Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1890 — Tom Corwin’s Disappointment. [ARTICLE]

Tom Corwin’s Disappointment.

There is something pathetic in the failure of the wits of political life. I Thomas Corwin never ceased to attribute to his reputation of being funny his inability to compass the highest honors. He felt that his abilities and services entitled him to any honor within the gift of the people. "He rose to be Secretary of the Treasury in Fillmore’s Cabinet, but that did not satisfy him. He died feeling that if he had not been so funny, if he had not indulged in his exquisite ridicule of the Michigan militia general who attacked Gen. Harrison, he might have been Presidentj Corwin was immeasurably greater than his reputation, and his fun almost always helped out his serious argument. — Harper’s Weekly. When the weather is miserable it is not difficult to find many men whc. iave seen better days.