Evening journal., 1913-02-03
NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY
An Afternoon With Glad
stone at HaWarden
BY uansnd.

"In the summer Of 1892 ! spent an
afternoon at Hawarden. the country
home OF Gladstone. / and my long
time friend, General Thomas L. James
We're invited by Mr. Gladstone to visit
the park. TO wander through il as
much as we liked, and his invitation
ended with "a statement that in the
course of the afternoon he would meet
us and spend an hour or two with
us"
In this way the late Edward Quin-
tard began the narration TO me OF
one OF his experiences with Mr.. Glad
stone Mr. Quintard was known by
name and through common friends to
Gladstone. uarty because he was near
of kin to two American Protestant
Episcopal bishops, one of them Bishop
Ouintard OF Tennessee, with whom Mr..
Gladstone had had some correspond
ence. MIR. Quintard was himself q
prominent layman in the Protestant
Episcopal church He was widely
known in business circles for many
years as president of one OF the larg-
est Of the savings banks not only of
New York city, but of the United
States
General James and / had spent
perhaps an hour in wandering about
the beautiful park when We saw Mr..
Gladstone approaching us. His greet
ing was very cordial. He pointed out
TO us some of the features of the
park which especially pleased him
and by a wave of his hand he indi-
Gated that portion of the forest in
which he was accustomed to chop
down trees for exercise.
"f remember telling him that our
own great editor Horace Greeley was
accustomed to take weekly exercise
by chopping down trees upon his
farm in Westchester county in New
York state.
"Yes, have already heard OF that
Mr. Gladstone replied
"As we walked along, Mr.. Glad
stone turned abruptly to General
James, stopping in his walk as he
said.
"'Mr. James, you were a member
of the Cabinet of President Garfield,
were you notg
81 was thus honored,' General
James replied, and added In placing
me I'm his Cabinet President Garfield
followed a precedent which was be-
gun when Benjamin Franklin, a
printer, was made postmaster general
for the American colonies and when
Montgomery Blair was made postmas-
ter general i'm the Cabinet of Presi-
dent Lincoln.
"'Was President Garfield ever a
printerg Gladstone asked, but before
General James had a chance to reply,
the great Englishman went on to say:
81 have been much interested in
learning all that 1t was possible for
me to do about the career, the per
sonality and the intellectual charac
teristics of President Garfield II
seems to me that, more than any Of
your Presidents except Lincoln, he
typifies In his career the fundamen~
tai characteristics of your people. Did
YOU have long acquaintance with him,
Mr.. James. before you entered his
CabinetT
"'I never saw him, General James
replied, Until the meeting of the Re-
publican national convention at Chi
cago in 1880. To me he seemed next
10 Roscoe Conkling, the dominatins
Intellectual and personal force In the
convention
"Was it not just that which made
him your party's candidateT Glad
stone asked.
Undoubtedly I have always been
satisfied that If Garfield had not been
a member of that convention he would
not have been thought Of for the
nomination
What was his manner after he
had been placed in nomination?
Gladstone asked Did you see him
then
Eyes, I saw him about two hours
after the nomination. I was alone
with him for some twenty minutes in
his room at the hotel He seemed
almost depressed His manner was
that Of a man almost overwhelmed
by a sense of responsibility. He saio
TO me: Mr.. James, one of the worlds
greatest generals can't recall who
once said that next to the bitterness
Of defeat the saddest moment is thai
which follows a great victory
You say said Gladstone, thai
Garfield could quote these words, but
could not say who uttered them.
could tell you that They we're saiC
pA WelilhslOh' dHu IA ny P'NNN"
His exact words were, For a gen
eral who is in command Of an army
next TO the bitterness of defeat is th'
sadness of a great victory For thl
responsibilities which follow a grea
victory are very likely to be over
whelming.
Copyright 1913. by e. J. Edwards
All rights reserved)
Tomorrow Mr.. Edwards will tell -
story Of the Burial of Mad Anthon.
Wayne