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Show Tiin CRi.iT ni.s,r. Assltlnnt rftslui.islrr lirnrral lltrksou In ICnplurrs titer II. Chicago, July- 27. AwWant Pustma'tef-Grntral Clarkxin is enthusiastic over the great Wtt, w litre hu lias liet 11 traveling three months. In nu interview today ho said: "Whit this country needs i Iu.ore light on the great West. Thu Hist doesn't half npprerlatt 1L It di.es not understand it and the government gov-ernment at Washington ho trotted it according to the methods by w hich It has foryearsdealt w ith tho East. Wtt of the Missouri ate two-fifths of Uie railroad s-rrirr) the country. In that vast country-Is country-Is now slumbering the vote which. In 1692. w ill elect Uio next President of the Unites! State." "And will he l a Western man?" "If not he will l-e a man In sympathy sym-pathy with the dt mauds of "the Wes-t. The ignorance of tho government gov-ernment concerning the West is astounding, and yet If any rf the government, elected oranpolnted, goes West the cry of 'Juukrl'gots up. My trip was laldforout of my own pocVet, but I believe one of thi-most profitable Invt-stnicrta tbe government govern-ment caul 1 make would Is; to compel com-pel the heads of departments aud the members cf Cbncre-is to TRAVEL THROUGH THE WIST, to learn from isrsonal contact and observation the needs of that part of tho Union; In short, to iit them in bTi,i,...ttlt.,,,.l,cl-0l',e- A " ' but little la Jtuown, and eo little Is thought of It that, despite iu size and its rapid growth, not a cabinet position is given to It. Over the west Uie Interior JJepartment lies like an Iron jacket. Speatlngof politics, Mr. Clarkson said that he had no doubt that Congress, Con-gress, during its present si,,,, would joss the Tariff and Election bills. "As for the threatened boycott boy-cott of the south, I think that the tbft Itseif is proof thatan Llectlon bill Is needed, so that every body can have a vote, and whin tint Is done the whites there will be perfectly Uatiifled. They don't thlckso now, I but they didn't think they would be fatlsfietl with abolition." |