Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1910 — Fighting Faces of Our Senators. [ARTICLE]

Fighting Faces of Our Senators.

Tillman and La Follette, two of the most approachable men in public life, constantly wear fighting faces, says Sloane Gordan in Success Magazine. There is, however, this difference: Tillman was probably borq_ with his. His features lend themselves to battle settings, and the members of the Senate who were inclined to look upon him as a freak when he first entered the sacred precincts have come toxjike him, and he is popular. La Follette isn’t. He-is too intense. He has acquired a facial congestion that looks like cholera morbus. He is so indefatigable in his efforts to correct those things in the government which he conceives to -bn wrongful that he has no time to smooth his wrinkled front nor change his facial linen. He lets his hair grow pompadour until it looks as if each separate quill upon this Wisconsin porcupine were reaching for a height record. This makes him look quite bristly and ferocious. When he talks the hair nods and flops to the changing gusts of the rhetorical gale. He ranges all the way from smooth diction choppy work, and when he gets well under way the official stenographers begin to perspire. Having been a representative for three terms, Governor of Wisconsin three times, and Senator since 1905, there is room for the belief that there must bo something In him. Wisconsin thinks so, anyhow, and that’s a pretty good recommendation. _ He is a man of simple habits and almost uncanny mental vigor, and even the fact that he couldn’t recognize a Joke if it were to push him off the -sidewalk hasn’t retarded his political progress.