The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-11
WORK OF C0RDIA
IS UNAVA|LInG
His First Entrance Into Poll
tics Proves to Be Grave
For Him.
ACTED AS DOVE OF PEACE.
ATTEMPTED TO HEAL BREACH
BETWEEN TAFT AND FORAKER
BUT HEARST KNOCKED PLANS
INTO Cooked HAT.

INTO COOKED HAT.
Washington, Oct. 10.-In all presi-
Dental campaigns there are things
grave and things gay, and the present
campaign has been no exception. The
case Of Gen. Henry C. Corbin. U. s. A.
retired is both grave and gay, though
II must be confessed Gen. Corbin him
self has not shared in the gayety. His
heart is heavy with sadness and his
brow freighted with gloom.
When Gen. Corbin was on the ar
my's active list he ran close second
to Gen. Nelson A. Miles as the beau
ideal of soldier. Six feet and some
inches in his stockings and built on
generous lines, in uniform he was
sight to gladden. the eyes; a very in
carnation OF Mars, a valiant knight, an
officer and a gentleman equally at
home on the tented field or in milady's
drawing room. Also he was repute d
to be some shucks as politician. In
deed, when he was stationed here In
Washington as adjutant general of the
army 1t used to be charged that he
spent more time playing politics up
on Capitol Hill when congress was in
session than he did with his strictly
military duties. That charge probab-
ly was inspired, however. by those
who envied Gen. Corbin his military
and social successes.
However, that may be, he must have
gotten in Washington a sufficient
taste of politics to whet his appetite.
for having reached the statutory age
and been retired he determined that
politics should engage his remaining
days and wreathe his brow in what
ever spot it might chance military re-
nown had left a vacant space. AS an
earnest of his intention, he left his
beautiful home in the environs of the
capitol and returned to his native
township in Ohio.
Awaited Call.
There he settled down in dignity
and with what patience he could mus
ter to await the lightening's bolt In
order that his fitness for further SER
vice to his country might not escape
attention, he announced his willing
ness to daily term or two in con-
gress while awaiting the call to a
more important post. His friends and
neighbors received the suggestion and
recorded 1t in their notebooks for flu
ture reference. The time might come
when they would want Corbin as their
representative in congress. Who
could tell.
But wasn't that trying role for a
warrior. a man of arms and action
Corbin found it SO and began to look
about him for some activity that need
not wait upon the call
In the candidacy of Judge Taft he
saw opportunity looming large What
more fitting. more appealing to the
masses, than that loyalty to his form
er chief should bring the retired sol.
der forth from his seclusion into the
fierce strife of the campaign and the
binding glare of the spotlight? Tafts
cause he espoused and made his own
Never had a candidate more earn
est. more tireless, more umbiquitious
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white plume, wherever the fight was
thickest there was Corbin, full pane
piled for the conflict, an inspiring fig
ure Of militant partisanship. the war
light In his eyes, his soldierly breai
heaving in rythmatic cadence to the
braying of the bands. A leader whom
the legions of the party might glad
ly have followed to the death, but q
leader willing to charge all alone
should the legions not elect to follow
him. oh. there is not doubt at all thai
as an embattled warrior for his par
tvs honor, valiant striver for the
glories and the usufruct of politics
Corbin was all the cheese.
Trip to Heal Breach.
But. the tale is not yet ended
Would that 1t were. One sad and mis-
guided day Corbin turned mollycoddle
Instead of the snorting warhorse
champing at his bit as he drank in the
smell of battle, he essayed the role
of peace's dove. Trained as a soldier
schooled to heroic deeds and ensued tt
scenes of slaughter, what right had hi
to venture on the slippery ways of In
trigue and Cancellation? Yet Corbir
must have his try. Was he not nov