Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-12-03

Intellectually. He was born in st. Lawrence
county, this state. a region noted for its stall
wart and successful politicians. His father was
a hard-headed Presbyterian of the strictest
should paddle his own canoe" He did so
and paddles it most successfully. He worked
his way through Oberlin University, studied
theology in the Presbyterian Seminary in Ale
geny. where he was graduated in 1882 and or
dained Congregational minister From 1857
until 1885 he was pastor at Echo and Salt Lake
City, Utah. He removed to South Dakota in
the early part OF 1886, residing for fours years
at Ipswich as pastor Of the Congregational
Church there, and in 1890 settled in Aberdeen.
He was elected TO the South Dakota state
senate in 1890, and q short time after. in a con-
test which lasted forty days, WIS chosen As an
independent to the United States Senate. l
have been told that Kyle had little to do with
politics until after he went to Dakota
N THE FARMERS ALLIANCE
He did nothing there until the Farmers
Alliance movement came into prominence.
Then he jumped into the fray and argued the
cause OF the farmers with great enthusiasm and
vigor. II is said that a seat in the federal Sem
ate a thing of which he had never dreamed,
and he bad resolved to leave South Dakota and
settle in Boston when elected. Senator Kyle Is
tall, thin and angular in appearance, and his
shapely head is covered with Q great shock Of
red hair. As a Senator he has proved hard
working and industrious, and has won the re-
spect and esteem of his colleagues. OF Sena-
tor Kyle's political methods amusing story
is told When a candidate for state senator he
made house to house canvass, and had q very
large district to cover. During the season in
which he conducted his canvass the farmers
were really too busy to talk politics, so Senator
KYLE took with him in his tours a stout. lusty
negro and then went right into the fields after
his votes. Introducing himself to the busy
tiller Of the soil, and engaging the latter q mo-
ment in conversation. he would have the negro
take the pillow and continue the field work. while
candidate and farmer would 60 of under q tree
and talk things over. 1t is needless to add that
he was elected to the state senate by whopping
majority.
SENATOR coLoUTTr A MINISTER.
Senator Kyle is not the only ministerial men,
Der of the Senate. Senator Colquitt of Georgia
was long a Methodist local minister and still
breaches occasionally. Senator Colquitt has
often been described as modified edition of
StonewaH Jackson. He Is one Of the ablest
and best known southerners now in public life.
He is of medium height and solid build, with
clean-cut classical features and magnetic per-
sonality which makes him power with the
masses. He has been in public life for nearly
forty years and served in the lower house Of
Congress before Senators Morrill, and Sherman
took their seats there. His aspirations have
often been bitterly opposed, but he has never
several occasions he has made political trips
through his state on horseback, addressing the
village folk from the saddle. Though dgnifed
in character he can accommodate himself with
to the exigencies of any situation. He has
often preached to the negroes from the pulpits
of their own churches; has filed several
pastorates during the absence of the
regular appointee; has talked to the pro-
hibitionists in the afternoon and to the
"wet" Georgia CRACKERS in the evening"
and has not only succeeded in winning, but also
in holding the confidence. and esteem of the
Georgia people. Athough now nearly seventy
he is still as active as man Of forty. Senator
Colquitt was born in Georgia in 1924. graduated
from Princeton in 1874 and during the Mexican
war served q staff officer with the rank of
major. He was first q minister; then gained
admission to the BAR and when the state Of
Georgia seeded entered the confederate serv-
ice a captain, rising to the rank Of major
general He did the bulk of the preaching and
praying for his command between battles
during the war and was as dogged q war fiend
as Jackson on the plain of conflict. In 1876 he
was elected governor of Georgia and in 1888 en-
tered the Senate as the successor of the late
Senator Hill.