The Saline County journal., 1880-04-08
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL PHOTO
GRAPHS OF KANSAS.


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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL PHOTO.
GRAPHS OF KANSAS.
From the Topeka Capitol.
The Kansas City Times sent Eugene
Fields, one of the brightest young
newspaper writers i'm the west, to re-
mort the recent state convention. The
InpitH does not endorse the Times es-
innate of our prominent republicans,
i'm fact. the Times is not authority on
republican matters, but there are SO
MANY points in the following pen pic
tures that are good and near enough
the truth to be worth reading:
In the matter of dress, do not see
that the Kansas politician differs very
much from his kind i'm Missouri. Ben.
Simpson, who is United States mar
shall of this district, is perhaps the
most neatly attired man l have seen
vet there is nothing particularly fine
in anything he wears. Senator
Plumb, who, by the way, arrived yes
terday from Washington to lend a
helping hand as a Blaine delegate
from Lyon county, is q modest, sub
stantial looking man, but would never
be singled out of a crowd as
AN INTELLECTUAL PRODIGY
You would pass him on the streets q
thousand times and never once mis-
take him for a great man. He looks
like a prosperous merchant. 1 never
see him that / don't feel like going
up to him and asking him if the dry
goods trade is booming. Stumbaugh,
who is here not as delegate but as q
lOOker-On, is one of your cavalierly
looking men--a very straight figure,
his coat buttOned ut the waist, his hat
slOuched carelessly on his head and a
very martial moustache gracing his
upper lip and partially cOncealing u
mouth that by its shape and lines be-
tokens shrewness almost to suspicion
and resolution almost to Obstinacy.
Stumbaugh has blue eyes that can wear
a look of innocence and guilelessness
that would make q cOquettish maiden
blush for envy. Stunbaugh is very
genial in his manner, and this, togeth-
er with that wOndrOus look out of his
round solemn blue eyes, quite wins
your confidence at the outset. Then
when he talks with you he has habit
of getting close up to you and whisper
ing his words i'm your ear as ifwhat he
said was the prOfOundest secret in the
world. l used to think that CELSIUS
Price, of st. Louis, was the only poll
tician who fully understood the
MANIPULATION OF THE HUMAN EAR,
but 1 believe Stumbaugh could give
number of laps.
Governor st. John is of course
pointed out as one of the nOtables. He
must be great man or he would not
be governor of Kansas. But he is very
secretive and he cOnceals his great
ness with surprising success. He has
however none of those elements of
greatness which are SO apparent in
our own honored Governor Phelps; he
is sound in his legs however weak in
his upper stories, his teeth fit him
snugly and he has no prOclivity
towards dispOrting among the fairer
sex. If any one were to insinuate that
st. John wore false teeth, there's no
telling what awful fate would befall
him. Baker, the editor of the Topeka
Commonwealth, saysSt. John is a id
weak sister. Another old resident,
Judge BOrland, believe, who draws
his information from sources that can
not be doubted, says that st. Johns
mOustache was put in with q pegging-
aWl. That mOustache is the pride ef
the governors life. 1t is not Q mild,
mOustache, nOR the burly,
sweeping mOustache Of the average
Pullman cas conductor and Chicago
drummer. bu% TIE
A FIERCE, wII.D AoUsEAcHE
each bristle of which hesrsss own aim
in life, and that-a:ssf e to run In q diff
ferent dipoctfOn from every ether bris-
b~-- The fretted p0rcupine's quills are
howhsre compared with that NOUS
lnche. There is only one barber in
Topeka who can handle it with any
1egree OF success, and he used to be
\ gardener before he abandoned the |
rake for the comb. st. John is so |
proud of his mOustacbe that he has it |
iyed every two weeks. Young Mr..
Dillon Judge DillOn's SOM, while |
upon the governor the |
'ther night, casually remarked that |
he had observed that the man who |
lyed his mOustache was invariably q
After all a man is judged |
~ little things; when you discover |
hat st. John brushes his hair over in |
rOnt of his left ear and over behind |
lis right ear you may form a pretty |
orrect idea of the mans character
ne who for the sake of pleasing every |
'Ody will make himselfridiculCus and |
'lease nobody.
John A. Martin of Atchisen, is one
# the sleekest looking of the visiting |
tatesmen. John is
NOT ONLY SLEEK BUT SLICK.
ohm looks like commercial traveller.
lis bump of acquisitiveness is very
arge; some day he will be one of the
ichest men IN Kansas. He is getting
ich by working at the printing busi-
less. He never worked for anything
n his life-he is too indOlent. He
owes repOse. He was born tired and
ever caught up. He has big chair
n his printing office in which he
leeps during the day, and yet he al
rays manages to wake up in
lme TO slip in on the big fat
ontracts whenever they're lurking
John has but one GRIFFIN life,
nd that is that he has to breathe. His
Iearied disposition is apparent in his
very act. He can't talk to u man un-
,ss he's sitting down or leaning up
gainst something Ithas been very
musing to see him lOunging over the
lbles and chairs at the Tefn House
nd firing himself out talking to the
delegates.
A week or so ago, Web Wilder said
, ne, You must be sure to hear Nate
rice and Jim Legate il they speak in
le convention, for they are the two
ost powerful speakers i'm Kansas"
9th were elected delegates, but a ,
urier trial detained Price at home ,
Doniphan county. i imagine that {
,thing short of
HIS OWN FUNERAL IL
ou!d keep Legate away from q poll
al convention. He is professional
'litician. He is native of Massa- E
usetts, and has natural gifts of an
character. His per- 8
ptive faculties are intensely keen, e
d his tenacity that of q bulldog. '
ley accord him the credit of being
e best parliamentarian i'm the state. q
ice has smoother, more logical
md, but not the half of Legate's cum n
ny, force or vigor. Legate is said to o
absolutely soulless, and his appear u
ce indicates as much. He is q pon- Il
rous mass of flesh, his eyes are small n
4 cold and calculating, his mouth o
; hard stolid lines about il. y
By the way how does il happen that n
nssis politicians are either very fat
a