The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1912-02-10
How He Went Into Poll
tics Declared Himself
for Congress and Ran
up Against Uncle Joe.


avenue echoes to the tread of one |
who fronts the dome-cappel hill with !
q firm purpose to resist the law of
averages the law of parties. the law
OF caucus; he will be the black tulip, |
the blue rose, the green carnation Of
congress.
such a one is DR. Theron Akin. |
Progressive Republican, representing !
the twenty-Grth congressional district |
OF the state of New York. known and !
loved the countryside over wherever !
tt tooth aches or husbandry is hon |
ored
When the great fight was ON be- |
tween ICY" Drury and Doe Akin
| up I'm Fulton county, y. Y, what
over doubts may have assailed the
voters mind as to who stood for the
| big interests. no doubts were possible
as to who stood for the big princi-
pies.
| Akin Has Lived Close to Earth.
Back OF this appeal to reason lies
an appeal to sentiment. DR.. Theron
Akin is a child of the soil. From his
earliest youth. when he drove sheep
ON the lush meadows of Grundy
county. Iowa. through the years when
he raised broom corn i'm the Mohawk
| Valley y. Y. down To the period
when a maturcd judgment of crit
| ters' qualified him to purchase cat
| Ue on the western plains, he has been
in close touch with the fecund earth.
on his fathers side there was, in
deed, divergence into the thorny
path of law, and on his own side into
I 4 ff.|f fFsn# f.ffH
these excursions from the soil To- the
city served rather to gild the refined
gold of "a bucolc temperament than
to tarnish IT'S lustre
"My fathers preceptor" said Dr.
Theron Akin 10 "a World interviewer,
was Judge Daniel Cady-yes, sir.
Judge Cady. the father Of Elizabeth
Cady stanton. The Judge could
! not read or write until he was thirty
! He was a shoemaker on the bench
n he dug up the law for himself anc
= became one Of the greatest jurists
Vt this country
'AIy father was an office lawyer;
no advocate or orator, or anything
like that; just % sound, sensible. ad-
ylsory man. the kind that puts YOU in
proper shape TO avoid a law suit In
stead Of getting into one.
In the nfties there We're a lot of
old Mexican war veterans In New
York-old buns and Gereicts Ia
whom S25 looked Ike mountain of
golG-and my father bought about
five thousand acres of their land
I patents out i'm Iowa ! still have the
patents In my possession, signed by
President Buchanan, yes sir. we'll
that's how / first came 20 be on the
land.
in 1859 we moved up into the Mo-
, hawk Valley. y. Y. and lived IN an
old, romantic and historic house
; built in i742 by Sir William Johnson
- of French and Indian war fame-a
llg stone house which has since peeh
bought by John De lPeystcr of New
. York and presented to the Moniso"'-
= cry County Historical association
. "Weu. i'm the last thirty years I've
- Travelled all over this country eNcep'
10 in rhe extreme south I've broken
:, INN prairie out West, and I've been d
GOOD deal in Nebraska, ana Colorado
and Montana, and Illinois, ana MIS-
souri,. and Minnesota, and I've oeel
- ND 10 Edmonton, i'm Canada. on yes
+. I'VE travelled what YOU might call eN
l. tenslvely. and I've talked to every
body and exchanged Views with al
sorts Of men about the ddmnapl
70 methods which have been adopted L
e force upon voters men totally uhhtte'
10 TO receive their votes.
y. Went Into Politics for Revenge
sHow did / come to go into pom
10 tics? Wen, say, that's long story
You see for 45 years my district ma
Q been represented by some partlcula
. interest that cared nothing about M
70 agricultural man nor the WORKING
~ man. We had our representduuI
forced upon us by the interests man
: ipulatlng the nominating agencies
.,WeU. what started me UP on POI
ltics was this There's a lock ol TN
Erie canal within my village liih''S
md seeing that the people o'tcle
me president of the village ] though
I was entitled to a little patrohas5
There was an old, crippled woman
the village whose son hau peeh
stata nrison. and he'd come out an
wanted to reform So ] went To uh
chairman Of the county commute
land asked him II he'd appoint lh'
man as lock keeper We'll ne W."
snnointed. hut i'm a week or so n
1
was discharged. They said he ha'
been drunk. That was just lie an
A mean. underhand way OF getting RI,
of INV man. He wasn't drunk at an
10 was a nelghbur of mime ana ~
had heart trouble, and the doctor
hod boen feeding him nitroslYcerl"
90 that with the treatment by IN
doctors and the fact that the poo
fenow had a slight paralysis of IN
arm, you'd sometimes think he wa
drunk when you first saw him.
"Anyhow that Erie canal has oee'
for wears an. asylum for an The oil
deroucts and buns in New foF
Iate Either side will put a ma
there Just to get his vote 50 wa
mad about the way they'd treated m
a man. and ! went down to the offic
and said John, what did you 90