CHAPTER XIII 



HENDRICKS, JOHN SHERMAN, BANCROFT, 

 AND OTHERS 1884-1891 



THE following spring, visiting Washington, I met 

 President Cleveland again. 



Of the favorable impression made upon me by his 

 career as Governor of New York I have already spoken, 

 and shall have occasion to speak presently of his Presi 

 dency. The renewal of our acquaintance even increased 

 my respect for him. He was evidently a strong, honest 

 man, trying to do his duty under difficulties. 



I also met again Mr. Cleveland s opponent in the pre 

 vious campaign Mr. Elaine. Calling on Mr. William 

 Walter Phelps, then in Congress, whom I had known as 

 minister of the United States at Vienna, and who was 

 afterward my successor at Berlin, I made some refer 

 ence to Mr Elaine, when Mr. Phelps said: &quot;Why don t 

 you go and call upon him?&quot; I answered that it might 

 be embarrassing to both of us, to which he replied: &quot;I 

 don t think so. In spite of your opposition to him 

 at Chicago, were I in your place I would certainly go 

 to his house and call upon him.&quot; That afternoon I 

 took this advice, and when I returned to the hotel Mr. 

 Elaine came with me, talking in a most interesting way. 

 He spoke of my proposed journey to Virginia, and dis 

 cussed Jefferson and Hamilton, admiring both, but Jef 

 ferson the most. As to his own working habits, he said 

 that he rose early, did his main work in the morning, and 

 never did any work in the evening; that, having been 



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