| Show SW EW NEW EW OF YE TF DAY AIL 71 a 11 1 1 light on a famous forgery I 1 story show shows stephen french wa was innocent in bogus a proxy incident which had much to do with cleveland a llevat on it was in to 1882 that tho name of graver grolier cleveland first became a household one throughout the country in that year he lie waa was elected governor of sew new lork ork over charle charles J folger by a plurality of nearly two hundred thousand iwo yearn years later he waa wail pre ellent elect tile lite edon seton nal elective victory resulting directly dire itly from hie his first which will wits due in DO no arged email small measure to tha tile fi tinous urged 1 telegram elf gram of 1882 that telegram cropped up when the republican state convention conven con yen tinn tin n wae was gathering to elect select if its gubern candidate A dee de iterate lerate WM was under way to emre control of the convention through iti its organization by the state committee the friends of president arthur were inciting backing hie his secretary ecret ary of at the he treasury trea iury mr air MI ger for the nomination at the height of thu the battle stephen V bronch a personal pe rennal friend of tim tile president tip berred before the state committee holding 0 t chic I 1 roxy which rn on titled litin him to serve lo 10 place of 1 11 alani it collector coller tor of the port of new york 1 I 1 hie his proxy ile to erml ned the control of the chavon ion tion and assured the of folger bilut l olger hat ha 1 not been mony lour hours before collector robert son on wae wait out with a staten atA tant ilen don iley doy n ing as it 11 forr y the proxy pre pro tented by mr lir french instantly lirt antly the tb tel urain grain became a A powerful low erful issue in the tho 1101 ping materially mater llly to defeat ioler 1 mil ti I 1 ni as for I 1 ranch rench tho kh gh he denied forging it he ile be crime aine known far and nido mide derisively as proxy french lie became an all out ca ciba s t a al noet mud ut at last died practical ly unknown NO N nearly olgat years att or ahr forged telegram which heind to chake broat reat events wae was sprung I 1 am able to offer some hitherto un avi evidence vide dence in support oa 01 of mr reni h hs a ecla declaration ration that he did not tho the telegram 11 that lie aia ks made to biffer annot innot my authority in oen howard 8 9 carroll ho be mas re nn rand candidate lIate for congressmen at larg in irso and ie Is aday tile head of one of tho the bis big shi pling interests of new now I 1 ort ork harbor mr 1 rench trench and I 1 had connecting rooms in the boto I at which wo wore nore topi ing fur for the convention said gon con corroll carroll vo were warm je lera rounal unal greeted with and curl dosity they were finally ordered dek D ek to their ship aa as most IJ I 1 foreign devil devils 13 eta low who la Is known in na flowal education circles na as a former president preel dent of columbia university in DAt philanthropic circles circle As 4 maker of 0 numerous nume rou munificent gifts and in ia poll tUi ae as a former fortner mayor of new now york city and alo also of brooklyn rooklyn Il when thi ihl latter wae was an tin independent city wae was ono one of a coal o 0 any of gentle mf n who had mot met to discuss the tien bieth century and commer caal awakening of china mr dir low I ow a tather tho the lato late k A low l ow gained his ills great fort cortum fortum tino ADO and established a corll wide reputation ai a marchant mtr mir chant through the great commerce climbed by his house edth ft ath china lie was ower of some of the clipper ships which made america famous ahoua on the he seas sixty odd yeara years ago go of the men who with mill mr io I ow thero there wern fedei d vahn hin had recently been in china mil ind thye told from per ronal of or the great changes taking place in the empire and rind par ticul arly of tha tho new now and friendly atti attl tude toward towards foreigners on the part oat ih classes ThA hango towards to foreigner foreigners ims hi In indeed docil 1 en most marked said mr low anecdote ot of the trot om ell of an birth and training anil and also I 1 ti ink the first bite hite om e i A of ar nation to put foot upon oil hat that one of thee these ladies as an aun run of mine a eliter sister of MY ather anti tho the other efte tie A near witlie 0 itlie of her hers and younger thel Their adventure tit china I 1 believe Is not en orally known these I idlof took passage for cht chi na upon one of my fathers fal here