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they have set an example to the mothers
of the coming generation and have proven
conclusively that a clever woman can be OF
immense assistance to her husband in the
troubled arena of politics
There is Mrs. James E. Campbell, for in
stance. She is said to be the cleverest
practical politician of them all. There is
no limit to her ambition. or of her good
sound sense, and if her husband ever
reaches the White House it will be due as
much to her to his own efforts.
AN HEREDITARY POLITICIAN.
Mrs Campbell Iaughingly says that she
has been a politician ever since she was
anything at all. Her father Job E. Owens,
of Hamilton, Ohio, was one of the shrewd-
est, cleverest and most able politicians in
the State a generation ago. He was a
wealthy manufacturer and in the councils
Of his party occupied much the same posi-
ton that Mark Hanna does to-day. All OF
the great politicians of his time were in
the habit of cOngregating at his home to
discuss matters and map out the plan of
campaign.
Mrs. Campbell is a born diplomat, and
she turn the strongest kind of a re-
versaI of her husbands political fortunes
into something of a favorable nature She
has the holiness OF a Napoleon. and at
the proper time can be as conservative as
a Wellin gton. AS Libby Owens she was one
of the great favorites at Vassar College.
When her husband was first elected to
Congress some of her envious Ohio friends
predicted that she would be overwhelmed
and lost in the great Whirlpool of Washing
ton society. But their representations
we're completely at fault. She became the
rage at the Capital almost in a day. She
knows how to dress and she mas the tact
and briIliancy of a French woman. With
much less money at her command than the
late Mrs. Whitney her receptions and ban
quets fully rivaled the affairs OF that
famous hostess.
MIS-. Campbell makes it a business as
well as a pleasure to be on friendly terms
with everyone with whom she comes in
contact, particularly the political rivals of
her husband. In one of the gUbernatoriaI
campaigns in Ohio it is well remembered
that on the day the Republicans nominated
Major Mckinney for Office Mrs. Campbell
drove up tc the hotel where the Major was
stopping and took him for drive through !
Columbus. Mckinley and Campbell were
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POLITICS HER FAD,
THE OHIO WOMAN KNOWS ALL
ABOUT THE UNCERTAIN GAME.
SOME RARE EXAMPLES.
The Wives of Mckinley, Foraker,
Brice, Strong. Campbell and Bush
nell Are Skilled in the Art.

It is a timeworn saying in Ohio that the
babies of that great State learn all about
politics before they know their A, B, Cs.
It is also asserted that they are deep in the
political lore of the nation before they have
cast aside their tin rattles, and that they
are we'll up in campaign statistics while still
feasting at natures dining place. They
absorb political facts and problems with the
same gustO that the average child swallows
buttons and copper pennies. They know
all about the fat offices within the gift Of
the people at the early age of one year, and
each masculine baby is supposed to have his
Juvenile eye glued upon the particular berth
which he will seek in later years.
Whether Calvin Brice. Major Mckinley,
Mark Hanna, James e. Campbell. J. B.
Foraker, Colonel W. L. Strong and a host
of other distinguished OhiOans were babies
Of this kind is unknown, but in looking for
the cause of this infantile phenomenon it is
not necessary to go further than the wives
of some of the leading statesmen of the
Buckeye State.
OF course these ladies' did not influence
the babyhood days of their husbands, but
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election to the Kentucky Legislature, and
lasting until his death fifty years later on
March 81, 1852. When he resigned his
seat in the United States Senate there was a
great crowd on hand to listen to his farewell
address. That part Of it which affected his
hearers most was his tribute to his adopted
State. Kentucky: But he said. scarce
had set my foot upon her generous soil
when I was embraced with parental fond
ness. caressed as though I had been a
favortte child, and patToniZed with liberal
and unbounded munificence. From that
period the highest honors of the State have
been freely bestowed upon me; and when
in the darkest hour Of calumny and de-
traction I seemed to be assailed by all the
rest Of the world she interposed her broad
and impenetrabie shield, repealed the poison
GUS shafts that we're aimed for my destruc-
ton, and INDICATED my good name from
every malignant and unfounded aspersion.
return with indescribable pleasure to
finger a while longer and mingle with the
warn-hearted and whole-souled people of
that State; and when the last scene shall
forever close upon me, I hope my earthly
remains will be laid under her green sod
with those Of her gallant and patriotic
sons"
John c. Calhoun was prominent figure
in the political arena from 1905 until 1850.
