Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-16

to brass tnckn" H. the advice ~ cell
stocks and bonds when they are hiFh ana
buy them when they take tumble bc-
cause OF the volume Of sales Ana this
advice h seriously and solomnly given 70
audiences OF rural people. tho great ma
jority OF whom never owned a share %
such securities.
Knows value Of AdvertisinE.
Mr. Lawson ~ surrounded IN his private
car by men who impress tho visitor ~ be-
ing entirely abio to take care 81 him In an
advertising and literary way r. J..
Ridgway. publisher 81 the lawson maya
zine, Is the manager Of the trip. lie keeps
quite discreetly IN the background. Then
there Is Mr.. Lawson's son, who authorita-
lively calls him down whom he gives too
much time TO newspaper interviewers. But
The father never let's go Of the interviewers
until no has satisfied his own notion OF
what they should have.
The copper stock manipulation has as prl-
vate secretary Il. A. insolvency, a trained
newspaper man Of Boston. II was quite
noticeable at Missouri Valley that IN the
morning Mr.. Lawson emphasized the de-
mand that he said Mr.. Ridgway had made
noon, while he was jollying the Chautauqua
crowd with mention Of the millions made
in day and a month by his knowledge OF
the game" Mr.. insolvency was very
busy with a typewriter in the private car.
Lawson is not a master extraordinary Of
language although somewhat picturesque
I'm expression, as a stock broker OF thirty
seven years experience is apt to be. The
preparation and polishing zip Of the raw
material is undoubtedly McSweeney's work.
The latter is young Irish American OF the
Julius Caesar hue, horid and ready-looking.
He is the buffer against which the inter-
viewer and the curious visitor must go be-
fore Lawson can be seen, and he knows his
business.
Personality of the Man.
Personally Thomas w. Lawson impresses
the observer as a man who would have
been fine platform orator II he had had
the chance of early training and expert
ence. He has the trick Of grooming him
self down to a science, but he would never
be guilty OF over dressing He looks the
keen business man, trained in the school
of personal friction. His body is well knit
and well cared for; his head is well shaped,
even II little narrow across the temples.
He will never be pussy and has not about
him the general indications of assured old
age. Snappy, positive, he gives evidence
that he can domineer and delights In being
boss He is unlike the western man of his
class, in that to offer his callers a cigar or
other entertainment never occurs to him.
| 1t is not a lack one would notice except by
! contrast, for stinginess does not appear to
be one of his traits.
Lawson likes to talk and in his inter-
views at close quarters uses his hands to
| illustrate his remarks. On the platform
he is not demonstrative, but when he
makes a point that he likes he apparently
| draws a good deal of satisfaction from the
expression, "You can't bust that" He
sounds the letter e. at the end Of every
word ending with wv" as 'lawr' for law.
He processes great admiration for Roose-
welt. vet insists that Roosevelt's plan of
| high ideals and an evident disposition to
enforce them is futile, while he evinces the
supremest confidence in his own plan of
| beating Rockefeller and the rest of the
anti-Lawson bunch at their own game.
Lawson is forceful. and he is resourceful
also He is the grown up boy who has
gotten used to hoeing his own row on the
| lines of his own thought. He will get
| there in a worldly sense, but he will never
be any wider in craftsmanship than he is
| now He is too old to learn. 1t is the les
son of the old dog and the new tricks over
again.
| Booster for Speculation.
| Reserving, as he claims in every inter-
view, the real kernel of his plan, because
the time is not yet ripe" still at every
| placa he advisas neonla 'sell