| Show I NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY THE POLITICAL TRIP ThIP THAT HENRY HENEY CLAY CUT SHORT By J E Edwards This dully dally series ot of anecdotes and Incidents 1 that throw new Interesting j end md frequently dramatic light on f tam lam am ous events and personalities of ot the past have bavo been collected by Edwards during nearly forty years year of o more moro or less 10 mel Inti Intimate mate acquaintance with Ith many of ot the country leaders since tIre the Civil War Each anecdote or Incident It i 1 fresh from Mr E notebook and either cither In whole or 01 In part it constitutes Now New News of ot Yesterday garnered from tho the men who wira made mado the thu nowa tho history or from e eq q authoritative sources As AB Jm ira contributions of or the Human Interest sort cort to American history theliO articles have a distinctive value all th the lr ir own Yesterday I told the tho of ot how bow Henry Clay a few tew days daB prior to his retirement as secretary of ot state under President resident John Quincy Adams turned one ne of ot his worst Into one ono of ot othIs hIs its staunchest supporters The lato late Judge William Henry Henr Hunt who was secretary of ot tho the navy Davy In President Gar fields elds cabinet Is 18 my for tor to days ays story of ot tho the political trip that Henry Clay cut short You may mn remember reading that after aner Mr Clay was defeated for tho Ule thoros 1 presidency ros In ISH 1814 by James K Polk PolI lie Ita 10 decided to retire permanently from public life lite said Judge Hunt But It seemed to him that he should maIm mako a sort ort of ot farewell tour vIsiting his Iris friends In tho the old Whig state thanking them hem for tor their support bidding them thorn goodbye and telling them that hat he proposed to spend his remaining days as is a sage in his beautiful country home lomo In Kentucky Well Veil rell he lie took that farewell tour and nd among other places that he ire visited was as New Now Orleans He Ho had a warm Whig friend there in Charles M Con Conid Conrad cad rad id who afterwards became secretary of at war Mr Conrads plan plantation tation home was not far tar from that of ot General Zachary Taylor Talor who succeed succeeded ed d Polk In the tho White House To this home borne ome Mr Conrad invited Mr Clay to spend pend a n few days das d s and perhaps as added Inducements to Mr Clay Cia Mr Conrad stated that ho he expected Mi his daughter back tram front her honeymoon trIp rip in a few fow days and that Mr Clay would also have havo opportunity to meet at t tho plantation one ono of at his colleagues In n the tIre senate Judge PoIndexter of ot Mississippi But no sooner had ho he mentioned Judge Poindexters name than limn he ho realized that the tho Judge and Mr Clay were ere not fi lends frIends They looked alike md and had been friends but some som politIcal cal Ical quarrel had parted them Mr Clay lay seeing Mr Conrads embarrass embarrassment embarrassment ment lent came canio gallantly to tho the rescue It would give me the greatest possible pleasure leasure to meet Judge PoIndexter In ID IDour your our homo home ho lIe said then and there ac accepting accepting Mr rr Conrads Invitation A few days after Mr Clays arrival at t the Conrad plantation the bride wIth her husband returned and upon the ic same steamboat with them came Judge Poindexter Mr Clay CIa was In Introduced introduced to the bride He looked at t her and then at her bel mother Charming a bride as you are arc ho he said sal salas as he ho made mado ma o a profound bow what can cansay canI I 1 say to you OU in the presence of ot such sucha a mother as you have Then ho he add added od ed d as ns he be glanced in the direction of ot oft othIs hIs t old enemy enem And I con you ou that you have havo had as ns a traveling raveling companion for tor a brief die tance ono one of ot the grandest ono one no of ot the tho t le most mORt charming gentlemen i I have havo ever eer met from tho the south Judge j Poindexter i I There woo was nothing for tor the judge to I 11 J 1 f i iii do after aft r that but melt which he did with surprising promptness and in a little while tho the two men became so 50 In that they were Joking with each other otherA A few tew evenings later Inter Mr Clay be began began began gan expatiating upon tho the beauty of ot a domestic life such stich as that which Mr Conrad enjoyed adding that ho he thought it waa was tho duty and privilege of ot every overy man who had a v charming home to spend all an the tho time his public and professional duties would permit with his family There you go again tho same samo old Harry Iras of ot the west preaching what you OU dont practise laughed Judge ter tel as he ho lay la stretched out on a n sofa JI You should make yourself a little littlemore littlemore more clear Judge so that 1 I Imay may not be embarrassed smilingly re cc retorted Mr Ir Clay CIa Why hy you old scoundrel rel exclaimed the tho Judge you come como down hero to preach domesticity to 10 us and you ou seen neon your own homo home and fam family ily ib 11 for six months Go practise what you ou preach Mr Clay thought a a moment You have havo mo there senator he ha said slowly you have havo mo mc there thero and I declare I believe Ill accept your our ad advice advIce advice vice although I really have havo been on a apolitical apolitical apolitical political mission Yes Ill start homo borne day after atter tomorrow And he did ended Judge Hunt INDIANS AS JS ARMY ARrY OFFICERS San Francisco Chronicle America has had great Ireat generals whose names were novel never on the army arm rolls fitting Bull and Geronimo were two of ot them and Red fled Cloud who has Just died was next In the tho quality of or his field reputation These rhesa men wore natural strategists and lighters fighters and for tor years baffled the energies of ot tho the best white commanders That they tho all had to yield in time speaks for tor the tho odds against them and reveals no lack lacle of at military efficiency on their part Considering what they the did In war the tho government might well gIve some homo of o the promising young men mon of at their tribes an nn education at WestPoint West WestPoint cst Point with sith a n vIew of ot future useful usefulness ness nees TIC in civilized conflicts |
