The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-11-11

was big supply of native Catawba and
other American wines that were furnished
by old Nick Longworth, great grandfather
of the Presidents son-in-law, and the
many callers and well-wishers of Mr.
sherman did not, l assure you, go thirsty
Everything was booming along nicely
when, all at once, Hinton Rowan Helper,
North Carolina man, sprung book
upon the country called The Impending
Crisis-How to Meet It. Well, it raised
Cain, and it charged that Mr.. Sherman
had endorsed and recommended the book
and the alleged incendiary doctrines it
preached. Sherman had signed paper,
as he was charged with having DONE and
did not deny it, but he kept in the ring,
and the fight for speaker went on.
AT last, however, he consented to with
draw in favor of Mr.. Pennington of New
Jersey, it being understood that Mr.. Sher-
man should be chairman of the commit
tee of ways and means and have the NAM
ing of two other committees. AS a conse-
quence Pennington was elected speaker on
the forty-fourth ballot. Sherman named
the chairman of the committee on print
ing, and thus secured for his friend
Cooke the public printing-there was no
such office as public printer. Cooke held
on to this for a time, made plenty of mon -
ey, and sold out to John w. Forney for
5000
when Mr.. Lincoln became President
John Sherman was power in the land,
and he never forgot the friendship Of
Henry d. Cooke. 1t was through Sher-
mans influence that Jay Cooke e. Co. be-
came financial agents of the country,
placed the big loans and amassed the mil
lions they once possessed"
Among those present at this little Sc
ance was member of the Oldest Inhabi-
w n ran h.
called upon for Renaissance or two. II
knew Senator Sherman very WELL. said
this old gentleman, "and have always
found warm corner in his heart, no mat
ter what others said about his cold dis
position, and so forth. I'll just mention
one or two little cases if you'll permit
me-" he said, and, as no one was found
not to permit him. he went on, saying:
In my younger days l, with another
young man named Trumbull like myself,
in the employ of the United States senate
used to drive the senate mail wagon, and
deliver, both mornings and evenings, the
senator's mail. One day, just after the
adjournment of the senate, Mr. Sherman
called me in and said r., am going to
have little stag party at my house to-
morrow night, and invite you and Trum-
bull to be among my friends He was
then living in an unpretentious little
house in K street, just next to his later
petidtldl fildnSlOn. VI course, L tOlu lTunl-
bull. and We were in quandary We had
no dress suits such as we thought We
ought to have, SO we decided that we
couldn't go. The day after the party,
when the senator asked me why I wasn't
present, I fished up a little white lie.
told him that the mail was delayed that
evening. and we were out on it's delivery
until late hour, SO that we had to deny
ourselves the pleasure.
This said the old man, WAS only one
of the many marks of the senator's kind
ness One evening he asked me what
carried the mail in, and 1 told him we
used a large basket. Bring it here; I'd
like to see It, said the senator; and when
/ did so, he had a servant fill it to the top
with fine apples that he had that day re-
ceived from Ohio. 1t was so heavy when
1t was filled that ii was difficult to get it,
back into the wagon, but the families OF
my associate mail boy and myself lived
on apples for week. I could tell scores
of stories about the warm heart of that
great man." said the old inhabltant. 'and
/ will some time"