The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1892-03-15

hair, "black clothes, better than his hat,
not stylishly cut but comfortably
fitted;" legs crossed, exhibiting feet not
of stylish but of comfortable size, brows
knit, and brain deep in study, of course,
of the editorial policy of the Chicago
Herald.
Boies as governor is disposed of in few
words. "When visitors call on him. II
they are of the male variety and have
only half an excuse in the way OF busi-
siness, they are courteously received.
But from mere curiosity seekers he
wishes to be excused" Here the artist
seized upon his first real opportunity.
He has given us Boies "At His Desk OF
carved mahogany full of stuffed pigeon
holes" "dodging visitors" by dropping his
head and making sneak behind its
high top, while ladies in broad hats
ungallant Horace! cluster in the door
way and rise ,in vain or tiptoe for a
glimpse of him.
But it is upon Boies as the modern
Cincinnatus that the Herald men have
lavished their best energies. He has
certain rural habits at table which strike
the visitor as odd" Courtesy prevents
the scribe from going farther, but the
sketcher gives us "Boies at Dinner his
napkin tucked under his chin and a
small mountain Of something ragged
and dripping in process of elevation per
knife from plate to mouth. "Should he
ever reach the White House," comments
the writer, "the country would have
President about as fresh from the people
and about as near TO the people as it
would be possible to secure" Behind
the Governors plate at the hotel table
stands a solemnly astonished negro, of
whom the Governors brother, who also
is near to the people, is reported to have
said, she ought to be gettin' ready to
plant corn"
This brother is one of Boies' most
available assets. Think Of the value to
candidate of brother who "jest
stopped off," on inauguration day, ION
his way-down to Ottumwy," hearin'
that Horace was goin' to be swore in as
Guv'nor," and wanting to '' see the fun"
The brother is not illustrated, though
his facial expression when he remarked
at the gubernatorial banquet, them
silver spoons is all nonsense" would
have been worth thousand votes, if
registered. But "Boies at Home"
makes a good picture. Horace is shown
rs farmer, and the trouser leg nearer
the spectator is tucked into his boot top
ostentatiously, though the far trouser
leg has been allowed heedlessly to slip
down. There are turkey gobblers and
hens and chickens in the picture, and
also shirt sleeves.
The Herald has done up the amiable
old Iowa gentleman in good style. His
nose, it says, is "just "a trifie too red to
harmonize with his pallid skin = but
here nature has done him injustice, for
Gov. Horace neither drinks nor uses
tobacco, but " is just as plain, just as
unassuming and just as close to every
day people as was Lincoln, though he is
lacking in Lincoln's quality of magnet
ISM"
And in one other of Lincoln's qualities
unless the News is greatly mistaken.
The Illinois rail splitter didn't lie awake
nights trying to juggle as to his position
on finance, and while Boies does this,
though he eat with knife and "A steel
one at that, and wear homespun and
hunt his own eggs and medicine his
own young turkeys, he can never be
really near to the heart of the American
people, for with all its political vagaries
this nation, as nation, loves honesty.
BE straightforward and say you're for
free silver or against it, Farmer Horace.