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And Its customary Frye, contemporary with years afterward;, I obtained a pension of "I once said to William Caldwell, the I At the mention of Reed's name, the QuestkmsljyAskmgThenU Initiative will be tempered by calm Judg- them in activities and.arJn-osltl- es au .' month lor 'that doctor. He had chief deputy In the office. Senator Bur- eyes of Burleigh glowed with pleasure. tertainingly of the Former ment and good sense. - of.polltlcsVhe lived and wrought Jn peace Igone lato.tlie war.asa stufaon, and In his leigh told me, "that were I possessed of "He was always generous with me," he Muckrakers Exert a Bad "Our temporary defeat was succeeded and had "ridjexpUrJationa .or apologies to fold, age bad become so crippled that he sufficient ability I would sometime like to aid,- - "though he spoke sharply on occa- by se. t Leaders' and Says Repub- a healthful the fruit of make either to them or to any one-el- coulda-- walk. It. was his boast xnat ne be the treasurer of the State." sion to others, which was not good man- Influence on Young Men which Is now manifest In the movement Giants, lnhabitatlng the' same regions, spared ray life by1 keeping me out of the - Ome of riorlelsrh's Early Leaawas. agement Speech, we know, to frequently to reunite the party. That movement, hare their wars, territorial or personal. army, and. accordingly, was really re- abused. Unkind words stick to the mem Back. governor- ."You can be." William Caldwell and Boys, He Thinks. licans Are Coming with practically no fundamental differ- For years Reed never-.sa- Fry'. and sponsible for my election.to the - ory of the person to or at whom they ences reconcile, to bound swered. He thought more- of Burleigh's are ' of conviction to Hale when he met them facs'toVface. ship of the State." ability Burleigh' directed. A .story told la tXaiae to be successful and the party of proa- -' than did himself. There about Hannibal .Hamlin 'was a lesson to perlty progress will moveJon to are two revealing points in the dialogue me back In the days of my youth, CO miles track." His "By JAME1 B. MORROW. and the between men, tor of father wu lumument of- its mission.' these both clerks the "Hamlin was a homespun man and farmer, buyer of forest land, anil same self-effa- a a Tkl is-- a or- Burleigh unofficially gave office. First. Burleigh's wlille Vice streets - - The "class of .' cloakroom Thus Senator ment, repression "ego." President walked the legislator. utterance opinions held by every the of the and of Bangor many a. time 1A summer, a We lived five vflima ganization 'without password or inltla-- to' the Caldwell's recognition Burleigh's cap- miles from the old-lin- e Republican leader In Washing of farmer's straw hat on his head and a m xwuiiou. near ine uanaaun border," tlnns It consists of-fo-ur Senators Pice, Progressives ability and popularity. rake over Dur- ton. He defeated the of his Burleigh, or a hoe his shoulder. be said. T walked there to the acad of Vermont, the greatest calfskin expert WIS though many, away finally treasurer of Maine, ing hto service as speaker of the State emy every morning State in .broke found records In Caldwell's handwriting and Back home at In America: Dillingham, also 'of Ver from their leaders and supported him sssssssssssssssssssssBsE legislature, he noticed with amusement rugnr. l taught school while a boy and ' 'ISslssssssssssssssssssssssH' antedating the year of his own birth. and some scorn, no the foppish- surveying.' mont, a specialist In Immigration beating them In the legislature by. a vote T have never doubt learned My first" purchase-o- f of SI to 7 and to counted on, as haa been been ambitious for another ness and precisencss of one of .the mem umoer iana contained. woo acres. It was Nelson, of Minnesota, who, an ssssssssssssssisssssBraC'llH man's place," he said during our talk. bers. One day, during the session or the In large on, said, not only to help' rehabilitate his policy. bought part .credit sold Immigrant, arrived In the United States, party In New England, but to counsel B W.,v' That has been his William Cald- house. Hamlin called the member of hto It in six months, doubled my money,I and well always wanted to retain "his own desk. purchased more after six weeks .at sea In a Norwegian with and negotiate for it in the rest of 'lsssssssssssH bread land. I have never sold the country. is..Bi......Hii5P and butter as earned In the " 1 am pained to observe,' Hamlin said any land since. My policy to to birv It and Edwin Chick Burleigh, LsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssPfeijy "W treasury. That was bis policy. He was a In a loud whisper, when the man came I ciit down the large trees After a service of fourteen years to "; too, arid and let In tha of Maine, no less a man than James G. found It profit- up and stood at attention, 'that one of sunugnt ana the small trees grow up the House of Representative, where h able. After his death James G. as Blaine's successor. 