Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911, 1907-09-04
]. W. DANIEL AND
HIS PUBLIC RECORD

Euphonious and alliterative. cer-
tainly, but know the man upon
whom virginians have conferred this
lovename and its Appropriateness is
seen at once.
Soldiers. lawyers. authors. sena-
tor, the Hon. John Warwick Dan-
iel of the Old Dominion Is known
throughout the United States as an
orator. He ls now equally as well
known as the man whom many DEM
oerats would prefer to see the sue
cessor of the big Stick Man on
Horseback
How would he look in the White
House chair?
Dark, wavy hair. now slightly
tinged with gray, is brushed back
from high, we'll moulded forehead.
To keep this hair back when he IN
speaking, the hands are frequently
used. and these hands are those of
an artist A nose slightly aquiline.
with full, sensitive nostrils; COM
pressed lips and somewhat pale, with
weary look in tho dark eyes. his
very personality Is magnetic.
Smoth of face. sallow OF conn
plexion, he looks the student and the
orator. He is learned in the law,
In politics and statesmanship.
II chosen to be tho president,
he would be the only cripple ever
selected by the people of this coun-
try for the highest office In their
gift. While serving as major and
aide on the stan OF General Jubal
A. Early at the battle OF the will
derness, In 1853, he was shot up
pretty badly, but he was equally as
we'll patched up. To see him now,
behind a desk or behind stand ON
n platform, one would not know that
either upon a cane or upon crutch-
es Major Daniel depends much.
He is equally as proud OF his ca
reer as n fighter for "the Lost
Cause" as ne is of the tributes 60 his
statesmanship and TO his ability 10
sway audiences mind. lie IN ono
OF the few survivors OF the old
school OF orators; OF the Sink or
swim, live or die, survive or per
ish" style. with the fervld eloouence
OF the south, he combines n rich.
full, round. deep-toned, far-carrying
voice. and n forceful and impressive
delivery.
Bryan and Bourke Cochran. Bal
ley. OF Texas; Choate. OF New York
Foraker. of Ohio Taylor. OF Ken
tucky, are but HIS rivals He has no
peer. With the possible exceptions
Of Foraker and Choate, the Republi-
can party has no man to pit against
him In the arena Cochran, although
now apparently safe within Tamma-
ny's lair, may be included. He has
been such bread winner I'm the past
by his voice that. like the wind. no
man knows where he listeth.
John Daniel believes above all
things else that cleanliness. particu-
larly political cleanliness. is next to
Godliness. He Is senator and n
Sunday school teacher he is a poll
tician I'm the highest sense OF tho
term. and an "old Virginia gentle
man"
He has been I'm the United states
senate now Just a little more than
twenty years. and yet he Is a poor
man. That is, poor I'm his own name.
for not 80 very long ago he .ook
unto himself a wife who was pretty
well-to-do they call he7 rich down
IN Lynchhurg. va where she AMI
the senator live
During the years whto Senator
Daniel was practlcins attorney. hig
income. together w,'n that from his
Two legal text books. amounted -
about $50 900. or this sum he used
about $4,000 rho remainder went
Ia settlement Of debts contracted by
This visionary Ssihcr
Judge william Daniels wa5 one of
he best known ana most prosper
Gus lawyers Ga Virginia after he had
retired from the bench During The
ten years lmmodi1t"'v following the
war the Judge was most optimistic
regarding mo future prosperity "
me country Hc was sanguine 20
The point Of being n dreamer
Evcryfbinr seemed 20 him Dromis-
INK and H wae hl habit when ap-
preached eifh any new scheme 10
subscribe 10000 worth Of stock
and then ask what was tho nature
of fhe enterprise The result was
Inevitable when hs died he owed
Igf0o 600
Thfes claims his .0B John asaum-
'.a snf although aot IeRaIy bound
ts uaf ~ sr ono before he
stopped
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