| Show 1EVELAN1YSMESSAGE1 = = = How rite President Is Writing It and Somo Stories of Famous Moasngos of Tho Past nt JVtntf faint of Hit JIFttiaft faai a Hall Slrtet Jlroktr Offered fijfoo jar Oat tfjotnion lYtcltmilhii and Out of Ittytf Wilt Jjftn told for tteoo lla Cttvihil It riles The Cat of ln ItJ and lie Clam LHt Chirntltr of Iht I Mt tIIIJ1l Messages of Grant and iteMs lltri San and SouuHhif asia an Aihaxit Message of ytltJtnt Hneoln llo > Ihntun iIW I IIi MtlMgnlrtMinll Ills I llntiatlitd and SomtlMnt at to tin Stilt ltfitn of aeorge llaiMngton Atiditto Jitkun and II II hoed ton Hoot MtHact Hal Ivrgtd to stetl Wall Mrttt and lie tilt of He forger Tht Dtlivirt of He Message ansi How It Con Out to He Con nlrj OpsOt cWpeqesaraee fit IA tiuw XVAtHMOTot November 19 tlM The Presidents nwsswge It J ready lor f Congies II will be submitted next week anti could an advance copy be secured l11 would bring a hundred doll art fur evry crabbed ttioke In the nil nature at lit close Presidents meMafes I rdways affect Ihe stock marL and once every lear the rnldent I puts forth a paper I hlch makes and l unmake fortunes for-tunes Tub lOll rater more no than it It today and there are numbers of New York brokers who are ready to pay well for adtance Inclination A Wall street man Is I said lit have offered l 15000 to one of Ihe White House einplo > es oran or-an advance copy of one of Andrew Johnsons mewic1 nnd one 01 lirjl dent hayes I messages woe told to Ihe newspapers by the printer who Ml It up forfIooo The agreement use tist he was to tote 11 11000 unit I the combination which bought Here correspondent nf I Ihe Chicago limes of IhCincinnati tneuirer and the New ork Imn Iach one of these papers wo to wy I Jjoo fur the cueluiUe ute of the mess age but the limn vent back on hi bargain through the difference In lime between New York and Chicago The Chicago Trusts correspondent New i ork had heard that the message was to be primed lie remained up nil nlgt I and bought the Tint New ork hatters I that came from the press lie fuund Ihe message In the New York lni and at once telegraphed It In hu Chicago paper blorey wa then rd 1llIr ol the Chicago Tuntl and he refuted lo pay his share of the fl 5 < x > and to Ihe nt r n onh got f 1000 for hit perhdy 3 r CINefands message ion been very ifully guarded lie line Hrilttn the loft with I Ida own pen and he done re nod more of tile own writing etcry The White Home hat never been r IIJ 31 He and exclusive I as It Uno 1 unit hiss never beets more carefully lied Iretldent Cleveland telduni I s ttenographer though there Are eral good thorthand rlterl At Ihe I While llouie and there It I one who drawl salary on Ihe executive pay roll as such Ihe retldent I preferi lo write hit own letters and his mntage lion been written almost entirely wills lilt I I own hand lie sites a pad suit a pen And he lots r written the mesMia In piece Intnl takIng ip 1 Ihe different subjects one by one und filling Ihe pieces Into the mosaic which It now In Ihe hands it the oveiiimcnl printer l He la a remarkable ready wilier His hand Is I small and cramped but he willea rapidly anti he revises little lie hAt a good I command of language and he tikes out ol the way expressions During his lost administration ho penned the nl longest Ib iiieaige whlcli I was ever submitted lo Congress nud the probability l ll I that the pietent message will equal this In length So Ir none of resident I Cleveland messages have been publiilul 1 In ad nicer of m their I tubmiiiion Ic Con tens t lie I bat liens exceedingly careful luktrii hunt from the riewsMxrl and It tnt in leresllijt lo know how tint It done The mailer it I given out only to Ihe most lriut romp ultorii t and site proofs and r ii III lha italic t are Imicked l up wits n not j In toe i In A bur r proof sole This wan site intlhod which wan lupleil whn I le < laml HI In the Uhile Hume I be I fort and at this time the gutesstttsemt primer read Ihe prooft himtelf and made the corrections Ho I o > Jit thin copy lolhe White Home and carried Ihe proolt 1 to Cinldenl ltvlanll In hh ow hand Then Ihe new toes not half no valuable ni IIi it now Adavnc Infor nitlon onto Ihe financial turctlort la now liclng gievd liIy aiktd for Die whole rounlrv wanlttoknow what Cleveland It going lo say on the 5isIl l nnd lilt n > acl tlllcrn nt at to situ Huwailaii I lIIaller would IIP woilh f > a line If I it