| Show Count country rys needs ever first in Lincol ns mind w chauncey Chaunc ev SI doped former united states senator in nn an installment of eaves irom from sly my autobiography magazine a retrospection if 4 tits ills childhood hild hood youth and public service covering a period of eighty years told some new anecdotes of 0 lincoln grant andrew johnson 1 chase commodore vanderbilt and illier notable wit men of civil war days 1 I had biad a long and memorable interview v with president lincoln mr de 1 few ew writes of a visit lie paid to washington in when lie ile was secretary ot of state for new york As I 1 stopped stepped from the crowd in fit ills recep reception tinn room lie said to tile what do you want r I 1 answered nothing mr air president elli I 1 only came to pay my respects and you goodby as I 1 an am leaving was washington imil it Is such a luxury lie then remarked to find a man who does not want anything I 1 wish you would wait until I 1 get rid of crowd some lincoln stories when we were alone lie threw himself wearily on a lounge and was evidently greatly exhausted then ho he indulged rocking backward and forward in a reminiscent review of tile the different crises in his administration and how lie he had met them in iii nearly every ln instance tance hl he had carried ili ills point and either captured or beaten ills adversaries by a story so apt so on all fours and with such complete an answers simers that the controversy was over I 1 remember eleven of tile the stories each of which was a victory lc tory lincoln was always on oil the lookout for a good yarn although althou gli lie told depew lie he never invented one one night there was a reception in ili the executive mansion rufus C andrews surveyor of tile the port of now new york and a confidential adviser of tile the president on new york affairs attended tf the reception with sir mr depew As the procession of handshakes hand liand shakers moed past lincoln stopped andrews and loaning leaning over spoke very confidentially denti dent ally lally to him delaying the ceremonies for some time momentous 1 issues were impending lincoln was in the midst ot of the campaign for renoil nation his cabinet was the war was on an and d battles were about to he be fought New newspaper paper men and politicians buttonholes buttonholed button holed andrews on his return to tits ills hotel andrews made a great mystery of tits his confidential conversation with lincoln and so lid did the press mr depew writes ile he explained to me when we were alone that during ills his visit to the hie president the night before lie he told mr lincoln a new story the president delayed him at the reception saying andrews I 1 forgot the point of that story you told me last night repeat it now appealed to plain people ill 1 I inn ain accused of telling piling a great irrma stor stories leg mr depew quotes lincoln they say that it lowers the dignity alg alty of tho the presidential onice office but I 1 have found that plain people repeating with emphasis pi plain aln people take them ns as you find them are more easily influenced by a broad and humorous humo bunto ious ictus illustration than in ili any other r way 1111 in what the hypercritical few may think I 1 dont ca care re in 15 speaking mr lincoln had bad ape a pe collar cad cadence enve in fit his voice voice by 1 laying emphasis on the keyword key word mord of the alie sentence in answer to the question liow low lie he knew so ho many anecdotes he e an s sw sn ered 1 I never invented a story but I 1 have a good memory and I 1 think tell one tolerably well sly my early life was passed among pioneers who had the courage and enter enterprise price to break away from civilization and settle in the wilderness the things which happened to lo those these original people and andors themselves in their primitive conditions were far more dramatic than an tiling invented by the professional story tellers tor for many years I 1 traveled the circuit as a lawyer and u usually there was only one lintel hotel in the country towns where here court was held the ju dires the grand and petit jurle juries 4 the lawyers the clients and witnesses would pass the night telling ex exciting elting or amusing amui ing occurrences and these were of infinite variety a and rid interest inharmonious cabinet referring to lo Lincol ns adroitness in h endling Ind ling men and his per personal ional humility mr air dupew depew says no president fresu ent ener had a cabinet ol of which the members were so independent bent had so large individual followings and were so the presidents I 1 sole eole ambition was to secure the ablest men inthe in the country for tile departments part ments which he assigned to them without regard to their loyalty to himself one of mr secretaries would frequently report to ir rae e the acts of dh disloyally loyalty or personal hostility on the part of mr chase with the la a the old trian man mearil meaning ng lincoln knows all about it and will not do a thin thing |
