Evening star., 1896-07-04

duces as much as $4,000 bushels of wheat
at a single season. He farms his land
through lessees. each Of whom has 16O
acres, and it is his idea eventually to build
town in the center Of this big farm and
to manage it on the French plan, making
model country town out Of 1t. Bookwal-
ter is something of q presidential candi-
date and he is one Of those men concerning
whom it is not safe to proDhesy. He Is
in his fifties and is still in the very prime
of life. l don't think he has ever held any
public office, but he has had more exper-
ience than the average politician. He is
man of broad gauge ideas and Is one OF
the most cultured and travelled men of the
democratic party. He has been all over
Europe. has taken trip around the world
and knows the United States like a book
He is conservative on the money question
and his strength in Ohio is such that he
would make an available candidate.
Two Confederate Generals.
There will be n big contingent here from
the south. Some of the most striking fig
ures on the political stage are southern
democrats. Let me show you one of them.
Imagine a man of six feet dressed in black
broadcloth. Let him have a face bearing
all the classical lines of Edwin Booth and
let his long hair be as black as was that
of John Wilkes Booth when he jumped out
of the Presidents box in Ford's Theater
at Washington. Let the mans face be
ftorid. but let every line be full of culture.
Put him on crutches and let him move
about with dignity from one place to an
other and you have Senator John W. Dan
iel of Virginia, the silver-tongued orator
of the south. the opponent of President
Cleveland. and the great advocate Of free
silver He Is one of the brainiest and
bravest, as we'll as one of the kindest of
our public men. and did you know him we'll
he might tell you, as he did me the
other day. how he got the wounds
yrfi ~ IaI hiy,, 10 int ha
southern army as a boy and had risen. l
think, to be adjutant general at the time
he was so badly shot. He was riding his
horse and cannon ball took away por
ton of his thigh He fell and lay for
some time In the midst of the battle until
one of his own soldiers who was also
wounded. dragged him behind a log. There
the two lay together for more than half an
hour with the bullets flying, the shells
bursting and the battle going on all about
them. When the fight was finished Daniel
was carried to the hospital The surgeon
SAID ne would die, but a section of his thigh
bone was cut away and his youthful vital
ity was such that he recovered. He has
today six inches of bone out of one of his
legs and still he manages to do good work.
though he is in constant pain. He told me
that he thought his wound had been
good thing for him in that it was during
his six months in the hospital that he ac-
quired his taste for reading and there be-
gan the studies the continuation of which
have developed him into the famous man
that he is. Daniel made a reputation as
a lawyer before he got into politics. He
has written two good law books and one of
these has already paid him more than $2O-
900 in royalties.
General GOrdOn's Nerve.
Goodness the battlefield is somewhat
similar to GOODNESS in a great convention.
This fight of the democrats will be a bitter
one. and 1t will require nerve for the men
here to say what they think. Among the
nerviest of the lot is Gen. John b. Cor
don of Georgia. and he may make one of
the big speeches of the convention. Sena-
tor Gordon is now realizing a fortune out
of his lectures, and he has gotten much
fame as an orator. He is tall, straight and
gray-haired Socially he Is impulsive and
full of feeling, but in action he is the cool
est of the cool, and whatever be the trou-
bles here he will not lose his head. re-
markable instance of his nerve occurred
at the battle of Sharpsburg, at which he
was wounded. He was shot by bullet in
the head, knocked from his horse and
thrown In half conscious state on the bat
tlefield. Ae he lay there he reasoned with
himself. and not long ago he described his
sensations at the time, as follows. He said:
Il can remember the operations of my
mind. 1t seemed to me l was soliloauizing
and that / said to myself:
Now my head feels as though a six
pound cannon ball had struck 1t. If that
is So 1t has carried away my head there
fore 1 must be dead. And still 1 am think
ing. and how can man think with his
l cannot be dead. Still a man might
have consciousness after he is dead but
his body could not have action? Now,
will see! If can lift my legs then must
be alive Can I? Yes, 1 can 1 see it ris-
ing. ! cannot bs dead after ALL And with
that" concluded General Gordon, II woke
up and found my head still on but also
that had been reasoning as philosophical
ly and logically over the loss of 1t as
though I had been in my Office and not ly-
ing wounded on the battlefield"
Farmer Boies
Bland will have strong competitor along
his own lines in this convention with Gov.
| Boies of Iowa. Boies can also appeal to
| the farming population by being one of
| them. He has 2.60O scres at Waterloo,
Iowa. He has thousand acres of grazing
land in another county and 1 am told that
| he has 800 head of cattle in one place.
Gov. Boies also pretends to be plain. but
! in appearance he looks more like an aris-
| tocrat. He is TALL broad -shouldered and
| fine looking. He has big body, big limbs
and a big round head, covered with hair of
silver white He dresses In a black dag
| onal frock coat. loose trousers and white
| shirt, with Turnover collar. He wears
! gold spectacles and buttoned shoes, while
| Bland comes out with iron-rimmed glasses
| and top boots. Gov Boies is rich man
| He was born in a log cabin in New York
! state. and went west to make his fortune
| He earned his first money as ditch dig
| ger at $40 month; did better after he
| settled in Iowa. and finally got so far ahead
! that he was able to study law. He was a
| republican until Cleveland first ran for
| President In 1854. when he voted the demo-
| cratic ticket and he has been a democrat
| ever since. He u now nearly seventy, but
| his physical condition Is such that any life
| insurance company would give him a ten
| years policy at low rates.
| Adlnt and the Mule.
1t is wonderful how many big men there
| are among these democrats. 1 mean men
| big in body as well In brain. Boies OF
| Iowa weighs mere than two hundred. Car
Isle must touch the two hundred mark
Bland is short. but heavy. Gen John NJ
! Palmer is a six footer. and Adlai E. Ste
venson. who Is something Of a candidate
| for the presidency, stands seventy-four
| inches tall in his stockings and weighs
| two hundred and nineteen and a hall
| pounds. Carlisle is a big brunette. Ste.
venson is a big blonde. You might almost
| call him a strawberry blonde for there is
| a reddish tinge to what Is left of his hair
| and there is CLINT Of gold among the sill.
:, very threads of his heavy mustache. Ste.
| venson, like Carlisle, was born in Ken.
| lucky, and, like Carlisle. he was a pool
| boy. His first reading wss done during the
| intervals OF work upon his fathers farm
| He had to fight for his time for reading
and heard the other day a story of how