jMlirpn Inhrdnow llecmploye loul l the necutlve I Mannon apprei isle huts suit tiny areas iilent an the phinx Sccr lary riiurbrr look alec nnd II says nothing Liecullve Clerk Irudrn Is I rIIII niore dimili and owl like than ever anil the whittle While haute leenit to have Middenly b come tongue tied One I of retldent I I Arthur metuagei was chutes and pubhtlied a day or to Iwfure it was delivered In the halite I of Kepreitnt itives an I Grant firttme > agewa < reid by the hoe county is day Iw ore Congress had H One of the moil sinking Ihcflt of Iretldentt meuaget was one of Incohit I which was gotten by hevjller Uykolf for the New Vusk IhralJ and 1 isis bthcved Dial this man obtained t i tight of time nietta e through M t lucoli I Hewn 1 i gl living here at Wathinglon I at a gentie I man oltoclely rather than a nrwipaper man and when liU dIspatch was pub lithcd be was called I before a c mmllUc I of the House I of Kepretenlttlveii and I commanded to stain where ho had gott the me age lie replied that he teas bound under a pr imie of teire y not lo reveal I tint mailer and it won currently reported that Mn I Lincoln had shown him the mettace while j he was out tiding with her in her carriage retldent I Incoln was greatly annoyed over Hie matter and WvkotT finally said 1 1 that the gardner at the White louse had gotten Ihr manUKilpt and thown Io nII ItloTilm Ills statement wan evidently disbelIeved for Connrrtt did nothing with Ihe gardner and he nlttrwurcli received an oppolntmcnt second lieutenant the iirmy Irnldcnt Harrlion spent fully at much time U > on liU rneai > acet at does Iretldent Cleveland He wrote them Intectlont and handed the first draft over to Mitt Sanger who transcrIbed l them with the typewriter and handed the copy back to the Iretldent for revltlon Iretidtnt Harrlton then went over thlt copy changing II heie and there antI tometimet rewriting an en lire paragraph After U WAS finished it was given to Mitt banger to be again copied and 1 again revltcd until II ex ict ly lulled Iretldent llarrlwiu Ideal lie wan very particular I nt to hit me Mies Ajrrlf stale piieri will I rink high for Ihelr diction nnd thought None of r lilt mewagct were ever huh lIhed In advarce though they were letup let-up at the government printing olliie r t J J ftlvfIi Irealdcnt harrison I gave Mnitive n iiruciloiit asia the care lo be taken m regard to them and at one time he I thought I of r having I Ihe I prmleri come to I time hbuito llouie to set them up at leMl hit report was publlihed at the I The menage doe not go lo Con rrttintpewritlen form It It usually I tent in manutcrlpt I oil long thect of gray blue piper and 1 i It teldom reache ton runs Ino the handwriting ol the resident 1 One of site but penmen In In Ihe United Mate It I the executive clerk Mr rudtn I and l ll Is he who copies Ihe mwuuge for Congress Two I copIes lire iliad one for Ihe Senile and Ihe other lor Ihe Houte and at site tame time tint thete are rend printed cuplu are laid on Ihe desks oF the Senator and entalivet tome of whom illow f the rending of the clerk with the hookt and othert who take lie punted mcMagea home lo read at Ihelr leitura It U I tald that Iretident Cleveland writes lilt own ineiMget lie lake Irnly I udvlcc frail hit cabinet and gets all the iiigLotloiu I he can but he hat I f j leh J hit own oplnlont ami he write hit own Idem nl the end file pretenl me tiga hit been looked over by lute cabinet and a few outiiilc paitKi Cleveland lAnd l-and dretham Umont and IlUiell have had tin toast to do In coiuulutlon but hun finlthtd l ilocument it I I am told the work ol the retldeiit I U hy ihouldn It tier tots atk The repl sn thai It oucht lo be but at the saute lime It o Ire I nothing strange If i it is nte not Many of the executive niMMget of r the Iai for uhkh lieu dentt get ciedlt were written by other than Ihcmtclvct Wah lon gave the I1 < n < for hit farewell Idrett but It was Alexander IImillion I mid Jamet Madl ton who put Hie Iliouxhti Into thape fur him Amot Kendall wrote mott ol Andrew JmLton tne > age and his fleas Iniucural sthrnss I wit written fur him by Malor Uwii and lleniy nl lee I leremtali Illack wrote a nunilwr ol Ihe tiieMnini sml tr f Andrew Johnion and Dmltl Weber rexlied the Innuguril address ol Will am Hciry I Harrison It was full of cisusical eipretilont and had nnny alluvion lo 5 Greece and Roe Web I ter cut tlieje out and In peal