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Show AND ECHO ANSWERED ANDY, I HERE! " ' I Hannis Taylor, member of the I Spanish Treaty Claims Commission, I and Minister to Spain under President I Cleveland, was in Raleigh when Presi- A I dent Andrew Johnson came there to 1 I speak to the old friends of his boy- ;' I hood whom he had left as a tailor's I apprentice. , I It was Johnson's first visit to ! Raleigh since he left as a boy, and he I was expected to make a tremendous I speech. He didn't. He was intro- I duced as the former tailor's apprentice of Raleigh who had become Prcsi- I dent, and started in. He rambled . I around, stopping every few minutes I I to raise his hands above his head and I exclaim: "Where are the friends of j I my childhood? Echo answers, where?" I I He made this observation half a I dozen times. Then an old man who j I sat in the front row arose and suid: I I "Oh, hell, Andy, we're all here. Go I on." I I Saturday Post. ! I ' I |