a notorious outlaw, who
was serving life sentence for murder
Dents family in Tennessee secured his
pardon, but before going out ne made
an arrangement with Isaacs to secure
his pardon for $4,000. He secured an
interview, under false pretenses, with
the Governor of Texas, and managed to
get hold of some pardon blanks and the
official seal. With these in his possess
sion II was an easy matter to forge a
pardon for Isaacs which was sent
through the mail. 1t was received by
the penitentiary officials with surprise.
but they had no right to question the
Governors action, and they opened the
gates and let Isaacs go free. The COM
munity did not know of this for some
time. as apparently the Texas papers are
not particularly enterprising, and the
fact was first called to Gov. Savers at
tention by a letter from another con-
Wet. Isaacs paid Dent part of tho
money and then left the country for
South America. where the detectives lost
all trace of him. The next thing was
to secure Dent. who was at last arrested
In Arizona, brought to Texas, placed on
trial for being an accessory to the mur-
der. and sentenced to prison for life.
Dent has now issued an appeal to the
people of Texas to relieve him from this
and he grows quite pa
thetic in the course of it, saying that he
had been betrayed by Isaacs whom he
supposed to be his friend. and was made
to suffer the penalty of that friendship in
a sentence of Imprisonment for life He
goes Off into slckening rant. with texts
from the Bible. about greater love hath
no man than this. that he Jay down his
Ire IOr MS IrleUu, etc. II Is To be
hoped that the people or Texas will
treat this with the contempt that it de-
serves. for Mr.. Dent is gentleman who
can well be spared to society for the
rest of his natural life.
The managers OF the Spiritualst
at Anderson, Ind. had
secured Senator Tillman for an address,
and afterward secured Booker T.
Tillman promptly wired
them that there could be no debate on
the same platform between him and
He did not care IL Wash
ington should follow him at some later
time. but he would not speak from the
same platform with him. The manage
ment accepted his uItImatum. and in
formed him that he would have the
platform all to himself Aug. 26.
Gen. James s. Clarkson, Surveyor oil
the Port Of New York. Is writing his
tory of the Underground Tunnel OIL
Iowa" work which is to tell of the
methods used before the civil war In
passing runaway slaves on to Canada |
Gen. Ciarkson. as boy on his father
Iowa farm. helped many slave TO get
70 free soil. For many years there have |
been few white men in public life to |
whom the negroes have been more de- |
attached than C@a Tu--'--