log of hit work at n patSy tIe night after he had revised the Wtfit he h eicuted him self for being tired became of the number ol Roman priicontuls he had killed that day too remember Jack sons famous nullification proclamation II It laid that Edward Livingnlon wrot It for him and It it to with other famous menaces The firit mettaget to Congress were read by the IresldenU In I potion t and She Iretldenti would probably be readIng read-Ing them today in thit way had II not been for Thom Jefferson Jeflerton It Is said could not speak He wat a poor reader and he dldnl I want to appear ap-pear ridiculous I I hy Irvine lo read hit message to the Houte Tho result I was that he tent It up by hit private tecre lacy Washington gave hit first message mes-sage hit Inaugural to Congren In New York lie look the Vcerreoldenl chair In delivering It and a few day alter this Ihe Houv and Senate prepared pre-pared a reply to In mctiage and went to Washington hu I < ant I one of their members delivered the reply to him This I procedure was gone through with for several yean and President Wash ington wan looked mittS at hiving Ihe right lo direct CunKriM lIe delivered thirteen intsuges 11 Congress during hits eight earlln olh e and III addition I 10 these gave hit farewell address John Adinn won one of Ihe mOil wordy of our IiMldenti lIe deliter1 l ten met sages In four yearn and you find the pronoun 1lhlrln 1 lime In hit Inaugural I In-augural nddrean Vas lIuren unit liar rlton eucliutrd thitpr inoun thirty eight time In their retpe live addrestes and ITromst Jtflgrson i d I the wont I nlnete n times in hIS lint message lo Congress Jefferson gw twenty three = J rr inestag during hit presidential term MadiMHi IwentyfiNr Andrew nekton seventeen and James Monroe thirteen I The outlook It that Irnidrat Cleve hnd will bo decidedly unpopular with I apart lr W rll part of hit putty during I the coming ses lion and I hit menage will he l > severity cilticited whitcver It may Iw Con teas will however have no chance lo smelt him at It duh I in the CAM of Unh In tots They refu ed 1 lo call upon Washington and would not adjourn for thirty minutes on SIte ml ol one of the 1 ebruarlet I of hit term lo congratulate t him upon hit birthday 1 at they had been In the habit of doing they refuted alto to receive John Adamt nnd the papers of that llmi criticised Wash Ington ami Manes < unIte at severely at Clov eland It being criudtcd now Wash inglon once said that he had been nbuted worse than A common pickpocket pick-pocket and suites Jacksons farewell address wat published one of the New a ork newtpaper congratulated Its readers at follows Happily tubs It the hit humbug which thin mischievous popularity of tint Illiterate violent vain and Iron willed soldier can Impose upon a confiding and credulous people I ons pIe Much none expresiionr were nted l concerning Washington at Ihe time he left Ihe presidency ThomasJeflerton tent fourteen special messages to Congrett and In I slime s-lime Congress received r a number onr conhdentnl niftugei from the Irell dent i An liew Jackton II censured by the Senate mil he sent a protest againtt this ccnture to that body I ret 11 nl Grant addrrtsed Congress by meisages eight limis Ho did not ei11 ieUI write hit I message hlmiell and i left tIme work of the various departments to his cabinet olhcer rinse men tent In llie r reports and he look inch uru of hem at he wished for hit mettige I teced them together nnd finished them n up to that they made a consecutive message All of r hit vetoes he wro e with hit own hand and h t stale papers road lIell Iretldent hIncuins I messages are wonders of good diction and W I > Kelly ol Pennsylvania the famous pie Iron protectionist c once told me that l lie thought Lincoln was the greatett all around genIus since Shakespeare ami that hit messages to Congress would eventually become atslcs Iretldent Arthurs messages were written In a 1 bold round hand and It Is I said that Surrogate Kollms aided him In the preparation of them He came to ashlnglon and llhe Iretldent and himself him-self went over the topics which were to compose the message and the result was the combination of Ihelr I two brains I President I hopes was a greater man than le he hat sIte t credit of being He had abroad a-broad mind and his state papers read rclLd Ills I messages were copied ti Ills l private secretary Mr Kodger onuS