Show ABOUT STATESMEN I HardHoney Harter and Silver Dollar Bland i I JOHITHAY AND WHITELAW REID t Senator Jngalls and His Experiences With a CJiicaeo Reporter How a Reporter Called Him a Liar WASHINGTON March 1GfSpecial corre r jpondenco of THE SUXI > AT HERALD The silver discussion which is now coin on in Congress is largely the result of the efforts of Michael D Harter one of the new Congressmen Con-gressmen from Ohio Mr Harter has been only a few months in the House but he has ulready acquired a national reputation as a bright thinker a shrewd and able debater and as a bold and audacious leader With no practical experience whatever in politics poli-tics he has jumped like Minerva from the head of Jove fullfledged into the arena of tho House and is giving some of the older members some points in their own business busi-ness Mr Harter is business man and 1 his success here is largely due to his introducing in-troducing business methods in the carry lug out of his ideas He is ana of tho best advertisers in the country lie has for years been the president and business manager man-ager of the Aultman Taylor Threshing Machine company and has had charge of ono of the biggest businesses ol Ohio The main shops ot this company are located at Mansfield and it ships its machines by tho thousands all over the west south and north and it has a big trade in Europe Australia Mexico and South America Mr Hatter has also other large investments which have given him a good business training Ho owns in connection with others two big flour mills each of which turn out hundreds of barrels of flour everyday eveflI day alid one of which belongs to him and Secretary Foster This mill is near Fos term Ohio It is run by steam produced by natural pas and it is furnished with iil the poiish and fancy woods of a fine residence Mr Harter has had considerable con-siderable experience as a banker He was the founder of one of the leading banks of Mansfield 0 and his whole life has been spent as a manufacturer and banker Ho bas throughout his life boon a student a Swell S-well as u business man and has been known in Ohio for years as an enthusiastic tree trader and a hard money man He Is I a great admirer of President Cleveland and his work here in Congress is devoted to the opposition of fro coinage the support I sup-port of tariff reform and the endeavor to have Cleveland nominated Ho is pushing hs ideas ns no now member has ever pushed ideas before His busineSs ability has enabled him to organize schemes by which he has waked up the whole country He is a man of independent means and he is willing to spend money in carrying out his schemes He first attacked silver through the Grand Army posts and it cost him while he was doing it from 100 to 200 u week in postage and clerk hire He next sent circulars to the bankers of the country coun-try and now he has 1 understand a new circular which is to go to all tho labor or ganizatlons of the United States and which in simple language urges them to insist upon their Congressmen voting against free silver Ho will in this way probably extend his campaign to every interest in-terest In the union and if money and brains I will accomplish what he wants he will probably success HOW BARTER LOOKS Mr Harter is now just fortytwo years old He is a straight businesslike looking man with a dark rosy face a bright spark j hug eye and hair which is well sprinkled with grey He dresses in business clothes IsquicK in his movements and is packed full of nervous activity He is a veilread man a pleasant talker and a member of the most prominent Democratic clubs of the country He has for years been connected with the Cobien club of London and he is also one of the Reform club of New York Mr Ilarter has retired from business since he has taken politics Ho say he does not believe mans whole life being do voted to moneymaking and though ho I xught become a rich man if he continued to chase the dollar he prefers to have less and enjoy more Mr Barters home at Mansfield Ohio is a pretty red brick with a large lawn about it It is just opposite the mansion of Senator Sherman ana is presided over by Mrs Harter who has attracted attention here as one of the finest looking of the later arrivals in Washington society SILVER DOLLAR BLAND 1 took a good look yesterday at Silver Dollar Bland He is the reverse of Hart erin er-in every respect Ho is short fat and sallow sal-low Harters face is as fresh as that of a bauy Blands looks like tanned leather Harter looks clean Bland appears to be loug to the great unwashed He may be clean but he dont look it and his pantaloons panta-loons make mo think of those of the late benator Van Wyck which were said to have beet cut with a circular saw Bland is about ten years older than Barter It is now fourteen years since he got the silver dollar bill of which Senator Allison is said to be tbe author through the House audit aud-it was through it that he made his great reputation He has been fighting for silver