clippers on rt jort they aut vent inhere ashore and were ere at once the objects of the utmost rind curiosity almost ne an pee dlly tw too here there caroe come agalise tho the two to women not so much from the nier chanta ai as from the ruling clam classes Ab InsIsted to the ships officers that the th foreign avils ae as the author itle ulu lable ladles ifould bo be instant ly deported tt t once acce nere ere given the authorities that the awu ladies bad had no intention of interfering in any way ay clitso cus custom that they had t niely coine come to china on oil a ship of h ir as travelers tru veler anxious to faco to lt ifante ango land lands friends nn ani 1 we ne list at lp u quite late abc evening the convention met chatting chatt luK with politicians and I 1 think it WM as about 0 2 in the morning when ft hen w e went ent to bed the situation an t then hen all in the air nobody could tell how the convention would be ar at ten clock the next morning then there came a cerlee of very loud knock knocks upon mr air french a door ahey abe me for the door beewen nui ou room rooms vas wide A lite open and as I 1 looked at n y A aali to find out the time I 1 mr I 1 rench gro Illig 0 because he hi had been ells curbed hut the ball lint bo buy y shouted huit cd j over mhd th transom its i rt loi tot you mr so lie acome arou olen ell the ho door and took the tele tole gram I 1 heard him hekr open the paol 0 and aad an oil instant later heard hit him utter a very excited exclamation of 0 sur ur prise which berh bounded sounded suspiciously like I 1 ell I 1 II 11 bo damned then he came hurrying into roy my room toom here how ard he bald said ex x it illy idly I 1 wish w would look took at this he lie handed me he the tel Krim and I 1 rend read that he tie had authorized by collm tor robertson tu to act aa ats lid ills proxy in the etain committee meeting the telegram was signed II 11 robertson a we stood there discussing the tile ti legraw the only thing that 0 oc C burred to us was that alde robert n 60 v wae ni retting getting ready to resume friendly rt lations lons with ith the arthur adminta tra tion anc that thie this was ill hia way ot of allowing it ve ne nevar doubted the go d faith of th which I 1 after r breakfast to varl oua ous lenders and after warde wards presenta to the state commit att ua as his authority to act for mr mir Ku Itu bertson there aalt a lerson bo ho saw tt it who ho doubted ita its auth acthen en kiclty han hen ibe tile word did come that the telegram and h ad nen forged poor french as thunderstruck it will ruin rne me politically no one will aill believe 11 hat at I 1 dl all I 1 not put up tip the job m dinst allf lf he to me addina it will make a martar of ino me it did poor I 1 rench with Is broken heart dying i few years later and unsung personally ierson ally I 1 consider con lder thit that my proof of hie his innocence of tho the furr forg ry IB Is comp completo letu I 1 know that stephen V I 1 rench french never bent tent himself that forged ilu flu who did send it hlll ill probably pru bably remain fore fare er an all un solved nis aitery ni tery of american amerlean politics 1 I 1 copyright opy right 1910 1 by 1 J V titter ienir 1 saved ma mark rh twain s life lite famous humorist Hu moritt having lct lost his HI taste for good tobacco sought and found the wont worst cigars in all his HI life in new york one morning in tho the lato late eighties I 1 met mark twain in the office of a rail friend I 1 ain am come to see you on an erran I 1 of n mercy ho he it tid an ho he shook shoot lunda hinds you lou cin save iny my life lite you lou roust must have ob sered my distraction I 1 hae lime appeared upon the baret te these Mor mornings ninas wearing city somewhat tome ronie what niety rusty silk lint and i t eack sack coit co it I 1 have I 1 leen ten told that thia this la is a thing to do in fit new york lork and icile I 1 am a tomp temporary here I 1 am anxious to observe the I 1 saw that behind this jetting jesting mark twain hat ho I 1 a real purpose in mind and nd in a moment or two tio be he berold re rold it my nty for some years now have remarked hit that I 1 am an ot tobacco herald be that in III true but my habits with regard to tobacco have changed I 1 have haie no doubt that you will apay u when I 1 have first white women in C china h i n a the explanation did not make the ll phleet difference differ iri tit fact the classes insisted more y thap that lefore that the ladles ladies should be de portet at last tho the authorities pro bounced