Show A JOKE 0 ON 11 BRYANT the evening posts business manager 31 fools him with a bogus telegram eugene held in chicago neus here ia is a story about the hie william cullen bryant which baa haa never before been in print in the early winter of 0 1876 while bile the scheme ol 01 I 1 an electoral coni con mission to determine the result of the presidential election was being discussed with more or lesa less excitement cit all over the country it oc cuned to tho the telegraph editor of the new now york eleni bening g post that an all ex pr assion of opinion from the presidential prep iden candidates themselves rould be of great general interest accordingly having obtained tha the permission of sir air bryant the editor in chief this enterprising young telegraph editor dis dispatched telegrams to mr air hayes axt and to mr fr tilden informing thoe those gentlemen that the evening post would be glad to publish to the world their individual opinions oils as to the proposed e electoral lec toral commission commission mr air isaac henderson was at that time practically practical y the business manager of the eveni V q post his fath lather er as be had d assigned abarge a large share af pf of the dut ea es of thu the management of ill his s d department par to tha sont son and being b but t r recently a t y oat of college the young man made mad the most of his opportunities it is fair to suppose that in hi bis capacity of manager th the younger henderson enderson II quickly became imbued with that beorn which invariably and properly tinges the counting rooms opinion of he the editorial department part ment at any rate mr air blender fion son made a practice of humbling the dignity of the editorial department aheu oever he be c could 0 uld As soon oon ai si he fie 1 icard that these tele grams rams of inquiry had been dispatched to 0 the pres candidates tes mr alf henderson tha the scheme as Is it reasonable to sup suppose poe lie arg argued aed that either general clayte hay s or mr air tilden is going to 0 o commit himself one way or the tile other until afat after r the result of the commission schema scheme is manifest certainly not you nil ill not get a word la in answer to your foolish questions surely enough as the davs dars wore on no reply came either from the one candidate andi date or from tile oilier other one afternoon it occurred to mr air henderson IIo that at he would play one oue of his amusing practical jokes joles upon the editors upstairs up stairs saba so he secured cured a telegraph tee graph blank and wrote these upon it editor Even evening bag post nw new york chy at this time tittle it is for the people and not for the candidate candidates to speak signed it B HAVES HAYES this amusing forgery in a telegram telegraph xh envelope an and n properly addressed ah was sent up thair s and naturally enough the greatest a excitement its m ent ensued at once the associated a ted press offee was communicated with and the important news was vias given 0 oat at tor for to all parts of the union a bulletin was vias prepared exhibition I 1 on in front of the office and every preparation was ma made de to issue au an extra edition alender 60 eon now saw that his jokemas joke was going too far the fi first rs t th thing I 1 ng he lie did was to prevent the posting of the bulletin in front of the obice office aud the fie next thing be he dd d d was to advice the associated press of the falsity of the story having attended to these first e essential s serit ial details he be ascended to the e editorial dit orial department to explain his humor and make his peace with the editors the whole force was in mr air 11 abryants bryants Br gants room the venerable chief h himself elf sat in the center of the circle of hia his associates hold ng rig in his hands the identical telegram which riender son had written tte come in henderson enderson 11 said mr air bryant come iu u and hear chii utterance we have just received from gen hayes And then thera be he read the telegram impressively at thia this time it ia is for the people and not for the candidates caLdi dates to speak turning to those about him the venerable poet journalist said gentlemen that ia is the utterance of a statesman stat eBman ill mr r hendersons confusion was great but he knew know th that at he could not evade the issue mr air bryant said be 1 I want to explain about that telegram it seems that I 1 have never yet attempted a joke in this office that the joke end in my having to make an apology 0 now I 1 wrote that telegram telez ram it did lilt come from general hayes at all it is b gus ll 11 etc etc then as briefly as he could the young youn man told the story of the imposture when he be had done mr air bryant asked so you wrote these lines did you henderson henderson repeated that he did then mr air bryant took up the paper and again read even more slowly than before at this time it is for the people and not for the candidate to speak gentlemen Gen lemen he continued turning to thosa anund arund him U upon pon reading these line a second time ume and more carefully we are convinced that they are such a commonplace as anyone might have suggested there is nothing in in them they are what anybody would have eaid said if in the tile position before the country now held by the presidential contestants let us say no more upon the Bub sub jact gentlemen and with that the congregation disbanded |