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It ain't a bad idee, in the hoss bus'nis anyway, to be willin' to let the other feller make a dollar once 'n a while." After that aphorism they waited in silence for a few minutes, and then David called out over his shoulder, "How be you gettin' along, Mis' Cullom?" "I guess I'm fixed," she answered, and David walked slowly back into the parlor, leaving John in the front office.
"Oh, no," was the reply, "you hain't betrayed none, but I know old fellers like me gen'rally tell a thing twice over while they're at it. Wa'al," he went on, "it was like this. After Charley Cullom got to be some grown he helped to keep the pot a-bilin', 'n they got on some better. 'Bout seven year ago, though, he up an' got married, an' then the fat ketched fire.
He wa'n't exac'ly smilin', but the' was a look in his eyes that was the next thing to it." "Lordy me!" sighed Mrs. Cullom, as if to herself. "How well I can remember that look; jest as if he was laughin' at ye, an' wa'n't laughin' at ye, an' his arm around your neck!" David nodded in reminiscent sympathy, and rubbed his bald poll with the back of his hand. "Wa'al," interjected the widow.
They were thoroughly imbued with the feeling that the party did not do right in revising the tariff up instead of down. They beat us for it in '90 and now again. "Hoping to see you in ten days, I am, with great respect, "Truly yours, "S. M. Cullom."
"Set right down an' take it easy, Mis' Cullom," said David soothingly, putting his hands on her shoulders and gently pushing her back into her chair. "Set right down an' take it easy. Yes," to John, "I acknowledge that I signed that." He turned to the widow, who sat wiping her eyes with John's handkerchief. "Yes, ma'am," he said, "It's as true as anythin' kin be.
"January 20, 1904. "Dear Senator Cullom: "I enclose a copy of a letter from the Panama Minister which he sent me last night. He, as well as Mr. Buchanan, who is on the ground, is greatly disturbed over the possible complications which may arise if amendments are added to the treaty in the Senate.
He spent money on me, an' he give me money to spend that had never had a cent to call my own an', Mis' Cullom, he took me by the hand, an' he talked to me, an' he gin me the fust notion 't I'd ever had that mebbe I wa'n't only the scum o' the earth, as I'd ben teached to believe. I told ye that that day was the turnin' point of my life.
Many years later Senator Cullom, a Republican, explained the practical basis on which the Senate proceeded: "The truth is, we were all Democrats as well as Republicans trying to get in amendments in the interest of protecting the industries of our respective States." The 634 changes made in the Senate were, therefore, mainly in the direction of lessening the reductions made by the House.
People always judge of measures by their effect; hence the act should have fair play. "Now that it is safely in the shape of a law, I thought The Tribune might indulge in a little horn-blowing as per enclosed article, "Hotel Ponce de Leon, "St. Augustine, Fla., "March 13, 1888. "Hon. S. M. Cullom, "My dear Sir:
Shelby M. Cullom, with good natural parts and sound education, amiable, pleasing, and endowed with the gracious quality which attracts and holds friends, won his way promptly in the House and gave early promise of the success which afterwards elevated him to the governorship of Illinois, and thence transferred him to the Senate of the United States.
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