Show 0 E P S COAST VISIT great repute for wit on small capital TURNED DOWN the clarkson trumbo combine ran pan out languid opening of the political compain n and probability of 0 an Dole delegation gatlon junto su sit in the democracy Dim relics of the bourbon club that linger superfluous wilson correspondence I 1 san francisco april 10 1890 chauncey chaun coy depew has gone and the ill e local atcas are arc recovering front their agitation the now new yorker has hta his reputation nob nobody dy heard hm film say aay anything witty mitty so fur far as am has been reported but ever everybody Is quite sure that mr depew pi li a wit wit that chous the value of a reputation once I 1 heard him talk for an hour to the assembled actors and actresses of 0 f new york and a more commonplace Is ce address I 1 nover listened to yet it ft evoked repeated rostra roars of laughter the 1 speaker know knew he was expected to lin tinny funny and it was as a funny man he t talked them were jokes in plenty mild jokes cheap obvious jokes of the kind by the building of which the newspaper makes maken his honeil lilic dhew thought they were good his big audience paw that and as the liked derp they brove to think y w too and were glad of overy chance to in laugh though tho the even that looked at n tin till acrond were cold coin and shrewd th ill race fife dna good humored it 1 this good humor chich w alch never falls film that accounts for delpewa popularity and aff for hill hl fame fam ni all a ake like bif wr lie ho wan never kneoll to he im atlo sit with a 0 reporter rp and hl hill reward sr ward fol f ron anti and rolls eness hn haa been grent tito tho have taken him up tip anti and tirl the fashian of ad mirina him they try to say pay good I 1 hinge for him in their interi wp v ha hen ill hi I 1 think of any anti and illien han he wants the pre drefs to in with him he h hap ha no trouble in fit getting pr tl it help lie has made friends frh edh alth tile ali and they feel a port part of proprietary interest antero t in him lt it Is a of beautiful conen concord rd still and a proof of how bow valuable manner li 14 to in one tho need the good will AH of others in order to met on in life I 1 am not paying that mr depew ln in t a vor man mail tl 11 in the clevert clever t ili th big man in the untied united atiq ill position as manager nia of lite hie Vender hilts ly fly att all the ahr to in ninke make him hated he bv thi the and the but he la Is liked ked and applauded applaud od th of the surl fi urval val of the rit test bein dupew a catlon cation that thai doctrin means that the organism beat suited to in its ha environ en cm iron Niron mont will do bettor better than any other there are wittier men than doped there are arc a abler financiers thre there are better speakers there are Ar matter politicians tic tc ticiano ians lans but there is no nr american known to current farne fame v w lio ito has ham all the th qualities and that thac make for success me so harmoniously combined ned anel lii arct I 1 as am hag aft chauncey Chaun rey depot dupew II 11 HA la is an am ad admirably td to big hi environment aa an tel el 14 1 to water take gen barnes mr air entea gov budd sir mr charles webb toward howord irvi irvani ng M scott alex badlam and fulton U G fierri combine in rine one their ahr lr effective find and you have chauncey derew depew itla its vot here shed thino on an mary many but fl in sunshine Bunsh ln posts costs shades shAd ns pomp pom havo have ticen been for cince ance col sam has boon ben eclipsed it it if sold paid that whon when the lapue Leap preferred gen burnes barnon te to himself as aa the orator who should rep poni to depew at the banquet banau et the colonel was nog ro an taken hy by sur surprise prime that tie hr did not hide hip hl anger this wag wa the lh check he had received in hla his magnificent carr as an the of the lift ila played away from the lh fait and ant hla his gifted brother mai charl charlas of tho the call staved played with him alon restored the afie colonels Co Innels equilibrium and when it A reporter accosted him the th other lenina in the rotunda of the balace the tie only place in chii lm where tho the colonel it to fet fl I 1 that his hassur sur are ar Ad adequate equale he be was waa ready say sam haran the reporter nith alth that worst want of nf rev reverence prence which marks marka his kind they tell ml mo m that when the union nelo eted om old burnes barnes in stead of yourself to do the pretty to chauncey you picked up your dollanne dolls doll annl and went home howin it the colonel smiled down on the reporter his tense sense of humor Is no great or r than Is IB becoming to one who has a a preat great and serious part to act in the larger affairs of the th earth but when be h pu pacts a joke he makes it t a point to not no BO be h paid aid not no my young friend I 1 would have born boen at thill tant banquet but for the circumstance that my brother charlos charla waa vas called from the city still and I 1 had to take charge of the call entire chars charge aou under stand I 1 was on the th desk denk us As you nebo paper gentlemen say pay ah you yes or on thi ill desk yes yc tt it I 1 bo heli llevis evo on ahe th deak journalism he added is la plona pla sally antly exciting but exacting yon exacting indeed yes