Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-06-12

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time, he was also charged with the
crime and tried The young boy was
very penitent, and he made confession
to Mr.. Boies, who was his lawyer. Mr..
Boies arose In the courtroom and tried
to read it. He had gone over but few
pages Of the story when his feelings
overcame him, and he had to take his
seat. One of the other lawyers finished
the reading Of the manuscript, and Boies
was asked afterward what was the mat
ter. He replied:
II am father, and have, as you
know, two very good boys AS I read
that paper the thought came to me, sup
pose that one Of my boys should fall as
that poor boy has, and I tell you the
thought was such horror to me that 1t
oyercame me, and I could not finish my
reading"
One phase OF the character Of Mr..
Boies which renders him particularly
"taking" among western people is his
absolute simplicity and dislike Of all
ostentation.
II favor Boies because he stands for
what he is; because he Is unpretentious
and honest, said an educated westerner.
"He don't th 'ow on no lugs nor hold
hisse'f above nobody" was the way .
representative Of another class expressed
the same idea
As an illustration Of his democratic
disregard Of all formality at time
when little show Of egotim would
have been excused, an Iowa state ofi.
cial once told Of trip he made from
his home at Waterloo to the state capital
soon after his reelection as governor.
"The train left Waterloo about 4 80 in
the afternoon, reaching the capital at 8
In the evening. The governor was &C.
companied by party Of his admirers
who were congratulating him ON the re-
suit Of the election. The party headed
for the chair Car. but Boies stopped them.
"'Let's go into the smoker, he said.
Most Of You will want to light q cigar
II I don't
But governor, we
"'No butts about 1t, broke In the sue
cesaful candidate Il know that yuu
want to smoke.
1.-THE party went into the forward car
and the train started Governor Boies
began to talk Of the political issues and
one by one the people in the car went
toward the end In which the executives
party sat Then passengers from the
other cars began to drop In until the
smoker was half filled with men stand.
ing and listening to the governors re-
marks Questions were asked and an
swered while the hours sped away. No
one took notice of the time and it was
not until the brakeman called East Des
Moines that the party broke up.
So Governor Boies held his first recep.
ton after the election in smoking car.
Mr.. Boies is the typical western
farmer and makes his holdings bring
him in handsome income. Every acre
of the Grundy county farm where he re-
sides is in high state Of cultivation
He always keeps herd Of 500 or 600
cattle grazing upon it and half Of the
farm is devoted to stock raising. This
holding is more like one Of those vast,
beautiful estates in Kentucky than any
other in the west. He knows every de-
tail in the management Of it, and he
spends portion Of every year upon it.
often going out into the fields and taking
a place with his men in the work. He
spends his vacations upon it now, and
he used to spend one or two days Of ev-
cry week in looking over it. he has an
other big farm in Palo Alto county,
which contains /, 900 acres Of grazing
land, and upon this he keeps a lot of
fine stock. His men drive his herds to
the grazing lands in the spring, and in
the fall they are brought back for feed
ing.
The ex-governor is well informed on
all questions relating to farming, and
believes in many Of the things advocated
by the Farmers Alliance, though he is
enough to oppose many Of
their impracticable theories he is an
advocate of governmental control.
Such, in brief, is the character and
the personality Of the man who may be
the nominee for president on free sill.
yer platform. That he will be faithful
to whatever trusts are confded to him
by his supporters is sufficiently attested
In the terse, characteristic words he used
at the close Of the late Democratic con-
vention in Iowa, when asked if he had
to say:
II have concentrated myself in the
platform adopted I stand by every line
and word Of it, and upon it the national
can win glorious victory"
Wood Finished Glass.
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