Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-08-24
HAYES AT HOME.
What Kind Of Man He is.-- Some In
rs ID cidents i'm Ills Life.

A correspondent Of che Chicago
Tribune, writing from Columbus. o.,
gives a pleasant personal sketch lof
Gov. r. b. Hayes. from which the fol-
lowing extracts are taken: "That is
Gov. Hayes" said Private Secretary
Lee. as the Governor passed into his
private office without stopping, so
that had scarce time to hastily note
what T have written
We followed there was no non
sense Of sending In cards and waiting
to be summoned by an attendant
and there was that quiet simplicity
OF manner in his reception that puts
one at ease AZ once. There was
nothing gushing or effusive about
Gov. Faves' maEner. He didn't stiff
| iy take my hand with the awful Sen
atorial solemnity cultivated by states
men about Washington. Nor did he
shake It with pump-handle fervor
7 hadn't anticipated any OF these
things Of Gov. Hayes. I knew him
when he was a Congressman from
one of the Cincinnati districts, and in
those days nobody knew Rutherford
B. Hayes without soon finding out
that he Vas incapable OF shamming
or OF posing for effect, while he was
of that rare type of self-contained
men who, knowing how and when.
select their own occasions for max
ing public utterances, and are invul-
nerable to all the interviewing tubes,
augers and gimlets. A glance 'suffic-
ed to show that he remained pre-
cisely that manner OF man, only more
so; aud look into his large, steel
gray eyes--keeDly observant, and of
the solt that never would
have satisfied the most pertinacious
interviewers OF the bootlessness of
attempting TO interview Hayes 1t
wasn't my mission to attempt it. But,
while the conversation turned upon
our Cincinnati acquaintances of IA
dozen or more years. made study
OF him. 1.-THE portraits of him, so far
as | have seer? are not quite libelous,
but they are little like the man.
There is mono of that hard contour
about his face that appears in them.
Instead, his features are noble and
expressive. Strong and full OF char
acter the photographs show them to
be, with his full, high forehead, broad
across the brow, his prominent nose,
slightly aquiline, and closely trimmed
beard. But what is not repro
duced in the photographs is the open
record of cleanly life, honest purpose,
and traightforwardness, that is writ
in every line of his face, and reflected
IN the Unconscious openness and
frankness with which he meets your
glance. and which no man OF con-
cealments could successfully assume.
In conversations his face lights up
with animation; and, while his prais-
es are never oratorical or 'fiorid but
clear-cut and precise, have seen his
eyes kindle in a way that betokened
earnestness or enthusiasm quite at
variance with the notion cultivated
i'm some parts that he is a cold
blooded fellow, distinguished chiefly
by moderation not so much judi
cious as the vitable result OF a
sluggish temperament. His fine, flor
id complexion, his reddish-auburn
hair and beard, both now tinged with
gray, his quick glance, and habitualiy
active manner, all attest that his tenn
permanent is OF the nervous order.
With less breadth of shoulder and
chest, he would inevitably have been
nervous. But his physique is too
splendid to admit OF his being ner-
vous, and his self-poise is that which
belongs TO perfect health. He is a
man OF blood and bone and nerve,
all in splendid order, who, at 81,
looks younger than most men at 45;
is active and alert: and nobody who
takes a good look at him would mis-
take him for man of cold, sluggish
temperament. He is endowed with
superabundant vitality, none OF which
he has dissipated. He is OF cores
ponding energy when occasion re-
quires, as those who know the inside
history OF the Ohio campaign last
fall, and how Hayes himself directed
it throughout, will testify. His luck
has none Of it been mere luck. 1t
was the result OF political sagacity of
that very uncommon sort that pro-
ceeds from enlightened common
sense; and that sagacity was directed
by a honorable, energetic ambition.
He isn't of the restless, spluttering
sort. But he couldn't but be enef-
getic and ambitious, IL he tried; and
it occurred to me as eminently char
acteristic when, in reply to my ques-
tion whether he hadn't at the expira-
ton of his first term as Governor,
contemplated returning to the Bar
at Cincinnati, he said:
Ten years gone leave big gap in
ones life. Ten of the best years of
mine had gone in the army and in
public life. Had returned to the
Bar. / should have been ten years
Behind. and it would have required
immense labor to have caught up
to have gained that position in the
profession which, had I returned to
the Bar, l should have set out to
gain. Had occasion required it,
should have returned to practice,
and have gone at it, and shouldn't
have stopped until 7 had caught up.
But i was asked to run again, and
did des9r"y All those here who know
him best will tell you that. instead of
being borne along by his good luck,
he is a. man of clearly defined pur-
pose, who more than once has set
out behind, but has "kept at it with
out stopping" until he has overtaken