Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — EVERY CUNNING FELLOW. [ARTICLE]

EVERY CUNNING FELLOW.

■tone Climbed Out of a Window to ■ Avoid Meeting Gen. Butler. ■ip the following from the New York ■laine managers are promising every■t/t 111 ng—protection to dynamiters, en■nent and hek> to Cuban filibusters, ■appropriations to contractors and job■“high old time" to speculators, and in ■of decent voters they whisper: "It’s all ■aine really means to make the quietest ■anest administration we ever had. ■erfectly safe to vote for him." ■KM has won a fame of his own in ■ton as the most liberal promiser in his ■e has never hesitated to promise every■at was asked, and he is probably before ■ over his head in engagements. That ■he is thought to be such a magnetic Ken. Bntler tells a good story about the ■g character or Mr. Blaine. Blaine ■fuller's assistance to be made Speaker ■bain occasion. He promised Butler the ■whip of the Appropriations Committee, ■be General supported him in the caucus, ■tier is not a distrustful man: the under- ■ was clear. Blaine’s promise positive, ■waited without uneasiness for the an■nent of the oommittees. This was de■ome days aftef the Speaker’s election, ■is usual, and on the day when it was to ft, a friend of Gen. Butler whispered to ■t Mr. Speaker Blaine intended to give ■manship to another man. ■formation was so positive that the GenKame uneasy and determined to see ■ Blaine before the House should meet to ■e committees announced. After some ■e discovered that Mr. Blaine was in a ■tee-room. He went to the door, but was ■ by the doorkeeper, who told him that ■ was positively forbidden, as Speaker ■was very busy. Gen. Butler, however, ■bed not to be outwitted by Blaine. He ■k through the door and saw Blaine ■ sitting at the table, and he determined ■t the door and seize him, as he must ftily come out to open the session of the ■t noon. ■uarter before 12 Mr. Speaker Blaine had ■appeared: but Gen. Butler waited at the ■re of his man. At five minutes before 12 ■nehad not yet appeared, but as the ■ad only one door and Gen. Butler stood ■he case seemed to him safe. ■y, at 12:16 p. m., the Geneaal demanded ■re leave to enter the room. The door- ■ Said, “Certainly,” and flung open the ■on. Butler walked in and found the room Bre’s Speaker Blaine?" he demanded, ■ ‘‘He’s in the House, I suppose,” was the ■The General hurried to the Houee, and ■just in time to hear another man’s name ft for the chairmanship which Speaker ■ad promised him. ■res ligation he discovered that the prom■eaker Blaine, knowing that Butler was ■ for him at the door, had climbed out of low of the committee-room, clambered ■ledge of stonework to the window of an■om, and out of that had sneaked into the ■nd into the Speaker’s chair. ■ot long since Gen. Butler told this story ■ friends. He admitted that “Blaine is a ■inning fellow” and a first-class promiser ■st, a very magnetic man; but he thought ■ot always safe to trust him. ■e people want for President of the United ■ man who climbs out of the window to ■y from Gen. Bntler?