The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-01-09
The Famous Kentucky Edit 1r rxsE
lows Beecher in ii Half-honr
Address.

! 10 nave 10 lollDW ItHi.f Ndiu
Beecher in making an address at a
public meeting is a di~heartening du-
ty to most orators. The audiei ce is
to be pitied too, for there are few men
who a nope to excel the great Con-
gregationalist in playing upon the
emotions, the passions, or even the
int ~ligence of an audience a. he has
always been able to do. 1t was to
this task that Henry Watterson, the
kentucky editor, found himself as
signed at the great free-trade meeting
in the Cooper institute the other
evening. Beecher had the advant-
age of being a world famous and
great man, and he achieved Il greater
victory tefore he opened his mouth
than Everett p. Wheeler and David
Wells did when they had circulated
their addresses. Yet Watterson
sir de boldly to the edge of the plat
form and in two minutes had the
vast audience applauding; had it
laughing in five minutes; had it eX-
cited in ten minutes, and after thai
used it as it's master AMI made 1t the
slave of his magic for fully half All
hour,
He is a singular looking man in
the first place. He is of medium
height and plump form, and mis- dress
fitted him as tight as Il label fits on a
bottle. His black trousers were with
out a crease-two even cylinders nf
cloth that rounded tightly aver mis-
spherical corporation. HIS vest was
equally close fitting, and his sw:iio"
tailed coat looked as if it must have
been put on and sewed In its place.
He wore no jewels or jewelry except
a little bali of gold that dangl-a rom
the second button from the last on
his vest, aud must have been fastened
to a chain hidden under bis coat.
His head and face are knightly ana
heroic in contour and pose. Hls
light brown hair is parted on one
side and falls down Ov+r his brow on
the other side i'm well pltnned dls''i-
der. 1t is o little longer behind IMAM
we are used to seeing mems hair in
New York, yet it is not in any strict
sense long. His high brow, large
eyes, large, well-shaped nose aud
heavy chin, as we'll as his habit Of
throwing back his head, give him an
air of boldness and aggressive cour-
age. He is handsome in SPITE OF the
fact that the sight is gone from one
eye.
He %gesticulates little and stifflv.
His habit, when speaking, l, to il"id
his arms down by his sides, with tine
fingers and thumbs of each hand
pressed solidly together and b. Mt
backward. His hands twilch from
nervousness as he speaks. Indeed,
he is so that any baby can
sit still for a longer time than he ever
does. H has a loud, powerful voice
that filled the great hall of the Cooper
Union as if it bad been no more than
an ordinary parlor. He delivers each
word by itself, and sometimes separ-
ates each syllable of a word he wishes
to emphasize. And every word or
syllable comes out like a cannon shot.
He is bold in thought, rich in poetry
and imagery, tender when he wants
to be, and either brilliant, indepen
dent. or grave and olemn, as the
humor catches him. Slang is not
despised by him when it expresses al
idea, and he hesitates at nothing i'll
ordes to be forcible. II b ing u
message from Gods country said
he when he merely meant to intimate
in one word the wealth of nature in
the South. "Let us look at the two
great political parties" said he. when
he added, II admit they're both ol'
hacks. "-Chicago Herald.