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Several times he came within an ace Of Sc
curing the nomination for the Presidency.
As speaker he ranked with the best his
dIcUon being remarkable for the absence
Of ornament end for its clear, terse, logical
cOmpactness.
Daniel Webste1, a contemporary Of Cal
houn, like the latter, was always within an
inch or two Of the Presidency. From 1912
until 1850 he figured in all of the campaigns
He belonged to the Federal party, and at the
convention of the Wings at Baltimore in
the spring Of 1852 he was narrowly de-
feated for the Presidential nomination by
General Scott.
Stephen Douglas. the rival and friend Of
Lincoln, was a speaker OF unusual vigOr
he supported the compromise measures of
1901, ana on returning to his home in Hi
nois he found his course vehemently as
sailed. On Oct. "A he made a great speech
at Chicago in his own defense. In it he
laid down the principle which, then and
thereafter, guided him in the slavery agi-
tation-that every people ought to possess
the right of framing and regulating their
own internal concerns and domestic insti-
tut1ons in their own way. These things are
all cOnfided by the Constitution to each
State to decide for ITSELF and I know of no
reason why the same principle should not
be extended to the Territories
His joint debates with Lincoln in 1858
are too well known to require particular
izing.
THE EMERGENCY MAN.
Daniel Dougherty, of Philadelphia, who
nominated General Hancock for the Presi-
deney, was one of the most ready of all the
great political speakers. No emergency
was too sudden for him to meet and over
come. His mental alertness added greatly
to his success as an orator. He was a great
Democrat until the war broke out, and
after it was over he was a greater Demo
crat than ever.
William Maxwell Evarts, who was the
friend and companion of the great states
men of nearly half a century ago, is about
the only one of the old guard left. But
politics have little interest for him now
Many men at seventy-eight are still Wig
orous, but he is very feeble. He lives in a
big fine house at the corner of Fourteenth
street and Second avenue, New York, and
occasionally can be seen walking up and
down the street; but he is practically for
gotten by the present generation Of poll
ticians.
As a public speaker he was grave, digni-
fed and deliberate. He endeavored to
carry conviction by an unansw cradle argu-
ment. When interested in a subject he
would use sentences of three and four hun
dred words, which were so involved that
it was difficult for the ordinary listener to
make head or tail of them. His style of
expression was widely criticised, and his
only reply was: mo one but criminals
should object to long sentences"
COMBINES RETORT.
It viii be a long time before a worthy
successor Of Roscoe Conkling is found. As
an orator he ranked head and shoulders
above the best. He was always at the serv-
ice Of the Republican campaign managers.
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raised its head and looked at Mr.. Gooch,
and then dived out of sight.
There we're many kinds of sea serpents
in that year. The steamship Connecticut
reached port several days overdue, and ex-
planned the delay by saying that much time
had been consumed in chasing sea serpents.
The passengers and crew were unanimous
in their description of the monster, which
fed across the sea in spirals. The people
on land became very much excited, and
three days later the Connecticut put to sea
with a hundred eXeusiOnists who wanted to
get a glimpse of the snake.
Countless other instances could be cited
in which mariners belonging to every nation
the globe made solemn. and in some
cases sworn, statements of having seen sea
serpents. but those already mentioned
cover the ground quite fully. 1t can be seen
that in every case the sea serpent escaped,
although in some instances the monster was
fred at by gun and cannon. Tacoma can
justly be proud of the fishermen who made
the capture. as the speciman should set at
rest forever the disputes which have sur
vived century or more.
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with gold and silver behind it. I believe
in silver, because it is one of the greatest
Of American products, and I am in favor Of
anything that will add to the value of an
American product. But I want a silver
dollar worth a gold dollar, even if you make
it OF have to make it four feet in diameter.
No government can afford to be a clipper
of coin. A great republic cannot afford to
stamp a lie upon gold or silver. Honest
money, an honest people, an honest nation.
when our money is only worth eighty
cents on the dollar. we feel twenty per
cent. below par. When our money is good
we feel good. When our money is at par
that is where we are. I am a profound
believer in the doctrine that for nations, as
well as men, honesty is the best, always,
everywhere and forever.
