The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-02-06
uhRnTED IN IIxooLx,s ooAT.
me Garusnt Wade for the FIRST Inauguration
bat col zoCoy .' Brisear the Taller ana aetht'

hat Cot Mccoy 90 mribedV the Fnitor ass Setht.
From TIE DENVER Tfr1ee.
Ono Of the notablos Of the convention OF the
National Stock Growers Association, now In
session in the city, is Joseph @. Mccoy. a Kan
san o. Scotch Irish, Tonnessee-K Kentucky de-
scent. He is a man whose personal appearance
would make him conspicuous in any assem-
blago. He is over six fect tall, and his hair is q
woather.worn grny-not the silvery grny which
covers tho heads Of mon who grow old In offices
or studios. but the tawny. vigorous gray hat an
old man has who has spent his life sailing seas
or penetrating little known lands.
You know he 10 q Southern man bsforo he
speaks. The soft hat. tho big Chesterfield coat,
tho high-hecled boots with tho soft calfskin
bootleg wrinkling down about tho ankle, all
proclaim the mans descent-and yet no was
married in. and stillschorishos, tho coat that
Abraham Lincoln was to have worn when he
was inauguratcd. Tho faces OF men who have
gone with The vanguard into new countries,
who hovo toiled by day on tho sunburnt plains
and lain by night undo tho open skies-thc faces
OF these men are a book; and tho book almost
always reads Of courage and honesty, OF ,tortii'
urcs; almost q patriarch undor the. tale OF his
years and yet young enough to glory In his
One Of the C~olonol's medltativc OCCUPATIONS
IL to ascertain the sssttrr" strain s.S Of blood Ss,ah In ,h his : Sfec ri
tho descent. and his father was a Tennessean
and his mother n Kentuckian. He was born In
Illinois and moved into Kansas In ~1s87-'.and
asks tho Colonel with pathos big in his voice.
The Colonel took part in two important cam.
paigns in 1858. In one Of these he helped
ABE" Lincoln to beat Stephen A. Douglas. and
in the other he laid Siege to O charming young
He celebrated the Lincoln Inauguration BY
marrying the maid. and he married her clad In
Abe to be inaugurated in. He got, the tailor
to hustle up another coat for Abe" in which
to take tho oath. and when Abe was swearing
i Hou Mas MaCoT M to do oa n n!s aS Snsy t By . TnS,o t Sn%
;neekly promising to love. honor, and Implicitly
and forever without question or ".kicking' to
obey a charming young woman OF Abe's own
Some of Col. McCoy's friends insist that the
garment fitted he groom, better than 1t did the
that hhes'q Se co %Snen' would oSE a SSve made ns e0 q SSS stteE
President for the coat than Abe Lincoln. but
simply that he wns possessed of q better figure.
That may be true. for; in his young mans days
Col. .McCoy some years age published a vol
ume of reminiscences Of the plains and its men
in its color, and dramatic spirit, The. Colonel
Is now cattle INSPECTOR for the State of Kansas
at the Kansas City stockyards, and has also
adjustment Of The excess charges q the yard
company above tho rates fixed blythe Kansas
law for feed and yardage. He has, risen high on
one side Of fortunes wheel, and held on long
His friends now. hope that he is on the rising
side of the wheel, and that no will soon be in O
position to let go and retire from business and
kind. courteous, chivalrous. energetic. cour.
ageous, and a gentleman Of the old school.