The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-18
sIBLEY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

1t is great many years since Joe sib
| ley expounded good Methodist doctrine
! from the sacred dock, but he has never
been able TO divest himself entirely of the
pulpit attitude and gait, and whenever he
! looks at you with those big earnest eyes
you feel instinctively that he is going tc
ask you to lead in prayer. His friends
say. however, that it is a great eye for q
bluff, and that the past reverend never
haggles over the anti.
No one doubts .Sibley's good intentions
but he almost acknowledges that he is in
politics for the amusement it affords. He
is rich and fond of hobbies Once started
on any undertaking Sibley throws his
whole soul into the fight, and he will stay
by banner as long as there is any one
to combat him.
Free silver is not popular subject in
the state of Pennsylvania, and the es-
pousal of the cause has almost lost to as
powerful a man as Senator Cameron his
popularity. Sad as it may seem to the
educated people of the west, Cameron and
Sibley'S ideas of the silver issue are re-
garded as freakish by the people Of the
Quaker state.
Sibley was one of the celebrated ''306''
in the national Republican convention of
1880. that stood out a solid phalanx for
General Grant until forced from the field
by their gallant leader. Sibley has always
been proud of this achievement, although
he afterwards became Democrat.
II am farmer said Sibley once dur
ing the Fifty-third Congress as he sat in
the Senate restaurant, smoking a 5O-cent
cigar. the remains of a SIG luncheon on on
extent that satisfies one of the truth OF
the assertion. for in 1886 he joined the
Farmers alliance. He switched from the
Republican party in 1884, drawn into the
Democracy by the masterful intelligence
OF Samuel j. Randall.
Sibley enjoys the almost unique dstinc-
ton of having been elected to Congress
from a district in which he was not a
resident. The people of the Twenty-sixth
Congressional district of Pennsylvania
chose him as their representative in the
Fifty-third Congress, while he lives in the
Twenty-seventh district. Sibley may ex-
plain this by. saying that the prophet is
not appreciated in his own country On
this ne was the nominee Of the
Democrats, and he received 1s,SS7 votes,
as against 1850 for his Republican oppo-
nent.
being a good man and philanthropist.
philanthropy is luxury which | can af-
ford he once said. He has grown very
rich in business career or 20 years and
he is proud of the fact that although he
has made a practice of loaning lots OF
money to poor people he has never taken
a cent of interest He is large employ
err of labor. but he has never had any
trouble with his men.
Sibiey sprung at once into national fame
in the Fifty-third Congress by the stand
he took upon the silver question TO every = 3,
state. He opposed the repeal of the Sher-
man act with all the power of his earn
est personality, and his speeches were
listened to even by his enemies. His
speech in January last, on the banking
and currency question, attracted a great
deal of attention in the camp of the enc
mics of the white metal, and placed him
in the position that he now occupies as
presidential possibility.
He was born in Friendship township,
Allegheny county, New York. on Febru-
airy lS 1850, and received common school
edltcatiou He moved to PENNSYLVANIA
early in life and made his fortune in the
oil and coal business. He lives in Frank
lin. Pa. when he has time to be at home.
The thing he takes most pride in is his
great stock farm which is perhaps the fin
est in the world His Jersey cattle are
famous. and his horses are prize-winners
wherever they appear
Teeth filed without pain by DR.. E. NJ.
Eeysor. 1. 2. 8. Scott-Auerbach building.