What section of this country, what party,
will give us honest mOney-honor bright
honor bright? I have been told that during
the war We had plenty of money. I never
saw il. I lived years without seeing a
dollar saw promises for dollars, but not
dollars And the greenback, unless you
have the gold behind it, is no more a dollar
than a bill Of fare is a dinner.
You cannot make paper dollar without
taking a dollars worth of paper. We must
have the paper that represents money. I
want it issued by the Government, and
want behind every one of these dollars
either a gold a silver dollar, so that
every greenback under the flag can lift up
its hand and swear, I know my redeemer
liveth.'
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and was the hottest kind Of partisan man.
He was the central figure of the famous
306 which stood for Grant in the Republican
Convention of 1880. Nothing could phase
him. At a political meeting, where one of
the audience called him an aristocrat, he
answered: Il am working man. and earn
my bread by the sweat Of my brow. It does
not seem to me that il makes any difference
whether this perspiration is on the outside
or on the inside of my head
After the war John A. Logan won much
fame as a political speaker, and he talked as
he fought. There was no pretense Of highly
vanished rhetoric. He went at everything
in slam-bang style, seeking to overwhelm
the opposition by the force and Yigor Of his
argument.
The richest word-painter Of them all,
Robert G. IngersolI, is still in the harness.
His nominating speech at the Cincinnati
convention Of 1876, in which he eulogized
James G. Blaine as the "Plumed Knight,
viii live forever in the histories Of political
campaigns.
More than twenty years ago he delivered
a speech at Cooper Union, New York, to an
immense audience and what he said there
Is closely allied to the great issue OF the
present campaign. Here it is:
Il am in favor of honest money. am
in favor Of gold and silver, and paper
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public armed ship" he saw a sea serpent
at sunrise one morning. He had a boat
lowered, and took the tiller himself, but
before he could get near enough for the
marines to shoot, the animal sank out of
sight.
Abraham Cummings reported a sea ser
pent in Penobscot Bay in 1902, and another
in 1903. In the same year the Rev. Mr.
Macleans a clergyman, Of Eigg, sent a
careful description Of a sea serpent, with
a head somewhat broad that swan with
MS head above water for about half mile .
He described the creature about eighty
feet long.
In 1917 Captain Tappan, of the schooner
Laura, and his whole crew told Of seeing
a sea serpent of Gloucester. They said it
looked like a string of buoys, with a head
like a serpent and a long tongue that stuck
out of it's mouth ike a harpoon. It's motion
was more rapid than that of a whale.
CAPE AIMS MONSTER.
Several persons made afidavits in 1918
to having seen a sea monster off Cape
Ann In 1922 the sea serpent was reported
from the fjords of Norway. and in 1881 it
was seen OF Portsmouth, N. H In 1848 the
British ship Daedalus, Captain MeQuahae.
encountered a sea serpent which was dis
tinctly seen by many of the passengers
and afterward described by them with
much care. The captain and passengers
of the ship Silas Richards reported encoun-
tering a monster on June Z, 1926, in lati-
tude Al and longitude 81, and described the
serpent as OF a brownish color and seventy
feet long.
Three Maine fishermen, "all reliable and
d-fearing men, sailed far out to sea
one summers day in 1898 and came across
a sea serpent basking near the surface.
Two Of the fishermen were so badly scared
that they went below, leaving the third, a
Mr.. Gooch. to face the intruder. Mr.. Gooch
is authority fer the statement that the
boat passed within fifty feet of the serpent
and that he had good view OK 1t. 1t
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the mail and kilograms. It was an impos-
sibility for him to go through all the letters
and kilograms which poured in upon him.
much of his time was taken up by confer
ences and visits. Mrs. Mckinley knows the
detailed political conditions in every State
in the union, and she keeps numerous little
books in which she enters items of ;mpOr-
tant Information. She is a systematic
worker and her accumulated fund of knowl-
edge is often drawn upon by the managers
Of her husbands campaign.
AMBITIOUS MRS. BRICE.
Mrs. Calvin Brice was educated in the
Western Female Seminary at Oxford Ohio.
Mrs. Brice is ambitious now for social dis
tinction, but IN the early years Of her mar
ried life when her husband was comparative
~ poor in the worlds goods, she was Of
great assistance to him and helped largely
to push him upward the political ladder
Mrs. Brice has an abundance of tact and
knows how to entertain well as any
woman in the land. She makes friends
quickly and possesses the art Of holding
tnem- Some day her husband viii blossom
out as an active Presidential possibility and
then Mrs. Brice's cleverness will be shown.
