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. Blaine. 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. Blaine, when Mr. Phelps said: "Why don't 

 you go and call upon him?" I answered that it might 

 be embarrassing to both of us, to which he replied: "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." That afternoon I 

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

 Blaine 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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