| Show I L NEW NEWS OF YESTERDAY YESTE THE BREAD THAT RETURNED TO THURLOW WEED I I Us r K J I J Y Edwards This dally series erIe Of or anecdotes anecdote and Incidents that throw now i and frequently tr light on famous events and 11 personalIties have hats been boen n collected by Edwards during nearly forty years en or of more mor male acquaIntance WIth m many of ot the leaders since the tho 1111 till or u I or incident Is s fresh from Mr notebook and an l either J JOr Or r In n part It New News 00 of Yesterday garnered d from fr m th hAr t t it 11 I made laBile tho Iho th r from equally authoritative so Roure rr contributions or of tho the human Interest sort to American attle ei bl t lv 4 have a distinctive value alue all ail their own owna wn a 5 every ean eva student of at American political history knows 1 AS A who dl tiled l In Iii n J IW M at it t the tire green old ago Rite of ot wa cl 01 i fI c e h he most and amid estate that this country ha h produced tie lie It wa tea who more inure than any an other man amen brought abort Use Uie U of and Taylor for President In mo O aj Il j 1 jre re Ho lb It II wn we Me who uvito w wae largely re responsIble M for the 1111 nan of ot Cloy Clay Scott and and he h It wee wan Who ax as t i coins confidential agent abroad was very Ir In preventing And Franco France from rec I the th Confederacy anti and i Wi wr Withe the Union Many and notable were hi his political victories not a 1 few of tinn II thi nr tare large rg In III our history Yet Vet perhaps thin the victory out of or which Mr r vo oc 1 i a he de aa much quiet satisfaction 04 ne an amy 1 cameto him hm moat UnO ne I 41 hI hIa l la a moment m whim whan he ire had acknowledged when he saw a f I i iti in of ot New York Tork state and all thib power that Us lIe KIll POH S Staken taken R aWI away from trout him blur And the Iho manner ner In which this victory 1 ss ii i 11 f fline S Shere line here lisp lian hitherto e escaped chronicling to Mr Weed Veed ji jito alII to mind the tho l Injunction to cast cant bread your our upon the Ihl hal ii r I Imay may be he returned to 10 lou jou 0 after Atler many man days dAy Hack ID Iii 11 the when hon Old Hough Bought and Heady neady u I 1 i M u Ml III In fighting lighting Indians mostly a n man who hail hod great grat lumber rl slid and on oil tho th northern slope of ot the Adirondack mountains elicit ours ono di dl upon OlI U Mr Weed Ved and attn explained that he ho was WI most anxious that the th too eon on ef rt OK of ot one or of Jils J bo be b 0 appointed to a cadetship at r ert t 1 Point Tho caller culler had halt been of great political service to Mr III Weed Veld and tort fort time tho latter lutter titter after listening to tho the request said suld You coo BOO your and amid I with will endorse tho application lInt Hut the tho moan man I I have seen lIeen him hun antI ho be tella telle me ore tiui 11 11 lu Ii I promised tho thu cadetshIp to a It Well Willi If tr ho has bias ed It he ho must artist keep his hili premIse 01 1 i i r j d jW y I IVet W Vet Veed d I However I 1 will trill 11 see ee that the tho boy is I a II u s t I s Na NII Navel ll l Academy hut the 00 lumberman Insisted imitated strenuously un arm tin lh ti p other timings things reminded Mr lilt Wc Ved r d that um tutis Ii tin Oil ii I f fM tat n i of ot Weed VerJ in all nil the years that ho lied hud been bean 11 content in u ix x iut i I ii i 1 political orders ordot given gln hIm by b 10 Mr lilt Weed Yo ed This Thin was as true and Mr Weed know knot It So Sm at ci art liiM hi in I pi p I s would do 0 what ho Ito could to get ct thin the fur th fin Pm t i i course 11 hit il appeal to tn the eon lIman was wan all tv tir I N u youngster r entered West Vest Point and Mr Weed fi rp t all Iii ul I iii II i ono One of or tho the many man minor matters matte crowded lii ht du till f Years later following the Inauguration or of i s i i s president Mr Mm Weed W e Journeyed t to 10 Washington thinking that he Ito m is Ui d j ui u some favor by the tho new nOtT administration ad since Ire Jie h liri i h lii i Instrumental In bringing about Pi f hut Hill in inas an as soon as ax ashe he lie had arrived at nt the tho Capital lie ic 10 discovered I UI la 14 I ji ali William lUlam II Ir Se Sew Seward ward rrt then Senator Benator from New York Tork and an 1 11 IL it K UM all t a anut not nut in favor fair at f the White Hou e eIt It was a al that Mr lilt Ir Weed ced aced 1101 of lr her IK H It I hi powerful political of New 1 ew YOI he lie d df lUri ili Ih tr bo lie would not leave Iao without ut lit least beet culling to nay ius rd hi liI hito to toto ceo to the tho President So 80 he be went to the tha White House and sent In lu Ins IllS mel irl 1 t 1 un u ii attendant In ho a moment n a young Toung man ma coming from an un Inner inui r room Ill tn itchy rushed mb d up to Mr Weed W d grasped grup d nl hI his hand hrand III A t s Thurlow Weed cJ I nm am very sled to see you ou I owe you a debt oi r Bi it t i t I I Mr Weed looked Inquiringly at the tIme young man B as aa though ii lug i s call him Seeing b his hIli dilemma the thIS other said You Yon dont dout know me mo You Tou haYs have never seen een mo nie before beroN I belt belies Hut Hu HuIt i It had not be been n for or you Oll I would woud rot not zion noty be here her You secured i m ri at West W st Point as aa cadet codet from an Adirondack lumber camp amp I oJ r Colonel William C Bliss I am nut the private secretary of tho the ls 1 served nerved with him In Mexico Following a Q little pleasant pheasant conversation Colonel blond DU n k d him t Wood Weed If It he could do anything for tor him Mr lilt Ir Weed explained that ho he was wui art aru ST You shall 11 ae wee a b m iou lous to nee the President The young man maui responded Immediately And a moment later Mr Weed Ve d wa was being Introduced to the Pre Prel Ident blent by Colonel Bliss a as the man to whom the thu Colonel owed ow d his to West Point and his Iris subsequent army career A few tew hours houri later when Mr Weed eed started back baek for tor New Tork r t e with him bunt the promise profuse of or President Taylor that ho lie should hould have Me all th Ih thage aIr aIrn wanted New York triumphed r r r n Ii age n e ho for tor State lIe He had signally of his one enemies m If s who had hod ventured at first to set President T Ta lor liS ag l him It Is II only onu necessary to Lo add that the he young oung man who thus and at a most moment more than fully tUII repaid his hl debt db f r I t cra tude to Mr Wood Veed v a t tie le Ie husband of ot that recently deceased d m 1 mistress of the thIS White VillI Hou HOll tt vh h wan known knott kno II to I the present g nr T Mr litre Dandridge Copyright 1909 by bv K 0 l J I I I j Tho Time title of the article by Mr tu to be tp published M lii n la ia M urn Ine Helped to Shape Q career A |
