The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1912-06-05
[. 19. OCALA FLORIDA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1912.
SIGNIFICANCE Of SIGNS
An Interesting Article on Governor
Marshall, Who May be Our
Next President
saturday Evening Pos)

Some bright morning an indianapolis
wag Will start at the Monument with
& paper of pins and drop a pin each
ten feet all the way west on Market
Street TO the Statehouse Two things
will happen that morning: the Gov
ernor of Indiana Will be late at his Of
flee; and when he does get there he
win have a fine supply Of pins stuck
/ beneath the lapels of his coat
1t was once the fad to have great
men tell of poems that has helped
me-" If anybody ever asked Thomas
r. Marshall what poem helped him he
quoted:
See pin and pick it up
| All day long you'll have good luck
That is his favorite poem and the
practice of its precept is his favorite
diversion. OF course he always throws
pinch Of salt over his left shoulder
when he spills any: and he will walk
round a block to avoid passing a black
| cat; and he never passed under a lad
der in his life; and he wouldn't cross
/ the street through a funeral posses
| sion: and he raps wood when he boasts
a little; and he couldn't be induced
to sit a. table with twelve others
and a few other little things; but he
pins his faith mostly on the pins. Not
one escapes his vigilant eye or his
vigilant fingers. Mrs. Marshall rarely
has to buy any for household use, and
there is always a supply on the Gov
ernOr's desk at the StatehouSe.
You can see him almost any morning
in Indianapolis, walking slowly down
Market Street toward the Statehouse.
He IS calm and serene and small; mild,
li-f3 : ed
hair is gray and is his mus
tache. His clothes are gray and so is
his tie. He has a cigar tucked be-
meath the mustache and his gray F'e
dora hat shades his gray eyes. When
| he gets to the StatehOus he always
goes in by the eastern entrance. 1t
would be bad luck-oh, fearfully bad
| luck,-to go in by any other entrance
! than the eastern one You understand
that, of course
A man might be marred considera
bly,, in a political manner Of speaking.
| by having the sighting Little" tackled
on to his name; but the Governor :
| Wabash County friends call him Little
Tommy Marshall; and they do it SO
pleasantly and so respectfully that the
title seems to fit him perfectly and to
mean just what it does mean-affec-
/ tion instead of reproach For the Gov
ernor is a little mana slender, short,
wiry, mild little chap, serene as a May
! morning, but with all his serenity, as
alive to conditions and as fixed in his
purposes and as set in his motives as
can be magined. He knows what he
wants to do, and does it. He moves
along in his own way and makes no
excuses. He understands the people
and the people understand him
| He was a lawyer up in Columbia
City and practiced there from 1876.
One day, in 1908. some of his neighbors
came in and said:
tom, the boys out in this district
have indorsed you for governor, and
we've come to tell you about it and
pledge your support"
| Seems to me-" replied Marshall
you'd have done a blamed sight better
if you'd indorsed my partner; but
suppose We'll have to go out and get
it now" Then he raped on wood
picked up pin, waited for the red
HAIRED girl to pass after the white horse
had gone along, and resumed the bust
mess in hand, which of course was the
patching up of some linefence diff
Guilty.
THf