Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1884 — An Evidence of Greatness. [ARTICLE]

An Evidence of Greatness.

Just about the time “A Fool’s Errand” made him famous, Tourgee was in Chicago on business. He started from the hotel one morning with his wife, intent on keeping an appointment; but, passing a certain newspaper office, he persuaded his wife to wait a moment in a candy store while he ran up stairs to speak to an editorial friend. It was a time when .lawyers and others were greatly excited over the formation of the Electoral Commission, and before he had been in the editorial room five minutes, Tourgee had locked horns with the editorial corps on a constitutional question and the discussion was continued at white heat for over three hours. The Judge forgot all about his wife until some one said it was 12 o’clock, when he shot out of the room and went down stairs to make peace with his better half.