1380,000 Blaine the hairs on the left side of your head secona crop. obtained during a single session said to Burleigh: "Every one thought a for1 Mr. Burleigh was nomi- Is out of place.' They learned from a., study of one an- his district that the treasurer's' office would stop man say anything Bestne Kei Are Honest. Senator at State-wi- de pri- "The didn't then but other's biographies they were all nated for a T 6 TsIssbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI running Caldwell died, open that Obi-dl- ah lareiBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIBBBB ; when but It Is he was Hamlin's enemy from that time "A good many politicians and maga--j mary. The Democrats nominated :r ".. - - 'SbBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBbI born In the' same year and that they greatest stumper, $BL :' as usual, which shows again that so man on, working against him and voting' zlnes." I said, "are describing the Ameri- Gardner, their LbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbBK' - JsLbbT. J;- - .' 'JLbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbI !!'?.'i-f- is indispensable." against him as long as he lived. can business man being were governors before their election to then In the Senate, by appointment as bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbDKH. -? "iissssssssssssssssssH as both greedy Frye, BssssssssssilissssssssssssssssssssssaKaissssssssssB.'' '"SjHijaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaal 1 have remembered Mr. Blaine's ""I remember Reed with much affec- ana aisnonesr. the Senate. It happens, also, that, each the successor of William P. who ' words," Senator Burleigh observed. on. say. ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssrliiHPPr'tP "Thev tion," Senator Burleigh went to. "Well." Senator Burleigh, renll'ed. Is Republican. So they came together had died In. office. were, spoken to 'me great intellectually, a So an orator was matched against a 'sBsssssssssssssssssssB while I was still a "He. was a man but "some' politicians want office and some In a mutuality of feeling and a desire, BsssssssssssEBasssssssssssssssssssssssTJI!!'"!'-.---KfPBfvnMb4 young roan. The fault with most of us he was entirely too sensitive. It was magazines need subscribers. Business among signal- man who rarely says a word In public Is fraternally themselves, to Gardner; whose eyes twinkle as did Mark ,; rsBBssssssssssssssH that we have an exaggerated opinion impossible for him to ask McKlnley or men are not dlsnonest-- - Nor are mem ize. not to glorify, a personal epoch IsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssstsBzesssNas VsV ssssssssssssssssssssssssssB of our own capacities members McKlnley's Cabinet to If Hanna'v is a famous rhetorician among jWBjWBjWBjWBjWBjWBjWj and values. We the of bers of .Congress dishonest I was In the In the calendar. the Grangers. orphan boy of k-- fail to realize that when we pass off the rive one of his constituents. an omce or House of ReDresentatives. for fourti As;an ?-'- stage Burleigh, the newest member of the twelve; penniless and. shaking with ague, VisssssssssssssssssEBsVW t:--' '".SBSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSsB we will not be seriously rolssed do grant mm any sort or a ravor. to years and during all that time I never class. Is a gray-eye-d His he had traveled from the miasmatic even by our friends." do so would be, in his opinion, a sur- saw a member whom I considered to be back Is ac straight as.a Plank. His face, lakes of .Michigan to Maine, wherej.be sssHsssssK'isssssssssssssssssm sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssH "I have never Interfered with the n1n render- of hie ct and an anything but strictly upright In his per- is a mirror of cheer, modesty and friend-- was to live with his dead father's broth- ssssssssssssssssl''"4lassssssssssssssssssssaBb a&jssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssslAH or aspirations of any one," Senator acknowledgment of McKlnley's author sonal dealings snd relations. It Is non llness. "Remember." he said after nuneign said at another nlace.
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