The New York herald., 1922-11-26
Continued from Page T0enty-three.


time this true story of great impersona-
ton has been publicly disclosed. Blaine
Cleveland, the silver haired physician, all
have passed ON to their accounting. After
thirtyeight years. the revelation can
cause no heartburns.
In July of the same Presidential year
1851 had given to THE New YORK
HERALD. from Philadelphia, a long political
interview with Charles Emory Smith, who
afterward, as editor of the Philadelphia
Press, was for nearly nine years my
journalistic chief Mr.. Smith ~had Just
returned from the post-convention ed
itorial council" in Augusta, Me-, where he
together with Whitelaw Reid and William
Walter Phelps. had been closeted with Mr.
Blaine. welding the blue pencil over the
nominees letter of acceptance.
A veteran reporter preserves little OF
none of his prolific output. 1t is ephemeral
Its worth, at best, is for a day. ''In the
morning it groweth and fiourisheth; i'm the
evening it is cut down and withereth.'
But the novice-for the first year or sc
of bustling newspaper life-pastes uI
his most pridefu product in scrap
book and dotes upon it. To that youth
full vanity the writer-no longer a cub
owes the fact that the Charles Emory
Smith interview lies under his eye as
he now writes. Here is an excerpt:
What is Mr.. Blaines real feeling con-
cerning Clevelands nomination." asked
your correspondent
He feels just as his friends do that
Cleveland is an easy man to beat. There
were several candidates before the con-
vention whose nomination would have
caused him great deal more uneasiness
When / received the news of Cleveland's
nomination l was on the train only six
miles from Augusta 1 went to Mr.
Blaine's house Immediately after nv ar
rival and the flood of kilograms already
was yelling up from all parts of the
country. Why, Mr.. Blaine received almost
as many congratulations upon Cleveland's
nomination as he did after his own
There followed detailed canvass of the
doubtful states-New Jersey, Connecticut
Massachusetts, where the Benjamin F
Butler side show threatened disaffection
Mr.. Smith claimed them ali for Blaine
But in passing, 1 note, he made this seer
like observation:
1.-The real battle-ground is going TO be
New York. 1t is in New York city and
Brooklyn that the Independent strength
is greatest and the Republican disaffec-
ton most formidable
Summing up his conclusion with all the
complacement assurance of one years ex-
perience in Journalism, the reporter ther
presumed to tell the readers of THE New
YORK HERALD:
The editor of the Press. in his sweep.
ing attempt to catalogue all the doubtful
States upon the Blaine side of the ledger
is probably over -sanguine. But, coming
as he does. directly from the inner sane
tuary of the party councils. his rosy views
no doubt harmonic substantially with
those of the head of the ticket
Here is the other side of the story
Gov Leon Albeit, of New Jersey, who
passed through here on his way from the
convention, looks upon the prospect
through Democratic lenses. Cleveland will
carry New York, New Jersey ard Connec-
tcut.' said he 4 am sure of New York
| can't give you details now. but
am absolutely certain Tammany will
turn in for the ticket John Kelly is nc
fool and l know what I'm talking about. y
The writer's earliest effort at dramatic
interview was with Fanny Davenport
She was playing Fedora i'm Philadelphia
i'm 1884, and it chanced that the Divine
Sarah, only one week before. had featured
there the same tragedy. had seen both per-
foImances. When / asked Miss Daven-