Colonel William L. Strong, the reform
Mayor OF New York. says that he would
never have gone into the political race had
it not been for Mrs. Strong. Mrs. Strong
picked up much knowledge of a political
kind during her life in Ohio and the Colonel
says that whenever he finds himself in a
tight place and doesn't know which wey to
turn he makes a clean breast of it to Mrs
Strong and she dictates the policy to be
pursued.
Another Ohio woman who has shown that
she knows something of the ways polite
is Mrs Asa Bushnell wife OF Governor a
Bushnell. She is level headed, with kindly .
dark eyes, a handsome face and an attract
i've manner. Like the others she is am
bilious and hopes to see her husband in the
arena. Her father, DR.. Ludlow, was
one OF the best known men in Springfield
where Mrs. Bushnell was born and raised.
When the careers of these women are re-
membered it is easy to understand the
solicitude Of all Ohio mothers to instill a
Of politics into the minds Of their
infants. But the outlook is dreary for the
other States of the Union, when the present
generation Of Ohio babies reach the Office
getting age. HENRY G. WILLIAMS.
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thing. He only blooms forth in his full
magnihcence once in four years. This is a
fourth year and it promises TO be a hum
mer. The silver shouters of the South and
West viii beard the lion in his den by max
ing free silver speeches seerched upon the
Washington statue in Wall street. The
pompous gold bug spellbinder will run the
risk Of being mobbed by picturing the cause
Of sound money on plantation and ranch.
The Popuiist wiz rip up things in manu-
featuring cities and his opponents will
shout statistics at farming communities
None Of the parties have as yet COM
pleted their lists of speubinders and until
they do so it IS a matter of interest to take
g glance backward and see who the men
were who painted oratoricaI pictures in
campaigns of the past.
One Of the first Presidential campaigns in
which great bitterness was shown was that
OF 1SOS, in which James Madison secured
the regular nomination. Out of "a votes
Madison received SO, the remainder being
divided between James Monroe and George
Clinton John Randolph of Roanoke op-
posed Madison and champiOned the nomina-
ton Of Monroe. and later headed a party
which worked to secure MOnrOe's election.
Randolph WaS great figure in American
politics in that time His OratOrical ability
was tremendous but it was mainly of
pungent character. In Congress he was
feared by every one. His language was
pointed and severe. full OF condensed fire
and inhuman energy His oratory was
Spartan brevity and force; his words fell
like vipers among his hearers, and etung
them into heTy excitement. He was morbid
and mOrOse to excess. but his gloom was
volcanic heat. ready to explode at any mo-
ment end in any direction. Suddenly his
stoical nature would become irrepressibIe,
and his cold. sinister eye blazed with splen-
did fires, and rediated his hueless face like
q Wintry sky flashing with electric bolts.
A political opponent Boosted on the stump
that if his mind was not naturally as strong
as that OF the orator Of Roanoke he had
done his best. by an arduous collegiate
course, to improve it. mot the first weak
soil gentlemen" exclaimed Randolph, in
terrupting him. that excessive cultivation
has reduced to barrenpess."
HOW RANDOLPH LOOKED.
A pen picture of Randolph at the time he
was in Congress describes him in this way:
'tJohn Randolph is about six feet high. He
has elevated shoulders, a small head and
physiOgnOmy, all the parts Of which are
entirely uninteuectual except his eye. His
hair is dark, thin, and lank, and lays close
to his head. His voice is as shriu a fife
but its clear. shrieking tones can be dis
tinctly heard by a large audience. The
muscles and skin about his face are shriv-
eled and cadaverous. like Wrinkled parch-
meEt- His lips are thin. compressed and
colorless- Tall as he looks. his weight is
not more than one hundred and thirty
pounds
Henry Clay viii for all time be ranked
among the princes Of American speakers.
He was prominent in many campaigns, be-
ginning with hia struggle in 1s0a for
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THE PARTING HOUR.

Not yet, dear love- not yet; the sun is high;
You said last night, AT sunset l will CO.
Come to the garden, where, when blossoms die
No word is spoken; it is better so.
Ali bitter word Farewell
Hark! how the birds sing sunny songs of
spring.