sil-ver ever since Mr Bland is of medium height and he would weigh I judge abc atone at-one hundred and seventylive pounds His voice is deep hoarse and unpleasant and hs words come forth from rather a largo mouth the chin of which is ornamented with a sandy brown beard and the tipr ten lip of which has a mustache of the samo color Bland cares but little for appearances appear-ances He sits half his time on his spino and he looks as though he could bite a nail Ho talks but little to those around him and he ban none of the sociable qualities of Harter Ho is a man of fair average ability abil-ity however and his character is abc ire 1 reproach i JOHN HAT AND WHITELAW REID i Tho return of Whitolaw Reid to the I i United States and the probable appointment I appoint-ment of Colonel John Hay as his successor I recalls the Washington career of two of I I the most remarkable men in public lifo j i I Both Hay and Reid came to Washington poor and unknown and both are today rich and famous Both have made fortunes for themselves and both havo married I other fortunes in the daughters of millionaires million-aires Colonel John Hay is ono of the managers of Amasa Stones estate which I I amounts to millions and he has an income j which would enable him to make a social success of any diplomatic position to which j I he might be appointed Whitelaw Reids I wife is the daughter of tho noted millionaire million-aire D O Mills and Mr Reids country home at White Plains is said to have cost a million dollars Tho grounds upon which John Hays big Washington house stands cost about ten years ago t 6 a foot and 1 L it I is worth S15 a foot today You would I havo to carpet it Tvitho twodollar greenbacks green-backs to buy it and the mansion which I Colonel Hay has built upon it is a triumph of architecture in brick It was designed by Richardson and the brick of its walls and chimneys is so arranged that it looks I as if it might have been carved outof an immense old mountain of rod standstono and its interior is one of the most beauti ful in America The library is about twenty feet wide by forty feot long It is finished in old English oak with a wainscoting wains-coting of books Its coiling Is panelled In groat beams cross each othor at right angles an-gles and in the center of each panel is a disc of oak the grain of which shows through the gold loaf with which is is covered Thla library is hung with magnificent pictures Its wJn dows look out on Lafayette hqunro tEnd from them you can almost rooognlio tho faces of the people going in and oat of thugo White House across the way It was in the Whito House that Colonel tiny first lived in Washington and ho came hero as President Lincolns private secretary at a salary probably less than two thousand dollars a year He was u good writer however how-ever and he could have made a big Income I outside of his official career and ho made I am told something like fifty thousand 1 dollars out of the magazine publication of his history of Lincoln When Whitelaw Reid came to Washing Ii ton he was not making much more than I t Hath y He began here as correspondent of i Ha-th Cincinnati Gazette and ho helped out j his salaiy by getting an appointment as li brarian of the House of Representatives i Ho had been engaged in newspaper work I I in Ohio and I heard him once say his first I work HS a correspondent was on the Gin cinnali Times and that his wages were 5 a I week He soon made a reputation here at Washington and ho added to the fame he bad gotten as war correspondent He was II given an interest in the Cincinnati Gazette and then went to the New York TJ tbune and made a lortumx Both Hay and Reid f I have been good friends for years and dur I ing Mr Reids shorterabsonces in Europe I Colonel Hay has sometimes taken his place j as the editor of the New York Tribune j i LITER UtT DIPLOMATS j Colonel Hay would be a credit to the I i United States in any diplomatic position I He has been connected more or less with L the state department years and ho was i secretary of legation at Paris a number of f years ago and was afterwards transferred 11 I to Madrid He was assistant secretary of r i stale under Mr Evarts and It is said anal I I had Blame been elected he might have II been secretary of state He isa charming writer and he has true poetic genius Years ago he wrote The Pike County Ballads in order to ridicule the dialect poems of Bret Herb and Joaquin Miller ana he was rather surprised when he found his poetry taken in sober earnest 1 and himself famous through it He is I am I told rather ashamed of these poems now and his work in poetry which has lately appeared in the Century has been on a j higher plane During his stay in Spain he wrote Castillian Days and if bo remains in Paris wo may get some of his pretty pictures of French lifo He will be an other addition to the literary diplomats anf the United States Our most popular foreign ministers have been literary men Washington Irving did famous work in Spain