The Washington herald., 1906-12-10
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when man IS called upon to report
to a superior in rank. expecting TO be
reprimanded, Il not disgraeed. and instead
of rebuke gets praise ana promotion.
there are no words in the language capa-
bic Of describing his feelings" said Capt.
E. r. Monfort. postmaster Of Cincinnati.
at the Raleigh.
This is exactly what happened to me
in October. 81. when / was reckless
young soldier in the Union army. mem
Der Of the old Sixth Ohio. had been de-
tailed with a party on a scouting expedi-
ton in the mountains Of old Virginia. and
on the expedition We rounded up a stm
and confscated a barrel Of apple brandy.
After taking our prize into camp / went
10 make a report OF the matter 10 the
quartermaster. forgetting just what a
temptation bad been left to my comrades.
70 cut the yarn short. the men broke in
the head Of that barrel of applejack and
helped themselves to the liquid and
within an hour or so, with few exceptions.
the whole regiment was as drunk as
forest Of billed owls They were not
three sheets in the wind, or "a little mel
low or 'Sort-Of-h -come-you-so, but
just plain drunk-maudlln and timber as
SO many rags.
that evening got word that
Lieut. Col Nick Anderson. as fine fell
low as ever lived. wanted 70 see me. I
thought lnstanter that I was going 10 be
discharged, OF maybe shot for having
( left that brandy where il could be got
! a
Anderson was my knees were knocking
/ together, nay blood ran cold in nv veins.
and | wished I were dead But with a
smile on bis face my superior handed
me my commission as second lieutenant,
adding "a word or 50 Of c0mmendatiOn.
l Tne reaction nearly made me faint. and
l didn't have sense enough left 10 thank
/ hin. He never alluded 10 the matter OF
the barrel Of brandy. and you may be
sure I didn't broach the subject"
Tennessee would have elected IT. Clay
Evans governor this year but for one
thing said Mai. A. W Willis. the popu-
/ lar postmaster of Nashville, al the Ra-
leigh.
THAT one thing was the way the DEM
/ ocTats sprung on him his record Of hav-
/ ing voted for the force bill so-caIled.
while in Congress. They rung the changes
on that. and il really beat Evans. who
made a splendid, though Intellectual fight.
! Another big factor in Democratic success
/ was the eloquence Of that idol Of the
/ Democratic masses, Bob Taylor. our Sen
/ ator-elect Though I am his political
/ eremy. 7 am proud TO be classed among
/ MS personal friends. He is a man Of
matchless magnetism and Unrivaled pow
I ct IN swaying a multitude By the resist
less stream Of his humor and quaint phil
/ osophy-
Had it not been for the speech Bob
/ Taylor made on the Saturday night pre-
/ ceGing the election in Nashville the Re
/ publican ticket would have swept David
son County. and we would have elected
out entire legislative delegation"
TT IS almost certain that had It not
been for the speeches OF Carl Schurz in
opposition 70 Blaine the Maine man
would have been President in 1SS4." said
Mr.. Albert II. Walker. who occupies d
very high position at the New York bar,
10 a Herald reporter. at the Raleigh
The speech which Mr. SChurz deliver
ed often in the campaign had for its
keynote the alleged dishonesty Of the Re
pubiie-r candidate. Schurz was sincere
in his atta.k. and yet. I think now as I
/ thought then, that James G. Blaine was
guilty of no dishonorable deed. Mr..
Schurz did not put much stress OF the
Credit AIObilier scandal, but emphasized
the dealings Of Blaine in the matter OF
the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad
I L.
! correspondence Of Blaine with Fisher
about the bonds came out through the
expose made By Mulligan, who had been
Fishers bOOkkeeDeT.
There was nothing seriously 70 Mr..
Blaine's discredit in the correspondence
I (Which he read in open session Of the
House,, but he made the mistake Of re-
tanning the letters after he had requested
Mulligan to let him see them for a mo-
ment for identification When he refused
20 return them Mulligan went 10 the
newspaper men here IN Washington and
told what Blaine had done, and imme-
diately the incident was seized upon and
flashed by wire 10 every newspaper in the
land. the affair being twisted into an at
tempt on the part Of the chief actor 70
destroy the proofs Of his supposed crime,
Had Blaine ignored Mulligan, or had
he not impulsively kept the letters, he
would have escaped much caIumny and
final defeat But there is fate in al
things. and throughout the career of this
great man an untoWaTd destiny vas ever
at work. In 1876 he would have beer
nominated at Cincinnati instead Of Hayes
but for the unlUcky adjournment of the
convention, which was caused by a lyins
report that there was no gas in the hall
The president of the convention himself
was tricked into believing this"
lone Of the greatest speeches that has
been heard in years" said Mr.. T. f
Brown, OF Kentucky. at the New Willard
was that made by Senator Joe Black
burn In his home town Of Versailles dur
ing our late exciting campaign The Sena
tor rose 10 introduce TO a big crowd o.
Woodford County voters his colleague II
the Senate, Hon. James B. McCreary
who was running for reelection. With
evident feeling, and in the beautiful Eng.
lish for which he is famous, Blackburn
told how he and McCreary had been 10
gether as young men in college; how they
had fought side by side in the Confederate
army; how they had entered the legisla.
ture together; how he had made the nom
mating speech when McCreary was
chosen by the Democrats as their candi-
date for governor. and, finally, how they
had come to Washington 20 represent
Kentucky in the House, and later in the
United States Senate. This was told in
the dramatic Blackburn fashion, and pre-
pared his hearers for the climax when the
speaker said that he vas going out OF
public life forever but that prior TO quit
ting he had one, and only one. more favor
70 ask of the citizens Of old WOOdfOrd
and that was to give their support 20 s
man SO r,-a-ar7fuoufIv deserving his col.