The Savannah morning news., 1900-11-04

personally came unsmlrchcd Nobody ever
accused him % being dishonest he wenf
% the executive chair very rich man
and he lefi it a very poor man.
Altgeld has no intimate friendship re
IL the sort Of a man who looks the Wottn
la tho face and assumes that everything
worth knowing about q or himself Is ~
the surface one 81 his closest political
fri@nds is David Bennett HIN Of New YORK
Personally AltEeld likes Dir Hin perhaps
because there Is considerable intellectual
e. mpathy between the two. Although 10
the same party they have been continually
az loggcrhcads. but Altgcld con forgive
the ex-senator great deal on account OF
Hllis quarrels with eN-Fresi3cut CleNe-
lard Augeid aespis,s Air Cleveland per
haps more than he despises Mayor harrl-
son. proportioning his feelings 10 me I'M
portance Of the subject ordinarily Mt'
Cleveland Is the sort - q man that AN
geld rather admircs. But during the u4-
man strike riots IN Chicago Governor AT
reid faile,l 10 call out troops and Presl-
dent Cleveland himself ordered them 60
the e~ene OF the trouble This more tnan
anything else led 10 the breach between
them and Induced AltEcld 20 oppose CleVe-
land from that time on and 70 handle ne
convention ord write the platform as NJ
did in IS
In that convention some Of the East
ern Democrats. Senator German am hs
them. ] think. expressed surprise At hnd-
ing Aiteeld the man he was. Their re-
marks were too good 20 keep ana ~ que
time reached Altgeld himself.
Really" said Altgeld with his sar-
castle grin. they couldn't expect 20 and
a id fool Governor OF the state OF
Illinois"
AitaeId, the Man. and His ChaHgeful
Career.
At nr-t glance Ai;geld's looks rerhaps
belle his character. for the average eye
merely blocks out q figure. lie IS pale
and stopped somewhat sioven aud a"k-
ward with coat hunched up IN the back
His clothes are well worn. his tro SER
always bazgy az the knees, his shoes big
and unpublished and he wears SOFT tet
hat His face and head are uncommon.
1ts eyes are an impeuetrahle hue. usual
IL dull and took out from under droopng
eyelids His beard is unkempt and hls
hair grows az observing people say the
hair OF an Anarchist grows IN que
strings from tho back u the crown 20 IN
forehead. His nose IS pointed ana turns
IN and there is little animation In Ms
fsce or in his figure
Take him all IN an his IS a strange and
many sided character Charles T. Yerkes.
the street car magnate. il quoted as say-
ing that tho Two men ~ politics Ter waom
he has the most admiration are eN-Go er-
nor Altgeld ami Richard corker. The
eourIing OF the names Of the two men
who have so little Ia common idiclies
rhe curious range OF AltEelds influence.
Alteeid is an omnivor0us reader ma
tlevours literature OF oil sorts from poetry
10 political economy. In the thick of sn'
OF HE political battles a friend found him
quietly at home one evening read
Ing A very light and very modern nov.
with apparent interest. No man has cola
81 bittersr phrases Ia his political speech
es He has all tae force q Pitchfofk
r,llman with considerably more edge 10
his weapon In his books OF miscelloneoh
ESSAYS one Il struck with tho absence -
harshness and the sanity. almost miidfe9s.
OF his propaganda.
John Peter Altgeld is 50 years old lie
has been a Judge OF the superior court
OF nnonis. lie has been Governor. ~ j.
prohaie hat he viii never be anything
el.e politically Nothing bat Attge'd.
author Of the Chicago platform ana tn-
most picturesque and stormy character
hta time He vas born ia Germany ana
wo. brought "a this country BY his par
ems al three months old They sctned on
a little farm IN Ohio and the family "
very poor A. l6 Aitgeld enlisted N ne
Union Army and fought in the jane
River campaign tie WORKED MS Wy
through academy and taught coAn ~
.rh,oi for n while once Ia Kansas J. .
trarped barefoot across the state and 10
'.r.r+- Tor his meals His first year Or
nracItcinR law at savannah, Mo, w-s
starvation Tines.
In $50 ne was located IN Chicago and
had a capital ~ $50. Something like 4. a
wears otter INST BIS fortune was estimator
al a million dollars. In business a. d."
politics. AIEcld has considerable OF 'h'
ramblln. instinct When he Thought e
50 "A "hunch'' on a good thing hc played
+, and Ftaked everything o. a. bF
rcrios OF bad specuiatlous ln real esilte
ana bv neglect OF business affairs ne mas
lost me bulk. II not all OF his pr perry
sis pardon OF the ChiCago Anarchists
stands out as the most notable act ~ ms
,errn a. Governor n did more than any
thing else to ruin his political career Ii'
was dubbed John Pardon Al'gen. MS
enemies called him an Ararchl l. fu' W
nj. message granting the pardon he stated
~ effect mat ne did so because be b u" a
nat the accused had been convincted up q
tnsufNerent evidence adding thAt. ~"
soil 81 America ~ not adapted l" tne
growth OF Anarchy.
There are two Altgelds. one IS the AT
rsia that his friends know, large minded
generous witty and sensitive as a woman
beneath his phlegmatic nrmor The otheI
Il the AltgeId Of party rancor. the oratoi
vith the terrible sting In his sarcas' le
tongue the man who Is mcrcilcss IN MS
hates. ,,,-
atory ~ "a sitting ne once gave 20 p"i
trait painter. The artist Is well Know"
i, Chicago. but the name need not Dc men
,loned here. Altgeld was persuaded 20 -.
with some difficulty. but the painter foun'
the ex-governor an interesting study -
made two sketches and submitted theni
,or opproval Into one the artist put the
Ai,reld OF happier moods. tho Atseln
| .h,r tho ragged man loves, tue kin1l
/ ,,hilosophcr and dreamer Into the othei
so,nehow there crept' either a second AT
reiA that the artist saw. or that ne hAd
| heard about-the anarchist" the "reVo-
/ iutlonist." the man that coins Kissing me
/ taphors
which shall nnish?" asked the paint
or. submitting his sketches
Atpeld started as he locked a. the
strange. uncanny twin likeuesses.
Finish that" he said abruptly. poiH
ing 20 the benign image. then NJ lor
I no other IN two and threw the pieces ln'
] the waste basket ~ H.
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