The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-07-20
THOMAS CORWIN.
RecoIlections by President Tmtlic.

ReCOlleCtiOns by President Tuttic.
President Tuttle of Wabash College, CON
tributes to the Cincinnati Gdzette interesting
"reminiscences of Thomas Corwin among
them the following
THE HARRISON CAMPAIGN OF 1910.
My first sight of Mr.. Corwin was during the
Harrison campaign in Ohio, in 1910. He was
at that time addressing audiences in the open
air, the number of which l attempted to de-
scribe in former article. The meetings at
Marietta, GAINESVILLE, Lancaster, Delaware
and other places were on a scale probably
never equaled before or since. 1t was at
Columbus l saw the famous stump orator.
who was then said to have only one rival
IN moving the masses, the late General
4 Thomas l.. Hamer, who lost his life at
Monterey, in the Mexican war. These two
/ men had stumped the State together in a
spirit of the most courteous rivalry and while
they were as unlike as possible, the friends of
I each only ventured to pronounce his hero the
greater man until he had heard his rival
speak. never saw Mr.. Hamer. One day
Mr.. Corwin and other speakers had addressed
an immense meeting at Lancaster, and the
+ next day but one he was to address another
J similar meeting at Delaware. 1t was under
stood that he was to pass through Columbus,
and large cavalcade rode several miles out
from the city to meet him, and not only
escort him in with becoming honor, but ask
him to address the people in the market
Y house.
There was a great excitement in the city,
which seemed alive with people from the
country. The firing of cannon and the
music of bands added to the animation of the
scene. Mr. Corwin in company with
several other distinguished men, among whom
i ex-senator Thomas Ewing was the most
marked. The procession at once escorted
the orators to the market house, where
temporary platform had been erected. The
Stloo nohin' Iuoul6 haUa contained
tenth of the multitude which was there assem-
] bled to hear the orator and the statesman.
He had been speaking necessarily for several
weeks in the canvass of the State for Gene
raj Harrison, the Wing candidate for the Pre-
| sidency, and himself for the Office of Gov
ernor, to which his party had nominated him.
1t is said that during that unequaled poll
tical campaign he addressed the people in
nearly, if not all, the counties in the State
He did not design to speak in Columbus the
! day referred to, having on previous occasions
spoken in the capital; but Off | may copy a
description of the scene, written by myself
not long after it occurred), being waylaid by
his admirers he consented not reluctantly.
CoRwIN's APPEARANCE.
| At that time his appearance was striking
In stature, perhaps five feet eight or ten; thick
set, in good flesh but not at all corpulent
with a gait and air that very much aided his
power to move ones mirth. His complexion
was the darkest 1 ever saw ''worn by white
man." but was of such a color that, while it
suggested many witty allusion to it by him
self and others as Africanish, it itself refuted
any such suspicion. He shaved clean, and
N his swarthy cheeks hung fabbily and loosely
when he was in repose. His eyes were black,
and very fine, especially when he was convers-
ing or speaking. This face to me was a noble
and pleasing one, and his whole appearance
i indicated no ordinary man. AS he walked he
Ill 1,1,
no spruce, dapper ways. His voice was one
of singular richness, compass and effective
ness. AS l now recall several speeches, he
rarely strained his voice, but spoke q great
deal in a conversational tone with wonder
full variety in his modulations as we some
\ times hear gifted conyersationalist.
To hear him was one continued delight, for
not only did his ever-varying tones convey
the bright and clean-cut arguments with which
he convicted you, and the delightful turns of
thought and the one-sided anecdotes and
illustrations, but that wonderful face was all
in motion from his chin to the roots of his
hair, if its every fold and wrinkle and
feature were full of irrepressible fun. Fol
the expression of all mirthful emotions, from
4 the most delicate smile to the broadest
4 laughter, in such a way that it seemed impos
sible not to do what he did, never saw the
match of Mr.. Corwin's face. 1t brought tC
i the owner but the one misfortune, that it wa
so mlrthful that multltudeS failed to get at th
q fact that he had incomparably higher power
than humor mirth, or butfoonery.
THE ASS AND THE OK.
But thai day, at Columbus, his object wa
to get off with as short speech as possible
He was in his most brilliant humOr. On
single passage 1 recall, designed to ridicul
the Democratic ofhce-holder, one of who's
supporters he represented as saying, ''Why
my dear sir, how can it be possible that 5
much trouble and such hard times exist a
you describe, and yet the men whom we hay
elected to Office, and in whom we have III
shaken confidence, never whisper a word
all this? Sir, you must be mistaken, or o,
Office holders would speak = Mr.. Corwin
countenance was the very impersonation
serio-comic gravity while stating this obie
~ tion. Then began that droll working of i
features, at the very sight of which the crow
before he had said a word, laughed me
heartily "Felow-citizens, said he, wi
seriousness quite sepulchral and yet so funn
Il ever allude to the Holy Scriptures wi
W the deepest reverence, and on occasions Ii
the present but seldom. But that veneral
patriarch Job has so completely unravell