exacting the colonel frequently the branch of tho the prof Bilon eslon v shirls alch has haa come to be known because or of him BA ax Del delcarte garte journ allam that in to say bay at the midnight hour the colonel colon P elegant 1 11 MaJ emILIC stalks into tile the editor editorial room throws open his hl overcoat revealing evening dress pera peers at one of the leader writers from under the th brim of hla big bilk hut but and over tho the gold om rims grimn of him classics pla anra and stanla thus for some nomo moment roo menla in impressive silence then bin arm rises describes a plow ascending halt half circle and descends the fore pointing straight at the walling waiting countenance of the hired roan man A thought explodes B the colonel rising mahln on his torm and corning down on ilia hl heig beets the thought Is dictated and the colonel pares pace the room then the arm and the th finger again and another A in thin way it la in riven given out many of those editorial paragraphs in tho the call billitch lil litch have journalists everywhere in tho the have found birth colonel principal con john D sprockets spreckels la in like himself becoming more and morr more absorbed in journalism Journ allem 11 II was the intention of the general v ahen hen he invented in the cral to uw use the paper for purposes pur pos of statesmanship chilt also was wag the motive which induced gen clarkson and col truman to put there money into tho the pot was to get himself elected united states senator from utah wah the aid of the call with the a oll td or of tile the call clarkson was to 0 o solidity t the he racille coart for allison by the t urn me the republican national convention triet met and by means of the call spreckels was waa to become the th sole aole proprietor of the republican party in san ran fram casco col tru trumbo wait pan not elected senator from m utah how however evert gen C Clai larkson liffon has ha not solidified tile hie coat coast for all DOT mild gen spreckels ix is not at present sole ole P proprietor of the republican party here indeed JW had scarcely got a firm arm meet beat on tho calls calla back before he charged violently upon tho the board of sup arvis ors orr avid lost loat that body to hta his backer though tho thi generall had regarded it im an bin ht property properly in general wio who have bave reason to believe themselves to lo be solid v vilh lah tile the spreckels interest were incensed at being taken across the iti coils calls knee e and spanked ked in public hence it a a sever vering lne ot of ties all round on the bhole the co call 11 ham ha played the deuce with till I 1 alic e poll political tica I 1 plan blann or oc its cin cinert erx but on oil the other ti hand anti it in success as an a newspaper has equally surprised and pleased them while the examiner and ana chroni chronicle c 1 r roll 0 11 abou arou around rill in a pren peren nial rough aed and t tumble light the cull call minds its 0 own wit and gathers colliers in their pub subscribers gen spreckels ela th therefore hae labin in the paper IL profound C consolation in hit big many political dis appointments and it 14 I 1 not unlikely thui that h 1 wilt I it ultimately develop into a jouin journalist alist who ho viven journalism for its own rather than its as an old id to belie pa speaking of politics no oil campaign in ell er r opened more languidly here than this thin one spreckels has haa had his hin way lovalla col purism has graved ati all the cements ls of opposition by in 1 mexico 1 and keeping his gold bricks t therewith here 1 ith him even wore were hi he and lifs its w war baia to arrive now it would he too loo Is late to accomplish ana except to ive haPPl lS to in the D democracy macravey everybody the t oil ff lit t to 0 k know e now pays an delegation will po 90 to tile I 1 national conven convention aln still and ahat will mill mi mian mean an in reality a mckenley delegation gin gen sprocket spreckels Is for all aall 1 FLO non firt but lie he has no volunteer follow igniting inic in that thai regard dope found no echo to the th words he spoke av for or morton nearly till all sun pun francisco republicans n ito ho have been hurd board train iro are tor for mckenley As for the democracy tile junta Is supreme locally and there 1 no interest inter st manifested hanif sted in the presidency tho thi rally I 1 fid fad hera horta hout hut and cares area morn more for ill calv c I 1 tv 0 elbs than national it I 1 onal affairs neither party has any to nger a kill of respectable size on oil leq hands and the outlook for continued peace Is so no good that lh ill politicians on loth both sides are yai inIng anti in fit sheer uearl nearl belig take lake to drink A member nit aber of the once forout nour mur bon club palled me on montgomery treet street it yesterday me slowly reou ly for or hla his step was feeble and his eye hall had lit a dazed look a it barely 10 hl ilk liala I 1 all li 11 1 1 while ill le and h he la ann an eld cid man lie recalled the other members callers one poes goes on crutches and Is scarcely able to coppeak speak hailing hot ing laid its numbing ingar I 1 on isla hla lie he la 14 or was waa a jour nellt an anti and the burden of his support falls rn on hla his friends friend another a lawi yer has hap grants sin no fit