Show not sale safe to miss an appointment with president ASHINGTON if iou ou liane liae nn an appointment with the president it th W washington houie houge find and fill fail to keep it you ou must anc 1 i I milliey good excuse of 01 you iou mii may be considered guilt of lese ma caleste leste tc or whit would be more barlous in this cojito you ou may ma loe i 1 floo piece of fr federal Eril patronage be ther then 1 IW on tile the day date and hour Is the th P rule eien cien though iou may ma be hep k OPI ey V SELECTION waiting in the anteroom for a time 1 on a certain wednesday depre sen sent I 1 atno edward edard townsend Town Bend aj 0 new jersey chommie badden anc his colleague representative william aw 11 tuttle jr called it the white A house by appointment to recommend lo 10 0 o the president a candidate tor for unit ed states slates dudec they the were cordially received d and the president listened to their argument in favor oi of 1 their beir c candidate a but he frankly told them that this particular jud judgeship reship mat t ter er was nas closed that he already had made a selection although lie he spoke very h igal of the alie man recommended by Tonn townsend send and tuttle but g gentlemen remarked the president good natu redl are you not a little late in keeping our appointments appointment 7 according to my m engagement book 3 ou on were to be hero here on Tu tuesday esda and I 1 am not aware that you called then it was vas up to townsend end and tuttle to explain and they laid the cards upon the table there vas nas no use trying to fib out of it so BO they con tested ToAn townsend gend said lie he vent ent to the station to take a late train for or wash ington from his home in newark monday night and fell asleep onh to be awakened by b the station agent just as the tail lights of his train were dis appearing in the west inest ile he had to wait unit for a day train next morning tuttle admitted that he hid had no excuse except that the engagement ha had d slipped his mind due to the fact the fourth of july bad intervened and mixed him up on his dates the president listened to their excuses with in terest and showed no annoyance iannoa nee over them ile he joked them about their forgetfulness and told them a story stor about 1 I 1 delegation which abich kept an ap by b arriving a ear too soon remarking that he dida t know kno cheth er it was v as better to arrne arrine a 3 ear too soon or a day da too lite late ile he sent his visitors li Ni cwi iwi in a good humor but townsend Town tend and tuttle cant help wondering iN whether hether the would haie hae found that judgeship judg judge ehli shil matter closed up had they the kept their appointment |