The morning journal-courier., 1908-08-20
ABOUT WHISPERS
How They Have Been Worn by Occupants of the White
 House.
ALL VARIETIES KNOWN
George Washington Was smooth Shayen---How the Others
 shaved.

Funny men and cartoonlsts arc mak ing a good start on their ant-whiskers campaign against John W, Kern, look Ing upon him,1s rank interloper and breaker of tlme.honored custom be- cause of his hlrsute adronment, Incl dentally the republican candidate for the vice presidency will suffer some what, but in much lesser degree. his whlskers being of q less obtruslve pat tern. only two little tufts between the enrs, AS mere were great men before Agamemnon so there were presidential and vice presidential whiskers before John W. Kern.
 George Washington. first president, smoothly shavcn, set tho fashion for many of hls successors and John Adams. Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were whlskerless and beardless. Then came John lunicy Adams, with light whsker crescent shaped from hs ear 10 the corner of his mouth But this man, mild in manners, though firm iu ! his opinions. did not dare to go so far as a mustache, and Andrew Jackson stout old Hickory" returned to the faith of the fathers. and was smooth | ly shaven,
 Martin Van Buren. eighth president of the United states, called hy his ad. mirers "The Sage of Kinderhook" and by his enemies the whigs. Martin. the Fox" wore side whlskers, which. as they were then beginning 10 be affected hy the Presbyterian clergy. were call ed Presbyterlans. At more recent i date thls style, which had as lts most noted cxemplar, George Ambrose Burn side. came to be called "Burnsldes Mir. Van Buren was early near-frlenl of tho colored man, and in lS2l when the constitution of the state of New York was revised, he favored the prop osItIon that Colored persons having q freehold qualification of ,250 should be allowed to vote He also opposed In iSiS tho annexation of Texas and was nominated for president by the free soil party. This was after he had served from lss7 10 lSii as president elect ed hy tho democratic party.
 The ninth and tenth occupants of the White House. William Henry Harrison and John Tyler were smoothly shaven. James K Folks face was heardless, The family name had been changed from Pollock to Polk, and his ances- tors had como to America from the north of Ireland early in the eighteenth century Zachary Taylor wore little Tufts of whiskcrs at the side of his face. and Willard Fillmore. tho vico president who served out Taylor's term was handsome man. smoothly shaven, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan | were peH10ltNs,
 t'p to this lime no president of the United states had worn hair upon his upper lip. Nor had any one worn hair nnon the chin Abraham Lincoln. in 1861. brought tho first full beard. bar ring the mustsche, that had ever sat in the White House. Andrew Johnson had a smooth face. Then came Grant with all the presidential precedents in regard to facial hair.
 Hayes board was of like comprehen. sive pattern as was also the beard oi Garfield, Then came Chester Alan Ar thur. tho best dresser following George Washington. that ever occupied tho presidential seat and probably thi handsomest His chin was smooth, but his sidewhlskcrs gracefully joined hl' mustache with no line of separation showing.
 The first, and up to this time, tho only president who ever wore a mus, tache with no other facial accessorie' in tho way of beard was Grover cleve. land Benjamin Harrison was full. bearded Mckinley was bcardless Roosevelt wears 2 mustache II noN remains to he decided fin November whether the next president of the Unit. cd States shall be Mir Taft with mus tache. or Mir. Bryan. whose facial ex position brings back the beardless fa s shion of tho early presidents; whethn John W. Kern with his defiant ru beard, ar James Schoolcraft Sherman with his toy pattern of side burners. shall he vice president Y ls up f the voters of the great republic t' choose
 : 1T the contest is close the question / may be decided not by the colore' vote. not by tho temperance vote no hy the farmers vote not by the laho vote. bui by the brave barbers of th' +nft brra Ji0ipt,I t,I ty arises Both tickets arc so evenl' , balanced between tho shaven and m
 shorn that the harbers will be at sel s ono cannot vote split ticket for th r president and his undersiudy.-l f apols News.