I shall not send you down South, where you may have some unpleasant and embarrassing experiences, but I will send you out into the Black Hills, where you will not be subjected to the slightest inconvenience and where you will have very little to do, but make your reports and draw your pay.

If you say you will accept the appointment I shall give immediate directions for the commission to be made out and you can take the oath of office within the next twenty-four hours." Of course I listened with close attention and with deep interest to what the honorable Secretary said.

When he had finished, I replied in about these words: "Mr.Secretary, I fully appreciate the friendly interest you manifest in me, and I also appreciate what you are willing to do for me.

If I have rendered you any services in the past, I can assure you that they were not rendered with the expectation that you would thereby be placed under any obligations to me whatever.

If I preferred you to others in your own party it was because I believed in you the State would have the services of one of its best, most brilliant and most eloquent representatives.