that thai his eyes have dl di appeared behind ta little s t mi h lines me in 16 ills his ince awl and lie takes sakes a carriage carri ace to in art X two blocks still sill another a doctor 1 in a beautiful thing in met tie and ha hag a body that weighs over 30 pounds lie ile ha hall lol loft his him diac F 1 ac fee and drinks il a fees feen for old valk aik two iwo othern were deec clerks and now no are arc lacci A dozen years ago the bourbon club which hall all iol o ft a jue anti a poll pod in st it team famed in dissipated circles as aa a band of no lent lile work crit who had demised a mv tem for standing aft john barleycorn Varley corn they roie at 4 in the morn ing met at an agreed point in the western addition cat cairned clod shot t sticks slicks it wore ore flannel shirts and stout chos khorsand anti tramped at the I 1 he speed of nf professional out to tile the cliff house and lack back then homo home a shower bath and breakfast ohp th club n nas as under oath to drink nothing before 3 in the aati rawn and to take no medicines except those prescribed by the medical mam member her il ft ho as an a matter of frion friendship attended to their liseq as well oil as is his own at 3 they met at their chosen sa KA loon drank till dinner time drank at dinner drank after dinner and tumbled into bed in the comfort comfortably ablo assurance that whatever hirm harm alcohol in ight work other men their system was wait an infallible protection the lives tf of nil all ner mere ordered ulah reference to the iho drinking past pail of nr the fifty day they ex ilca for far that and ni na n i th thy they y guzzled were firm in the th bellef belief that nowhere wa nuch assets it A company a their own to ho he found in the sordid rity no such gallant company of nf alta it incurs and brilliant bohemians bohem lans ians some arl anre dead some had bettor better be anti and the poet escaped only by getting hta bin iet IP broken and taking the keeley cure the club dl banded lone foric ago th list morning walks walka being bf laff too fatiguing but he drinking part has been kept kepi up though tile I 1 he rule 11 as to li hours urs haa ban boon suspended an and john barleycorn as he tackles I 1 hie lie new genora tinn bullion As an ever the most fatal of his weapons 1 Is 19 9 the illusion w hr he inspires that the habit of drinking li iq a sign file of till tl rn ii of nf all the talents of the th twenty oil odd members of the bourbon club there won was riot not one who did riot not suspect him sell of boang it genius anti and in all hut but one instance tile th only proof attest of it was drunkenness the exception has tho th mayer and ho be hia han nearly drowned bli ability the others especially tile the non newspaper shaper members had no r potation tation for went talent outside the club but scorned ornell oc sober and successful Journ ja allsta a pl plod lers or home base anti and crafty ty plot plotters tera 1 I know a man a clerk in a front street house who never wro a sentence for print and never uttered one worth printing who hda been fuddled cuddled evory every night of hla his life tor for ten years yearn and because of that and as with wit nr ar tants and writers of tho the sort ak P ho tolerate him because he spends his salary on an them instead of on his family la is regarded dod in mercantile circles ns as a fellow who has been spoiled for business because of hla his gensui genau for art and letters lie he Is sincerely of that opinion himself and la IS proud of it it is in an awful thought what would become of bohemia it the bottle were removed from it frank mayo hits has given to tile the stage a new arid and charming play you must ac see wilson when lio lie comes your way vay it Is more thin than a of mark twains kwains story mayo layo is IB a man of varied talents for he RR as well as aa he acts ills play which haa made everywhere th ohp success of the year Is id a quaint and idyllic id ule thing humorous tender and delicate much bluch of its merit I 1 Is duo due to mark twain of course but it owes owea tar far more to mayo maya who hen has lifted the story to a higher plane and given it an atmosphere of art an art that does not obtrude itself but informs the ft hole production pr seemingly exceedingly simple simpie it to IB very subtle there are few situations no strivings vInas after aft r the theatrical effect no startling climaxes tho the prologue puts the audience in posses bossos sion blon or 0 the plot and the play works it out by moans means of the unconscious chat ackers it la in only a bit of southern life in slavery days a picture of man around a story in the ha hands ads of most actors ac torti even rood good actors it would he bo no more than that mayo creates creata I guild udd chead wilson makes ill him rl the chief figure of a homely poem CA collm M ing an a heralded success you are con galous of surp surprise riffe and a little when you leave the theater everything la is po no unsettled when the curtain roen goes down that you are arc unsatisfied that effect no doubt has been calculated and Is in part the secret of the odd plays popularity you take home with you anti and he stays plays with you as a a simple man whom you have known find and touched laughed at and loved you 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