Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-01-04
BY ARTHUR WALLACE DUNN

BY ARTHUR WALLACE DUNN
During the campaign Of 1892, when Ben
jamin Harrison was standing for reelection
as President and Grover Cleveland was can
didate for a third time, Senator Quay of
Pennsylvania, who had been chairman Of
the national committee in the successful
campaign of 1888, visited the Republican
headquarters in New York and spent few
hours with Chairman Thomas H. Carter.
As Quay emerged from the conference and
was going to his cab to take train for home,
he was surrounded by squad of news
paper men. One of them shot out this ques-
ton:
what do you think of the outlook, Sena-
tor2'
Its going to be the most one-sided cleo
ton since 1872 replied Quay.
After he had disappeared into the cab
and it was moving rapidly away the news
paper men awoke to the fact that Quay had
not said which side nor had they asked
him.
WHEN the Democrats were in control Of
Congress in 1884 Senator Ran
som Of North Carolina was confidant of
Senator German, the Democratic leader.
Bill Sterrett, correspondent of "The News
at Galveston and Dallas, believed that
Ransom could give him information on gen.
eral conditions before Congress and legis-
lative matters then being considered in
Democratic conferences.
@What is the situation, Senator?' asked
Bill.
Looking wise, and with slight, confden-
tial inclination of the head, the North Caro-
lima Senator replied, @My boy, it looks all
right; but they must work-they must
work."
And Bill doesn't know to this day who
"they' were, or at what they were to
3work.'
FOR long time there has been golf club
! on the Virginia side of the Potomac over
looking the national capital. During the
years of its existence the members have been
embarrassed when the following dialogue
would take place:
4Where do you play golf?'
washington Country Club
@Where is that?"
"Over in Virginia
An awkward pause, and the member
would explain, ITS on the Great Falls road
about four miles out
But there has been great change since
Woodrow Wilson became one of the regular
members of the club. More than that, he
plays golf on his native heath every weekday
when he is in Washington.
So in these days, when a member of the
Washington Country Club is discovered
as a golfer and he is asked, 4Do you play
at Chevy Chaser" the oldest and most
fashionable club, 4Naw!' he replies dis
painfully.
Columbia or Bannockburn2'
NAV! | belong to the club where the
President plays every afternoon And he
doesn't deem it necessary to explain the
location.
CHARLES S. THOMAS, now Senator
- from Colorado, did not intend to settle
in territory and grow up with it when in
the late fall of 1871 he left the East for the
West. The Pacific Coast was his destina7
ton, and he thus relates how he came to
stop and remain in Colorado:
q stopped in Denver to see what it looked
like, and was interested in the way the peo-
pie talked and felt about the future of their
city. The census of 1870 had shown Denver
with population of four thousand and
thirty, as | now recall; but late in 1871
real estate firm had made census that gave
the city population Of seven thousand
eight hundred, an enormous increase
when figured out in percentage. The
Rocky Mountain News commented upon
this wonderful growth in year. The paper
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