Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

scores of 1S and 90" he said. laughingly,
in telling Of the fact.
What manner of man is this who rules
Uncle Sans sea fighting force? In per-
sonal appearance he might have stepped
out Of the cabinet of Franklin Pierce. He
has been described as daguerreotype.
1t is an apt description. for the strong,
studious face smooth-shaven and lined.
is much like those quaint old portraits OF
a past generation.
He is an old-fashioned man in his dress
and manner. bearing always gentle dig
nity but nevertheless intensely alive:
When he talks it Is like the discharge or
a machine gun, but he prefers others to
talk
Changes of fashion have no effect on
the Secretary He is probably the one
man in public life who has always worn
white socks the fashion in the civil war
period later ostraciZed and now coming
back into favor. His collars are of the
old turn-down variety and always he
wears a black string tie. COlored shirts
make no appeal to him. His are always
white Not for him are the link cuffs of
the day. His cuff buttons are the old.
solid. single round button Black is the
color Of his outer clothing in winter:
brown linen in summer but his shirts and
collars are always the same.
At the Baltimore convention he added a
palm leaf fan to the equipment. There
he always was a distinctive figure. even
In the colorful assemblage. The picture
of him standing in caucus room or hotel
lobby. with earnest and excited politicians
grouped about him pouring advice into
his patient ears, is one that remains IN
the memory of those who attended that
historic gathering.
In personal life, Secretary Daniels is
austere. He never drinks, smokes.
CANDLES; he has none of the ordinary
masculine vices. and yet he is intensely
masculine, broad in his charity toward
the weaknesses of others. and tolerant.
He is very much family man, fond
Of home life. In 1885 he married Miss
Addie w. Bagley. daughter Of Maj. W. IL.
Bagley, and four lusty sons are the re-
suit Of the union. Ensign Worth Bagley.
u. S. n, the gallant young officer who
lost his life In gallant and courageous
expedition in the Spansh-American war,
was q brother of Mrs. Daniels. Lieut..
David Worth Bagley. u. S. n. is another
brother.
The new Secretary was born in Wash
ington, n. c.. May l6 1SG2. at the height
of the civil war. in a war-ridden country.
His education was received at the VIII
son. y. c.. Collegiate Institute. In 1850
he was admitted 10 the bar of his state,
Dut ne never mas pracuced.
While he was Il boy at school in Will
he started an amateur paper. and
there the love of printers ink was i'm
planted in him. At eighteen he was .edl-
tor of a more pretentious publication, a
regular paper this time, the Wilson Ad-
vance. and finally, in 1885, he went to
Raleigh, first as editor of a weekly and
soon after as editor of the Raleigh News
and observer.
Save for a brief excursion into public
office when. during the second Cleve-
land administration. he served for q
time as appointment clerk in the De-
partment OF the Interior. the conduct
of the News and Observer has been his
life work.
His birth, his environment. his predi-
lection ell make him a partisan In
politics. partisan in the best sense
of the word. He believes in the demo-
cratic party. and for these many years
he has been telling the people of the
south in yjporous English through his