The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-06-26
SILVER'S
APOSTLE.
Life Story Of Richard
Parks Bland.
A FREE COINAGE CHAMPION
: Looming Up as a President'a
: Possibility.
FREE COINAGE CHAMPION

looming Up % q ly
Possibility. CO
I'll
~. s..rch Mtssourian's Long Fight FOR VI
rree Cosnage-skstch Of HIS Carser-A" n
n~rn.u n Thirteen--His Experiences >" %
.n. var West-How He Met His ""e' =
p,.n.a Into Poiitics-His Eleven Terms
In Congress Home Life ON the Fs'"'
personal Characteristics. I
..Ths time has come. the wairus e"'u'
..To talk Of lusny things" s.
And now Il Is time TO talk OF BLAND
=, M;asonri-Dick Bland, as he Is
fondly termed by all those VINO i've ~
and around the little town OF Lepaio,,,
,.,h;ch has been his home for the last ~
ro.rs-time TO talk Of him because pup
i;c interest in him is just now at whi'e
heat The silver question. his beloved
hohbv. TO which he has devoted the pes'
years OF his life, has now 40 Tar aevsi-
orod that the tail has dropped on inc
Interrogation point. and II IS no 'onk.'
: = question, but . determined propsi
t;on-the gold men say a menace-a,lu
}. Mr.. Bland may be called upon 70 'aNe
: charge Of the great untutored io'ce
7. wh;ch his efforts have evoked.
, Tn view OF such a contingency J, u
.ro,l IN know something more about .hi'
NON something more than the bare iac
that he is and has been TOT soo,' "
more Of years the acknowieuee' 10
nd tional champion of free silver.
" Richard Parks Bland was born nea
he hartford. Ky., Ang. 10. 1888. his p'''
outs were poor. His father died wne
No was a mere baby, and his mo'h'
nassed away when Richard was y d
of IL. =. J.. NJ,
> From that time the iiie q ~
BLAND reads like most oi the his'o'n.
. Americas great men. He hrst seeu.
cla, ,xork as a hired Farmland al -
ivil ,..or,h Hc used TO rise Cofore az"
% "a after = breakfast Of PLAIN Goa.
ARE ga wait for daybreak to begin
10y which lasted through the Durhi
-,,,,or sun until after twilight
=. The few hours he had were gwen
, d;,iucnt study and were never iu'c =
reatiOn. ..,., w...
A few years later the orphan mo'
Nth a family Of relatives TO Nirei
C;,v New. and it is Of these years III
and NV wild west that Mr.. Biand :
tank r,arv amusing and interesting s'or
~ 1 10 rose 10 the dignity OF sch'
.oachcr. but instead Of 'branchihe ou
l. ss.ha vounp men of today. he save'
much as possible from MS si''a.. . - -
.. for the education OF a younss
These amounts were sent py .ravel.'
..accconches TO faraway Missouri.
4 svcrv way he endured the hardsn'ps
sscr;fces which make men great
- ,ssa an' -, THO Youthful schoolmaster ait'
- go hccame quite a Beau Brun
N & ~. "smart set" He taught SIN
49, ..hoo, and courted many OF the
~ maidens who learned iron "'
~ good old songs Ar r
concluded TO visit Missouri the no'
~. childhood. OF course nc wa VA.
80 .,ac,ed 70 make the round OF the ON
- Isse,,s ord received pressing II
~ t;or from one Of the professors "
. .hc commencement at Bellevue, .
YRT girls seminary in Caledonls W.. M
AoSI II was during the perioo W..
Block. hates first became a lad, csp..'
ANA vounr women's schools Inc w
,arded subject for that mcmoraole u"y =,
"e.'"e- ..nocs Hone or Memory Exert M
'ns' =" er.rce JJpon the Worlds" Miss v
Mitchell. daughter Of General =,
Mitchell and niece OF Judge
.,,ston ,o,y assistant attorney general y
uirl with brown curls, vioiet eyo
Madonnalikc face and gowncu !.
he Trus nle white, contcndcd thas ,o mo
'e at the cited greater influence ana -,
IN thoruht no too At least ne was
the puI' With - much Of it that he ie. =
business, ~. ,rsss;on 81 Il escape him in the
an. Il IN ~ a conversation with MISS =
-" The result was that he was soo'
at Isaac nized as the accepted sui'oi ~ !.
e all may and after a proper term " !
!, the young pcdagogue tooA S'
viii - wife. 49,
tore at all ua oeettled down." as the
AN, !. Rolla. Phelps
49, - Mo. in 1865, and began 'he y
~4so, law. His studious energy "h"
NO''o0 sablc will soon won him p.
he under head Of the local bar. hc :
township, moved 70 Lebanon, and il was
ss on each .,,,,;l 10 ,was pickcd out ~ Roo'
office, and .:..,., ] ,;rnhcr md sent to Wash
usi".s' IN, help make the laws OF the '"','
" " - -" His untiring fight for free sll
- .c,t Al he continued through the sncc'
- sious Of congress- held during
for sale by terms Of service ~ rcpr,ss.n, ps.,'
sville, and matter of history with wh'o"
Indiana. ouaintcd.
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