A Gentleman from Mississippi

over and touched the

or you?" asked the new Senator

eak to you about me. I'm the first of the new

amiliar smi

s though you'd bite. Re

very p

aid, feeling instinctively that he was

as I've said good-by to my old friend

nel, slap him on the back, cheer him up and finally bid him good-by after extending a c

re brisk, than in years, completely restored to favor in t

r Stevens spoke to me about you; said you were the smartest yo

ook hi

New York

awled the Southerner. "They tell me

o New York of late, Senator?"

ponded Langdon reminiscently, "but we changed our min

mitted th

t on Langdon, "I've co

Ever been in New Orlean

Hain

eve I have," confessed t

or seemed

through one Mardi Gras, with a special understanding, of course, that you don't print anything in the p

ew of no grave calamity that had

ne?" he q

Langdo

NEW YORK, EH? THE VIC

We haven't found anybody in the State that says he voted for it, but the fact is a fact. I assure you, Mr. Haines

great change for you, the

o spend your old days peacefully in the country, Mr. Hai

rcasm came int

ce to two or three different leaders, force others into line by threats, send a trusted agent to another with a roll of bank bills-the recipient of which would immediately conclude that this candidate was the only man in the State who could save the nation from destruction. Had not Haines seen men who had sold their unsuspecting delegates for cash to the highest bidder rise in the convention hall and in impassioned,

a chuckle at the doubting

ines," he said, "if he could get it. When I was a young man, sir, politics in the South was a career for a ge

er, further impressed by the fran

my mind, Mr. Haines, is

ther or not he's compet

g a good deal. Suppose

e is short. We'

the interview?" smil

ss method. When I was down in Vicksburg a reporter backed me up in a corner, slipped his

how I stood about the opening of the Tento Pu Reservation of the Comanche Indians,

paper. I started to offer him a job, but he was so proud I was afrai

, I ought to thank you for t

know anything about th

h a huge sig

if I know what sort of a man a man is I can tell a gre

tarted in

not you can fit me up with a set of views. Is that the

milingly sh

man is is important. I've been doing Washington for a number of years. I've had an exceptional opportunity to

vingly, then a twink

sippi," he drawled. "We've only one-th

y at this description

litics?" continued the Mississippian. "I'm a beg

reporter teaching a Sen

in

on joined in

rs had sense enough to go to school. Now, I come up here on a platform the chief principle of wh

a wonderful thing for the country

cour

t of the Congressmen and

hat, leaned back and gazed a

h and country would be sufficient re

e belief was deeply rooted. His long newspaper training had educated Haines in the ways of men, their actions and mental processes-what naturally to expect from a given set of circumstances. He fel

ines added. "You have not been in politi

nkled the Missi

unpleasant things I didn't know bef

to tell you a few m

escence. "Reckon I'd better know t

nt in the way of the naval base because he'll think then you'll help h

r it because he owes a grudge and want

your bill was for the west coast they might fight it tooth an

chance to claim glory and perhaps break the solid Sout

l, who in hades will vote for it because it's

nator," replied Haines,