The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-06-22

A"N0 thrown MIN time and again. |
nave pummeled him, pulled his hair,
peat his head on the curb stone
asked him if he was ready to saw
num- have accepted silence as ac-
qulescence, have washed their hands
ana gone home thinking that the iob
was done this time and we'll done
even thinking that they would be
charitable enough to call up the hos
pltai the next day and inquire of the
condition of William.
IL these charitable impulses last
ed over night, and if inuuirv were
made the invariable resnonse was.
NO such patient here
MIR. Lorimer had washed his
hands, busted his clothes and at that
moment was taking his placid inter
est IN life and all it's manifestations.
with charity for all and censure for
none, speaking gently, walking soft
| ~ appearing benignly and thinking
deeply. N--9
A man who is going up when he
seems to be coming down, who fights
without getting mad and who never
can tell from his own emotions
whether he has won or lost, has risen
ABOVE some of the limitations of or
binary human nature.
Young William was wears old
When MS parents brought him to
Amerlca. His father was a Scotch
presbyterian minister and there has
never been anything in the present
senator's personal habits which
coulu oHend any church ideals of
morals, discipline or upright con-
duct.
FOR the purposes of analysis and
crltlclsm Mr.. Lorimer always is di-
'lueu INTO two parts-personal and
publlc. Even the most elevated of
the nigh brows admire the personal,
although they view with alarm the
/ public character of the new senator
LOrimer's Humble Start,
The bland and blond boss was de-
~ years of age. Young Billy and
MS brother John went to work to
support the family. Billy sold
newspapers and BACKED boots. Then
ne got a job with a sign painter.
afterwards went from art to the
stock yards, where he ran a truck
and when he was 20 years old made
his appearance as a conductor on a
horse car line.
Then he entered politics and was
elected constable. He went into the
real estate business. He delivered
his ward in primaries, and was given
various municipal appointments. He
sought the nomination for county
nominated for clerk of the superior
court and was defeated. In 1894 he
was elected to congress. Two years
later he was beginning to boss
things, and soon he was running not
only the county but the state.
That is the preliminary history
of the new United States senator
from Illinois in public life. In pri-
Vate life ne was a model of the vir-
tues. He had married an accom-
pl1shed and intelligent woman, whose
aid and counsel has been of profit to
him. His children were many and
handsome.
Never Speaks Unkindly.
He had so conducted himself to-
wards his fellow man that no set
ting sun found him harboring senti-
ments of such character that he
icould not shake any fellow human by
the hand on the rising of the NOR
rows sun and inquire tenderly after
his health. He never allowed his
pheasant face to be clouded by an
CRY emotions. With his mild blue
eyes fixed serenely on the pleasant
future, with his benevolent chin nest
ling confidingly over an acclesiasti-
lcally white string tie, with a benevo-
lent smile lighting up the rest of his
benevolent cOuntenance Mr.. Lorimer
has made his placid way through life
If he were to be given his proper
EcOstuming and his proper stage set
ting he would be placed in a quiet
meadow where the daisies grow and
where the larks sing He would
have shepherds crook in his hands,
and whilst he watched and guarded
his meek flock he would make sweet
music on the pipes.
He never said an unkind thing of
a fellow statesman in public. There
was always someone else who could
do that just as well, and if some one
else did it there was no embarrassing
recollection of cruel words to bar the
short cut which William would take
to that other statesman if in the
course of human events he found
that he needed him.
When Lorimer fought a man he
was not bothered with scruples. He
fought with everything he could lay
his hands on, but he personally never
'cussed' the other fellow, and it was
not so much that he never was heard
to use a cuss word-he never was
seen to look one"
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