The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-01-23
By JAMES B. MORROW.

Il have the most vicious temper of any
man in the United States Thomas Riley
Marshall. governor of Indiana, solemnls
answered, and a terrible tongue in my
head; but thank Cod he added, 7 have
disciplined the one and put a bit and
bride on the other During my youth,
language. as then used it, got me into
considerable trouble"
Yes. will talk" he had said. when I
found him smoking a string of a cigar
in his large. lofty. and well-furnished Of
fee. MY wife declares that am as
willing and precipitate as was the negro
woman who worked ia a steam laundry
Sam wanted To propose but lacked the
courage. face to face. and so he called
her up by telephone.
Is that you, Maude?" he asked, failing
in his confusion to identify himself
Tt sure is Maude replied.
VIII you marry me?' he timidly in
quired.
Yes Maude yelled back instantly.
Who's talkin?
Always Ready to Talk.
Mrs. Marshall says" the governor OBJ
served. chewing his cigar simultaneously,
that when any one asks if I will con-
verse, I exclaim. Certainly. what do you
want me to converse about?"
Until twelve years ago Gov. Marshall
was 90 Per cent up and 50 per cent down.
physically. but he practiced law con-
tinuously and had large business for
"a country lawyer" as he calls him
self. lie had sciatica. dyspepsia. and
malaria, internationally, and his weight
during a period Of fifteen years was 10l
pounds. some ounces less and some
ounces more at times
once, after a lively run of typhoid
fever he said, I broke all the adult
records IN the neighborhood by balancing
the beam at lightweight pounds scant.
I doccored for years with regulars, spe-
cialists, old women, and quacks and
then bought a 50-cent bottle Of medicine
and was cured"
y slender man and nervous. Gov. Mar
shall ct the age Of ffty-fve has a thread
Of white here and there in his blond and
obstinate hair but the years have not
taken the laugh out of his pale gray
eyes or the human nature from his COM
prehension of men and their affairs;
neither have they written their wrinkled
story into his eager, benign, and know
ins face. He save his youth to his
father i'll with slow tuberculosis, and
TO HIS mother who died of cancer. AT
forty-one he was married. getting a com
Tade and an active partner.
When I electioneer." he said, glowing
like man on his honeymoon, Mrs.
Marshall accompanies me She talks to
every one, but never about politics or
her husband, and shakes hands with
farmers, villagers, mechanics, and coal
miners"
Not n Good Fisherman.
Il don't shoot" he replied to an in
quiry as to his pastlmes Il wouldn't
step on a worm if could help it. Seven
years ago l established a reputation as
q fisherman. We were on the lake at
Petoskey. Mrs. Marshall caught a fine
string of perch and pike. I got five dog
FISH. I have never fshed since. I shall
never fish again"
1T is we'll" he said. at another turn in
our conversation, that : didn't run for
governor at the age Of forty-fve instead
of nearly ten years later IN air prob
ability I would have ruined myself De-
fcient in philosophy and in balance
would have spent all Of my Accommodations
in a headlonE struggle to win. As st
was. the State committee asked me for
81, 500. Ny stumping tour cost me 81, LOO
20 hot
for the boys. So Thomas R Marshall was
elected governor of Indiana. in 1885, at
a personal outlay of only $500"
why did you run for governor" I
asked.
Back in 1906 the Democrats Of my dis
trict said I ought TO become a candidate
for Congress. The district was Republi-
can. Other men had been bearing the
Democratic burden. Now it was my turn.
had never wanted public office but I
had stumped and worked for personal
friends. ] didn't say so, but was poor,
and II elected TO Congress, by some acct
dent, 7 would have been compelled 10 nut
Mrs. Marshall in third-rate Washington
boarding house. I refused. therefore. 10
take the risk and be a candidate. II
WIZ 49, ~ a S~tRN III inc IulIGu STATES
Senate right now, the offer being brought
10 me on golden salver, I would decline
TO accept It for the very same reason.
Becomes "A Candidate.
$50 I beat around the bush and mad
vertently said not thinking it would he
remembered-not thinking about it at all
in fact-that the only office I would have
was the gOvernOrshlp OF my own Common
wealth. The next summer, while in Mich
igan, where I go every year regularly, an
editor in Fort Wayne announced nv can
didacy. When I came home found some
men at work. It was suggested that pho-
tographs and eulogies be sent to the news
papers. You may write letters to your
personal friends, I said. but you cannot
go whooping around the State just as If
] were a circus, a breakfast food. or a
cure for smallpox
Even the friends who We're managing
my campaign thought I would be de-
feated. but felt sure of the nomination
I am a fatalist. In lawsuits and every
thing else I do all that I can while I am
in the fight, but I never worry about the
outcome. I am noe. responsible for re-
oAAtos II i4iJ NiiNIaN - e~0NHSCA VI murder
and the jury is out 7 go to bed and to
sleep and get the news after breakfast
in the morning. What is 10 be will be,
and staying awake won't change il.
so l was nominated, whereupon all of
my managers wagged their heads and.
looking around to see if they were
watched lowered their voices and pre-
dcted that I would lose at the election.
I took the stump. making 159 speeches and
going twice to every county. Mrs Mar