Kansas City daily journal., 1896-07-05

nerviest Of the lot IL General John r. Cor
don, Of Georgia and he may make one of
tor Gordon is now realizing fortune out
OF his lectures, and he has COTTON much
fame @ rs M orator lie Il tall straight cani and
est of the cool, and whatever be the trou-
bles here he will not lose his head, A re-
the battle Of sharpsburg, at which he was
wounded. He was shot by bullet In the
head knocked from his horse and thrown
in u half CONSCIOUS state on the battlefield;
As he lay there he reasoned with himself
and no, long ago he 9S,c deTcrised MS ssed sensa
II can remember the operations of my
mind, It ,semcd to me | was soliloanzns
pound cannon bali had strucl;, it. II that
fore so i mist "S be S dead. NnS s,l iii Tam am think
bns and ND, hoy nan ahnk am fbSknr MIR hi
sonscousncss nI 81 "s'" after he IS i dead, but hls
body could not have action? Now. l will
a aiive. can 'fH I" i Yes my caa us e% see It risins
! cannot he dead after. all And with
that" concluded General Gordon, II woke
up and found my head still on, but, also
that had been reasoning ms nhilosophical-
y and l9giGaiy oyer IN, & loss 10 Of ,t !, ,a as
ing wounded on the battlefield"
The Illinois DOss.
The most striking man from Illinois at
this convention IS to be John i. Altgeld,
the governor of the state, the pardoner of
the anarchists and the man who stands
coinage movement. Governor Aitgcld il a
sinsed cat. lie Is 1I,,ie sawed & on man a., o, Of
and brown hair and to look at him you
would never imagine him TO be one of the
strongest men of the state; lie, was born
about forty years, He is, l judge, now
about 20. There arr, no signs Of the Ger
from whence his great strength comes. He
was poor boy and spent the earlier part
IN ns nis isw 'f thnS enana at Mansheii lie n began
his practice In Chicago and made money
out % The baoye nM ana he wen sn nto H. ana
is. / understand, entirely independent of
official salaries.
silver Dollar Bland.
Altgeld is said TO favor bland. Of Mis-
candidacy may keep him away from cni-
gress at Washington and his appearance
reminds me of the remark of the old coun,
Try woman, who visited the circus. and
for the first time got n look at a hippo
potamus. She gazed at the animal for
then drew back with the remark:
''Oh, my! Amt he plain!'
Well. the great silver ugitator H. plain
looking. lie has a plain salow face, with
square forehead running into a badish
expanse surrounded by blonde hair He has
a rough, brown beard, slightly touched with
hoarse voice which comes out over 1t has
a sort of a twanE TO 1t which carries out
the plainness of its owner Bland dresses
plainly. and he prldes himself on being ono
of the plain, people; He lives in n plain
house n plain little town known as Leb.
during the recesses of congress, He Is one
of the few congressman who make farm
ing pay. ! am told that he has one OF the
largest apple orchards In the country, and
that he has for some years been making
more out of his apples than his congress
sional salary.
Farmer Holes.
BLAND will have a strong competitor along
his own lines In this convention with Gov,
TO the farming population by being one of
them. He has $3.50 acres at Waterloo. la,
He has 1900 acres of grazing land In an
other county, and l am told that he has
100 head of cattle In one place, Governor
Boles also pretents TO be plain. hut In ap-
He Is tall, broad d-shouldered and iine look |
ing. He has a big body, big limbs and a
big round head. covered with hair of silver I,
white, lie dresses In black diagonal
frock coat, loose trousers and white shirt, |
with turnover collar. He wears gold I
comes out with iron trimmed glasses and |
top boots. Governor Boies Is a rich man. |
He was horn In log cabin In New York |
state. and went West to make fortune. |
He earned his first money as a ditch dig |
ger at $40 month; did better after he |
that he was able TO study law. He was a
until Cleveland first ran for
president In 1854. when he voted the Demo-
cratic ticket and he has been a Democrat
ever since. He Is now nearly 70. but his
physical condition is such that any life in /