sentence so to speak they ther ent sent rd to all the native iner merchant chanti that aboss the to two Ame american Amerl cin women A erko at once on bofird thip ant kept there and from oft ort chinesa soli soil until the vessel exiled an edict oula bo be issued auld would prohibit any further commercial rela lions of any rt alith the finn firm ot of A A iw co the merchants Mor chanta knew that tho the nil rut ing 1 classes boint mc int what ant they acy said tho the officers of the bessol liken tu e knew hit that the authorities ft ere in dead earnest and with neither officer nor merchant merchants anxious to haic ac the threatened edict issued tho the ladles ladies I 1 were at once escorted ted back to their thir quarters qu artora aboard ship ant an I 1 kept here there until after lie the esl ell had cload the harbor and all danger ai as pact past of disturbing large commercial relations that mere profitable aliko alike to bann thina and ki america tint thit gentlemen was wn the china of 1810 and ibcal outs copyright by I 1 J to you va what hat my prest at pur twee pose Is 18 tint thit my taste haa has deteriorated but I 1 do to not iio regard it let me tell ou oil briefly the history nt of my personal relation to tobacco it began I 1 think when I 1 was a ind and took tho the form forin of 0 a quid which I 1 be came an in tucking under my tongue afterwards I 1 learned the de lights of tho tile pipe and I 1 thero there was nina no other of my age who ho could rould more daftly cut plus plug tobacco so os as to make it a available tor for pip earno king k vell ell time runs on an ani I 1 there camo came a time when I 1 ans able to gr itaf one of in ifill ambitions I 1 could I 1 luy uy the choicest havana hanana eig cirius tra jIt without hout seriously interfering ith my iny income I 1 smoked a good many changing chan RinK off from tho tile finian tinian Ti nian cigars to the pipe in tho the course of a da dat a smoking tt U last abt it occurred to me hat that some th thier ng woe was lacking in tho the havana cleir cigar it did not quite my youthful an i I 1 tod I 1 bought natt ht was as called a acel 1 lef leaf cigar with a connecticut w m m ripper after nv am hile I 1 became satiated of these and I 1 sol searched arched for something elso else the pittsburg PItts burK etolo stople waa as to me it certainly had tho the merit of cheapness if that be a merit tn in toba I 1 co to and I 1 experimented with the tile then once more I 1 changed off so fo that I 1 I 1 might acquire the subtler flavor of the ho toby now that has pilled ind I 1 have been looking around now new york in tit the hope of finding cigers which would seem to most people vile but which I 1 am ant sure would be nin to me I 1 can t find an on they have put into my hands bands some of those little things that cost ten cents a box but they are a delusion I 1 would soon er smoke sweet fern cigarette so I 1 wint mint to know it you cin can direct nio me to an honest tobacco merchant who mho will tell me what ie to the arst worst cigar in the new nev nork ork market ex hepting those mailo made for chinese con slimP gumption tion I 1 want nant real tobacco and it you will i ill do ahn and I 1 find the map la is ne as rood good na ns hie his word I 1 v ft ill guaran tee him R regul ir market t for a fair amount of bin his elgers I 1 saw faa mark twain was really in earnest and after making some in took him to a tobacco dealer dalor ho I 1 knew would tell the truth who t f a cigar wai bad bail boull oil boldly eay bay so 0 o I 1 introduced the humorist to this man explaining our errand and he whit hat ho he railed called the very worst cigars ho he bad had ever hid in hie his hop he lie let mark twain experiment with one then thet and hire th the test wan ait satisfactory ihl ibis Is after all tho the reil thing thin mark bilth ith delight I 1 will MIN now negotiate for a box of them so that I 1 may ho be sure of having them handy when ahen I 1 want them I 1 A few ten minutes later with A ith a hundred of thoo neul affairs tucked fondly under hill hi arm arrin w v ith one of them scent ins ing up the whole hole neighborhood from lie its position between bet een his ills lips and with mith the parting aso asberth ertl n tint that he had die dis covered thit that the coret cifare cig e to railed called are the beet best for me nie after all it mirk ark twain went happily to hie his home kni nl 1 afterward learned that for ionic months lip h was vas a steady pur chas char of those tho cigar cigars copyright 1910 hy by H W J |
