St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-26
Letitia Stevenson.

gets some of his Kentucky polish when
he gets on the stump. AS he warns up
TO his subject he takes off his
cuffs, then his necktie, then his
shirt collar, and if the weather is very
warm he pulls of his coat, and he
thrashes around like young hurricane.
His voice on an occasion of tn sort be-
comes husky. and he gets red i'll the face
and looks as if he was going to have an
attack of apoplexy. He has had remark
able success at the bar in criminal cases.
In any case where he appears for
woman he is effective. One of The most
brilliant speeches he ever made was in
case of this sort, lii his office, at
street corner, or at the club he is one of
the best story tellers l ever heard, but
when he gets on the stump his fund of
humOr seems to run out. He is men,
ber of the Presbyterian church, doesn't
drink much, never SwearS, and never
tells a salaciOus aEecdote. One of the
most prominent traits in his character
is his devotion to his family. There is
not man living who ever heard of his
neglecting the slightest wants of his
household"
An offensive Partisan.
A prominent Republican of Bloom
ington, whose social relations with Mr..
Stevenson are close. said to the corre-
spondent: II have been told since the
nomination of Mr.. Stevenson that the
nomination was dictated by Grover
Cleveland. do not believe that.
81 do not know whether you ever
heard the story or not, but t heard 1t
from an unquestionable source that the
first time Grover Cleveland ever used
the words offensive partisan they were
applied to Adlai Stevenson. Stevenson
was the same sort of man in the Cleve-
land administration as Clarkson was to
the Harrison administration. The secret
of StevenSon'S nomination for the vice
presidency in my opinion comes from
his being a relative of Mckenzie, of
Kentucky, and Mckenzie is the
man who arranged for Steven
sons nomination, and in it he
was promised the support and backing
of Henry Watterson. Some people
think that Tammany had something to
do with the nomination of Stevenson.
There is no question that Tammany's
vote for him did much to bring over
some of the states which felt as if Tam
many should be regarded in the trans
action. But the nomination comes from
Kentucky, and no Kentucky Democrat
in Illinois will ever go to Mr.. Steven
sons home i'll Washington. Should he be
elected, and come away dry. Much of
StevenSOn'S popularity is due to his gall
lantry to women. He wins them, and
they become his advocates. Ii the
women of this country had the right of
suffrage Stevenson would be elected
vice president by an overwhelming ma
jority."
Tom Bum says that there will be no
fish stories told about Stevenson. "He
can't fish worth cent" said Mr.. Bum,
"but he can eat 'em with more relish
than any man | ever saw. He is one of
the best livers | ever knew. He is an
epicure. It's great ticket we have got.
Cleveland can catch fiSh anywhere eX-
cept on dry land, and Stevenson can eat
'em."
Mr.. Stevenson was college boy in
the Presbyterian school at Danville, KY,
of which l.. w. Green was president.
Jim" Ewing, his law partner, was a
student with him at the same time.
Matt Scott married one of President
Green's daughters and moved to ChenOa,
Ill. After the death of President Green
his family came to live with Mr.. Scott.
Stevenson, who in the meantime had
opened law office at Metamora, ILL.,,
went to Chenoa accounting.
Story of His Courtship.
When student in Danville he had
met Letitia Green. 1t was the old story,
the beauty of her face had followed him
to the Prairie state, and when she re-
moved hele he went to pay her his ad-
dresses. The courtship took place on
the veranda of the Scott mansion, at
Chenoa. A woman in Bloomington who
knows says that it was on an evening
in June and that Stevenson'S proposal