The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1913-04-08
STATESMEN, REAL AND NEAR
BY FIRED G. KELLY.

Senator OGorman Of New York IL q
man of human qualities who is grad
ually living down the judicial tempera-
ment he acquired during the years he
held court for living. One phase of
O'Gorman's judicial temperament was q
habith of evasiveness. and this has made
ton that two or three newspaper men
have buried their heads in their hands
and groaned aloud.
Shortly after the present administra-
ton came IN, when the Democratic lead
ers were constantly comforting about
one thing and another, a correspondent
went to O'Gorman and asked him il he
thought the special session of Congress
would be confined to the tariff alone.
O'Gorman thought a long time, lighted
q cigar. walked about the room. smiling
pleasantly and finally replied:
Some people seem to think that We
should confine ourselves to the tariff
at the coming session. and others be-
lieve that we should also take up other
Legislation"
Not long after that Illuminating inter-
view, a newspaper man went to O'Gor-
man and had a tete-a-tete with him,
suggesting that whenever he didn't wish
so, but quit his joking or evading. which
ever it was. O'Gorman laughed and
told the man that perhaps he was right.
From then on O'Gorman turned over
new leaf and became about as candid
as anybody.
William H. Thompson. the boyish-faced
new Senator from Kansas. believes that
he was the proximate cause of Grover
III - To-
President.
Thompson was youngster just emerg-
ing from his teens at the time of Cleve-
lands nomination in '92, but he went to
the Chicago convention with his father.
who was a delegate.
The name of David B. Hill doomed up
strongly. to the great CONSERVATION of
young Thompson, who, without knowing
exactly why, was great Cleveland
shouter AS he sat in the gallery amid
the excitement of ii all. our youthful
hero CHANGED to notice the skylights in
the roof of the convention building. and
right then he thought of a way to nomi-
nate Cleveland
He rushed out of the hall into a pouring
rain and looked about for the thing he
wanted. and finally found it in the win
dow of a shabby little saloon. 1t was
a framed picture of Grover Cleveland
with bunting uTdpeu dbOut IL ny lit DR.
tistic hand of the bartender.
Young Thompson had never been in
saloon before. but he ventured in ard
inquired of the drink salesman how much
he would take for the picture
wotn you gimma?" asked the man.
"Oh. sir" said Thompson. 81 have
only a dollar: but. indeed. sir, would
gladly give you that.
So he got the picture. Next he
hustled about for some stout cord, and
a few moments later he was climbing
I'D the slippery roof in the rain. He
opened a skylight and suspended the
pjcture of Cleveland down over the
multitude: and. as it happened. imme-
diately over the New York delegation.
Many thought the New York crowd
had raised the Cleveland banner. and
everybody yelled. Thompson sat on
the roof in the rain and dangled the
picture until a policeman chased MIN
away.
The next morning the papers said
that an unknown Kansas boy had nomi-
mated Cleveland.
That unknown Kansas boy was the
A short time before the Dayton Hood
Jimmy Cox Governor of Ohio. ceie-
brated the fourteenth anniversary OF
his arrival in Dayton by taking walk
over the town with friend.
In the course of their stroll they
met an old German who had conducted
a little restaurant when Cox first came
to town and bought the Dayton News
t-on borrowed money. Cox introduced
the old German to his companion
This man." says Cox. has come to
nv rescue dozens of time by lending
me SEQ or s25 to help me meet my
pay roll back in the days when
couldn't have raised the money any
other way"
Representative William Kettner, of san
Diego. Cal. made a journey to Mexico
while ago and was greatly impressed
with the cheapness of Mexican cab hire.
Kettner is the man who made him.
self such a nuisance to the people of San
Diego by selling them life insurance that
his victoms sent him to Congress TO get
rid of him But that fact has nothing
whatever to do with this story, which is
laid entirely in Mexico. kettner found
that for % cents he could have a carriage
at his disposal for about an hour. That
made great hit with him, and he wor-
ried because he had occasion TO use a
cab only part of the time. 1t seemed
shame that he couldn't spend more money
on such a bargain proposition.
The afternoon before Kettner and his
friends were to leave Mexico one of the
party noticed a string of seven carriages
proceeding down the street like funeral
procession. All were empty except the
one i'm the lead. In ii sat Kettner putting
calmly a big cigar.
He had hired all the carriages he could
find in front of his hotel and set out to
reveI in his bargain grandeur.
copyright 1918, by Fred G.. Kelly. AL rights re-
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