The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1910-08-26

classes. lie ueVOufed eagerly united
States history and civil government
In arithmetic. too. he was exception
ally good, and was looking for some
problem outside the text. He solved
the grindstone problem and also the
other, which is to divide ball of yarr
equally between two women.
He was also a good DICTATOR, ] re
call his debating that superstition pro
duces more misery than ambition. He
was our star debator and I've seen
him talk of their feet George Marian
the Hartford banker. now a member OF
the Jackson prison board; Fred Wood
ruff, postmaster at st. Joe, and some
others. Once he was birched by a
corpulent teacher for some prank
When the birching was finished, Pat.
rick Henry said 10 the teacher: Don't
you think you're a pretty large man
TO be doing such light work."
Two Characteristics.
There are two signal characteristics
that stand out in, Patrick r. Kelley
One of them is the fact that he is al
ways prepared, always calm, cool and
collected, No contingency arises
which he cannot face, no difficulty con
| fronts him which he is not prepared TO
solve. He has given his life to work
of preparing himself for these things.
He has travelled Michigan from one
end to the other; he has studied her
people, her resources, her interests,
her products; he has gone among the
people the better to understand their
needs and their wishes; he has kept
his hand always upon the throbbing
pulse of public affairs, state and ma
tional and he stands today head and
shoulders, so far as fitness and prepay
ration goes, above any candidate that
has asked the nomination for governor
in past years.
The other element is his sanity, his
steadiness, his fairness, his rugged
common sense. Many men are erratic,
fiighty, narrow and unable to come to
great decisions quickly Mr.. Kelley
is sane, calm, resolute and just He is
absolutely in harmony with the facts.
He is consistent, for he knows no
standard and no pathway save that of
honesty.
Add TO these the fact that he is an
excellent judge of men and of char
acter and then consider the strength
of this mans personality, for that is
what personality is composed of-char-
acteristics. These qualities combined
give him the element of leadership.
They make him a man to whom his
fellows naturally look for guidance and
counsel. In his nature is developed
every attribute that goes 10 make up
a man capable of directing the des-
TIMES of state. At heart a sympa-
thetic friend, in mind a student, by
nature a leader, he first wins men,
then studies the tasks TO which he
must lead them lastly with his mag
netism and power Of command, send
them forward to victory p----s,---
Tries as Peacemaker.
One incident of the 1907 campaign
illustrates Patrick Henry's faculty for
making peace When the business of
the final day had been concluded he
had the sixteen Boxer" senators and
the sixteen Warnerites meet at his
home for a meal and to try TO forgive
and forget They all went up against
the meal, but when ii was over, few
If any, had forgiven or forgotten any
thing or anybody.
At this years session Patrick Henry
grievously offended the venerable Cal
umet x Hecla senator and his friends
by deposing him as chairman of the
committee on appropriations, which he
had held for several sessions. The
venerable senator then refused place
on any committee. Patrick Henry
smiled a smile at the venerable sena-
tor, which, interpreted. might have
meant, You'll take what I'm Offering
or lump it," The venerable senator
Jumped il and was still nursing a
crouch when the session closed. But
his Jumping and grouching cut no ice.
Some of His Sayings.
Last April Lieutenant Governor kel-
ley delivered an address at the Wood
ward Avenue Congregational church in
Detroit which tells his style. Here are
few excerpts from it:
Il would Father be governed by my
neighbors, with all their shortcomings,
prejudices and imperfections, if ! can
have a voice in their selection, than by
the wisdom of the ages embodied in
public officials with whose selection
have nothing TO say.
There were those among us who,
in the beginning, said that any gov
eminent resting on the will of the
people would be unstable and would
finally fall. Experience has proven
them to be wrong.
There is a growing belief among
our people that United States senators
should be chosen by direct vote, and
from present indications the time is
not far distant when the several state
legislatures will exercise no more dis
erection in the selection of the United
States senators than presidential cleo
tors now do in the choice of the presi-
dent.
Zone of the dangers to which popu.
! lar government is constantly exposed
is the lack of interest taken in public
affairs by the average citizen.
| THE outlook for popular govern
ment was never better than ii is now
! The sleep of the dishonest public Off.
! cial has been disturbed of late The
/ people are alive to the necessity OF
standing by good men and standing
| against bad men of whatever party"