The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-08-09
BLACKBURN FOUGHT HIS WAY
KANSAS city STAR

| AANdiSas lily starr
Senator J. c. s. Blackburn OF Kentucky
! now one OF the most placid and least ex-
| citablc men i'm public life literally fought
! rs way TO fame and influence. His last
| eeeIhSerent exploit was pulling the ear
I or ex-senator William T. Chandler Of
| =" hampshire in "A committee room of
1 ne senate at ashington- Since then
| the eFstwhile fiery kentuckian has eft her
/ not had cause or inclination TO assault
ahyoodN. lie says that his fighting DAYS
| aIe over ana that he wants to live at
/ peace with the world and mankind -
senator Blackburn won his first hon
OTIS as statesman by licking a re
publican member of the Kentucky legis-
azure every time that member had the
audacity to engage in a debate with a
democrat. The senator. then Captain
S ga. or "Capn Joe, as they called
MN at frankfort, had not then been long
out Of the confederate army. He was
tull OF fire aud dash and one OF the
hRndsomcst men in the country, Just such
a man as the volatile kentUckians Of
/ thirty years ago believed was destined TO
nigh estate and great achievements.
John D. White. the pertinaceops ro-
publican with whom he so aften came in
violent contact, was his exact antithesis
"a temperament and appearance White.
sapIe OF Dulld and shrill of voice was
erected TO congress several times by his
mountain constituents because he had
nad the hardihood not only 10 Stand UP i'm
the Kentucky legislst ure and teach re-
puDicanism IT time when that DO1iti-
car doctrine stood for pfllagc and sDOiia-
l.vi Il the SOUTH but afterWard 10 stand
MS ground Whenever "CaD'r Joe" sew m
TO assault him upon the street or in the
y9pitoi corridor for language used in de-
pate Nc lrly every debate in that sos-
sion o. the legislature IN which Mhite
participated was followed b. a conflict
with Blackburn when the house ad-
Journec. Whites unpOpularitv with fhe
democrats was so great that every slick-
ing administered 10 him bv Rlact htlrn
meant Increased fame and popularity for
the latter. Every fight between tho two
was promptly published BY the news
papers Of the state almost as eiaborateiv
as contests in the prize ring arc now re-
ported.
BY tho time the session of the legisla-
ture had expired Bl8ckburn's fame had
uckian. His Woodford county consti-
tucnts were so proud OF him that they
turned out TO welcome his return home
With equal pride Whites home constittf-
ents welcomed him
As further testimony or their gratitude
and confidence. Whites followers norni-
mated him for congress in what was then
the only safe republican district in Ken
lucky. This suggested 10 Bi0ckburn'B
admirers the ACCESSIBILITY OF sending him
10 congress 10 hold down White The
Ashland district which at that tiYno en-
braced MI the counties that comprise ne
iar-famed blue grass region Of the state
had been represented at WASHINGTON by
such men as Clay. Crittenden, the elder
!est peen sent 10 the senate and Hum
pureN Marshaii. than whom Kentucky had
produced no greater orator, was slated TO
succeed him.
s7iF predicted even by many who had
tppiaufed Bl1ckhfTns nrOWeSs in CON
qprrina John -. White that he Womb ne
~ m9tch on thc stump Tor the elos1sent