housed alfle 1fi used his cabinet i officer lo a II largo ex lent In their preparation I There Is Irrrdt case In I our history In which a Presidents message his been forged This was in 1864 and It was rather a proclamation than n message mes-sage It was a production eta famous New correspondent who It I mil writing for the press and It pretended lo be a call for half a million more troops and lo come from resident I 1ln I coIn It never taw the White House however but was gotten up In New York It was written on the mamlold paper then used for the Associated IrCls 1 newt and toss handed in to the mornIng morn-Ing paperi telegraph bo > s who gave fl to the papers as an Associated tress dispatch The only wonder Is that tj It was not used by every morning paper rlb in New York but through I some 1 bung ling In the delivery suspicion wan aroused In the office of the lime and l Tribune and the > would 1 not ute It The Herald had struck olfan edition of 35000 copIes behev Ing the message lo be genuine but when they did not see It m Ihe Times and Tribune they Invest igated I ill source onuS finding It bogus llity suppressed I the entire edition Among the papers who sued it were slut journal of Commerce and the t World lIlt publication created a great sensation sensa-tion and retldent I Incoln I ordered Ihe editors of the tapers vvhn used the mailer to be Imprisoned front Ijifay cite but finding they were Innocent of any Intention lo do wrong he afterward l countermanded the order The corre lpondenl alto got up thin scheme was nut arrested He nude A full confession confes-sion and he was Imprisoned in I art Lafaveltc lie wat not kept long but by the Intercession of poweiful friends secured hit release The message will be taken from the Whll House lo the Capitol by the cue cutlve clerk There is a good deal 1 of red tape about the nuttIer and though iea nhl II ntoo the cable Ctrl run directly from the White loose I lo Ihe Capitol A Presl dent message It I always taken In n carriage nnd usually behind n spanking two horse team The carrlee Is the olhce turnout of the U lute I louse It trots out of Ihe part l or Ihe xecutlve I Mansion I down lo the treasury then along the well 1 YeI of iftecnlh I ilrcet and down the south side of the avenue At the bottom of the tvenue It skirts I the I eace monument soil goes up to Ihe Senate Here I Mr Iruden geti out carrying a big official i envelope In his him ThIs contains the menage lie I carries It up I to the front door of the Senate where ho Is usually met by old Mr Uasscll or by the clerk of the Senate who announces that there Is I n message from Ihe President of the United States It Is then tarried up lo the clerk mil < and It is there read The words In which the messige Is delivered lo Ihe Senile are uttered ly I Mr ruden I ai follows lam directed by the President of the United States to present a message mes-sage In writing Copies of the message are given to the newspaper correspondents and they are lent out by the Associated Press lo all the papers in the country It used to be that manifold copies were handed l over to the newspaper men imd they rushed I for the telegraph ofhcet In Jo tf lro order to tend the news SO t their papers At this time correspondents kept car sIeges and fast horses at the Capitol during such times and made races to get possession of the telegraph I wires llefore the telegraph came Into existence I ll took the mall a week or so to give the message to some pans of the United Mates and the Cincinnati battle once made a great loss about Its feat of publishing pub-lishing the Iretldent message vvithln sixty hours after It had been delivered lo Congress It ran a pom express from Washington lo Cincinnati and It cost It Jot to get the now I Uhat becomes of the Presidents messages after they are delivered The I copy that goes lo the printer Is I cut up Into pieces or lakes and it It I of little use after It It I set up The earlier metsages which Here written by the Presidents themselves Here carefully Tiled away and In the crPl of the Cipilot there arc icveral of ann Uosh Ingtons messages written In hula peculiar iJ IIrph I liar clear bold hand The messages which are tent to the Senate are itorcd away In the Slate Department l vaults I where all tIm e51 laws of the Congress rf Ihe I nlled l Stiles are put and they form a put of Ihe manuscript history the country I KANk G CVRIINTH |
