The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1896-06-18

| Rrasped III ana remarked Rayly as ne
went forward to take his part in the
ceremonial, "Well, this is the first time
in my life ever went to court without
my papers.
The Great Iowan's Warm Heart.
Mr.. Boies is generally represented as
cold and phlepnatic, with few of the
finer feelings and sympathies, and the
fact that he has been so successful has
aroused envy among some of his fellow
citizens who have not been so fortunate.
| Nevertheless he il man with warm
heart. An instance Of this occurred dur
ing trial which he conducted some
years since. A Pennsylvania boy had
run away from home, and had come
with another young man to the west.
His father was dead, and he left his
widowed mothers house at the instance
of this associate, who turned out to be
a bad character. The boys came to Iowa
and tho bad one committed crime,
for which he was arrested, and as the
young runaway was with him at the
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:
81 am a father, and have, as you
know, two very good boys. AS l read
that paper the thought came to me, sup
pose that one of my boys should fall as
that poor boy has, and I tel, you the
thought was such horror to me that it
overcame me, and 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.
81 favor Boies because he stands for
what he is; because he is unpretentious
and honest, said an educated westerner.
''He don't tn row 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 a time
when little show of egotisn would
have been excused, an Iowa state Off
Gial once told of trip he made from
his home at Waterloo to the state capital
soon after his reelection as governor.
1.-THE train left Waterloo about A 80 in
the afternoon, reaching the capital at 8
in the evening. The governor was ac-
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 l. hit cigar
if l don't.
But, governor, we'-
mo butts about it, broke in the sue
cessful candidate. Il know that you
want to smoke.
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 filed with men stand
ing and listening to the governors re.
marks. Questions were asked and an
Bwered 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
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 1 900 acres of grazing
land, and upon this he keeps 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
conservative 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 confided 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
anything to saw:
ri have concentrated myself in the
platform adopted stand by every line
and word Of it, and upon it the national
Democracy can win glorious victory.
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