Show ca 2 11 as 1 by C 3 little boy who loved flowers charles C charkes delightful of the childhood of david B hill former governor of york in there died the tile last of or the tile group of illen who were an ocUl ted intimately with commodore bilt in tho tile up of III great reel railroad alile a am charles Cli arlei C murke sho 1 an auditor and first lie af tt tb commodore a ruil railroad road was woo hie tits ell bloyer a lal right hind n till fir c r beere for more tit tit ti lull hill a air clarki ras a a I 1 bubli hari t ter first 11 PA a bbate and a it lizinker alii fro from 1851 until I 1 till in retirement an n rall rofu mail in that lie ile W lo 10 tt meet inset moet most of 1 if I 1 I ig inen ten of if lit tate state and his of mil ill lail bIl willinore linore anti veti van wr wrt partia vivid let t what be he calli calad 1 I the moet most ising ex 11 tn fit hie his long 1 Il p lift life hail had euth inc ag to du do with cather of these apat men of hen I 1 wa was NoW slant deputy ot of N no w N oric at llin tho mellard was com r trollar haiti 1 kar clothe Cl filke I 1 made the ut of a of IHU in ili important lu in nw vork york one of 41 these men as u 11 a blaile 1 in the town of or havana ho lie asked tue tile 1 n talie wile Xe cullo huro of it and I 1 hie life offer I 1 fiat wits iri in the benr 1862 soon after I 1 boni ent to havana it lio bo aeme rale lit cossar to make ionio u it luport port ant chrisis Ps in ili the bank building ml valid cem and to to do IMA work I 1 ili rioted ft a local a alry inan mail who did honest work one itly it ly ho brought with wim him to the tile job lot it bright tyl little fellow who I 1 say about nino little years yearn old iho lite tir attracted my nt at and I 1 boskol if ho went to met croul ho ile eald be did anti ilion I 1 hiskett him film what h ho I 1 to do whoa when am lit bet beainy mine a it nian inan llo that ho lie mauld to own a newspaper paper 1 ahe I be next day tho the little follow fellow again hie his father fattier lo 10 work llo bore a bunch of in lit hie his hand he lie diffidently h bild lild ld out to to roc me tho tile while title smiling qua quaintly littly you want ant 0 40 o put to put alit ni lit a pitcher pi with corne mator mato r lie A day or two to later ho lite little fellow follow elemi again to tho the bink thia this time with him it 11 bunch of daffo dils I 1 took him b haneen iny my knee kneer md and after thanking him for hi bit itt ached him if he vaa man fund fond of floers llo now ere ers lel e he answered but I 1 like tho the that gro krove in the woods beet best a and not I 1 know most of them As the season pared from front spring to summer uni iner iho tho boy marked the pros gream of the tile year by bringing 11 to tny my falce office tho the Pta awo flo floutin and one tiny when hen hot genther vas on oil in 10 dead earnest eur net lit lie a came bearing hearing very proud ly a bunch of pond lilies which he lie not al I 1 he had gathered KR eat ei v e lally fally for IM time thus I 1 vax sho showered alth ill the tile 8 nf or kit ill stallions until the car 1 cuter lonter aa sa from havana at it baet ast I 1 lost right sight of inai and the th bo be two years eari later I 1 ent 11 railroad life add and myself moved dinou d aay from front ahvan i ilore than 30 ears passed then ons day I 1 found myself ni in albany for a call upon the governor of HP tip tile in connection with some business for my rill roid company ae As I 1 criter td tha the exic uthe offices 1 a gen flemati with till every cil deno of re 0 showing in ili his face came up I 1 to 0 me and find extended bla his hand hy ho how do oil do mr ir clerke Cl irke be ex he ma made de up with jackson thoma thomas H denton benton could not afford to emain Cst estranged ranged from gen eral era after latter praise of henry clay one cry bvm evening in july 1881 1981 beveral several iii niUra of Pre allent larf lel I 1 a cabinet t wint from the NN hite ito t it t i ban 1 and aiu stool a while in buch such 1 iol ion ton that thy tin were ere ablo to itch ritch tile maing irzzo that canie came f aiom I 1 oni the tile potomac there thero M were ere tv to a or frizinia with them and all were nere fit fn a halpfer tint pier frame of mind than they tin hal I 1 been for soine some time tor for the I 1 ill b eddans had reported but a short tille lit fore hint that I 1 1 i 1 resident as in a more comfor at 1 e coalition tinn thin at any time ne no hil ivi I 1 ban eliot shot As they the atoo I 1 thus enjoy ing the tile cool breze mr illaine tho the secretary ecret ary t f state who faoro ore a very thin and some