Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1901-11-14

| upon which one rearS an estimate OF
! his fellowman, particularly if that fel.
lownfan be a political candidate, says
the New York Evening Post From
hearing Mr. Low speak, one does not
go away remembering ringing period
nor top-heayy structure of oratory,
but he does take with him the con-
| seriousness of having listened to an
honest, whole-hearted man, whose in
tcrest is the common interest, whose
earnestness is superb. To the eye
Mr.. Low is a fine, rugged figure of a
man. He looks as if he had just come
in doors. This comes of the care he
gives to his physical being. the walks,
the 1natutinal bicycle rides. He says
an hour on his bicycle in the park can
thoroughly rest him after hours at
his iesk, or prepare him for hours
more.
He is a man of such methodical life
that there Is small wonder it is re-
| Elected il; his very appearance. 1t
| shows in the careful manner in which
| his hair is blushed-it looks as if each
| hair had been separately assigned to
| it's piace-in his carefully knotted
cravat, in the ancient Grecian-coin
| pin which is always in the same spot,
| in the lack Of wrinkles in his coat, in
| the way he has of rising from his
chair and advancing for a greeting. In
one thing Mr.. Low closely resembles
the late President Mckinley, in fact,
public men who know of these things
say that Mr.. Mckinley alone excelled
him in it. This is in the gracious and
at the same time expeditions manner
Of receiving visitors. President Nc
Kinley could see more persons and see
them with more satisfaction to them
than any man in this country. Mr..
Low has been devoting about two
hours every day to receiving visitors
at his headquarters, No. Il East
Twenty-third street, former Senator
Frank D. Pavey presenting them in
turn, and his abilities are, indeed, put
to the test. In an hour and half
one recent afternoon Mr.. Low greeted
and talked-not merely chatted, but
talked-with nearly $50 visitors, and it
is safe to say that not one went away
feeling that his time had been short
ened one minute for the sake of the
others in the waiting line.
Mr.. Lows method-if it may be
called method; it does not seem one
is to meet the visitor as if there was
not another soul in the room, and he
had all day at the visitors disposal.
The preface of the greeting Is a smile
which is more in the eyes than on the
lips, and the extended hand, with it's
warm, manly clasp, comes next. From
the moment the visitor begins to speak
Mr.. Low is all attention, and after a
moments chat he generally leads the
way to his desk and offers the visitor
a chair. Some days Mr.. Low does
the major part of the talking; other
days he listens. Thus he varies the
Mckinley method, which was to yield
the floor to the caller.
Mr.. Lows unvarying dignity has
been mistaken for chilly reserve. His
dignity may be called academic. 1t
follows old-established rules of con-
duct and bearing. It is the dignity
of his fathers father without its
gravity. This quality impresses every
one who meets him. But the warmth
of the hand-clasp and the intentness
with which he listens-he possesses
the faculty of listening to a marked
degree-dispel any preconceived I'M
favorable notion. 1t may be said that
he is still president of Columbia; that
he will always be. His twelve years
| in that office have left an ineffaceable
! impress upon him. They have prepar-
ed far more thoroughly for mayoralty
duties than a little dabbling in the
! law or politics or both College presi-
dents are business men these days.
Problems of business as we'll as those
| OF education confront them. Not only
have they the brains of a thousand or
more young men to attend to; they
| have property in the millions to safe
| guard and increase and multiply. Mr..
Low carried business methods into
Columbia just as he carried them into
the mayors Office in Brooklyn. And
| Columbia profited just as Brooklyn
prOfted
| In Judgment Mr.. Low is slow, but
never tardy. He considers many things
| before he takes the step which shall
be final, after the manner Of the
skilled chess-player, who ponders a
move which may make or mar his en-
tire plan Of action. Of Mr.. Lows
breadth of mind there can be no better
comment upon it than to recall the
fact that he was selected as United
States representative at The Hague
lpeace conference, upon which the
ewes of all the world were conferred
This was a gathering Of truly dispas-
sionata men in whom their govern
ments placed the utmost reliance. If
The had not possessed balance and
acumen he could never have achieved
what he has with Columbia. Column
bia is a monument to the industry and
ability of this man.
An enormous capacity for work is
his. The campaign will make deeper
inroads upon the endurance of the
other candidates than upon Mr.. Low.
He is I'D early every morning, and
Inn late every night, and taxed with a
task which the times and the manners
make stupendous. His mail claims
him in the early hours, also the morn
ing talk with reporters at his house.
Then follows a conference with his
: campaign secretary, and headlong
: plunge into the arduous work of the
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