, 1888-11-25
KArEs OF ADVERTISING.
JNo. F. CARROLL. Editor
THE MANS IRREGULARITIES.

Thousands of people all over the
try are just now trying to make an honest
estimate of the character and ability of
the president-elect A critical and APP
parently quite Just estimate Of the man
we find in the Chicago Neos. 1t will be
of interest to everybody regardless of
politics.
IAN his friends agree, " say the Meas
correspondent. that his most prominent
characteristic is on the religious side. He
is a Presbyterian of the severest school
and he is intensely interested in questions
of doctrine. The only books that he
reads for pleasure are those concerned
in the development OF the Calyinistlc sys-
TEN and others touching upon the Crom-
welliaD period. He is said to fancy that
his own character is like Gen. Harrison
of the English revolution, and he knows
more about the life and time of that
Roundhead trooper than he does of his
grandfather, the president. But he
reads few books and has little sympathy
with book culture. The only novel he
has ever been hoard TO praise is Lew
Wallace's ben Hur." He reads the
newspapers as part of his days work, but
for pleasure he takes the Presbyterian
Herald.
He does not play cards, checkers,
chess, dominoes or anything of the sort,
and has a horror of gambling and gam
blers. Neither does he drink. and when
in 1884 he gave a formal state dinner to
Blaine and other notables wine was con-
%spicuous by its absence from his table.
He has declared, however, that he will
not depart from the usual state custom,
and that wine will be served to those who
wish it at the white house. The generals
Danville speech has been often quoted to
show hat he had l~eanings toward prohi-
bition. He is absolutely destitute of a
sense OF humor and, it is said. when in a
company where merry tales are told, his
laugh is rather a concession to his idea of
the demand which public opinion makes
upon him than a symptom of enjoyment.
When men are gathered together and a
story which might be described as unfit
for publication is told the general does not
laugh, but he does not leave the room.
The president-elect is very fond of the
table and he is dainty rather than a
hearty eater.
General Harrison is not popular in In
dianapolis. He is too cold and unrespon.
sive. He ian be almost clammy when he
wishes. The result was that in a presi-
Dental election into which every element
OF city and county pride entered he car
red indianapolis by l56 votes, but lost
the county-Marion-by 387, although
Marion county gave Blaine 229 plurality
IN 1884. In his old regiment-tbe Tenth
Indiana-he was also unpopular. As one
of the veterans said, Harrison in the army
was a martinez of the most severe sort,
and as particular about uHimportant de
tails as an old maid. Sleeping on a log
in a swamp he had headquarters guards
stationed around him. He was q fighter
though, and he won respect where he
could not WIN love.
One fault of the general as a politician
is his inability to remember names and
faces, a trouble which he remedies by
Rowing and shaking hands with every
body. Half the time he cannot remem-
Der the names of the people who use the
next pew to him in church, and be has
invariably declined to take part in any
social function which implied the intro
duction of anybody to anybody else, as at
receptions and the like. The general is
entirely conscious of his own weakness,
or rather Of the causes of his failure to
make a good impression. and it is mani
fest to all Indianapolis that he is going to
the utmost pains to be courteous and COM
panionable. His geniality needs oiling.
1t creaks.