Evening journal., 1911-06-28
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
The House That Defeated
a Senator
BY @HolIand."

One day in the early summer of
1883 the late Mark H Dunnell, who,
for a number OF terms represented a.
Minnesota district in the Lower House
Of Congress. having been first elected
in 1876, received a visit from several
Of his Minnesota friends. At that time
Mr. Dunnell had gained very high
reputation as an energetic, efficient
and thoroughly unselhsh member of
Congress, devoted especially to the
welfare of Minnesota.
While entertaining his friends, Mr..
Dunnel took them through the north
western part of the city of Washing
ton, which, at that time, was beginning
to be very greatly improved. He point
ed out to them the great dwelling
which had been erected by Senator
William M. Stewart of Nevada and
which was called Stewards Folly"
because it was thought absurd that
any one should expend as much money
upon a Washington home as the Stew
art mansion cost.
A stones throw away toward the
northeast a large and strikingly hand
some red brick building had but re-
Gently been completed. The visitors
from Minnesota were taken to that
building; they we're told that II was
the new home which had been erected
for himself by one of their own
senators, William Window.
Said one Of the Minnesotans;
"Windom must have done we'll since
he first came to Washington. There
isn't in all Minnesota as handsome a
house as this"
But said another, you forget
that Mr.. Window was Secretary OF the
| Treasury under Garfield and that ne
refunded something like a hundred
and fifty millions of three and half
per cent government bonds at three
per cent
Just at that moment a young maa
approached the Minnesota group and
asked them if the house they we're
looking at was the new one which had
just been built by Senator Window.
When he was told that that was in
fact the new mansion of the Minnesota
Senator, the young man took out a
sketch book and began to make a
rapid free-hand sketch of 1t.
IL was probably the appearance of
the artist at that precise moment
which led to a discussion, followed by
action which defeated the reelection
of William Window. to the Senate One
Of the Minnesota group. first cycling
the house and then the artist, who had
been sent to sketch the building by a
Washington periodical, at last said:
Mark, if the people of Minnesota
saw a picture of the house that Sena-
tor Window has been building IN
Washington / think they would begin
to ask whether he hasn't had enough
All who heard the remark under
stood il clearly. A strong movement
had developed among certain Mime
sofa Republicans to defeat Window for
reelection at the approaching meet
ing of the Minnesota legislature, But
It seemed almost impossible to get
hold Of any issue that might prove ef-
fectual Window had long represented
the state in the Federal Senate had
been its Governor. had been Secretary
OF the Treasury under Garfield, and
after Garfeld's death had been re-
elected 10 the Senate for the tern
which expired in 1888, and expected gC
be reelected.
But here was a great mansion II
which none but a man of great wealth
could live. and 1t was assumed by the
little group of fellow Minnesotans tha
Window expected TO live there, al
though the truth was that he built th'
house for an investment. The visitors
thereupon determined to cause lith
ographic or Photographic reproduc
ton of the Window house to be madl
and copies of it 10 be placed in the
hands of as many Republican voters Al
possible in the State of Minnesota.
was decided not 10 attach any othe
statement to the picture than thl
single line, "The new Washington
home Of Senator Window"
Not long thereafter thousands o
these pictures were circulated through
out Minnesota and they. compasse'
WINDOWS defeat for Senator. At tn
meeting of Congress the following win
ter a very young man, Charles L. Sa
bin. whose mustache almost Wed Il
heaviness and blackness with that o
John A. Logan. took the seat of Sen
ator Window and il was said of hir
by the knowing ones.
There is the young Senator VIII
was elected because William Windor
built nunufeu thousand uolidi man
sion in Washington
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