The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-07-19
Eastern View of BriStoW

S. G. Blythe writes the following in tbe
New York World about a well-knowu
Kansas man:
Good Lord!' exclaimed a man from
Illinois, who had just been introduced 10
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General J.
/. Bristow and was breathlessly watching
the sleuth rise by sections from the big
chair in which he sat. Coed Lord!
ein't he never goin' to stop gettin up?"
The Illinois man was Unsettled in his in
Quiry. Bristow is six feet End two inches
tail, but he is so thin that he looks
about seven feet. When he starts to
elevate himself to a perpendicular position
he gets up foot at time. The result
IS interesting. When post Office inspectors
have nothing else TO do they make bets on
the time ii will take Mr. Bristow 10 get
his head into the rarified atmosphere
he breathes while erect.
This pastime does not imply that Mr.
Bristow is lazy or indolent. for he is as
vigorous and energetic as a handball play
er Still the way he unfolds his legs
IS interesting One never knows how
many more links he can let out.
Another marked Bristow popularity is
his smile 1t is a fine, iridating, genial
smile 1t begins slowly at the left-hand
corner Of his mouth. spreads across his
face and reaches full and glorius bloom
in from forty to sixty seconds. 1t lasts
half minute radiant and illuminating.
Then it fades away beginning at the
right-hand corner and retreating slowly
across under the bristly mustache, until
nothing is left to remind the observer
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1t never tires. -
The most case-hardened interviewer
rarely stands more than three rounds.
Then he fees to the corridor muttering
strange oaths and wildly asking the per
sons he meets if this man Bristow isn't
the limit.
Nine people out of ten who have To do
with the getting of information about
the post office scandals assert stoutlv
that Bristow never learned to talk. That
is a slightly exaggerated view but he
could win medals and diplomas and re-
w>rds Of merit in a close-mouthed con-
test and give all competitors known to
history running start.
Bristow is u Hentuckian. who went to
Kansas when he was nineteen. He has
lived in that state ever since. He had
a ough-and-tumple boyhooa. His parents
were poor and Bristow had to work.
And work hard for all he had. lie reached
out after an education and got it. His
hands show that he has done manual
labor ON a farm. for they are big and
knottcd and strong as iron.
tie Is built on hickory -sapling speci-
hcations. He gives the observer the i'm
preston that he should ever take hold
Of an unruly ci-Izen with those two
great hands and put all the muscle con
cealed in those shoulders int the Job.
that unruly citizsn would do well to we'll
"Nuff. The very look of MIN suggests
n.
Bristow worked himself through col
iege in Kansas and then established a
newspaper II was a good newspaper;
Sc violently republican in its politics
that the democrats and populists used
to froth at the mouth when they saw il.
Later he got another newspaper in Ottawa
and he owns that yet. There can he no
mistake about that papers politics. either.
II q has courage. When the wave Of
populism engulfed Kansas. Bristow stood
by his guns. He fought those republi-
rams who waited TO truckle TO the pops
and fuse with them. He believed in
straight goods. There were not many
like Bristow in the state at that time
lie saw the circulation Of his paper fall
away day by day. but he hammered along.
told the republicans Of the state that they
were foolish 10 join in any harum-scarum
movement that was bound to run 10 seed
in ashort time and that the thing TO do
was 10 stand by the old flag.
He wasn't popular. but he was right.
as events proved and when the republic
cans did come back to their senses
BristoT was CONSPICUOUS figure He
had b.: private secretary TO Governor
Morrill, and later, after the storm had
passed. was made secretary OF the repub-
lean state comraittee Then President
Mckinley picked him out for Fourth
Assistant Postmaster General and he las
held that job ever since. or seven years.
which is longer than any other man ever
had the place.
a natural result OF Sristow's fighting
In Kansas was that he made some good.
determined enemies. One OF these was.