The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1892-03-24
HORACE BlES OF IOWA.
SOnslhlug About 4 FlTOhls Sou Of The
HlEksys State.
whsss Nams may Figure on ths Next
BsmecratIs PRESIDENTIAL TIsket.
4 Flrm nsiisver IN Per-
ssaal LIbsrty.

The democratic presidential ticket, and no
one e mentioned more often or iaVorably
than Horace Boles Of walerloo, Iowa. In
most Instances be Is mentioned for the
Office Of vics-president. but now and then
he Is spoken u as an available man TO
head the ticket.
II this man were to journey east and
walk down Broadway he would attract
attention from studenis Of faces. Few,
however, would identity him. True, for
forty years he brealhed the air Of the
Empire state; for fifteen yean he Prae-
ticed law In Erie county, and met Grover
Cleveland at the bar Of Buffalo; and once
he eat IN The legislature At Albany-but
no,Wilhaianding these things be Is praeti-
cally unknown loNew York and the east.
Fame came to him alter be left New York
and settled in lows.
He is Of medium heighih, Of robust
counieranea. His face Is always clean
shaven, his hair Is white. and kindly
light shines through bis grey eyes. lie
neither drinks nor smokes, Heis a'ceur-
teous man, calm and deliberate in con
versaiion.
Meet HIM ia bis private Office 1t the
Capitol At Dcs MOiBes and you get the
impression that be must Be somewhat Of
an orator. He has powerful orotund
voice, He spsaks anently. % the point,
With choics q words and 4 hns regard
for logic. Put some question % him that
requires long answer and be grows en-
phatic IN delivering his sentences. There
isasEeep In his Infections, q sudden
weight thrown upon some important
word and GESTURE to mark the ictus Of
his thought A listener si.s intent.
An Is satisfying until be puts on bis
speciacles 10 read something 10 you.
Then you wish be were not nearsighted,
tor the gold bows DO not become him.
They deiraci hon The pleasing features
q his face. But still you feel that man
addressing a great audience needs not
alusses, and you think once more that
With an the attributes you have noticed
he must be an orator.
And yet be is not, Though his voice
Il strong Il is not resonant Hisspeeches
have the finish Of legal argument, but
lack The beauty Of metaphor, the salt Of
vii. OF imagination be has little Or
none.
"AHidsvit Boics" Is the name that the
Haukeyo people have learned 10 can
him. A republican lawyer Is RESPONSE.
BE Cor Ire creation Of this title. This 70
publican lawyer is Judge Hubbard. He
Is counsel 10 Iowa for The Chicago and
Northwestern railroad. A case concern.
ing tho railr6ad was 70 Be- tried before
jury and Hubbard was 70 speak Tor The
company. He found that Boies was D.
arsue for the other side and TO some d
the Tailroad officers Judgs Hubbard mad
the following remark some days before
the trial;
You don't want % feel sure, ? he said
sthai We are going 70 win this case. ioi
that man Boies L on the other side, and
when he gets before Jury and looks Al
them il is almost enough 70 win the case
Hi face i 90 honest that Il Is Ike ~
affidavit q facts that you can't dispute.
This strength Of personality hyailsd
him greatly in political eampaignine
He drew and held and convinced larger
numbers than any other speaker In III,
most hercely fought contest that lows
ever had.
Boies does not use tahaceo or liquor
buf be says II other people DO and Z,
doesn't hurt them he hasn't any objection
Heshaves himself; doesn't play cards o.
swear; can appreciate joke, but he isrol
90 adept At making one or telling stories
likes 10 ride horseback but isn't much Of
asp0rtsnan.
He talks freely TO newspaper men ano
says be knows bis friends are talking Of
him Tor The presidency, but be Won't liil
hls little finger 70 get L.
Until be was sixty-hye years old
Horace Boios ha d been . republican,
For he last eight years he has been .
damocrat For The last three years be
has been the foremost democrat in The
newly democratic state Of Iowa. The
story Of how be became converted and
how the state was converted Is one and
The sane. Il furnishes an illustration Of
hoE many men In Iowa have been moved
byconscience and faith In principles.
Iowa was republican through the war
and aiief the war, because the lows
people believed that The republican party
was the guardian Of The national ieder-
alton and The exponent Of sound theories.
Horace Boies was republican Tor like
raasona
II the 20 yeafs Of life in the easi he had
never been politician. The holding d
Office did not attract hem.
In 1880 The republican party At It's No.
iional convention adopted a protection
plank which antagonized the belief o
most Iowa republicans.
Among those Who were dissatisfied wa
Horace Boies.
Argument was made By FepublicaF
leaders that n0lWiihstandingthe national
attitude q ihs party they should all main
tain their rllesianee TO the orsaniza
ilon.
With NE Independent lawyer Of Water