and Bayard Taylor I was the most popular American minister Germany has ever had W IJ How ells got his literary start while he was consul at Venice and Julian Haw IV i thorne wrote some of his best works when j I JJ o had a soft consular position in England I L i Elihu Wasbburne kept a diary while ho was minister to Paris and his story of the siega of that city during the FrancoPrus ian war Is the most interesting book which I has been published on the subject Joel i Barlow the author of the Columbiad was minister to Russia and Sam Coxs Diversions of a Diplomat is one of theo the-o est books published on Turkey I know of several of our foreign ministers who are now engaged in the preparation of boon about the countries with which they bar been connected Andrew Curtin who was i minister tj to Russia will have an interesting I chapter or two concerning his experiences thero in his memoirs which he is writing I II a Bellefonte Pennsylvania and General Den by who for tha last eight years has i been minister to Pekin has the meterial I for an excellent book on China and the J 1 Chinese The Hon Jacob Childs of Missouri j Mis-souri who was minister to Siam under 1 Clevelana has a book on that country in i j the course of preparation and by all odds the best book ever published on China was I that of Wells Williams who Vent to the i i country as a missionary but who was con nected with our diplomatic service for years SENATOR IXGALLS AND THE REPORTERS I I Speaking about public men as writers I I I I understand that Senator Ingalls is again j j working on the Washington novel which i he had about ready for the press when the I fire occurred at his house In Atcheson and burned his valuable library This lire destroyed de-stroyed a large amount of manuscript and j important letters aud it wipea out in one I night the bottledup results of Senator Inpalls intellectual life Ingalls had a way I of keeping his notes upon the subjects he was studying in the shape of marginal rof j erences on the pages of the books connected j con-nected with them If a bright sentence or a bright idea struck him while he was reading I i read-ing i he Jotted it down on the side of the i pace and his memory was such that he could tell just where such a note could DQ found ana his library was in this way the half of his soul He is a very rapid writer and he writes if anything better than he talks He has not been doing much writing since he left the Senate but he has been put in a bad light right along by the reporters re-porters and by his enemies in Kansas He nas metaphorically speaking been kicked aud cuffed in every direction and by i everybody and his recent state 1 ment 3 as to how his own party treated him during the last campaign is i a fair example of the actions of some of i his other socalled friends Not long ago I bo camo to Chicago He arrived at tho hotel I ho-tel with a blinding headache and a bad cold I and went to his room giving directions i that he would see no one The reporters I of the various papers called and sent up their cards and tho word was sont back that Mr Ingalls was not in This was the case from time to time during the whole afternoon and evening and the next day j there appeared in one of the papers what i purported to be an interview with Ingalls It stated that he could make big money out j of all the information he gave to the newspapers I i news-papers and ho had no ideas to furnish gratis in the shape of interviews This i talk was copied far and wide and the other newspaper men of the country who did not I know Ingalls put him don as a snob and a fool The truth of the matter was that Ingalls had no talk whatever with this con I respondent but the man had some spite against him and made up the interview out I of whole cloth The day it appeared Senator Sena-tor Ingalls denied it and the man was at I once discharged from the newspaper CALLED ISGALLS A LIAR I An interview like the above was a great I injustice to Ingalls Ho Is a very proud i man but he is a thoroughly Democratic one He sees everyone who calls upon him and though he will not always talk for pub heathen ho is full of bright sayings and the newspaper man who calls is always ro celved and rarely goes away without a paragraph par-agraph Had ho sate lie was sick instead of saying he was not in to the reporters it Chicago ho might have had no trouble It was this apparent falsehood which mad some of theio angry and one of them told mo last night his experiences with the Senator Sen-ator at this time Said he Wo hung around that hotel all afternoon after-noon and we could not get at Ingalls I sent up my card as reporter of the Chicago Pos three times and it came back every time with the reply that the Senator was tint in At last I saw a telegraph messenger come in with a telegram for Ingalls and 1 thought to myself I would make surety sure by giving my card to him If the message I mes-sage stayed the Senator wa in and I would Know that he was playing me false if my