Soon they Will build, and Work viii silence
them;
So we grow less Ight-hearted as years bring
Lies grave responsibilities-and then
The bitter word Farewell"
The violets fret to fragrance meath your feet,
Heavens gold sunlight dreams aslant your
No flower for me! Your mouth is far more
sweet
Oh let my lips forget, while lingering there,
Loves bitter word Farewell"
Sunset already Have we sat so long?
The parting hour. and so much left unsa1di
The garden has grown silent-void OF song,
Our sorrow shakes US with sudden dread!
All! bitter word Farewell"
Olive Custance.
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bitter rivals, and the nomination OF NC
Kinley at that time was regarded as SET
back to the Campbell fortunes. the PSoPle
OF Columbus recognized the olstin sulsleo
couple in the open carriage, ana as II 1850 49,
rapidly through the streets II Was " e1
tune Of ringing cheers from all sides.
HER REVENGE ON FORAKER.
In this same campaign Foraker denounceo
the Campbell administration as the LOst
damnable in the history OF ONO. LA
would have made almost any wife pIetIy
mad. Perhaps it had that effect on MIS-
Campbell, but she was too clever to SHOW
it. That same day she entertained MIS-
Foraker as the guest of honor at luneneon
at the Executive Mansion. That was her
way of firing back at Senator Foraker.
Mrs. Foraker, the wife Of the famous
Fire alarm Senator, is a clever woman.
She has tact and dignity, and is q graceful
entertainer. Her husband makes great
many enemies and Mrs Foraker is an
adept at restoring severed friendships.
When she was Miss Julia Buudy she at
tended the Ohio Wesleyan Seminary at Del
aware.
While her husband was Governor Of Ohio
Mrs Foraker made many friends who have
been of great service to her husband. Mrs
Foraker is an active church woman. She
never talks politics or allows herself to be
drawn into political conversations. She is
steadfast believer in the efficacy Of silence
on matters of that kind.
HELPFUL MRS. MCKINLEY.
Little need be said of Mrs. William Nc
Kinley. 1t is well known that she has been
an invalid for a score of years and that she
is inteIligently interested in everything con-
corning her husband. Mrs. Mckinley, al
though bodily iucapacitated for work of the
kind done by Mrs. Campbell, is OF great as
sistance to her husband in keeping track OF
events in different parts of the country. In
all of the preliminary work of the nomlna-
ton campaign she helped him at sitting out
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CAMPAIGNS LUNGS.
HOARsE SHOUT OF THE SPELL
BINDER WILL SOON BE HEARD.
STUMP KNIGHTS OF OLD.
The OratoricaI Giants Who DeIuEed
the Country with EIoquence
when the Nation Was Young.

In a very little while the campaign
Bpouter will be on his way deluging the
country with his fiery eloquence, wiping the
ground with his opponent, predicting dire
catastrophes if the other side be permitted
TO get on top, throwing fragrant bouquets
at his own candidates, calling upon Heaven
TO witness the triumphs of his beautiful
party in the past, hurting maledictions upon
the opposition and generally tearing every
thing wide open.
The spouter or spellbinder is a peculiar
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Queen Victoria's walking stick once belonged
Of the historic oak tree in which he hid. On
the gold top the Queen has fastened a little
Indian idol, which was part Of the loot or
Serin eanatarn
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The PULLDIAp HERALD.
SATURDAY, MAY 80, 1896.
A SAD CASE.

J. T. Lieuallen, better known as
Jack Lieuallen, had his left limb
amputated above the knee last Sun
day evening. The injury that
made the amputation necessary is
supposed to have occurred in ball
game with Genesee last summer.
During the game referred to he was
strucd on the thigh with a swiftly
thrown ball. The bloy made him
sick at the time and caused his re-
urement from the game. Heseemed
to recover, however, and was APP
parentlv all right until toward the
end ofthe year, when his leg seemed
to trouble him and he began doctor
ing it. During the past month or
two he was confined to the house
and lately to his bed. On Sunday
morning. while turning over IN bed
the thigh bone broke completely
off. Drs. Russell Of Spok ane and
DWELL Of Pullman were summoned
by wire and arrived on the 8 o'clock
train. 4 consultation followed
with local physicians and amputa-
ton was at once decided upon. The
thigh bone at the point where it
bro was found to have been hon
cyc0mbed by disease The theory
of the doctors is that the bone was
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