what fricia fr tel icil ablaca all coit and a strow int hat ha I 1 certainly BICH een ser bernico for suin iners tailed to his tile com companick panic us prophecy that was Full filled garf elds veiled prediction of hia his own nomination for pre dency jutt just before starting to the convention ilio 1110 latu late john II 11 statin who might slav bin governor of new york had tie lie I 1 ann ell villing to accept a nomination in jn ho ito pite l anti who was Rs for some years a member of cingros con gros front ont of the tho now PW lork ork districts aas ca ea by b mii no n ono one of tho the wiliest of km orlean nun min of affif irs jie ile accumulated it 11 very largo fortuna fortum win wits in deltio of affair fairs and to it I 1 la the tho city of new nor ork owes q debt of hrat tude for hie tits mr 1 tn ili ciolla nidler tranee to osta establish blIsh the lie subway rapid transit it 1 during a fort of tho tamo that I 1 tai ns lit said air starlit to ine iara tars becote hi fore hia lite death fifth occurred in ili my seat in lite ho ahouse of rt st s adjoined tint thit of jamea james carnold wo we becika fry ery warn warm friends and anti I 1 conceived r so 0 areat roat an admi atlon of his abillie thit so 4 or or two beford iho the coin cori en t lone of 1880 1 I arid conle to the opinion that na in many respects iho the most anvill oble candidate tandl date froin front he tho arat for the to nominate foi rot ahn hn broil doner 1 of conree coures later on ae as the tile millgate ill gate f filin on my own alato to the llo Tub lian I 1 aas v ns blind to buppert BUp port the allon allott of gener il irant orant hut but I 1 had ft a lurking feeling eeling thai that it we me could not nominate listfield field lil would it bo our out anun it so u happened hut both gentril 0 d aud anti I 1 plan atil independently ito go from to chicago to the tile convention by the nine same ireta airfield kir field chairman lial of the ohio bich had iwen boen in truc ted to support the tile nomination of jolin Shey inan no u were greatly when e discovered that me e ue we to aske the tile butine train we both were in the houe house of rep the to orning torning of the tile day ow a were to leave for Cli ahlf leago ago rather to in the afternoon garfield turned to biliti 1 iud aud said ald alarin starin it ie to time tor for so a I 1 lo 10 start my ity gripsack gri peach lie 1 in 1 the 1 loath ak room and I 1 suppose youra yours to I 1 ain bo let lot i io ther from the he oapl capt ael to the railway rill wa atlon station said well wo 11 imp P fi spiny all the way to chico aj As I 1 ae as taking nn mi hat and my from the atten attendant dalit in he lie boak cloak room I 1 anard some one only ay to Carti carnold old I 1 do not now who it wae was ap pol that it a democrat whom are re you loa to bom irate for president at tho I 1 ou oil don t expect to nominate sher ninn man do to oua oil and ftp no its ng uro hit thit blaine 11 and arant enill neu each others notes in reply n ply garfield I 1 nm to sherman in of he bantu of ohio of course me e all hope that be he will bo be nominated by the con but whom are vou voll going to noni nom binate garfield Oart lold persisted hi demo 1 I remember perfectly hoft how oar nold field looked when that question taa mas repeated ui id to hlin him lie he tumid half hat around thiro thore anas aa it cordial smile III aion on lit his g f face 0 one hitt mas hoac nt A ham 1 and then he eald said I 1 don t know it its 8 very lloil to be sonic ane ne not nv nutt named it Is just aa as likely to bo be melt as anybody else ise I 1 via mis mightily impressed ImPress pot by that reply it conf irin ol 01 my own imbres elon sion might bo our can con didato ahad t had already ii ild to ono one or two to frienda friends 0 o cant nominate grant blaine cannot bo ile nominated and in lit in opinion iii will ill be the man and I 1 am satisfied that at the imo time garfield left washington for cht chi ago logo in my com lati ho had bad reio rei ned ill the situation out exactly ni at I 1 bad find done dono coi richt un by the lh A audited Au dated liter later arar r amu claimed heartily 1 I nm rint vor very glad to sic vou ou shot all these years ear hut but I 1 see that ou do not renumber me I 1 do to not recall governor that I 1 have ever met ou illy 17 1 I wag mae forced to coffeen the goer governor nor smiled try to aid memory mr lr clarke he said don dont t you remember a named who repaired your bank nt at lin havana wina dont dent you remember hie his little boy u horn hoin he lie aped to call divey di vey tho momet linet brought you flo flower