card came back I sent it up and I down camo my card with the same old story I was rather angry and I took my card and wrote on the head of it Senator John J Inpalls what a dd liar you arc I and signed I my name to it I put the card in an envelope and left it in the Senators box The next day I again sent up my card and was told to come right up Senator Ingalls first asked me what I meant by the card I had sent him I told him my experience expe-rience in trying to get at him and said I was mad at the way he had answered me He explained that he had refused to see anyone because he was sick and ho then began to chat with me and gave me a very good interview Ho did not seem very angry at my action in writing tho note and passed the whole thing off with a laugh THE PKESJDENTS ClIlEF CLERKS The cabinet ministers the Presidents chief clerks and I have been watching them for the past wonk or so to see hOw they earn their wages Nearly every ono of them guts to his department on time und I find the most of them working fur hours after the rest of the clorks have gone I away Secretary Elkms is always in tho war departuifnt till 0 oclock He does 1 business rapidly and ho cun get rid of twenty callers in twenty minutes and send I every man away happy A great deal of his work ho does in the morning at his i ho use and he usually comes to his office at 111 He says he works best in the morning i and that an hour before breakfast is worth I two afterwards Secretary Noble spends a full day at the interior department He I is particular 1 to do everything himself and r he doesnt like to trust matters to others He has no contidpnM i tia manager or guard like Wanamakor and Foster and tho result is he does not turn out matters so fast as the heads of the postoffice and tho treasury Postmaster General Wanamaker comes to the department depart-ment early and you seldom find him at leisure until after 4 oclock He has had a big glass plate made for tne top of his desk and a map of the United States fits under tnis so that tbe country and its postoftiecs I I are always refore him He does his business I busi-ness very quickly decides matters at a I I glance and manages his department on I ousiness > principles He has a number of j private secretaries and he dictates all of I I bis correspondence All matters that can L jjbe I attended to by others are given over I to them and the result is that the postoffice department is in better condition than it has ever been Secretary Foster is another hard worker and it Is his hard I work in tho treasury that has ruined his health When he first came in ho said to his friends This treasury they say killed Manning and Folger but I can tell you Im notgoinc to let it kill me As he said this his eyes were bright his dark face was full of iron and the rosy molecules mole-cules of pure blood shone through his suin His step was firm and his highboned broadshouldered frame was the personification personi-fication i of western strength and energy He tackled the work and after a few months ho broke down and since then ho has been under the care of a doctor Ho is i a good worker too and ho has as much commonsense as any may in public life HOW RICK MEN WORK FOR TAJIK It Is funny to see how these rich men I work for fame Foster must have an income in-come of from fifty to one hundred thousand I dollars a year and he pegs away hero like a slavo for less than one hundred and sixty I dollars a week His entertaining is cost ing him more than he makes and his doers to doe-rs bills will eat up the balance Postmaster I Post-master General Wanamakor must spend three or tour times his salary to keep up his Washington establishment and the I profit of his big store in Philadelphia i Said said to be 1000000 a year He does a business 1 busi-ness something 50000000 a year and the cash taken in over the counters every day ranges in amount between 30000 and 5100000 He has big investments outside of the store and you would think he had enough to amuse him without taking charg e of the big postoflico mill Still he works harder than a government clerk and has I his soul rasped and worried every day I b > y a lot of Congressmen some of i vhom are not fit to run a peanut I pea-nut stand Stephen B Elkins is many times a millionaire He has a nice family a big income and a big business but he is i devoting himself to thankyou business and is getting little ole for his pains Leland Stanford with his 73000000 pends hours and hours every nay answer i ng his mail and ho has men trotting about all over the capital getting information anther other things for his constituents His income in-come must be 10000 a day but ho works like a coalheaver for nothing It is the ame with a dozen other men I might men ion There is nothing in public life for a rich man except trouble and the higher up the millionaire gets on the political ladder ho more little fellows there are who like t o spit at him hick at him and work him for all ho is worth FRANK G CAKPEXTEK |