Show I 1 SEN STEWART AND HISTORY former senator of nevada is not adding 0 to his popularity by contributing to an eastern publication ills recollections of president andrew johnson and mark twain in ills his article of last week ho he does both says the Cli chicago leago tribune of these gentlemen grave injustice no one believes believer him when he says that sir mr johnson was wag a drunken reprobate going about washington an in shabby clothing presiding over the fc enate in A a state of maudlin intoxication mr air stewart was in washington at the time of mr Lincol ns assassination and history records that ho was I 1 present at tile the ume time air fr johnson took the oath of office as sir Lincol ns successor but tor for the first time is it I 1 stated that mr air johnson was stupefied fled from alcohol when that solemn ceremony was performed it is true that lie he sometimes drank to excess but on those occasions lie ho kept himself from public view at all times he was a man inan in an of that overtopping over topping ambition that made him greet with alth tile alie greatest consideration the honors that his bis ambition brought brou glit to hint him nor was war ho he filthy and ragged once a tailor himself he knew how to dress and lie he was known ln in the south and in washington as a man of splendid apparel his hig linen ever immaculate his bots boots shined shi ned his faco face and hands clean his hair combed those abo remember him best remember him as ono one of superb dignity Coar coarseness geness was not one of his faults mr stewarts warts picture of hofmark Alaric twain when he knew him in nevada and later in washington certainly must be an overdrawn affair no one will vill take this old man seriously when he says that Aind americas ricas most revered author was a trifling bum while writing his in innocents n oce U t S abroad and that during that thai time used money donated him by irr air stewart nor will the country indulge in tho the imagination that mark twain delighted in insulting women and that ho he was in the habitor habit of defaming his friends E even yen if mr stewarts stewart s allega allegations tiong were strictly true wo we ree no reason for their publication the heroism or of mr johnson and the fortitude of mark alark twain cannot be dwarfed by a vain and boa boastful strul man inan j |