Show POLITICAL ENMITY exemplified tun extent to which political animosity can be earned was recently illustrated in a personal meeting between ex governor bross who will be remembered as one of the colfax party which visited this city a number of years ago and aad ex governor st john those two notable characters arch happened haip ened to be at a place called lake bluff A kindly disposed mutual friend the mon hon george G Q christian seeing these two distinguished men meeting and passing each other as strangers thought to do them and humanity a service by bringing them together accordingly on his hid beneficent work intent he laid his hand band on the deacons shoulder and said governor bross permit me to make you acquainted acquaint edwith with ex governor john P st john of kansas the chicago news thus describes what followed if lie he had thrust his bis naked hand band into a nest of rattlesnakes he could not have been more electrified than he was with what followed st john bowed courteously and extended pis his hand hadd but gov bross straightening himself m cef up to his hia lull height of live five feet six inches on his tiptoes tiptoed tip toes hissed 1 rather ather than spoke these words I 1 no sir not a bit of it I 1 would sooner shake hands with judas iscariot gov st john neither wilted nor fell in a swoon before the flery fiery of irate broess contempt he cast one look of pity upon him and turned upon his bis heel leaving gov bross brosa on his bis tiptoes tiptoed bursting with what he be mistook for withering scorn it might be asked why mr bross familiarly known as deacon would rather shake hands with judas iscariot than engage in that manifestation of f friendship with a gentleman of good repute the he answer must necessarily be that the preference is owing to I 1 ahe he deacons peculiar tastes and the direction in which the of his disposition run in this little episode the magnitude of st johns soul certainly shone out in boid contradistinction with the limited dimensions of that of the other party personal hatreds and animosities growing out of political calor or other differences serve to indicate the contracted natures of those who indulge dul e in and foster them they are the poisonous weeds which sprout sproat from a selfish soll soil |