Aers are vou that lad bernor oer nor hill I 1 basped in lit astonishment and thin is he lie smiled at tit my surprise 1 I 1 added truthfully iver spring I 1 have base ben reminded of that little boy b the lyet of violet violets and pansies I 1 navo often wonder what hat lift hal I 1 become of him 1111 it hit it not one ore did lid it eier oc cur to mo thu tha dald 11 hill governor of NW lork ork man tile little davey mho mcd used to bring 1 ine and left we in one of the most charming champing decol sections lec tlona of in inv earl art maali od its ts aid sold the governor po vernor hen I 1 had lind cease it d I 1 was the boy mr lr clarke I 1 have never forgotten fo rotten our kindness and your talks ith rne me and anti I 1 ha ba e long hoped that the day lav would mould come when I 1 coull see you tir lin and find renca that boyhood acquaintance to i right t IW I 1 n V 3 t 1 wards all r d 1 this thir afternoon arts I 1 too I 1 before thu the fireplace in I 1 lie file reel lint a room thiro canio came to 1113 in mini tor for the tho arst in airs nn all anc elote or rather two anecdotes or of endrew dukson that I 1 heart on oil goof authority n I 1 ilist came to NN washington ashIngton he lie began hut but before I 1 tell them to oil aa as they were ere told to rna mo I 1 shall remind ou oil of tho the fact that an intense animosity char ho the relations that cliste 1 between jackson lackson ind henry clay it was man one of the artre cases in alisch clay himself hlina elt to li hive litie tie a pir bonal 1 animosity though frequently is s e nil all know he would by be i mans man s po liticia enthy to the full limit of bis his po PON era ere tit one day a friend calling up on president ident jackson jakson remarked in ill thi course of the conversation coni creation henry alty la Is not only a aral coward he la ili a ph sicil coward coard as well The Ther nuion tulon jackson got up tip binok ed pd the ashes 0 t of his corncob pipe into the presidential clr ned cued up ill to lila tits full height and r retorted by god aou ou wrong him the d d Is as brave rae as a lion I 1 know hia his ie akness and hia big strength now for many eare ears I 1 hoklas II 11 henton benton for thirty successive airs editor from missouri le beginning in to 1820 and lind adrew jackson had been bitter enemies through th hough they wen of tho the same party they had not spoken since 1 1813 1 I believe when benton was as thrown doun downstairs stairs at the tile time when ullen hia his brother put a bullet through jack gone son s Bh down in north caro care till i at nn tin rite flenton had bad not I 1 visited the 1 walte I ite house since jackson I 1 had been its chief occupant hut but it to happened that a day or after president h hid ld bild his char act acter letic tribute to clay a bravery the man to whom honi jackson had lad dell died tho tribute met henton benton and told him of the incident benton clearly astonished for an instant Ine tant eagerly ed if it his informant was mas sure that jackson had made the remark as quoted and the reply was that there was no no doubt about it then I 1 will call upon him irv belt pelf pall sail henton benton with vath grim deter intuition sure enough a day or two to 1 liter the senior senator from missouri presented himself at the white house and his bitne was into hia his old enemy in ili 1 i I moment he was as admitted to the irel denta fir printa leate office jack fon poll ats standing before the fireplace he ile bookel ut et benton enton ll who ho remained stranding ding uron ulon trie the threshold at list jackson jackon spoke Is it to be or pe 9 be he asked for ron answer ser benton with ith loth hands outstretched went ment across the room tho the next moment the differences of ae airs irs were heated and the friend ship thua thus unexpectedly and suddenly ro established remained unbroken in wl til lill jackson jacksons e death henton denton becoming jackson a lieutenant in many thing on tho the floor of tho the senate I 1 hut but to roy my mind concluded mr mir illaine the beet beat pirt wirt of the recon of those two to greit gre it character characters lay in the reply that flint henton benton gave to hie his friends when ullen they naked asked him how ho he came to put aella nelle his enmity to willid adre jaceton it 1 I could not afford to estranged from a in kil who bo was mas bravo brave enough to yay pay such stich a tribute to on an enemy as andrew jack son did to henry clay when be he declared he was nas as no brave as a lion said senator henton benton copyright 1910 by R P J edwardi nd Ild wardi all rights reserved I 1 |