Mr.hayes' Reason For Making A Appointment

By the way, .Tiulge Patterson, of Ten-e Haute, who lias just returned from Washingtou, says thnt lie said to the President : " How did you happen to select Diek Thompson '. I know Morton was straining every nerve to keep Tyner in the Cabinet, mul the frienda of Ben Harrison were pushing him for the place. Why, antier these eircumstanees, (lid you piek out Thompson ?" The President replied, " Nearly forty years ago I heard biin make a speech in Columbus, Ohio. I stood a square away, but I heard distinetly every word of ïiis silvery voiee, and lus wonderful eloquence impressed nie so that I have never forgotten it." Mr. Thompson says it was in the campuign of 1840, when lie spoke the last time in Columbus. I was studying Seeretary's (Thompson's) face carofully, and asked him, " Was your appointanent a surprise ?" "I should say bo," líe replied. "It (;i]nc like n clap ot' tliunder out of a clear sky. The first intimation I had was a telegram asking if I would accept a Cabinet position, and asking my choice between Secretorv of War, Secretary of the Interior and Poetmaeter QeneraL I did uot know what to say or think. I ooneulted aomeof my friends, and iinally in the matter of ahoioé determined to take plenty oí sea-room. tío," added he, after 'a moment, " I had do more idea of ever ipnin entering public life than 1 bacl of ■mmitting suicide." -