St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-04-12

was SlaQ TO get a 30 Zee. NOW he is
receiving $4,000 year, and has his
eye on President Cleveland and his
$4,000 job.
Let us move the camerai
See that fellow standing at the back
of the senate chamber under the clocki
L mean that tall man with his hands
In his pockets. He is dressed in black
and his long coat hangs from his
square shoulders as though it were on
wire frame in front of a secondhand
clothing store. His arms are long,
and you can almost see knots at the
elbows and shoulders. His thin, bony
hands extend out below his cuffs. Now
he puts his hands in his pockets,
throwing back his coat and making
himself look more gaunt and angular
than ever. See how his face comes
out on the ground glass of the camera!
1t is strong, but it has a rugged
strength, and it's features are almost
as angular as those of the rest of his
body. The cheek bones are as high as
those of an Indian. He wears no mus
tache, and stiff, short black hair, mixed
with gray forms bristly beard around
his angular chin. His eyes are sunken.
His forehead is high and full. His
nose is large and strong. 1t is so prom
inent that he rests his gold eyeglasses
on the bridge at least an inch below
the point used by the spectacles of the
ordinary man. AS I look one of his
fellow senators comes up. The angular
man greets him cordially and gives
him pump-handle shake of the hand.
The two chat and laugh together, and
1t is evident that the tall, angular,
rough-featured man is telling a story.
That man is Shelby M. Cullom, the
United States senator from Illinois,
and the man whom that state will pre-
sent to the st. Louis convention for the
presidency.
Cullom is a typical son Of Illinois.
Born in Kentucky, hauled in a can
Vas-coVered wagon through the woods
and over the stumps to Illinois, when
he was still baby just cutting his first
teeth, he was raised in a log cabin,
and got his schooling at a country
school. His early life was much like
that of LincOln-who, by the way, he
strikingly resembles. Working on the
farm, he shot up tall and slender-an
angular boy, who later on developed
into an angular man. His education
was meager.. He went to school at
little seminary, and by burning the
midnight oil within a couple of years
found himself on the edge of the grave
He had, think, a hemorrhage or two
and for a time thought that a farm
er's career was the only one that would
keep him alive. He went back to his
father and walked behind the pillow in
his bare feet until the life-breathing
properties of the soil and the pure air
gave him the muscle which enabled
him to go back to his studies After a
hard struggle with his health, he sue
ceeded at the law, got into politics, be-
came governor of the state, was elect
ed to congress, then to the senate, and
is now one Of the candidates for the
nomination Of the Republican party
as president.
In front of Senator Cullom sits an
other presidential candidate. He is
not as tall as Cullom, but he weighs, I
venture, twice as much He has a
square-shaped head, bright, twinkling
brown eyes, complexion as fair as
that of girl. and collar as white as
the marble statues in the retunda of
the capitol. This collar is of the old
fashioned kind. 1t Is the biggest COL
lar worn in the United States senate.
and If you could turn it down you
would find on it's back written the
name of it's owner w. B. Allison.
Senator Allison is so near Senator
Cullom that Cullom could lean over
and stick a wisp of straw into Allison's
ear whereupon Allison would jump,
but would look about and laugh. He
is a remarkably even-tempered man.
He never gets excited and never loses
his head. Now he gets UP and moves
across the chamber. Notice how quiet
1y he goes, and still there is an air
about him that shows you he means to
get there. Allison always does get
there, and though he looks lazy and
seems to take things very easily, he is
one of the hardest workers in the
senate He does not look to be sixty
eight years of age, and his digestion is
probably perfect.