Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-07-03

| Cal. Bucc is man OF much ability
| lie b. more oil a developer OF properties
| than a wrcckcr oi them, and though he
| euChercd the Naudefbilts, they say, as
| To- the Nicklc Plate railroad, he has
built up many good properties. lie
q mc not long ago that Campbell OF
O no would make a good presidential
candidate. and said he (lifice) did rot
want the presidency himself, because h,
had too much business on hand, and he
mad noticed that when the White House
bee got into q mans hair his business
brains usually lew out OF his ears.
nooKwALrER or ONO.
Another Ohio millionaire who will
strut across the Chicago stage is Iohn
| w. Boukwalter Ot Springfield. Book.
walter has amassed big pile in manu-.
featuring and inventing. He makes
I farm implements, aud he is / am tod,
worth his millions He came from
/ Indiana, where he was brought up on
/ farm, At tweniy-threc he struck out
Tor himself, and now having made his
| fortune, he amuscs bis leisure by play.
Ing az farming on large scile. Among
/ other properties he has q Straightforward.
acre tact ol land In Nebraska. OF this
forty thousand acres are under cultiya,
/ ton, and IN good years Bookwaller pro.
| duees as much as 10000 bushels OF
/ wheat al a single season. lie farms his
! land through lcssees, each Of whom has
100 acres, aud It IS his idea eventually TO
| build town IN the center OF this biz
! farm and to manage It on the French
] plan making model country town out
OF Il Bookwalter is something OF a
| presidential candidate and he Is one OF
those men concerning whom Il is no,
safe TO prophecy. lie is In his fiftics
/ and IS still m the very prime OF lie.
/ don't think he has ever held any public
4 Office, but he has had more experience
than the average politician. lie is n
man OF broad guagc ideas and Is one OF
the most cultured and Travelled men Of
I tie Democratic party. lie has been all
over Europe, has taken a trip around
the world anu knows the United States
! like book. lie is conservative on the
money question and his strength In
ONO IS such that he would make an
available candidate.
TWO CONFEDERATE GENERALS.
There will be big contingent here
! from the south. Some OF the most stfik.
/ ing figures on the political stage are
/ southern Democrats. Let me show Won
/ one Of them. Imagine man OF six
I iCeI dressed In black broadcIoth. Lei
him have a face bearing all the classical
| lines Of Edwin Booth and let his long
/ bar be as black as was that OF lohn
Wilkes Booth when he jumped out of
| tie Presidents box IN Furd's Theater al
Washington. Let the mans face be
llond, but let every line beull oil culture.
! Tut him on crulches and let him move
about with dignity from one place to
another and you have Senator John w.
! Daniel Of Virginia, the sllyeT-tongued
orator OF the south, tue opponent Of
President Cleveland, aud the great ad.
vocaie oil free silver. lie is one OF the
uralniest and bravest, Us well as one OF
the klndest OF our public men, and did
YOU Know him well lie might tell you
as he did me the other day how he got
the wounds which so crippled him. lie
went into the southern army as boy
and had risen, ! think, TO be adjuiant
general at the time he was so badly shot.
lie was riding his horse and cannon
ball took away q portion OF his thigh.
lie iell ana lay Tor some time in the
midst OF the battle until one OF his own
soldiers who was also wounded, dragged
h'AA NNhAAA "a A1ks lHtlt TIC TWO lay
together Tor more than halt an hour
with the bullets flying, the shells burst
ing and the battle going on all about
them. When the fight was finished
Daniel was carried to the hospital. The
surgeon said he would die, but section
Of his thigh bone was cut away and his
youthful vitality was such that he re-
covered. lie has today six inches OF
bone out OF one OF his legs and still he
manages 10 do good work, though he is
In constant pain. lie told me that he
thought his wound had been good
thing for him In that il was during his
six months IN the hospital that he &C.
CURED his taste for reading and there
began the studies the continuation OF
which have developed him into the ia.
nous man that lie is. Daniel made a
reputation as lawyer before he got into
politics, lie has written two good law
books and one OF these has already paid
him more than $4,000 in royalties.
CRNRRAL GoRDoN's NERVE.
Goodness on the battlefield is some.
what similar to coolness in great con.
vention,, THIS fight 81 the Democrats
will be bitter one, and Il will require
nerve for the men here to say what they
think, Among the nervisst OF the lot Is
General John b. Gordon OF Georgia,
and he may make one OF the biz
speeches OF the convention. Senator
Gordon IS now realizing a fortune out OF
his lectures, and lie has gotten much
lame as an orator, He is tall, straight
and gyay'halred. Socially he Is impul.
sive and full OF feeling, but In action he
is the coolest OF the cool, and whatever
be the troubles here he will not lose his
head. A remarkable instance Of his
nerve occurred at the battle OF Sharps.
burg, at which he was wounded. lie
was shot by bullet IN the head,
knocked from his horse and thrown in a
half conscious state on the battlefield.
AS he lay there he reasoned with him
sell, and not long ago he described his
sensations at the time, as follows. lie
said;
can remember the operations OF my
mind II seemed to me was sollloquiz.
ing AVID that said 10 myself:
,..,t had IL a. ghntai ~.