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Show KJBV-flNk- REPOr.TCR. ATCtBl!yBTR'lti, Edward Douglass White Is t,'e new" chief Justice of tho Unltod' Statos supremo su-premo court, and the story I'am to tell In this connoctlon, while nt one of the "Fifty Famous Ifs In History," ought to possess Interest for ray aeL The facts, a3 I relate them, aro'n all probability not known to another Person Per-son In Now York, though some if my old Now Orleans friends will . recall them with glee. My friend, Harry M. Wllllamf. came pretty closo to being elected United States sonator from Louisiana, and the other candidates In the ra-o wefe Edward Douglass White, Don Paflery and Nowton C. Blanchord. This Is the way It happened Tho Louisiana legislature was In jKcsalon In July, 1S92. Murphy J. Foster, the present United States scnatPr. 'was then governor, and a bitter fljCbt was being made on the Ixniislanp state lottery and Samuel D. McEneiy,- Harry Har-ry Williams was covering th,t legis laturc for the New Orleans N.evr Pel-ta, Pel-ta, a newspaper that passed; out of existence many years ago. In the course of his labors, WllljOmR had written an extended marriage notice about a legislator named Boggs.. It was Boggs' fourUi mnrrtagef and William had handled It in a way that pleased the victim. , Tho day came when complimentary votes were being cost for favorite eons who wanted to go tc tho senato and had no show of winding. ' - Roll-call started. Boges' name was reached. "Here is where l enn "o iac right thing," Boggs reasoned and ho shout- "I vote for HarO' M. "Williams." . In addition, he got busy with his fellow-mmbers jmd buttonholed thorn riclit "d left- 5 Srr0tc (or llllamn," ho pleaded, i ; rushing 'n every C9rner of the ns- scmbly room. And Jiearly everybody dW. . Tiie roll clerk had reached the let-tor let-tor R. or maybe It, was S. Then the leaders were thrown into a panic, "Good Lord," the,v said. "Here they are electing a senfttor that wo never dreamed of." Sothey rushed to everybody ev-erybody whose names began with. Tt, S, T. U. V, Wi' and so forth, and" spiked AVIIllams' .chances. He missed beuig elected by seven voles. ; M.8slng election to this high office, Williams went Chasing off In one of the parishes wyiero a mob was bent on lynching a prisoner, and he came near enjoyingthe distinction of being be-ing lynched fPr 6avlng the prisoner from the mot W. E. Lewis, in Now York Telegraph- |