The Washington herald., 1911-12-08

! Judge Henry l.. Myers. now United
States Senator Myers. of Montana, came
home from court after u hard day
! Judging one afternon last March. sat
down in an armchair in the sitting room,
and engaged in thought. He leaned back.
! stared for a long time at a fiy speck
on the chandelier. and then muttered:
Yes; / guess I'll do it.
! DO what. Henry" inquired Mrs.
Myers.
oh. nothing: ! was just thinking out
loud" replied the man who was next
day to be elected United States Senator.
! And it was several weeks later before
! Mrs Myers knew what her husband had
! been revolving in his mind that after
noon as he stared at the fly speck.
Senator Myers made public the other
! day, for the FIRST time. the occultish cir
| Cumstances relating TO his Enjah-like
! translation. from a country judgeship 10
the United States Senate in chariot OF
chance
The Montana legislature had been
deadIoCked for fifty-seven days over the
election of a United States Senator. and
the name OF ayers, who had been en-
tirely out of politics for ten years, had
never been thought OF. But as he sat
there in the sitting-room looking up at
the ceiling Henry L. Myers had a WIS.,
ion. a fash from the infinite-just such
a vision as a professional fOrtune-teller
or a hop dreamer might have Like
revelation 1t all came to him that II the
legislature succeeded in electing a Sena-
tor at all, he himself would in all prob
ability be the man. Somehow he just
knew 1t,
Now. it is a long journey from HamiI-
ton. Mont. to Washington, and Myers
sleeps rather brokenly on trains: he
didn't know how well the United States
Senate chamber is ventilated, and he
wasn't certain whether he wanted to
quit his job as judge and be a Senator
or not. 1t was this that he was mulling
over in his mind when he thought aloud
and observed, Yes; I guess I'll do It,"
So it was all arranged. He had de-
Cided that he would accept the Senator
ship following his election at Helena the
next day. All that remained to be done
was for the members of the legislature
to learn that there was such a man on
our earth as Henry l.. Myers and vote
for him.
Having made up his mind to accept
the Senatorship, Myers called up a
friend in the legislature next morning
over the telephone and inquired casually
how things were going.
Neither one OF the leading candidates
can be elected the friend told him.
And Henry DANCED II I don't put up
your name before the days over"
DO as you like about that" said
Myers, with unconcern. But he knew
then that there was nothing more to 1t.
His flash from the infinite had been
confirmed. He might as well have en-
gagged his Pullman reservation for Wash
ington right then.
That evening Myers went downtown on
an errand and had occasion to drop in
at the Hamilton telephone exchange. AS
he did so he heard a man in one of the
booths saying: "Wh-a-a-t! Judge Myers,
of Hamilton? Well, what do you know
about that? This'll sure be some surprise
to him"
And when the crowd began to con-
graduate him a few moments later over
his election to the United States Senate,
Myers let on as II 1t were all COM
pIete surprise. But II wasn't at all, for
he had been tipped off in his vision more
than .twenty-fOur hours before.
Another odd circumstance in connec-
tion with Myers election is the fact that
he had boyhOoi dream of being a